Growing Vegetables In Old Gutters

Soak fresh picked lettuce leaves in ice water before placing them in a storage bag to keep the lettuce leaves fresh and.

Growing vegetables in old gutters.

Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil. Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters. Besides the plants already mentioned you can try. Grow shallow root plants such as radish spinach and strawberries.

Common plants grown in gutters include the following. Don t forget to water them regularly. Chives parsley cilantro scallions. Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters.

This will allow the excess water to be drained. Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow. Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce. 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.

Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full. Lettuces chard kale spinach arugula mache. The types of rain gutter most often used for gutter gardening are made of vinyl or aluminum. Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping.

Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties.