Outdoor Gutter Growing

Perfect for small spaces you can also use them to create privacy or for decoration.

Outdoor gutter growing.

These create suitable growing spaces for smaller plants like strawberries herbs and lettuces. The possibilities for your garden are endless. Dress up your boring wooden fence or walls using aluminum gutters following this idea. Thanks to their elevated existence gutter gardens resist rabbits bugs slugs and other pests that troll the ground for food.

Home gardeners should have enough insight regarding the properties of plants as they grow. 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. One of the cutest small gutter garden ideas includes planting different flowers especially the seasonal ones such as marigolds violas and pansies. These flowers are small and may bloom beautifully in their seasons.

Rain gutters as fence decoration. The concept is simple. Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping. You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this setup.

Besides the plants already mentioned you can try. 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. This was a very simple project. 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.

In short gutter gardening is a term that implies growing a vertical garden in a rain gutter. 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. See more ideas about grow system rain gutters gutter. Sep 13 2012 explore susan smith s board gardening rain gutter grow system followed by 185 people on pinterest.

While the design possibilities are limitless depending on the crafting skill and resources not all plants can grow in gutter. You just use the gutter as a long planter. Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties. They can even help you adequately water your garden with less effort.