Growing Vegetables In Old Gutters

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Growing vegetables in old gutters.

The types of rain gutter most often used for gutter gardening are made of vinyl or aluminum. Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters. Drill small holes in the bottom of the 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.

Rotate your lettuce crops to keep an abundant supply of fresh lettuce producing during the growing season. Don t forget to water them regularly. 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. Chives parsley cilantro scallions.

Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full. Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping. Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil. Grow shallow root plants such as radish spinach and strawberries.

Besides the plants already mentioned you can try. Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow. Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties. Common plants grown in gutters include the following.

Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce.