Growing Lettuce In A Gutter

Basic gutter garden tutorial.

Growing lettuce in a gutter.

Trust me if you want your kids to eat it call it dinosaur kale finally i planted the bottom gutter with romaine lettuce and a cut and come again salad mix. This is the way to grow lettuce without insect or slug damage. Common plants grown in gutters include the following. Hang on a stand if desired.

8 scatter several lettuce seeds across the soil at a density of approximately one seed per inch of growing space. A couple of tips for growing lettuce in gutters. Fill the gutter with fertile well drained potting medium to within 1 2 inch of the top edge. Press the seeds about 1 4 inch deep into the soil with your finger or the eraser end of a pencil.

Simply line your gutters with a wee bit of pea gravel add potting soil then add your seeds or lettuce starts and water as you normally would. Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil. Paint gutters for a more colorful display. The middle rail was planted with 2 types of kale seeds.

You don t have to have a greenhouse to try this. Lettuce salad greens asian greens spinach or mustard radishes carrots beets strawberries snap peas chives garlic cilantro bunching onions mint thyme marjoram succulents annual flowers. Being in a gutter the soil will dry out faster and the temperature will fluctuate in larger increments. Grow lettuce spinach or any of your favorite greens in this vertical patch.

You will need salad seeds lengths of guttering hand saw duct tape multi purpose peat free compost watering can with rose attachment. It s super easy i promise. Cut a section of gutter 4 to 6 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw for plastic gutters. A smart and inexpensive way to add some vertical growing space.

Slide metal end. Cut them into appropriate lengths wearing safety glasses. Dinosaur lacinato kale and red russian kale. Hanging vertical gutter garden.

Grow the best lettuce ever you can do it. Drill holes for wire if your garden will hang and add drainage holes unless the gutter garden will be at an angle where it can drain. Learn how to build a rain gutter garden by spending less than 50 following this viral tutorial article available at the preparednessmama. Using a planter i made from a piece of rain.

Nope if you have a fence or some type of wall you can attach a gutter to you can grow lettuce in gutters.