Growing Vegetables In Old Gutters

Common plants grown in gutters include the following.

Growing vegetables in old gutters.

Soak fresh picked lettuce leaves in ice water before placing them in a storage bag to keep the lettuce leaves fresh and. Rotate your lettuce crops to keep an abundant supply of fresh lettuce producing during the growing season. The preferred location should receive at least four hours of sunlight as noted in the article gardening in the gutter literally by shilo urban with the urban authority. Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters.

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. Lettuces chard kale spinach arugula mache. Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters.

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. Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil. Chives parsley cilantro scallions. Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce.

The types of rain gutter most often used for gutter gardening are made of vinyl or aluminum. Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full. Don t forget to water them regularly. Grow shallow root plants such as radish spinach and strawberries.

Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping.