05 May 2009

Repurposing roof gutters...


... for vertical gardening on the side of a house.
When Suzanne Forsling moved to Juneau Alaska from Iowa, she found that it was a little bit harder to get her garden to grow. Frustrated by cold soil, scarce sunlight, hungry slugs, root maggots, porcupines, cats, bears and ravens she got resourceful. She got her crops off the cold ground and into the light by affixing gutters to the wood siding of her house on the sunny side and using them as planters.

2 comments:

  1. This is a great way to rot the sides off your house.

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  2. NOT. Read the article in the Juneau Empire. This works just fine. Lots of food, little effort.

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