Don t forget to water them regularly.
Growing vegetables in old gutters.
Gardening in the gutter literally.
Soak fresh picked lettuce leaves in ice water before placing them in a storage bag to keep the lettuce leaves fresh and.
This will allow the excess water to be drained.
Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil.
Grow shallow root plants such as radish spinach and strawberries.
Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters.
Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties.
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.
Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping.
Common plants grown in gutters include the following.
Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce.
Chives parsley cilantro scallions.
Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters.
Besides the plants already mentioned you can try.
Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow.
Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full.
Rotate your lettuce crops to keep an abundant supply of fresh lettuce producing during the growing season.