It's been several days of hard work, filling trugs with sandy topsoil, barrowing them to the kitchen garden, lifting them onto the green roof, and spreading it out on top of the vermiculite and weed-proof membrane. A couple of hundred of trugs, in fact. The trugs are invaluable tools in the garden, as they make jobs like this possible. Bucketing the soil up onto the roof would have been technically possible, but it would have been more like five hundred trips up and down the ladder, which would have been wearisome.
I mean, more wearisome, as we're pretty weary as it is.
Green roof, filled with soil and ready to sow (© Ian 2013).
However, the green roof is now ready for sowing, which will happen in a few weeks, once it's warmed up properly. For now, there's about 9–10cm of soil, which should settle and compact to 5–6cm, waiting. Getting the wood shelter's wild-flower roof finished has taken a large chunk of this week, but it's good to have it done, and it looks good.
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