Gutter Garden Lettuce

Rain gutters as fence decoration.

Gutter garden lettuce.

Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil. Under the low side of the bottom rail i added a drainage bucket to catch the wonderful compost tea that trickles down through the system. Grow lettuce spinach or any of your favorite greens in this vertical patch. Moreover it is a different kind of satisfaction when you can track your healthy food from the seeds to your platter.

Space leaf lettuce every 4 inches loose headed varieties every 8 inches and firm headed varieties. 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. Grow the best lettuce ever you can do it. This is the way to grow lettuce without insect or slug damage.

Spinach green or red lettuce. Finally i planted the bottom gutter with romaine lettuce and a cut and come again salad mix. Perfect for small spaces you can also use them to create privacy or for decoration. I do not identify anymore since i only fill one whole rain gutter with a single type.

Vegetable gutter gardening provides the homeowners with fresh salad off the planter. Nope if you have a fence or some type of wall you can attach a gutter to you can grow lettuce in gutters. Being in a gutter the soil will dry out faster and the temperature will fluctuate in larger increments. It s super easy i promise.

A common vegetables in vertical garden is gutter lettuce because it is suitable to plant in shallow container. See how i installed gutters in my greenhouse. Common plants grown in gutters include the following. Make sure soil is at least 45 degrees and you have to keep the soil moist pretty much the entire growing season.

Make labels and thoroughly stick them in the front or back of the rain gutters if you are utilizing various types of loose leaf lettuce and desire to keep track. Gutter gardens work well for growing plants that you d typically place in a 4 inch pots. Using a planter i made from a piece of rain. A couple of tips for growing lettuce in gutters.

It is easier to take care of but you do need to look at it daily.