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