9 gutter garden plants for indoor planting.
Growing vegetables in a gutter.
Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full.
You can now enjoy fresh lettuce salad every day.
First off you need a soil medium.
Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties.
Lettuces chard kale spinach arugula mache.
Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow.
This will allow the excess water to be drained.
Besides the plants already mentioned you can try.
Measure 45mm from the end of each gutter and drill a hole in the bottom 20mm in diameter with a hole saw.
Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping.
Lettuce can be a great leafy vegetable to be grown in the rain gutter garden.
Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters.
Rotate your lettuce crops to keep an abundant supply of fresh lettuce producing during the growing season.
You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this setup.
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.
Plant in your gutter garden.
8 lettuce in rain gutter garden.
Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce.
Chives parsley cilantro scallions.
You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this setup.
Gardening in the gutter literally.
Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil.
Soak fresh picked lettuce leaves in ice water before placing them in a storage bag to keep the lettuce leaves fresh and.
You can use compost or buy the bagged potting soil.
Dress up your boring wooden fence or walls using aluminum gutters following this idea.
Spray paint all the gutters with two coats of rust oleum plastic spray paint allowing for drying time between.
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.
Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters.