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    What can you grow in guttering?

    I've put some guttering up on a frame at the plot - the bottom one is rectangular and quite deep and I've planted strawberries in it. The other two are round and fairly shallow. I'm thinking perhaps but some wild flowers there but was wondering if there are any veg that would be able to cope with shallow soil conditions - lettuce I guess?

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    Usually start some early peas in an old piece of plastic guttering.
    Slide them out when about 2 inch high.
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      Radish, spring onions, cut and come again leaf and atlas carrots come to mind.......but thats my mind which is possibly not as capable as other people.
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        In addition to Lumpy's list, you could try baby turnips and possibly dwarf french beans - I've grown these in reasonably small pots hanging on a fence so I don't see why they shouldn't grow in guttering. You'd need to keep on top of the watering and feed them regularly. I'm going to try dwarf peas on my fence too, but my pots for those are a bit deeper than standard guttering.
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        • #5
          Well not strawberries.... I done this last year, even through I was advised not to by people who know better on this forum and I went and done it anyway, it was a disaster!!!

          To arrogant for my own good!

          So I've took them out and I will be growing asparagus peas in there this year.

          You could grow cut and come again lettuce?
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          • #6
            On my walk to the plot I go past a back garden where they've got strawberries growing successfully in the same sort of square guttering I'm using for mine so I'm optimistic.
            Think spring onions and cut and come again leaf of some sort will be wort a shot. Thanks all
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            • #7
              Most successful thing I grow in my guttering is moss....

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                Originally posted by johnjohn View Post
                Most successful thing I grow in my guttering is moss....
                Was waiting for that...
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                • #9
                  I put up about 30ft of squareish gutter on the fence last year & filled it with Pansy's. Not deep enough for much else.
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                  • #10
                    I start my peas of in guttering but that's all I use it for.
                    Location....East Midlands.

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                    • #11
                      I have strawberries in square guttering - with a twist!

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                      To give extra depth, there are 2 runs of guttering, cable tied together, to make a hexagon. They're sitting in lengths of GH base on a bench made from secondary glazing window frames.

                      This is another gutter garden but I think the slots in the top are better than the holes.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by johnjohn View Post
                        Most successful thing I grow in my guttering is moss....
                        Make it Sphagnum moss and you`re on to a winner!

                        I start off my peas in guttering too, quite successfull, but last year only one pea germinated, the packet being over two
                        years old might have something to do with it.
                        Girls are like flowers, a little attention every day and they`ll blossom.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by cheapskate chaz View Post
                          I start off my peas in guttering too, quite successfull, but last year only one pea germinated, the packet being over two years old might have something to do with it.
                          If they've been stored cool and dry then pea seeds last for years, are you sure they weren't eaten?

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                          • #14
                            Possibly, but then I`m not going to let you know about my eating habits...
                            Girls are like flowers, a little attention every day and they`ll blossom.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                              I have strawberries in square guttering - with a twist!

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                              To give extra depth, there are 2 runs of guttering, cable tied together, to make a hexagon. They're sitting in lengths of GH base on a bench made from secondary glazing window frames.

                              This is another gutter garden but I think the slots in the top are better than the holes.

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                              Why did/do you prefer the slots VC?
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