Trust me if you want your kids to eat it call it dinosaur kale finally i planted the bottom gutter with romaine lettuce and a cut and come again salad mix.
Growing lettuce in gutter.
The idea behind this was to be able to keep lettuce growing so i can actually have a complete salad from the garden when cucumbers and tomatoes are harvested.
Plant in your gutter garden.
Lettuce lactuca sativa a cool season crop hardy to u s.
Dinosaur lacinato kale and red russian kale.
Lettuce lactuca sativa a cool season crop hardy to u s.
You can cut much of the start up cost associated with lettuce production if you repurpose old rain gutters as planters for growing lettuce.
Nope if you have a fence or some type of wall you can attach a gutter to you can grow lettuce in gutters.
You can cut much of the start up.
Simply line your gutters with a wee bit of pea gravel add potting soil then add your seeds or lettuce starts and water as you normally would.
The middle rail was planted with 2 types of kale seeds.
It s super easy i promise.
First off you need a soil medium.
See how i installed gutters in my greenhouse.