Manhattan Rooftop Garden Project: June 2007

Garden History

Buckets	for Annual Fruits & Veg
1-3	Tomato Stupice (55 days) Seed started 02/15/2011. Seed sown 02/21/2011. Potted up 03/26/2011. Planted 04/24/2011. Flower buds before planting. Open Flowers before planting. First harvest .
4-8 -May?	Snow Peas (60? days) Seed started 02/22/2011. Seed sown 03/01/2011. Planted 03/24/2011. Last harvest 06/05/2011.
4-8 -May?	Sugar Ann Snap Peas (55 days) Seed started 04/02/2011. Seed sown 04/07/2011. Last harvest 06/05/2011.
4-5 May?-	Sugar Baby Watermelon (75-90 days) Seed started after 04/24/2011. More 06/05/2011. Planted 06/05/2011. First fruitling . First harvest .
6 May?-	Yellow Squash - Early Prolific Straightneck (50 days) Seed sown 06/05/2011. First sprouts 06/09/2011. First harvest .
7-8 May?-	Zucchini - Burpee's hybrid (50 days) Seed sown 06/05/2011. First sprouts 06/09/2011. First harvest .
Big Blue Bucket	Blue Potatoes Sown 04/02/2011. Added soil 06/05/2011. Harvest .
Temporary Bucket	White Potatoes Sown 04/02/2011. Added soil 06/05/2011. Harvest .
??	Bull's Blood Beets, Golden Beets Seed started 04/02/2011. Seed sown 04/07/2011. First sprouts . Harvest .	Chimayo pepper Seed started 04/02/2011. Seed sown 04/07/2011. Planted 06/05/2011. First flower 06/05/2011? Harvest .	Chimayo pepper, King of the North red pepper Seed started 04/02/2011. Seed sown 04/07/2011. Planted 06/05/2011 First flower 06/05/2011? Harvest .

Buckets	for Permanent Fruits and Vegetables
9-10	Asparagus Planted 03/20/2011.
11-15	Strawberries - Honeoye New planting 2011. Flowers . First harvest. Last harvest.
16	Blueberry - Briteblue Planted 03/05/2008. First ripe berry . Last harvest .
17	Blueberry - Northsky Planted 04/26/2008.
18	Blueberry - Chippewa Planted 04/26/2008.
19	Raspberry - Tulameen Planted 04/26/2008.
20	Yellow Raspberry - Anne Planted 03/24/2011.
21	Blackberry - Arapaho Planted 04/26/2008. First ripe berry . Last harvest .
22	Blackberry - Loch Ness Planted 04/26/2008. First ripe berry . Last harvest .

Indoor	Window Boxes
1	Italian Oregano, Mint Italian Oregano propagated 04/24/2010. Mint planted 03/26/2010
2	Rosemary, Lemon Thyme, Silver Thyme Rosemary propagated 04/24/2010. Lemon Thyme planted 03/26/2010. Silver Thyme planted 03/26/2010.
3	French Lavendar, Greek Oregano, Basil French Lavendar planted 05/01/2011. Greek Oregano planted 05/01/2011. Basil seed sown ~02/10/2011. Basil first sprouts ~02/14/2011. Basil first harvest .

Buckets	for Annual Fruits & Veg
1	Tomato - Bloody Butcher (55 days) Seed started 03/23/2008. Seed sown 03/27/2008. Potted up 04/15/2008. Planted 04/23/2008. Flower buds 04/30/2008. Open Flowers 05/15/2008. First fruitlings 05/28/2008. First harvest 06/22/2008. Basil Seed sown 04/26/2008. First sprouts 05/04/2008. Seed harvest 12/01/2008.
2	Tomato - Black Krim (69-80 days) Seed started 03/23/2008. Seed sown 03/27/2008. Potted up 04/15/2008. Planted 04/23/2008. Smushed/damaged 04/29/2008. First fruitling 06/08/2008. First harvest 09/19/2008.
3	Tomato - Hillbilly (85 days) Seed started 03/23/2008. Seed sown 03/27/2008. Potted up 04/15/2008. Planted 04/23/2008. Flower buds 05/15/2008. First fruitling 07/03/2008. First harvest 09/19/2008. Basil Seed sown 04/26/2008. First sprouts 05/04/2008. Seed harvest 12/01/2008.
4-8 -May?	Sugar Ann Snap Peas (56 days) Seed started 03/22/2008. Seed sown 03/25/2008. First Pea 05/15/2008. First harvest 05/22/2008. Last harvest 06/04/2008.
4-6 May?-	Sugar Baby Watermelon (75-90 days) Seed sown 05/07/2008. First fruitling 07/01/2008. First harvest 09/14/2008.
7 May?-	Yellow Squash - Early Prolific Straightneck (50 days) Seed sown 06/26/2008. First harvest 09/19/2008.
8 May?-	Zucchini - Burpee's hybrid (50 days) Seed sown 07/02/2008.
9-10	Bulls Blood Beets (55 days) Seed sown 05/07/2008. First sprouts 05/14/2008. Harvest 07/02/2008.

Buckets	for Permanent Fruits
11-15	Strawberries - Honeoye and Ozark's Beauty Unlabeled planting 2007. Flowers 04/18/2008. First harvest 05/22/2008.
16	Blueberry - Briteblue Planted 03/05/2008.
17	Blueberry - Northsky Planted 04/26/2008.
18	Blueberry - Chippewa Planted 04/26/2008.
19	Raspberry - Tulameen Planted 04/26/2008.
20	Raspberry - Summit Planted 04/26/2008.
21	Blackberry - Arapaho Planted 04/26/2008. First flowers 07/01/2008. First fruitling 07/09/2008.
22	Blackberry - Loch Ness Planted 04/26/2008.

Indoor	Window Boxes
1	Chives, Basil, Orange Mint Chives Planted 07/12/2007. Basil seed sown 04/26/2008. Basil first sprouts 05/04/2008. Mint Planted 07/12/2007
2	Rocky Top Lettuce Mix Seed sown 03/24/2008. First sprouts 03/27/2008. First harvest 04/24/2008.
3	Arugula Seed sown 03/24/2008. First sprouts 03/26/2008. First harvest 04/24/2008

Seeds I have, some to trade. Just ask.

Saturday, June 30, 2007

First Harvest! Growing Watermelon & More

Here is my first harvest from my rooftop garden! 5 wonderful Stupice tomatoes. They are the perfect size small tomato, and I think I will just grow these and forgoe the smaller Peacevine cherry tomatoes next year. This sandwich is for CJ, but the bite of tomato I had was reaaaaally good.

And, remember that baby watermelon I had last week? Well, it just about exploded!

The plants are just growing like crazy so I ended up moving them from their present location and finally hooked them up to the irrigation system. Now they can get water witthout me going up there every day.

In other news, my strawberries finally look like they're going strong. This one even has a runner, which will root and turn into a new plant for next year.

And, I've got salad!
Rocky Top Lettuce mix:

Bulls Blood Beets:

Rainbow Swiss Chard:

New Zealand Spinach:

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Mouth Watering Red Tomatoes and More...

Having neglected my garden for a few days, I was wonderfully surprised to see that despite a little wilting, things have gone on to flourish without my care. Right now all I can think about is eating these gorgeous red globes, Stupice Tomatoes:

Also ripening are my small cherry variety Peacevine Tomatoes:

Not to be left out of the party, there are baby watermelons just like this, popping up all over my plants.

To think they all came from these pretty yellow flowers:

Lastly, my Rocky Top Lettuce mix has sprouted. It might be too late to get edible lettuce, as hot weather makes it bitter, but I figured I'd try.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Plant Love!

Male(left) and female(right) watermelon flower buds. SOMEBODY looks happy to... be growing... But, girl watermelon has some hairy legs. Might be a turn off =P

Anyway, check out the tiny watermelon ovary on the female bud. It has tiny watermelon stripes! One day, it's going to turn into a juicy, dripping, red melon that begs to be eaten. Is this plant porn?!?!

Here are the watermelon plants today. They grow so fast!

And in other news, the tiniest blush of red on my ripening tomatoes. Check out the tomato in the lower right.

Here are my lilies that are being munched on by pigeons. Grrr!! Who wants to be my human scare crow....?

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Time Flies! Plants Grow!

Well it's been over a month since my last post, and there have been some changes on the roof garden. It's actually... starting to look green! =)

This is what it looked like on May 23rd:

This is what it looks like now. The original drip system wasn't working very well because the supply line was the same width as the feeder tubes. So, I got some wider tubing and set it up. Now I just have to fix some leaks at the 2 ends of the supply tubing and then fine tune the amount of drip that I want coming out of each feeder.

Some of my strawberries died, so I grouped the living ones together and transplanted my flowers to the window boxes (That's actually my neighbor's window):

Here's how big my watermelons have grown. I decided to move them to the front of the roof so that they'd have more room to spread out as they grow:

And my tomatoes have grown a lot too!

Stupice Tomato	4/30: Potted up. 5/14: Planted. 5/16: First fruitling. 6/30: First ripe fruit.
Peacevine Tomato	4/30: Potted up. 5/14: Planted.
Watermelons	5/5: Seed sown. 5/15: Transplant. 6/24: First fruitling. Mid-Aug: Fruit ripe.

Flats
1	New Zealand Spinach Seed started 03/23/2008. Seed sown 03/25/2008.
2	Bull's Blood Beets Seed started 03/23/2008. Seed sown 03/25/2008.
3	Rainbow Chard Seed started 03/23/2008. Seed sown 03/25/2008.
4	Rocky Top Lettuce Mix
5	Arugula
6	Bloomsdale Longstanding Spinach