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