Look! Gutter Gardens

Remember the shoe organizer vertical planter? We really loved that idea for small-space gardening. But we might like the look of this gutter garden more...

If your home provided no space for an outdoor garden, how easy would it be to attach a few gutters to the back of your house/building/garage? Put them wherever it's sunniest.

Rain gutters come in a variety of sizes and look so clean and orderly planted with herbs and lettuces. And we bet you could find some used/salvaged gutters without too much trouble (just be sure they're made from a safe, nontoxic material).

All the instructions are at Make.

Via Katy Elliott

Image: Make

Comments (4)

I love these.

posted by kvh on September 16th 2009 at 12:21pm
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These are really cool. I wonder what plants would grow well in shallow soil like that.

One note: I had to click through four links to get to the original article.

posted by Tyro Prate on September 17th 2009 at 7:31am
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i also had to click a lot to get to the original article. it's here:
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072508/nei_309624417.shtml

these gutter gardens are adorable. i can think of lots of things that would do well in these circumstances - e.g. baby lettuce gets harvested before it would outgrow the gutters/

posted by jess thrift on September 17th 2009 at 4:34pm
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This is great because you could grow things out of reach of deer/rabbits/groundhogs!

posted by stardust on September 21st 2009 at 11:51am
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