You might also select a house wall but only if this doesn t detract from the appearance of your home.
Fence gutter garden.
Because the material is more lightweight than aluminum you can string several of them together and hang them vertically to create a living privacy screen.
It s a rain gutter designed to hold your choice of plants and decorate a wall fence porch railing or other area.
You don t need an actual gutter to build a gutter garden and you don t need to always attach them to a wall or fence.
If you have kids who want to help tend them make sure they are within reach of a child s hands.
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Herbs are awesome for this reason but lettuces are also popular.
If you re hanging it off a chain link fence as i.
Use your creativity to put a gutter garden in some of your free space.
You can grow shallow rooted annuals greens herbs and plants nasturtiums in this setup.
Hang the garden that gutter is going to be pretty heavy once you fill it with moist soil so you ll want to install supports every 24 inches or so.
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Thread thin wire through a gutter and use it to hang after planting.
If you want to hang the guttering off the fence or garden wall select a part of the garden that gets adequate sun and is nicely sheltered from wind.
Attaching a few over the rail hooks to a regular old gutter turns it into a pretty railing box perfect for plants with shallow roots.
Hanging for vertical appeal.
Pvc pipe is a great alternative.
I didn t want my gutter garden to stress my fence out.
Painted rain gutters as fence decoration.
If you have dogs or other animals you may want to avoid low hanging gutter gardens.
Determine whether you will have more than one gutter garden on each section of fence.
Annuals could work quite well especially if you are creating a gutter garden as a work of art in your backyard.
You may use more than one gutter piece in the hanging arrangement.
Measure the length of the fence sections that you will be using.
Consider these uses for gutter gardens.