I'm pleased to say that all is doing very well up on the roof.
First, my new algae prevention system is working well and the plastic garbage bags secured with the rubber gasket from spare lids is allowing rain water to pool on top and drain slowly through the small hole poked in the bag. The siphon buckets are fuller than when I topped them up last weekend.
Second, everything from the tomatoes to zucchini and cucumbers have grown larger, produced more blossoms and in the case of the latter two, have lots of veg coming.
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| First zucchini! |
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| Cucumbers with loads of blossoms and several little cucumbers. |
Lastly, the tomatoes are all doing well. All are in bloom other than the one that is planted in the ground. The one planted in the topsy turvy and those in the roof top containers are all blooming including the Pink Lady which I just planted last weekend to replace the broken Roma. I fertilized all those in bloom with a 4-6-8 fertilzer.
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| Romas doing very well |
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| Pink lady tomato planted last weekend is already in bloom |
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| Early Girls in Bloom |
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The topsy turvy early girl is also in bloom
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| Traditional early girl is growing well but not in bloom yet |
My next step is to come up with a plan for supporting the cucumbers and zucchini to keep them suspended so they don't rest on the hot roof. I have a few ideas but need to sleep on it...
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