Outdoor Gutter Growing

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.

Outdoor gutter growing.

They can even help you adequately water your garden with less effort. You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this setup. 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. Lettuces chard kale spinach arugula mache.

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. Besides the plants already mentioned you can try. Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping. These flowers are small and may bloom beautifully in their seasons.

These create suitable growing spaces for smaller plants like strawberries herbs and lettuces. Sep 13 2012 explore susan smith s board gardening rain gutter grow system followed by 185 people on pinterest. Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties. The concept is simple.

In short gutter gardening is a term that implies growing a vertical garden in a rain gutter. The possibilities for your garden are endless. Rain gutter grow systems rggs are self watering containers on steroids and they are new ways to grow plants that reduce watering and reduce weeding. One of the cutest small gutter garden ideas includes planting different flowers especially the seasonal ones such as marigolds violas and pansies.

While the design possibilities are limitless depending on the crafting skill and resources not all plants can grow in gutter. Rain gutters as fence decoration. 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. The bright colors and the lovely smell can be an excellent decoration for the exterior of the house.

Thanks to their elevated existence gutter gardens resist rabbits bugs slugs and other pests that troll the ground for food. You just use the gutter as a long planter. See more ideas about grow system rain gutters gutter. Home gardeners should have enough insight regarding the properties of plants as they grow.