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How to Make a Hanging Gutter Garden
- Step 1: Find Yourself Some Gutters. ...
- Step 2: Clean Them Thoroughly. ...
- Step 3: Paint the Gutters. ...
- Step 4: Drill a Series of Small Holes at the Bottom. ...
- Step 5: Select a Suitable Site on Your House. ...
- Step 6: Attach Your Future Gutter Garden. ...
- Step 7: Add Soil and Plant the Seeds.
- What is a gutter garden?
- How do you make a gutter garden?
- What grows well in a gutter garden?
- Can you grow strawberries in a gutter?
- Can lettuce grow in gutters?
- Can you hang plants from gutters?
- What can I plant near a downspout?
- Can you grow peas in a gutter?
- Is it safe to grow food in aluminum gutters?
What is a gutter garden?
What is a Gutter Garden? If you've not seen them, in person or online, you may be asking what is a gutter garden? It's a rain gutter designed to hold your choice of plants and decorate a wall, fence, porch railing, or other area. Use your creativity to put a gutter garden in some of your free space.
How do you make a gutter garden?
What can you plant in a gutter garden? Anything that you can grow in a 4-inch pot.
- Lettuce, Salad Greens and Asian Greens.
- Spinach and Mustard.
- Radish and other small root vegetables like carrots or beets.
- Strawberries.
- Snap peas.
- Chives, Garlic and Bunching Onions.
- Mint (be sure and contain it or expect a full gutter full)
What grows well in a gutter garden?
Along with small, leafy vegetables, many herbs can be grown in a rain gutter. Annual ones, like basil, dill and cilantro are a good choice, as are the smaller perennial herbs like chives, thyme and oregano.
Can you grow strawberries in a gutter?
Fortunately, you can convert a piece of rain gutter into a planter to grow your own strawberries. You can mount these planters on a deck rail or mount several to the side of your house or shed to grow the plants vertically. ... A section of rain gutter about 4 1/2 feet long is enough to grow three strawberry plants.
Can lettuce grow in gutters?
Nope, if you have a fence or some type of wall you can attach a gutter to, you can grow lettuce in gutters. ... It's super easy, I promise. 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.
Can you hang plants from gutters?
What Is A Gutter Hook? There are several brand names, but they're all basically the same product: a 12-inch acrylic or metal hook that is designed to hold bird feeders, wind chimes, plants, wind socks, and other objects as they hang down from a home's gutters.
What can I plant near a downspout?
Plants for Creating the Downspout Garden Plan
- 1 Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium purpureum): Zones 4-8.
- 2 Pink turtlehead (Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips'): Zones 3-7.
- 5 Dwarf sweetflag (Acorus gramineus 'Variegatus'): Zones 5-8.
- 3 Great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica): Zones 5-9.
Can you grow peas in a gutter?
To make your pea gutters, you'll need standard house rain guttering. Cut longer sections into more manageable lengths to make them easier to handle when full of potting soil and seedlings. Use a hacksaw to cut them down to size.
Is it safe to grow food in aluminum gutters?
It is not safe to grow food in aluminum containers because the aluminum can leach into the soil. This causes aluminum toxicity that will damage the roots and stunt the growth of the plant.
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