Lettuce can be a great leafy vegetable to be grown in the rain gutter garden.
Rain gutter lettuce plantet.
Check out the detailed diy post here.
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.
See how i installed gutters in my greenhouse.
This is the way to grow lettuce without insect or slug damage.
Make sure soil is at least 45 degrees and you have to keep the soil moist pretty much the entire growing season.
Cut a section of gutter 4 to 6 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw for plastic gutters.
How to grow lettuce in a rain gutter 1.
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.
Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil.
You can now enjoy fresh lettuce salad every day.
A couple of tips for growing lettuce 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.
It is easier to take care of but you do need to look at it daily.
Being in a gutter the soil will dry out faster and the temperature will fluctuate in larger increments.
The middle rail was planted with 2 types of kale seeds.
8 lettuce in rain gutter garden.
Attaching simple white rain gutters to a wooden pallet is a great way to make a sturdy vertical wall garden and it s great for raising lettuce as shown in the image below.
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.
Using a planter i made from a piece of rain.
Grow lettuce spinach or any of your favorite greens in this vertical patch.
Slide metal end.
Dinosaur lacinato kale and red russian kale.
Grow the best lettuce ever you can do it.