How To Make A Gutter Garden
Use your creativity to put a gutter garden in some of your free space.
How to make a gutter garden. You can play with materials design and location to your heart s content to create some amazing gutter gardens. Rain gutters can make outstanding planters if you are really short on garden space or just live in a rental. Even if you re not planning on tearing down your own guttering you might be able to find. You may use more than one gutter piece in the hanging arrangement.
Have in mind that the gutters aren t very deep and whatever you decide to plant should have shallow roots. Consider these uses for gutter gardens. Pick a suitable soil for the plants you ve chosen to grow. You ll be adding fresh.
It s a rain gutter designed to hold your choice of plants and decorate a wall fence porch railing or other area. If you need inspiration take a look here. Materials are very inexpensive plastic being cheaper than steel. 10 gutter garden design ideas.
All you need to do is go to your local home improvement store and get yourself some rain gutter with end caps and supports. Don t fill the gutters all the way up with soil. But our idea of a rain gutter garden is not absolute. It should be free of dirt grime flaking paint etc.
This step is optional but. Hanging for vertical appeal. Build a basic frame when building your frame you will need to have a top piece bottom piece and four vertical. You can attach these to a wall or a fence or build a frame see video below to attach the gutters together and then hang them.
As said herbs and berries are a nice choice but you shouldn t be limited to them only.