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