Growing Plants In Rain Gutters

Cut a section of gutter 4 to 6 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw for plastic gutters.

Growing plants in rain gutters.

Add organic fertilizer to about 20 liters of water and add that to the brick. Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters. Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full. 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. 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. If you have a long narrow garden space or a lot of vertical space to use rain gutter gardening is perfect for you. Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil.

This will allow the excess water to be drained. July 15 2014 at 3 07 pm work with day to day. You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced. 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.

Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters. 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. Besides the plants already mentioned you can try. Slide metal end.

It grows 2 to 4 feet tall and forms dense mats of grassy foliage. Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow. Don t forget to water them regularly. In summer it features white and brown flower spikes.

This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use. 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. Using it is simple. 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.

And i think we should let you all know that growing strawberry plants in rain gutters reply. For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket. Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil. Protecting the strawberries growing in gutters says.

Vertical kitchen gutter garden.