Water your gutter garden regularly at the soil level and it should produce flowers fruits or vegetables throughout the entire summer season for you to enjoy.
Best flowers for gutter gardens.
About every 6 inches drill a small drain hole in the bottom of the rain gutter.
This includes all types of containers that you have around the home and even gutters.
This is another great idea of how to use your gutter.
A variety of gutter garden ideas and designs are really easy to do.
Best of all they are out of reach of the deer rabbits dogs and slugs that tend to destroy a flower bed.
Gutter gardens are lightweight and can grow almost any kind of annual flowers and many herbs lettuces kale radishes and spinach.
As you can see in the above picture the gutter can replace.
Rain gutter end caps are available at amazon.
The ends also need to be capped otherwise the soil will fall out.
Annual plants usually only live one growing season in a particular location and are excellent for a gutter planter.
Flowers that grow in gutter gardens.
The added height also makes gutter gardens easier to harvest than traditional gardens with no bending over or back pain.
It s probably not that it would make a fantastic planter right.
One of the most creative gutter gardens i have ever seen.
There s an incredible amount of projects that are easy to complete and don t require a lot of materials that will help you turn a simple rain gutter into a project to be proud of.
Gutter gardens work well for growing plants that you d typically place in a 4 inch pots.
Obviously it is designed with care and passion.
Gardening at home can be done in a lot of fun and interesting ways.
Basics of rain gutter gardening.
You could paint your gutters and attach them to a fence create a hanging.
And you can stand up to garden.
Either type needs to be cut to your desired size.
These days many containers are used to grow flowers herbs and vegetables including some for gutter garden ideas.
Build a gutter garden that is free standing.
No one knows who originated the idea of growing shallow rooted plants in a prepared gutter but it is a worthwhile undertaking.
Perennial plants usually come back season after season but after the first season they will probably not grow back if planted in a any kind of container.
Make growing fun again buy some gutter gardens.
It is made of rain gutter strawberry planters attached to the branches of a metal tree sculpture.
This is necessary for best plant growth.