Outdoor Gutter Growing

Rain gutters as fence decoration.

Outdoor gutter growing.

Thanks to their elevated existence gutter gardens resist rabbits bugs slugs and other pests that troll the ground for food. 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. The bright colors and the lovely smell can be an excellent decoration for the exterior of the house.

Home gardeners should have enough insight regarding the properties of plants as they grow. Perfect for small spaces you can also use them to create privacy or for decoration. We just bought 3 10 sections of gutter at our local home improvement store along with right and left end caps and special screws for mounting. These create suitable growing spaces for smaller plants like strawberries herbs and lettuces.

The concept is simple. Besides the plants already mentioned you can try. You just use the gutter as a long planter. You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this setup.

Dress up your boring wooden fence or walls using aluminum gutters following this idea. The possibilities for your garden are endless. One of the cutest small gutter garden ideas includes planting different flowers especially the seasonal ones such as marigolds violas and pansies. This was a very simple project.

It has a spongy structure moisture retention qualities and it does not compact easily but will allow for oxygen for the plant underground to help the cells in the plant root to take up water and nutrients. In short gutter gardening is a term that implies growing a vertical garden in a rain gutter. We screwed it all to the wall at a slight angle so that the water would drain and we drilled some drainage holes on the low side of each gutter. Lettuces chard kale spinach arugula mache.

I have not done a direct comparison but soilless seems to be the way to go when growing in gutters and coir pith coco peat is a choice that is growing in popularity. Sep 13 2012 explore susan smith s board gardening rain gutter grow system followed by 185 people on pinterest. See more ideas about grow system rain gutters gutter. They can even help you adequately water your garden with less effort.