DiY: Vertical garden made from rain gutters
Limited space but big ambitions? Then our vertical garden made from a gutter is just the thing for you! It's disassembled into two or more sections and attached to the wall. Ideally, you attach the gutter sections to a wooden board and secure it to the wall. This not only looks attractive, but also avoids direct contact with the wall and thus unsightly scratches, and is also easier to maintain.
Have fun crafting!
This is what you need:
- 2 meter gutter
- 2 gutter end pieces each
- 4 gutter brackets
- screws
- dowels
- metal saw
- Universal adhesive
- screwdriver
- folding rule
- drill
And here's how it works:
Saw carefully: First, saw the gutter so that two pieces of equal length are created.
Quick tip: Here you see a vertical garden with two levels, each one meter long. Yours can, of course, have more or longer levels. Just make sure to leave at least 40 centimeters of space between the levels so your plants can grow and thrive properly.
Completely sealed? Now the gutters are sealed with the end pieces and glued in place. Note that you need one left and one right end piece for each gutter. Next, drill two holes in the bottom of the gutters to allow excess water to drain away later. Now, attach the gutter brackets to the gutters.
Measuring : Using a ruler, measure the distance between the screw holes on the two gutter brackets. Be very precise here! Mark the same distance on the wall, drill holes there, and anchor the gutter in place.
A quick tip: Especially if you're doing this project indoors, you can paint the wall where the gutter will be attached with chalkboard paint beforehand. Then you can write the plant names on the wall later with chalk. This looks particularly good with a vertical herb garden in the kitchen .
Commissioning: Finally, fill the boxes with soil and plant as desired. Always water carefully so the soil can absorb the water properly, otherwise you'll end up with a mess.Is DIY your world?
For you, old no longer means useless, broken no longer means unusable, and junk no longer means general waste? Great, then we've achieved our goal. In the future, you'll look at the world with different eyes and see potential where others see bulky waste.
You can find more ideas for great DIY projects in our book " Your Creative Garden ." Thanks to step-by-step instructions and helpful pictures, many of our DIY ideas can be recreated with children. The internet also has a lot to offer. So if you want to get active, the following websites are a good place to start:
We hope, of course, that you stay true to the DIY theme and wish you lots of fun and success with your next construction projects!
