We switched gears today and started working with Trilby on her live roof! It was really awesome working on such an interesting project. There are some stairs built into her pod that lead to the roof, which is lined (about a 1.5 feet wide) with an empty space for a garden. First, we wired a protective barrier on top of the mesh fence, which was pretty sharp when originally cut. Then we realized we needed to lay down stones as a base layer. We had a few buckets-worth of pre-made and ready to go stones at our disposal, but for the rest of it we took some bricks found on the property and broke them up with hammers and collected them in buckets. We felt a little like prisoners but it was a pretty fun way to let some frustration out!
After this, we made an assembly line from the buckets to the roof, and layered the stones along the soon-to-be garden bed. Then we put down filter paper over the stones, working as a separating and draining device between the soil and stones. We then mixed a very specific solution of soil, consisting of super absorbent dirt-earth, sand, bark, and some normal soil. We sifted this in a wheel barrow and then put it in buckets to carry to the roof and lay evenly in the roof garden! We then cut down the filter paper so it wasn't visible, and we had a live roof ready to go! We then ended the day by preparing the bamboo gutters (large bamboo cut in half). It was great to see such progress in just one day and we can't wait to start planting in Trilby's new live roof!
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