Growing Plants In Rain Gutters

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Growing plants in rain gutters.

Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters. Vertical kitchen gutter garden. Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters. Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce.

Follow this exclusive guide here to build your very own hydroponic rain gutter garden with the 40 feet of vertical growing space and 50 gallon fish pond. Don t forget to water them regularly. Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full. And while i m complaining i have to say i haven t loved this new experience of using the gutter system for growing strawberries either.

Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil. You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced. Self watering rain gutter garden fish pond. Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil.

Not every plant is suitable for rain gutter gardening but plants that have shallow root systems and don t require much space do wonderfully in a rain gutter garden. This will allow the excess water to be drained. If you have a long narrow garden space or a lot of vertical space to use rain gutter gardening is perfect for you. Besides the plants already mentioned you can try.

How to grow lettuce in a rain gutter 1. Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping. Cut a section of gutter 4 to 6 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw for plastic gutters. It grows 2 to 4 feet tall and forms dense mats of grassy foliage.

In summer it features white and brown flower spikes. Using it is simple. Protecting the strawberries growing in gutters says. Things you will need tape measure pencil tin snips hand or circular saw gutter end caps pliers silicone caulk pvc glue 1 4 inch drill bit power drill potting soil gardening trowel strawberry transplants scissors watering can fertilizer.

Grow lettuce spinach or any of your favorite greens in this vertical patch. For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket. This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use. Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow.

Spike rush eleocharis palustris can grow in either standing water or in medium wet soil so it s right at home edging a pond by a gutter downspout or in a rain garden.