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