farmgeek and RDiva were talking on twitter about seedbombing, here’s a link, and it reminded me of one of our Real World Green series videos on just that subject.

Do you have a good seed bomb recipe? or some pictures of the results? please share them here:

Green Roofs are a great thing. They shade the roof a house, thus lowering the cooling bill, and add greenery to the city. But they are a lot of work to install and can be costly.

So here is my low tech green roof project.

The idea is to place large planters around my flat roof in Brooklyn, drill holes in the bottom of the planters, and plant vine vegetable plants in the holes. I have a water timer and soaker hose system that will water the containers.  Then plants will sprawl over the roof and shade the roof while lowering our cooling bill. And we get food from our roof at the same time.  neat. Here are some photos to demonstrate the low tech green roof idea.

Large Planters are placed on rubber roofing material

I use a hole saw to open up the bottom of the planter

Here are some winter sqash and cucumber plants I started.

This is the start of about 6 large planters on the roof. Manhattan is on the right in the background.

I was recently contacted by Seventh Generation about a new product they are coming out with, and they are going to send us some. we’ll see what it is. This reminded me of our Green Your Bathroom : Toilet Paper episode of Real World Green.

Once our site redesign is complete, we’ll fully integrate the Real World Green video series into the Gardenfork site, for now you can watch them all on the RWG page here.

Be green this Christmas with more ways to Green Your Holiday from Eric Rochow and Real World Green. Today, learn how to wrap presents in a green way, and see eric in his santa hat. fun. watch.

Buying a Christmas Tree every year, instead of using an artificial tree, is very green, in terms of eco-friendliness. Watch and Learn here on Real World Green.