brooklyn farms

Diary of a rooftop garden that dreams of growing into an urban farm.

Morning Glory stranglehold.

I thought it would be sweet to transplant a couple of morning glory seedlings from the backyard to empty containers on the roof. Mostly I was curious to see if they would survive the transplant, and then what the climate up there would do to them. I also had a vision of a morning glory [...]

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Possible parasite.

Haven’t been spending a whole lot of time up on the roof lately. We’ve been going away the past couple weekends and my energy level has been low during the week. So I don’t know exactly when the problem started but there are holes eaten into a couple of ancho peppers on one plant. At [...]

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Melon trellis.

Went to Loew’s today and got some poly trellis for the melons and more bamboo stakes for the peppers. I never have much luck getting the little grabber tendrils to grow around the things I want them to. We’ll see what happens.

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