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Mike Krolak: So here we are on the rooftop of the Ideal Bite offices. I am going to be doing the rooftop planting. I have some tomatoes and some cilantro. I'm hoping to make the ingredients for some salsa. So I'm going to show you how to plant them.
Alright, first things first. There are probably holes in the bottom of your container, those are there for drainage which is important for soil maintenance. But we need to put something in there to keep the dirt from pouring out, newspaper works just fine. Then you can start dumping in the soil, but don't fill your plant box all the way up just yet. Fill it just about two-thirds or so for now.
If you're planting something that's going to want to climb or maybe just gets big and it's going to need support, like tomatoes for instance. You should also grab the cage like this guy or some sticks or something like that, and here is a little trick.
Put that stuffing now before all the soils in and all that, and before you planted everything, it's going to be way easier to get it right where you want it. So once sets in there, take a little bit of hole, not all the way down or anything but just to get your plants, it's kind of the dirt around the side of your plant that sort of thing. Then just place those guys in there.
When they're all set, continue filling your container with soil. You want to fill it up until the new soil comes right up to the top of the root ball, just the roots, it's the ball of roots and soil that you start to planking with.
You want to make sure as you're doing this, you don't fill your container up all the way to the top of soil. We want to leave some room for watering later, and that'll be important.
Once you are all set, give it a little water, not too much, just a little bit to get the soil settled in that sort of thing. If it settles a lot in the root balls that your starters are exposed again, just add more soil, and that is it.
So tomatoes tend to want a lot of water. So it's good to try to water them like everyday, if it all possible. Other than that, they need a lot of sun, a lot of heat which with the wind, and it bit brings same, we're just going with a little concerned. I'll do my best to keep them alive. So hopefully it works.
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