Creating a City Rooftop Garden

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A rooftop garden not only provides fresh vegetables and flowers, but also serves as a relaxing retreat from city pressures.
A rooftop garden not only provides fresh vegetables and flowers, but also serves as a relaxing retreat from city pressures.
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LEFT: Wooden pallets leveled a sloping portion of the roof. The author used everything from peanut butter tubs to Japanese miso kegs for plant containers. MIDDLE: No garden is complete without flowers! RIGHT: Pot grown peppers did especially well.
LEFT: Wooden pallets leveled a sloping portion of the roof. The author used everything from peanut butter tubs to Japanese miso kegs for plant containers. MIDDLE: No garden is complete without flowers! RIGHT: Pot grown peppers did especially well.

“On the roof it’s peaceful as can be/And there the world
below can’t bother me.”
(From “Up On The Roof,” by Gerry Goffin and Carole King,
© 1963).

  • Published on Mar 1, 1986
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