Basic gutter garden tutorial.
Growing lettuce in a gutter.
Cut them into appropriate lengths wearing safety glasses.
The middle rail was planted with 2 types of kale seeds.
Make sure soil is at least 45 degrees and you have to keep the soil moist pretty much the entire growing season.
Fill the gutter with fertile well drained potting medium to within 1 2 inch of the top edge.
Trust me if you want your kids to eat it call it dinosaur kale finally i planted the bottom gutter with romaine lettuce and a cut and come again salad mix.
Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil.
Common plants grown in gutters include the following.
Using a planter i made from a piece of rain.
How to grow lettuce in a rain gutter 1.
You will need salad seeds lengths of guttering hand saw duct tape multi purpose peat free compost watering can with rose attachment.
8 scatter several lettuce seeds across the soil at a density of approximately one seed per inch of growing space.
You don t have to have a greenhouse to try this.
Grow lettuce spinach or any of your favorite greens in this vertical patch.
A smart and inexpensive way to add some vertical growing space.
A couple of tips for growing lettuce in gutters.
Hanging vertical gutter garden.
Cut a section of gutter 4 to 6 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw for plastic gutters.
It s super easy i promise.
Paint gutters for a more colorful display.
Drill holes for wire if your garden will hang and add drainage holes unless the gutter garden will be at an angle where it can drain.
Slide metal end.
It is easier to take care of but you do need to look at it daily.
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.
Dinosaur lacinato kale and red russian kale.
Press the seeds about 1 4 inch deep into the soil with your finger or the eraser end of a pencil.
Grow the best lettuce ever you can do it.
Nope if you have a fence or some type of wall you can attach a gutter to you can grow lettuce in gutters.
Simply line your gutters with a wee bit of pea gravel add potting soil then add your seeds or lettuce starts and water as you normally would.
Hang on a stand if desired.