Gutter Garden Lettuce

See how i installed gutters in my greenhouse.

Gutter garden lettuce.

Spinach green or red lettuce. Make sure soil is at least 45 degrees and you have to keep the soil moist pretty much the entire growing season. Perfect for small spaces you can also use them to create privacy or for decoration. 13 diy gutter garden ideas to grow plants vertically.

Space leaf lettuce every 4 inches loose headed varieties every 8 inches and firm headed varieties. Grow the best lettuce ever you can do it. Using a planter i made from a piece of rain. 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.

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. Vegetable gutter gardening provides the homeowners with fresh salad off the planter. 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. I do not identify anymore since i only fill one whole rain gutter with a single type.

Finally i planted the bottom gutter with romaine lettuce and a cut and come again salad mix. Moreover it is a different kind of satisfaction when you can track your healthy food from the seeds to your platter. A couple of tips for growing lettuce in gutters. 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.

Grow lettuce spinach or any of your favorite greens in this vertical patch. Being in a gutter the soil will dry out faster and the temperature will fluctuate in larger increments. Gutter gardens work well for growing plants that you d typically place in a 4 inch pots. Common plants grown in gutters include the following.

This is the way to grow lettuce without insect or slug damage. It is easier to take care of but you do need to look at it daily. Rain gutters as fence decoration. Nope if you have a fence or some type of wall you can attach a gutter to you can grow lettuce in gutters.

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