Rooftop Gardens

i always dream of doing a roof garden . but my roof is on a slope. stuff will slide right off.

stacey wrote: I just want a garden in my backyard I knew exactly what I wanted when we renovated the inside but I look in my yard and its a blank slate. I wish I knew some student landscaper who would want to make my yard their project for minimal $$. I just don't know what types of flowers to plant, what grows well in sun etc.

i'll do it for cost of plants . ie hehe i'll buy for you and myself . i know what i want lol just my yard isnt ready yet hehe.

if you gonna do your own garden and stuff. get stuff with low maintence hehe and hardy that will surive the cold winters here. we are zone 6 for plants. ps its cheaper to order stuff online than get them from home depot and such. for example. my whole garden and yard probably gonna cost about 100 or so dollars to outfit doing online shopping . i already pick out all the plants for myself already. just waiting for my contractor to finish. blah probably be out of season when he is done .

http://www.gurneys.com/Default.asp?bhcd2=1144777953

this is the site i used. make sure to check their shipping times for some items. if you pass the time they'll send next year!!!

Lox wrote: [quote=stjohns]I wanted to start up a group of people here in Brooklyn who wanted to have rooftop gardens (novices like myself and seasoned gardeners). Does anyone know of any people out there who already have rooftop gardens?

I have a newly constructed roof deck and I'm very interested in getting a "garden" started up there. I need to keep it as light weight as possible so it will mostly be potted herbs and vegetables. I'm also going to give grapes a try. I ordered everything online already except for the pots and soil. I'll probably do that this weekend. Do you guys know if there's a vendor that sells pots at the GAP green market?

The BBG has the mother of all plant sales the first week of May
www.BBG.org

and they have good plants/seeds/pots at their gift store year round. Reasonable prices, quality plants, and the $$ goes to the garden.

311 to the Dept of Buildings would probably help in terms of arranging an inspection to determine weight limits, or at least getting whatever the city says.

Remember that you'll have significant wind issues, so some flowers are not a great idea. Lighter weight pots, etc should get strapped down somehow.

Speaking of rooftop gardens. Not like sketchy surprises are new for Ratner but does that huge chunk of parkland in this layout seem out of place to anyone else?

...like that's exactly where his stadium sits but it's not an oval, stadium-shaped park and there's no differentiation between ground level and the private stadium rooftop garden.
I mean, there's a friggin path that goes through the stadium and ponds!