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