Growing Vegetables In A Gutter
Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping.
Growing vegetables in a gutter. 9 gutter garden plants for indoor planting. Lettuce salad greens asian greens spinach or mustard radishes carrots beets strawberries snap peas chives garlic cilantro bunching onions mint thyme marjoram succulents annual flowers. Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full. This will allow the excess water to be drained.
Soak fresh picked lettuce leaves in ice water before placing them in a storage bag to keep the lettuce leaves fresh and. Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters. The idea behind this was to be able to keep lettuce growing so i can actually have a complete salad from the garden when cucumbers and tomatoes are harvested. Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties.
8 lettuce in rain gutter garden. Spray paint all the gutters with two coats of rust oleum plastic spray paint allowing for drying time between. Chives parsley cilantro scallions. Measure 45mm from the end of each gutter and drill a hole in the bottom 20mm in diameter with a hole saw.
Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil. Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow. Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters. Lettuces chard kale spinach arugula mache.
You can use compost or buy the bagged potting soil. Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce. Don t forget to water them regularly. Lettuce can be a great leafy vegetable to be grown in the rain gutter garden.
You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this setup. You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this setup. Besides the plants already mentioned you can try. Dress up your boring wooden fence or walls using aluminum gutters following this idea.
Gardening in the gutter literally. Common plants grown in gutters include the following. Attach all the stop ends to the gutter lengths. They can be planted vertically on the lines and you will be able to produce the lettuce right in the comfort of your home.
Rotate your lettuce crops to keep an abundant supply of fresh lettuce producing during the growing season.