Best of all they are out of reach of the deer rabbits dogs and slugs that tend to destroy a flower bed.
Best flowers for gutter gardens.
Strawberries greens lettuce spinach and colorful salad greens snap peas radish mint basil rosemary pothos jade plants sedum many varieties both upright and creeping.
13 diy gutter garden ideas to grow plants vertically.
Gutter gardens are lightweight and can grow almost any kind of annual flowers and many herbs lettuces kale radishes and spinach.
If you don t have a patch of soil to grow plants don t worry about.
The rain gutter garden can be made with different small rooted plants.
A hydroponic rain gutter garden is your solution.
Gardening in the gutter literally.
And you can stand up to garden.
12 self watering rain gutter garden.
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.
Rain gutters as fence decoration.
Annual plants usually only live one growing season in a particular location and are excellent for a gutter planter.
Small flowers such as pansies.
However another idea for these rain gutters is that it can have an automatic watering system especially for those plants which require a lot of watering this page link has lot of self watering rain gutter gardening ideas.
10 best plants for a rain garden.
It is not hard to build one and it will allow you to grow your own plants.
Chives parsley cilantro scallions.
Perfect for small spaces you can also use them to create privacy or for decoration.
What can you grow in a rain gutter garden.
Besides the plants already mentioned you can try.
Since a rain gutter garden is a shallow container be mindful of the heat in summer.
Common plants grown in gutters include the following.
It is surprisingly easy to do rain gutter gardening.
This is definitely one of the best and easiest ideas for the gutter.
Here are some ideas.
Radishes beets and shallow carrot varieties.
Plants to grow in a rain gutter garden.
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.
Lettuces chard kale spinach arugula mache.
Tall joe pye weed eupatorium fistulosum or eutrochium fistulosum grows 8 feet tall or more adding architectural interest.
Build one and enjoy watching your growing plants.
You may need to water twice a day to keep the soil moist.
Flowers that grow in gutter gardens.