No Yard? No Problem: Gutter Gardening

When you live in an apartment without a backyard it can be hard not to have garden envy especially if you are endowed with a green thumb. Reader and condo dweller Laura didn't let this stop her and instead took a cue from an Apartment Therapy post last year on gutter gardening to grow this gorgeous lettuce.

As Laura can tell you there's something so satisfying about growing your own food and it seems to taste doubly good. And your kids will love watching lettuce (or herbs or other vegetables) go from seed to sprout to salad. (Young kids, obviously, should be supervised on a balcony).

See more of Laura's gutter garden experiment (including a bump in the road and how she overcame it) at Half a Yard.

(Image: Half a Yard)

Comments (6)

This is adorable, but it looks like it would allow for about 1 salad every 45 days. As a practical suggestion, with this method it might be better to plant herbs, so a little would go a long(er) way. Put a few healthy basil plants in there, some parsley, chives, sage, thyme, etc. and you'd have the makings to perk up many dishes with home grown ingredients throughout the growing season. Much more bang for your buck that way....

This is brilliant - I totally love it!!!

Wow! Laura, you and M, have an awesome blog! Keep up the amazing work! So much for cleaning out my gutters-- just re-use all that soil for some delicious Farmer's Market produce!
aka Hottie from back in the day:)

I love it! hyzen you would be surprised at how quickly it grows, my son and I cannot eat too much lettuce from the plants we have.

Here is my gutter garden

http://www.redesigndiva.com/2010/05/green-chile.html

We have lots of dif. types of lettuce, and unless you only eat salad for every meal, this is plenty trust me.Besides it makes no waste in our home when it comes to throwing out wilted lettuce or spinach.

Great post, nice blog!