Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters.
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.
Grow shallow root plants such as radish spinach and strawberries.
Common plants grown in gutters include the following.
Rotate your lettuce crops to keep an abundant supply of fresh lettuce producing during the growing season.
Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow.
Gardening in the gutter literally.
Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties.
Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil.
The types of rain gutter most often used for gutter gardening are made of vinyl or aluminum.
Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce.
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.
Don t forget to water them regularly.
Besides the plants already mentioned you can try.
Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters.
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.
Lettuces chard kale spinach arugula mache.
Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full.