Follow this exclusive guide here to build your very own hydroponic rain gutter garden with the 40 feet of vertical growing space and 50 gallon fish pond.
Rain gutter lettuce plantet.
Trust me if you want your kids to eat it call it dinosaur kale finally i planted the bottom gutter with romaine lettuce and a cut and come again salad mix.
The middle rail was planted with 2 types of kale seeds.
Nope if you have a fence or some type of wall you can attach a gutter to you can grow lettuce in gutters.
Vertical kitchen gutter garden.
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 lettuce spinach or any of your favorite greens in this vertical patch.
This is the way to grow lettuce without insect or slug damage.
Cut a section of gutter 4 to 6 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw for plastic gutters.
Using a planter i made from a piece of rain.
You can now enjoy fresh lettuce salad every day.
Check out the detailed diy post here.
See how i installed gutters in my greenhouse.
Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil.
9 gutter garden plants for indoor planting.
Make sure soil is at least 45 degrees and you have to keep the soil moist pretty much the entire growing season.
Dinosaur lacinato kale and red russian kale.
A couple of tips for growing lettuce in gutters.
Being in a gutter the soil will dry out faster and the temperature will fluctuate in larger increments.
Slide metal end.
Lettuce can be a great leafy vegetable to be grown in the rain gutter garden.
How to grow lettuce in a rain gutter 1.
It is easier to take care of but you do need to look at it daily.
Grow the best lettuce ever you can do it.
8 lettuce in rain gutter garden.