What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today I'm

actually really excited because a friend of mine who I met in Barcelona, Robert Strauss, the farmer on the roof, is on the show.

So just for a little preface here, I was in Barcelona on just a normal vacation and connected with Robert and of course I can't really

seem to go on a vacation without mixing in some plants and gardening and so we

met and I think Robert maybe it's best to have you describe your unique growing situation and of course welcome to the podcast and great to talk to you.

Sure, thanks Kevin.

Yeah, that was about a year and a half ago that you were in Barcelona and it was terrific.

The setup that I have there is my wife and I, we were fortunate to find a kind of townhouse in Barcelona,

and there's actually four floors inside each one gets a little narrower

as it goes up but as it goes up we have patios on each side and then there's a section of

roof that goes across the whole building. So it's a weird

kind of pyramid type of situation with little ledges and some sizable patios and then a very

small but long narrow roof and little by little I've extended the

garden to each of these areas there's also a backyard down below on the ground

floor level. Yeah yeah that was the thing that I noticed the most was just how you've sprinkled in gardening and plants on every single level of a pretty, I mean, it very vertically integrated but it is a tight horizontal space.

Oh yeah it's completely right in the middle of the city I and surrounded by buildings.

Some of them are taller than where our building is.

And as you'll remember, the orientation

as to the sun is sort of southeast to northwest.

So parts of the place get afternoon sun,

parts of the place get morning sun.

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