Growing Vegetables In Old Gutters

Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow.

Growing vegetables in old gutters.

Chives parsley cilantro scallions. Gardening in the gutter literally. Progress from seed to harvest is shown with tomatoes lettuce. Fill the gutters with soil to be about half full.

Common plants grown in gutters include the following. Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties. Add some fertilizer and fill the rest of the gutter with soil. Drill small holes in the bottom of the gutters.

Your friends gardener greg and floraformer fred show you progress on growing in rain gutters. Besides the plants already mentioned you can try. Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping. Don t forget to water them regularly.

Grow shallow root plants such as radish spinach and strawberries. This will allow the excess water to be drained. 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. 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.