I've been looking at ways to increase the growing space on my 20sq m roof terrace for a while now and recently added some hanging baskets on the fence. The fence is not the most stable of fences and I have been cautious not to put too much weight on it.
I've seen images of gutter gardens online and have been thinking to get some gutters one day but the neighbours doing renovations had some in their garbage pile so the scavenger in me brought of them home.
There are three off cuts in various lengths, aren't the prettiest of things but at least they are new and clean. I didn't have ends of them so I glues the lids of yoghurt pots on, painted them, made some drainage holes, then used some left over chains from the hanging baskets to secure them to the fence.
Planted some store bought lettuce along with seeds and they seem to be doing well.
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| First gutter finished |
I brought over some hanging baskets from the old flat which I used to hang inside from the top frame of the windows. I've wanted to use them outside but there was no where to hang them from a height on the terrace the normal way so I relinked some chains to attach them to the fence.
I planted some cut and grow lettuce that I bought from Waitrose supermarket since the salads that I was growing from seed didn't look that positive, but some did survive so I added them to the bottom baskets.
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| Salad in baskets |
