How To Make A Gutter Garden

Pick a suitable soil for the plants you ve chosen to grow.

How to make a gutter garden.

Rain gutters can make outstanding planters if you are really short on garden space or just live in a rental. You may use more than one gutter piece in the hanging arrangement. Use your creativity to put a gutter garden in some of your free space. It should be free of dirt grime flaking paint etc.

Consider these uses for gutter gardens. This step is optional but. Build a basic frame when building your frame you will need to have a top piece bottom piece and four vertical. Even if you re not planning on tearing down your own guttering you might be able to find.

Hanging for vertical appeal. All you need to do is go to your local home improvement store and get yourself some rain gutter with end caps and supports. Materials are very inexpensive plastic being cheaper than steel. 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.

Have in mind that the gutters aren t very deep and whatever you decide to plant should have shallow roots. It s a rain gutter designed to hold your choice of plants and decorate a wall fence porch railing or other area. How to build a gutter garden in 10 easy steps step 1. You ll be adding fresh.

But our idea of a rain gutter garden is not absolute. Don t fill the gutters all the way up with soil. Use glue on the ends of the vertical pieces apply wood glue to both ends of each of your vertical pieces so that. Thread thin wire through a gutter and use it to hang after planting.

You can play with materials design and location to your heart s content to create some amazing gutter gardens.