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From: kolling@decwrl.DEC.COM (Karen Kolling)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: gardening on a rooftop
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 13:04:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 13:04:18 1985
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> For the last two years I've been growing vegetables on the roof
> of a small apartment building, about 20 8-gallon crates.  Mostly
> I've been following "The Apartment Farmer" by Duane Newcomb.  The
> beans and peas are pretty successful, but the tomatos never
> get any larger than cherry tomatos ..... In past, I used the
> run-of-the-mill seed packages (priced 55 cents, sold 6 for 99 at
> the 99-cent store)

When I lived in an apartment, I grew tomatoes (and rosebushes)
successfully in planters on the patio.  The planters were the redwood
tubs about two feet wide and two feet high.  I believe the tomatoes,
which all grew to full size, were Ace and {Better, Best} {Boy, Girl}.