Sunday, March 6, 2011

Garden in my back yard.




This past week, I was in Florence, SC installing a GIANT green roof on a federal courthouse. The roof is 22,000 square feet and, hopefully, by the end of the week, will have about 35,000 plants growing in 4 inches of soil. Just to give you a sense of scale...we have to lift 219 crane bags of soil onto the roof one at a time. In three days, we have finished 110. Long and slow process, but I have been having fun driving around a HUGE forklift on the job site. Because of a rain delay today, I drove back to Charleston to check on the garden plants. Jane has been, very graciously, checking on the little sprouts for me, and I decided today that we should move them into the back yard to start gaining strength and size. I put together a make shift green house in about 20 minutes, placed a bowl of water under the plastic for humidity control, and walked away. I have to go back to Florence tomorrow to finish the green roof job, so Jane will resume TLC for the plants. It's amazing to think that 1500 transplants fit on just three pallets. Comfrey plants arrived today, so I will get them in the ground when I return.

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