Strawberry Gutter Project

If you are looking for some diy projects for growing strawberries this cool vertical pallet strawberry planter project might be for you.

Strawberry gutter project.

Things you ll need for growing strawberries in gutters 1. You can even keep it on your balcony rooftop or patio. Another great thing about this is saving space if you don t have the room for a crawling plant you might want to try using a rain gutter. You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced.

Hanging herb garden with stand. This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use. Benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters. I got this idea from larry hall who made a video showing how he uses gutters as self watering containers.

Strawberry container farming south africa several techniques were tried and the optimum solution was found to be the hanging gutter system as with it one achieves the greater density of plant growth. In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system. There are definitely benefits to growing strawberries in gutters. Ogrodwcentrum now fill up the soil in the holes you made and plant strawberry plants carefully.

In the first part of the video larry shows how to use a gutter to supply water to a row of pots. Using it is simple. Ogrodwcentrum divide pvc pipes into equal sizes as many you want and make holes according to. And while i m complaining i have to say i haven t loved this new experience of using the gutter system for growing strawberries either.

The diy tutorial is available here. Add organic fertilizer to about 20 liters of water and add that to the brick. Growing strawberries vertically in the gutters can be a nice space saving option. Strawberry plants are small.

This recycled garden bed can be fabulous addition to your garden whether you have backyard or not perfect to grow strawberries but also veggies herbs and flowers. Create a productive hanging herb garden with plant stand. Growing strawberries in a self irrigating gutter sig. The gutter can now be filled with compost leave a small space below the rim for watering and you can plant your strawberries.

You can mount the gutters vertically or horizontally to save space. It also allows workers to easily treat the plants transplanting trimming cleaning up etc and harvesting is done differently see later on. The strawberries have been 100 protected after one little alteration. I m trying to give it more time.

But it s not the easiest design to work with day to day. Here are the primary benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters. Like you mentioned having the strawberry plants raised off the ground helps keep them clean which is a major benefit. For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket.