Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters.
Growing vegetables in old gutters.
Don t forget to water them regularly.
Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow.
Common plants grown in gutters include the following.
Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters.
Lettuces chard kale spinach arugula mache.
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.
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.
Besides the plants already mentioned you can try.
Grow shallow root plants such as radish spinach and strawberries.
Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties.
Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping.
Chives parsley cilantro scallions.
Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce.
Gardening in the gutter literally.
The types of rain gutter most often used for gutter gardening are made of vinyl or aluminum.
Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full.