Rain Gutter Grow System Fence

Rain gutters as fence decoration dress up your boring wooden fence or walls using aluminum gutters following this idea.

Rain gutter grow system fence.

It can be placed against the side of a house shed or fence as an alternative to growing food in the ground. Here is what you will need. Rain gutter grow systems are a new way to grow plants that reduce watering and reduce weeding. You can use plastic buckets barrels or grow bags for containers.

Consider these uses for gutter gardens. See more ideas about grow system rain gutters gutter. I ve been feeling an urgency to get this blog post update out because i have been seeing ridiculous growing traffic on our strawberry planting in rain gutters post and i think we should let you all know that growing strawberry plants in rain gutters hasn t turned out so well for us. And by that i mean well they are all dead big gardening fail.

Ok so you want to build a rain gutter grow system. I ve seen others that run back and forth diagonally to create an easy watering system. You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this setup. This is a self watering bucket on steroids so naturally i had to try it.

This is an introduction to the rggs. 2 10 ft treated 2x4 s 1 10 ft rain gutter and 2 end caps i prefer the u snap b. Dec 17 2019 this board is all about rain gutter grow systems developed originally by larry hall. Of course some people also have plants growing out of their rain gutters that have gotten clogged with debris ok that s a joke.

At the core the rain gutter grow system is a self watering container gardening method. The containers soak up water from the rain gutter using a net cup on the bottom of each container. Use your creativity to put a gutter garden in some of your free space. Some people make hanging gutter gardens that are not attached to a wall.

We have featured several vertical rain gutter gardens in previous posts as gutters make very convenient planters that can easily be attached to a wall or hung from a balcony or overhang for instant garden containers that can be stacked one on top of another.