We love a good small-space garden design challenge, especially when it involves finding new and creative ways to grow your own food. Suzanne Forsling of Juneau, Alaska, wanted to grow vegetables, but only a tiny sliver of her outdoor space—an alleyway between her house and the neighbors'—gets any kind of sun. Wanting to save money, maximize heat and protect her plants from wildlife, she came up with the idea of using rain gutters as planters along the wood siding.
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This is so cool! We were planning on cleaning up the yard and planting this weekend and now I want to make a project out of doing these gutter gardens! What a great way to create more space in a tiny city yard!
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That is pretty cool! We only have 1 gutter coming down the front of our house so it wouldn't work for us. How great for people with limited yards though. We were able to move our gate up on the side of the house to install a generous sized garden.
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Come on now really, what kind of vegetables are you going to grown in 2 inches of soil? Not many successfully.
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