Growing Strawberries In Gutters

These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening.

Growing strawberries in gutters.

The gutter can now be filled with compost leave a small space below the rim for watering and you can plant your strawberries. For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket. You can also plant in autumn where winters are milder. In the first part of the video larry shows how to use a gutter to supply water to a row of pots.

Plant three strawberry transplants in the gutters using the three spacing marks as a guide. You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced. Growing strawberries in gutters makes some maintenance easy. I got this idea from larry hall who made a video showing how he uses gutters as self watering containers.

We have tried growing strawberries out in our garden with all kinds of problems. Another great thing about this is that your berries will be portable. Snipping first year blooms is easier snipping runners is easier and the renovation tasks that are still applicable for gutter systems are usually easier as well. Add organic fertilizer to about 20 liters of water and add that to the brick.

This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use. A rain gutter about 4 and a half feet long is enough to grow 3 4 strawberry plants depending on plant size. In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system. Rain gutters can be mounted to the side of decks or vertically to the side of your house or shed to create a strawberry wall a rain gutter about 4 and a half feet long is enough to grow 3 4 strawberry plants depending on plant size.

In the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety. Growing strawberries in a self irrigating gutter sig. We are busy this year already harvesting our spring strawberries. Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage.

In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing. You can mount the gutters vertically or horizontally to save space. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. Plant the strawberries in early spring.