In the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety.
Strawberry plant in gutter.
Growing strawberries upside down things you ll need for growing strawberries in gutters.
Here s how i did it.
How to grow strawberries in rain gutters.
Growing your own strawberries is easy there are varieties that can be grown in sunny spots as well as shady areas.
Benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters.
There are definitely benefits to growing strawberries in gutters.
In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system.
The gutter can now finally be filled with compost leave a small space below the rim for watering and you can plant your strawberries.
Growing strawberries in gutters is the best way to use up your vertical space smartly.
Strawberry plants are small.
These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening.
You can also use the same concept for growing lettuces and herbs.
A variety of people have devised their own ways to come up with their own rain gutter gardens.
Just looking at these lush strawberries pouring out of these gutters made me wonder just how this was done.
Here are the primary benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters.
How to grow strawberries in rain gutters.
The flavor of a store bought strawberry can never compare to the flavor of a homegrown strawberry but not everyone has room to plant a garden.
Fortunately you can convert a piece of rain gutter into a planter to grow your own strawberries.
It saves space and helps you maximize your produce output.
Measure and mark 27 inches from either end of the gutter to find the center.
Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage.
Pvc end caps pvc glue a drill potting soil strawberry plants start by cutting your gutter sections and gluing on the end caps.
Make two more marks 9 inches from each end of the gutter to mark the appropriate spacing for planting three strawberry.
A rain gutter about 4 and a half feet long is enough to grow 3 4 strawberry plants depending on plant size.
How to grow strawberries in a small space.
I decided to build hall s self irrigating gutter let s call it a sig to grow strawberries.
Strawberries are super easy fruits to grow in gutters it also saves them from diseases like crown rot and fruit rot.
4 5 foot long sections of vinyl gutter.
In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing.
It s time for another cool gutter project.
You can mount these planters on a.
With some scrap wood i made a support system for the two gutters one gutter holds water and the other holds soil.
So i did a little research to figure out how this was done.