Growing Salad Leaves In Guttering

Short 1m lengths of guttering are convenient and easy to handle.

Growing salad leaves in guttering.

If you re growing larger leaves for use in a mixed salad. Use a separate pot for peas or sow small patches of each crop in large containers or growing bags. Grow salad leaves in full sun making sure the soil is well drained. Guttering is cheap and widely available can be cut to whatever length you choose and contains just the right amount of soil.

They are particularly well suited to growing in containers growbags or even in salad bowls. Watch our step by step video showing how to grow and harvest salad leaves with expert advice and top tips to help you complete the job with confidence. Make sure soil is at least 45 degrees and you have to keep the soil moist pretty much the entire growing season. Sow indoors from february.

Just make sure whatever you use has drainage holes. How to grow salad leaves in guttering. When the salad seeds germinate simply grow them on for two to four weeks and then slide the plants into their final. Sowing seed of salad leaves in lengths of guttering can help keep your seedlings safe from slugs and snails and enable you to transplant the whole row into the soil as and when soil space becomes available.

Space leaf lettuce every 4 inches loose headed varieties every 8 inches and firm headed. It is easier to take care of but you do need to look at it daily. Find out how to grow salad leaves in guttering in our video guide. Jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec.

You can also sow salad leaves in the garden. Container or growing bag almost any container will do provided it is more than 15cm 6in deep and has good drainage holes. In this way you can mix your own salad to your own preference without losing any additional crop. Sow outdoors from mid spring to late summer putting.

A table displaying which months are best to sow plant and harvest. Being in a gutter the soil will dry out faster and the temperature will fluctuate in larger increments. No one knows who originated the idea of growing shallow rooted plants in a prepared gutter but it is a worthwhile undertaking. Even a 25cm 10in pot can give the equivalent of several supermarket bags of salad leaves.

By bbc gardeners world magazine. The result would be that the mixture composition will change over time where the leaves that remain will become unbalanced. These days many containers are used to grow flowers herbs and vegetables including some for gutter garden ideas. Measure and mark for plant spacing from either end of the gutter with a tape measure and pencil.