How To Grow Strawberry Plants In Gutters
All you need to do now is to locate a correct spot to hang these pipes.
How to grow strawberry plants in gutters. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. You can also plant in the autumn where winters are milder. Ogrodwcentrum divide pvc pipes into equal sizes as many you want and make holes according to. They don t have woody stems so their growth is usually only.
Since strawberry plants are short regular picking requires either a lot of. Using it is simple. This type of growing gutter is also good for microgreens pea shoots and herbs. Ogrodwcentrum now fill up the soil in the holes you made and plant strawberry plants carefully.
In the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety. You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced. After the gutters were in place i filled them with 1 4 of pea gravel. Things you will need tape measure pencil tin snips hand or circular saw gutter end caps pliers silicone caulk pvc glue 1 4 inch drill bit power drill potting soil gardening trowel strawberry transplants scissors watering can fertilizer.
Here are the primary benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters. Add organic fertilizer to about 20 liters of water and add that to the brick. Make strawberry picking easier. Be careful not to cover with soil the crown of strawberry plants.
I ended up planting 65 strawberry plants in 40 of galvanized gutters. Strawberry plants are small. The gutter can now be filled with compost leave a small space below the rim for watering and you can plant your strawberries. 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.
Things you ll need for growing strawberries in gutters 1. In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing. For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket. Then i added moistened potting soil.
Plant the strawberries in early spring. Add the soil in the gaps you made and plant strawberry plants precisely in each opening. Trim the roots of the strawberry transplant to 6 inches with scissors to make planting easier.