See how i installed gutters in my greenhouse.
Growing lettuce in gutter.
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.
First off you need a soil medium.
You can use compost or buy the bagged potting soil.
You can cut much of the start up cost associated with lettuce production if you repurpose old rain gutters as planters for growing lettuce.
Nope if you have a fence or some type of wall you can attach a gutter to you can grow lettuce in gutters.
Dinosaur lacinato kale and red russian kale.
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.
It s super easy i promise.
Plant in your gutter garden.
The idea behind this was to be able to keep lettuce growing so i can actually have a complete salad from the garden when cucumbers and tomatoes are harvested.
Lettuce lactuca sativa a cool season crop hardy to u s.
The middle rail was planted with 2 types of kale seeds.
Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 through 9 is frequently grown in shallow containers.