Readying the Green Roof

We left the wood shelter almost finished last autumn: watertight, and complete as a wood shelter, but the intended green roof wasn't done. We've spent the last couple of days working on that, though: adding the fascia boards that will edge the soil, and adding some more struts, braces, and supports. It's now ready to have the vermiculite, weed membrane, and soil adding.

To take a break from this, we've spent today digging turves on the top lawn, outside the sitting room window. We've now cut and turned turf covering about a 7m square: it needs breaking up, though, before we can plant anything. The soil for the green roof arrives tomorrow, though, and I expect it'll take the rest of our holiday to shift the couple of tons we need onto the roof.

The top lawn (© Ian 2013)

Cutting and turning turves for the future herb garden beds  (© Ian 2013)