Dress up your boring wooden fence or walls using aluminum gutters following this idea.
How to grow planis in gutters.
You can either drill holes in the bottoms of your gutters or hang them at a slight angle so that excess water slides away.
If you select plants that grow outwards rather than up their growth may cause the dirt to fall out of the planter.
Plant nasturtiums into smaller pieces of gutter along with chives dill or lemon balm.
Perfect for small spaces you can also use them to create privacy or for decoration.
Each gutter length will be capped on both ends.
On the end of the gutter that will be placed on the lower bracket drill two small holes.
This may take a little effort as the caps fit the gutter ends snugly.
Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil.
This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use.
Water only as much to keep the seeds wet but don t go overboard.
For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket.
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Space leaf lettuce every 4 inches loose headed varieties every 8 inches and firm headed varieties.
When you water the plants make sure to only water the gutters and not the siding.
Drill two holes at the end of the gutter.
You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced.
Alternatively try planting succulents or use chicken wire or mesh to hold the soil in.
Using it is simple.
Place all gutters then attach to the fence.
Make sure your gutters are securely attached or hung and then fill them with organic potting soil.
Move them as needed to areas where aphids are attacking new growth.
Rain gutters as fence decoration.
Pack the soil firmly because your plants won t have a lot of soil to grow.
You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this.
The fragrance of the herbs repels aphids and other pests while flowers of nasturtiums act as a trap for the pests.
Don t forget to water them regularly.
Add organic fertilizer to about 20 liters of water and add that to the brick.