Growing Strawberries In Gutters

You can also plant in autumn where winters are milder.

Growing strawberries in gutters.

Plant three strawberry transplants in the gutters using the three spacing marks as a guide. Growing strawberries in a self irrigating gutter sig. Growing strawberries in gutters makes some maintenance easy. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening.

This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use. You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced. Using it is simple. I got this idea from larry hall who made a video showing how he uses gutters as self watering containers.

Another great thing about this is that your berries will be portable. We have tried growing strawberries out in our garden with all kinds of problems. 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. You can mount the gutters vertically or horizontally to save space.

This type of growing gutter is also good for microgreens pea shoots and herbs. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage. We are busy this year already harvesting our spring strawberries.

In the first part of the video larry shows how to use a gutter to supply water to a row of pots. The gutter can now be filled with compost leave a small space below the rim for watering and you can plant your strawberries. Plant the strawberries in early spring. In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system.

In the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety. 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. For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket.