How To Grow Strawberries In Gutters

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

How to grow strawberries in gutters. Plant the strawberries in early spring. So keeping the roots cool enough to produce a good crop of strawberries can pose a problem for strawberries planted in gutters. 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. I cut holes and planted my strawberries about 8 inches apart.

Use hole saw to make holes. Plant the strawberries in early spring. I stapled the vinyl to the wooden gutter support and stretched it over the top of the soil. In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing.

Take care that the crown of strawberry plants should not be covered in soil. You ll also need to make a few hole for drainage on the bottom. Then clog pipe from both sides. The white pipe on the left is an overflow pipe that drains to the street.

Trim the roots of the strawberry transplant to 6 inches with scissors to make planting easier. Now fill up the soil in the holes you made and plant strawberry plants carefully in each hole. The float valve is connected to a rainwater barrel. Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage.

Trim the roots of the strawberry transplant to 6 inches with scissors to make planting easier. 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. You can also plant in the autumn where winters are milder. In the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety.