Gutter Grow Strawberries

Growing strawberries in gutters is the best way to use up your vertical space smartly.

Gutter grow strawberries. Plant the strawberries in early spring. Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage. Fill the gutter within a half inch of the top lip with potting soil scooping the soil into the gutter by hand or with a gardening trowel. In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing.

Since strawberry plants are short regular picking requires either a lot of. The gutter can now be filled with compost leave a small space below the rim for watering and you can plant your strawberries. Growing strawberries in a self irrigating gutter sig. This type of growing gutter is also good for microgreens pea shoots and herbs.

In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system. Strawberry plants are small. Strawberry plants do not set large nets of roots and growing them in a gutter should not be a problem as properly evidenced in many places do a google image search for strawberry tunnel cultivation. Growing strawberries upside down things you ll need for growing strawberries in gutters.

I got this idea from larry hall who made a video showing how he uses gutters as self watering containers. They don t have woody stems so their growth is usually only. In the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety. Make strawberry picking easier.

Here are the primary benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. Trim the roots of the strawberry transplant to 6 inches with scissors to make planting easier. In the first part of the video larry shows how to use a gutter to supply water to a row of pots.

You can also plant in the autumn where winters are milder.