Gutter Plant Beds

13 diy gutter garden ideas to grow plants vertically.

Gutter plant beds.

Perfect for small spaces you can also use them to create privacy or for decoration. The rain gutter garden can be. A section of rain gutter about 4 1 2 feet long is enough to grow three strawberry plants. Rain gutters as fence decoration.

These days many containers are used to grow flowers herbs and vegetables including some for gutter garden ideas. Gutters are an affordable alternative. Dress up your boring wooden fence or walls using aluminum gutters following this idea. The price of installing a gutter garden at home is less than building a raised garden bed or using multiple planters.

11 rain gutter or trough garden. Cut a piece of gutter 4 1 2 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw or circular. You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this. As we explained in our strawberry planting in rain gutters post it was time to start over with new plants anyway and also time to rebuild replace our garden beds that were old falling apart and starting to be eaten by termites.

No one knows who originated the idea of growing shallow rooted plants in a prepared gutter but it is a worthwhile undertaking. This is especially true if you repurpose gutters youhave laying around in storage. This is stunning gutter gardening idea for those who live in apartments or in a limited yard space you make rain gutters as a base of colorful plant buckets and their roots will grow towards water source so you don t have to water overhead.