It s super easy i promise.
Gutter garden lettuce.
Rain gutters as fence decoration.
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.
Being in a gutter the soil will dry out faster and the temperature will fluctuate in larger increments.
It is easier to take care of but you do need to look at it daily.
Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil.
Perfect for small spaces you can also use them to create privacy or for decoration.
Vegetable gutter gardening provides the homeowners with fresh salad off the planter.
Grow lettuce spinach or any of your favorite greens in this vertical patch.
This is the way to grow lettuce without insect or slug damage.
Finally i planted the bottom gutter with romaine lettuce and a cut and come again salad mix.
Check out the detailed diy post here.
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.
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 the best lettuce ever you can do it.
A couple of tips for growing lettuce in gutters.
I do not identify anymore since i only fill one whole rain gutter with a single type.
13 diy gutter garden ideas to grow plants vertically.
Using a planter i made from a piece of rain.
Spinach green or red lettuce.
A common vegetables in vertical garden is gutter lettuce because it is suitable to plant in shallow container.
They allow you to grow many plants and herbs and gardeners typically use them to grow annuals with shallow roots along with herbs greens and flowers.
See how i installed gutters in my greenhouse.
Common plants grown in gutters include the following.
Gutter gardens work well for growing plants that you d typically place in a 4 inch pots.