HUB Housing Cooperative

Since last time, we’ve planted the sedum on the roof! Yesterday was had a good crew up on the roof, cutting 6 spots in each bag of rocks (that’s 215 bags of very small rocks, for those counting at home), then planting one cute little sedum seedling in each cut spot. I think there were five kinds of sedum. In any event, the roof is now fully planted, and we had a flat or two left over. Hopefully we can find a spot for them for the winter so we can fill in any spots on the roof that don’t make it until spring. And now for some photos:

Early in the cutting process

More cutting (watch out for the edge!)

Seriously, no falling!

More photos.

So it turns out 13,000 pounds of very small rocks are just as heavy as 13,000 pounds of soil (though their volume is bigger, meaning we can grow more in them).

Dan writes:

Thanks to everyone who came out, especially Mike Phippen for bringing the crane!  We managed to get all the materials up on the roof and in place, including all the “paks” of rocks.  We still need to cut into the bags and actually plant the plants, but the really hard (and it
was really hard!) work is done.

Here are some pictures from the big day:
http://s486.photobucket.com/albums/rr221/DanKorn/HUB%20Co-op%20Green%20Roof%20Installation/?albumview=grid

Some sample photos: