How To Grow Strawberries In Gutters

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.

How to grow strawberries in gutters.

I cut holes and planted my strawberries about 8 inches apart. Take care that the crown of strawberry plants should not be covered in soil. Use hole saw to make holes. Consequently the soil can get too hot in the summer in many places and too cold in the winter.

Now fill up the soil in the holes you made and plant strawberry plants carefully in each hole. Plant the strawberries in early spring. In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing. So keeping the roots cool enough to produce a good crop of strawberries can pose a problem for strawberries planted in gutters.

You can also plant in the autumn where winters are milder. The white pipe on the left is an overflow pipe that drains to the street. You ll also need to make a few hole for drainage on the bottom. The float valve is connected to a rainwater barrel.

Gutter planted strawberries have no such natural insulation. 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 the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety.

Trim the roots of the strawberry transplant to 6 inches with scissors to make planting easier. Then clog pipe from both sides. You can also plant in autumn where winters are milder. Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage.