The types of rain gutter most often used for gutter gardening are made of vinyl or aluminum.
Growing vegetables in old gutters.
Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce.
Don t forget to water them regularly.
Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters.
Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping.
Soak fresh picked lettuce leaves in ice water before placing them in a storage bag to keep the lettuce leaves fresh and.
Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow.
Gardening in the gutter literally.
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.
Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters.
Chives parsley cilantro scallions.
Lettuces chard kale spinach arugula mache.
The preferred location should receive at least four hours of sunlight as noted in the article gardening in the gutter literally by shilo urban with the urban authority.
Rotate your lettuce crops to keep an abundant supply of fresh lettuce producing during the growing season.
This will allow the excess water to be drained.
Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties.
Besides the plants already mentioned you can try.
Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil.