Originally Posted by
J. Farthington Turdsworth
On another forum I frequent a member suggested rooftop gardens for apartment dwellers. Here in the land of sunshine and enlightenment that would be a very dangerous idea. Even though our governor wants to continue working to prevent global warming, Trump's decision to pull out of the Accord has been detrimental to us. With the weather warming and the oceans rising we have had more earthquakes. And the added weight of the rooftop gardens, at least for us, would be too unstable to be safe.
Several of us residing in the mobile office have decided to try bucket gardening. In order to stay green as possible we have been waiting until our 5 gallon buckets we use at night are roughly half full, then mixing potting soil in to fill the bucket.
So far, we have been successful with tomatoes, squash, and beans, but our okra is not doing well. It seems that the freshman here at the University are stripping the leaves from the stalls and drying them out.
We line the buckets up by the mobile office so that rain running from the roof will irrigate our crops, but during the dry spell one of our engineering graduates devised a system to cycle water from our shower to the buckets. Any excess water goes into a sump, where a solar powered pump diverts it back to our toilet tank.
I'm curious to how the urbanites on this forum plan to develop sustainable gardens when the Sanders hits the fan.
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