Here in the vegan cafe we collect our uncooked vegetable left overs, mix them with soil (and the poot poot from our cat) and stash it all at the rooftop in plastic garbage bins from Big C.
I did it with the idea of starting a rooftop garden, but Mother Nature sure did beat me and started a garden on her own. Without doing nothing and to my surprise, a pepper plant started to grow, two lemon trees and a mango tree (still size mini), several tamarind trees (they grow pretty fast), and the cut off pineapple tops started to grow roots.
I joined Mother Natures party and did throw in some tomato seeds and coriander seeds from Big C. And this week papaya seeds (we did eat the papayas and saved the seeds) and bellpepper seeds (saved from the real thing), will be tossed into the soil.
Bellpeppers (aka capsicum) are about twenty baht a piece on the local market, so harvesting them from the rooftop garden will make my wallet happy.
Besides that, home grown veggies are fresh and organic and yummy.
Bellpeppers (aka capsicum) are about twenty baht a piece on the local market, so harvesting them from the rooftop garden will make my wallet happy.
Besides that, home grown veggies are fresh and organic and yummy.
Yabadabadee. If you're looking for me, i am on the roof...
A few days later this pepper turns bright red.
Tomato seeds from Big C work well. Pineapple top grows roots.
This mango tree will provide me with fresh organic mango's, in about fifteen years.
Lemon tree growing from thrown away lemon seeds. I can use the lemon leaves for several Thia dishes.
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Hmp! That's unfair, I wasn't invited to this party, LOL. BTW, it's easy to grow papayas. Both ripe and green papayas are beneficial. We fed the chicken at our poultry farm with papayas, and sometimes, birds would come to our rooftop looking to eat some of them.
ReplyDeleteHaving a rooftop garden is so neat! By growing your own vegetables, you have a ready supply of fresh produce. For projects like these, vegetables that can easily thrive in small to medium-sized containers are best. As for the mango plant you mentioned, you will need to transplant it in the near future because it will eventually grow into a very big tree.
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