If you have been reading my blog for a while now you may remember last year we started a Rooftop Garden at work. It was COMPLETELY Trial and Error! We learned a lot and will continue to learn a lot! We know a lot of what NOT to do this year and from here on out I will be sharing with you what we will try and do THIS year! That's right! It's the 2015 Rooftop Garden, folks! First up...Rhubarb! Now that I am in sales in addition to other tasks at work I am able to get out and chat with our local growers! I LOVE this! I have been able to get more of them to advertise with us, too! So far I have grabbed a Rhubarb starter from a local outlet.
It's DOUBLED in size since I bought it, too! We are REALLY excited about that!
A few things we won't be doing this year on our Rooftop is tomatoes...they didn't do well at all last year. We did a few different kinds of peppers and we still might try and do some this year but the yield wasn't too high last season. Maybe this year we will have better luck!
One of our Basil Plants made it thru the whole winter and we had it in our production room. We might take that outside again. In the meantime we purchased another starter!
They seem to be doing well so far but I will be SHOCKED if they get as big as the ones did last year! They might but I'm not banking on it...those were CRAZY HUGE last year!
I hope to introduce something new each week. If I do I will let you know!
We got quite a bit of rain over the weekend so some of the area farmers and markets already have corn nearly ready! And Strawberry season is near, too!
And check this out! Our chives came back! Even after the horrible winter we had! Actually they came back TWICE as strong! As a matter of fact last fall we threw one of the chive plants away in the compost pile and it sprouted up like crazy this year so we replanted it!
One of the plants is flowering! I have been reading up on Chive Flowers lately and might try to start using them in dishes, too!
It was a slow start this spring but I'm getting super excited about the potential of the Rooftop and Container Gardens once again this year!
It's DOUBLED in size since I bought it, too! We are REALLY excited about that! 
Congratulations on your gardening success! There is nothing like clipping your own fresh herbs! And Rhubarb yum!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I agree - the herbs are amazing! I hope I have good luck with the rhubarb, too!
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ReplyDeleteThis past weekend, I gave the BF a lot of veggies from our garden; greens, broccoli, onions and sage. I would have given him fennel; however, he said he really does not like how it tastes.
Your broccoli is already - ready - already!? teehee! WOW! Yeah...we tried Broccoli last year and it got HUGE but never produced a head of Broccoli on it! Same with the Cauliflower. I've heard that about fennel...Dale isn't fond of it either...I actually think it disagrees with him from what we've found...I like it tho!
DeleteThat is awesome on the garden, so fun! Great progress! We're slowly getting our backyard garden going too.
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking about you guys and the drought issues you are going thru! Are you smackdab in the middle of it? What are you growing this year?
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