How To Make A Gutter Planter
Instructions measure your space and using a hacksaw cut the gutter to the lengths you require mine are 1 metre 39 inches long each.
How to make a gutter planter. Then thread the brace piece through the same clamp and tighten it with a screwdriver. Even if you re not planning on tearing down your own guttering you might be able to find. All you need to do is go to your local home improvement store and get yourself some rain gutter with end caps and supports. In this video i show how to make rain gutter planters to use on your raised bed gardens.
How to make gutter planters for strawberries tools needed. If drilling into brick or mortar you ll need a. Garden answer youtube for your project slide a cross clamp up the suspension wire to the bottom of each gutter segment. Put the stop ends on and the gutter is ready.
Using a drill make drainage holes in the base spaced about 15cm 6 inches apart. You ll be adding fresh. It should be free of dirt grime flaking paint etc. This will lock each segment along the suspension wire.
Tin snips bring to hardware store when getting the gutter unless you have a big truck you ll need. 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. These can be attached to any raised bed or elevated planter box and are made easily out of scrap rain gutters. Repeat threading up through the bottom hole and out through the side hole on the next two left gutter sections.
This step is optional but. Materials are very inexpensive plastic being cheaper than steel. Tie a knot at one end of the 10 foot rope.