5 Story Rooftop Gardening in Spain (Full Tour)
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- My friend Robert Strauss is The Gardener On The Roof. I met him in Barcelona, Spain and had to come to his house to see his highly-productive and creative rooftop garden. In fact, it's more than a rooftop garden as he has 5 total stories of growing space.
He makes his own compost by getting scraps from the local green grocer, as well as collecting leaves from his neighbors during the fall and winter.
In this video, we go through his entire garden from start to finish to show you exactly how he grows so much food in such a tight urban area.
As a bonus, we harvest and cook calçots a type of spring onion that's famous in Catalunya with romesco sauce. We pull it straight from his garden, throw it on the grill, get some newspaper from Big Al, and then eat it all together to close out the video.
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0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Overview of garden + calçot harvest
9:38 - Growing in veggie crates
15:26 - Fruit trees, corn, ornamentals
17:29 - How Robert sources compost materials
20:24 - Robert's composting method and system
23:51 - Cooking and eating calçots
29:43 - Bonus clip ;)
okay, I 'lost' 1.5 hours of my time watching your rooftop gardens videos and I don't even have a rooftop haha, well done subscribed!
😂 thank you!
Hey Kevin. What a pleasure it was to have you at the house and what a GREAT video you produced. Out of the 1,967 views the video has had at this moment, I promise you that my mother-in-law and I are responsible for no more than 1,500 of them. And because "Endow 77" stared at the screen for "three minutes" after seeing my compost, I'm putting together a video on how I do it. Hope to have it up and running in a couple of days. Thanks for everything, Kevin, Jon, and the EG team.
Robert! Good to see you on here. I'll be sure to share your videos as soon as they're up. Thanks for hosting us, my friend.
We need this video! Awesome job
@@joelforeman5097 Thank you, Joel. I don't post to CZcams any longer so please check out my insta @TheFarmerOnTheRoof
When I saw the finished compost vs the just started, I stared at my screen in awe for a good 3 minutes.
He's a compost KING
@@epicgardening Hi Endow. I just finished loading up boxes 1, 2, and 3 with what the green grocer was getting rid of. A local university is testing my compost so soon I'll have an idea of how good it may be.
@@thefarmerontheroof414 Hi so you added nothing else and it turns out like that? I thought maybe you added some soil?! What! that's amazing. Well done.
@@nameunknown007 Nah. I may add a little more mature compost to each load I dump in to get it started, but that's about all. If I really want to cook it, I get some hardwood shavings and sawdust from a local carpenter. That gets the temperature quickly >60°C.
This is fascinating - and Robert is a natural! How great to see his composting method, growing operation and to also fit in a visit to his neighborhood veggie shop and to learn about the calcot tradition. Great video :)
Thanks 🙃
Thank you Lisa. Kevin's visit and video were terrific.
What a fantastic little documentary of this mans garden! Absolutely fantastic. Thank you for sharing.
Love that you enjoyed it!
Thank you for sharing. My husband family is from Spain, so I sent this video to my Mother in law to see. She will enjoy. I always enjoy your videos.
Bravo Robert!! You are an inspiration to all of us in Barcelona trying to promote Urban Farming!! Thanks for all your advice and well done to Kevin for finding him!! Love calcots by the way :-) big hug to both of you guys. love. Adela
Thanks for watching Adela!
Thank you Huertos in the Sky. Hoping that others in Barcelona and elsewhere will start digging their rooftops.
Wow, he used almost every inch of his rooftop!!
Super efficient use of space!
Hi Marcia. I'm trying to use about 75-80% of the space available. It's important to lay it out so that you can reach everything easily, without hurting your back, and not falling over the edge, while leaving enough space to move around without a headache.
Fear of heights here, but tried not to look over the edge and just loved this interview and tour (except for the edges). Wish I could get some bulbs in California to grow it myself!
Barcelona is the coolest city I’ve ever been in. I was a Spanish teacher, so my interest in this is gut level. La Sagrada Familia is the most beautiful building in the world, and it was designed to glorify the Lord. What a wonderful interview! Thank you, again, for bringing us so much experience in one video!
I would love to visit Spain in the near future. God Bless Catholic Spain.
Aaaaaaw! What wonderful memories you brought back. After graduating college, I kept up with one of my professors. He passed last year. We loved to go to his rural home and grill/barbecue green onions aka scallions. How I miss my dear friend. I appreciate you sharing this
That compost is awesome. I love the way the rooftop is used.
Everything about it was awesome!
Hope it is as good as it looks.
Ha! I'm originally from Iowa and had a good laugh at that interaction. Here in San Francisco i've been trying to figure out a way to urban garden. Backyard gets very little sunlight and roof is unsafe to reach. Damn! Maybe I'll try the front steps as they get sun and just hope nobody will mess with it.
Great video and cheers to you Robert.
Do you have homeless tent people living in your yard?
Wow! Robert is an awesome urban gardener. Does his wife share the romescu sauce recipe!? Can we get Calcote onion bulbs in the U.S.? What a great documentary on this epat urban rooftop farmer. Loved the neighbors weighing in from their balconies. And that compost....
I hope you can bring some seeds from these back to the USA. Also, as far as the ornamentals are concerned-“hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread, but give us roses.”
Never heard of that! Wonderful quote
It’s from a song: m.czcams.com/video/HKEr5U8ERgc/video.html
That was an amazing video loved it 💙🤘🏼🙏🏼
Robert is living the life!
I am wondering if you could entice Robert to discuss his composting method in more detail, I would be very interested in trying something like this at home and love the compact design. I have looked (possibly not hard enough) to find more details on his particular design but have fallen short. It seems it needs minimal sun, relying almost entirely on decomposing material for heat, has little to no drainage (for water), and apart from a regular turn there is little aeration. It almost seems to defy some of the basic rules of this style of compost. I AM VERY INTRIGUED!
I am also intrigued....please do share!
Really enjoyed this video. Lots of great ideas to try out in my garden here in south-eastern Australia 😊
Glad to hear this!
This is incredibly well made, you're a natural for this kind of thing. You should come and do a documentary about my bookshelf with some jars of moss and a cactus
Much Love❤️❤️❤️ keep up the great work guys. Love what you guys are doing 💚💚💚
thanks!
Kevin and Jon were the best. (Calçots were good too. Let's get a calçots movement going outside Catalonia.)
Wow....thanks Kevin! Always great videos
Love it! Thanks again for another awesome video. And thank you, Robert.
Everything I hoped for! Authenticity. Local cuisine. Fascinating personalities. Thank you so much!
fascinating, but wonderful. he has been so innovative and has a great harvest.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Hi Florice. I'm averaging about 4 kilos/square meter or about 1 pound per square foot. Unfortunately, in years past I didn't weigh or record any leafy greens, garlic, most of the onions I grew, strawberries, and a bunch of other stuff. This year I plan to weigh every leaf of lettuce.
I love seeing other peoples garden 🪴
Great, I garden on a cement pad hanging over a steep bluff on the PNW, so this was especially interesting to me, of course at the moment we have snow, but gardening will commence soon, LOL. I also grow broad beans all winter, mine are starting to flower now too, but the snow will set them back a little I think, great crop, delicious beans and nitrogen fixing, more Americans should grow them.
As always my friend Robert amazes!! Good job buddy!
Wohoo!
Thank you Brent-ski.
Amazing! Just started watching the video. Hopefully you cover his containers.... looks like large laundry baskets. ....amazing.
We cover it!
Hello Ash. They aren't laundry baskets, they are the plastic crates used to deliver fruits and vegetables here in Barcelona. Incredibly, I have found dozens thrown away in the trash. I'm building an CZcams Channel and Instagram and will do a short video on how I "build" a crate out in the next few weeks.
Thanks for sharing - love Roberts garden.
You're welcome!
Thank you Lisa.
This was such an awesome video ...start to finish💯💯👍🏿👍🏿great!,
Being an avid "Raised bed & Container" intensive gardener myself for more years than I care to count, I am always looking for Ideas and Techniques for that certain "Gentleman Farmer" look !
I believe we all could "Save The Planet...One Yard at a Time" ...beginning with our own !
Check out some of my videos on "Gardening With Vincenzo" on You Tube and "Catch a Peak".
Thanks for sharing your wonderful designs !
Love this video
I would like to have seen more of how the worm castings work is system 🤔
This was a great video.
Awsome!! Barcelona is such a nice town and Robert a nice person.
:)
Great to hear!
Great. Very entertaining and informative.
Thank you!
fabulous! thanks
Very nice. Can y explain a bit about how to get to that great compost?
The Frucat shop is beautiful
Awesome!
Robert, ets el millor ambaixador del barri 😊
I'm living in Gracia, this is awesome to see! :)
EPIC.
I was scared watching that!
Hahaha! Glad you weren't there!
A number of people were Laurie and I'm going to make the roof safer for me and for visitors in the next couple of months.
I m so scare at the top..in the middle is ok:)
When i grow up i wanna be this guy
Sooo awesome! I love the whole video, even Backstreet Boys playing in the background at Frucat. We were in Barcelona in the summer of 2019, would love to go back. Everything about the video is so interesting to me, especially how much he grew in a small space and his persistence. I was wondering about the watering with how hot and dry it can be in the summer. Self-watering systems seem to be in great need, especially in areas where water is hard to come by. I am trying to decide if I can make my raised beds have some properties of a self watering system.
Loved this!
Can't watch yall walking around up there! Does anyone ever fall?
Great video, thank you.
You're welcome!
I agree!
Lovely video! Are the composting containers available in the USA?
gosh, i hope he knows that there are seeds in the fruits in this garbage he collects too. i am a seed hoarder and i saw him pour down the garbage for the compost and i was like oh my gosh, there are seeds in there, lol
i love rooftop garden! but im a bit anxious watching the video because in some part of the man's garden there's no fence on the edge XD
Those boxes doesn't have holes underneath??? Don't they get waterlogged?
Fantastic compost .I live in Costa Blanca where can I get worms . Haven't seen one in 5yrs .
So HOPING he uses charcoal instead of coal briquettes??? Nothing tastes better than cooking on wood. Far healthier. Gosh, I onions make me ill, and I still want to eat them! I LOVE shallots and leeks-amazing! Thank you SO much-wonderful!😍
Are those what we call leeks in Australia ? The veg you cooked at the end .
My rooftop farming is very small. : )
Start small!
Epic Gardening thank you ^^
Love lebanese broadbeans in oil mezzeh.
Hummingbirds aren’t in spain are they? A hummingbird moth perhaps?
Looks like he plants In bins or rectangular crates on a ledge!
He does!
Hi. See my reply to Endow 77.
What if u fall from that ladder... hope not.. its scary tho
CZcams keeps unsubscribing me from your channel... great thing is it keeps sending me.your old videos and I love watching them
I'm terrified of heights and I almost vomited. It's not you. I just can't. I'll have to skip this one.