How To Grow Strawberry Plants In Gutters

Trim the roots of the strawberry transplant to 6 inches with scissors to make planting easier.

How to grow strawberry plants in gutters.

Add organic fertilizer to about 20 liters of water and add that to the brick. This type of growing gutter is also good for microgreens pea shoots and herbs. After the gutters were in place i filled them with 1 4 of pea gravel. Here are the primary benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters.

In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing. Since strawberry plants are short regular picking requires either a lot of. They don t have woody stems so their growth is usually only. Using it is simple.

Then i added moistened potting soil. Ogrodwcentrum now fill up the soil in the holes you made and plant strawberry plants carefully. Be careful not to cover with soil the crown of strawberry plants. Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage.

You can also plant in the autumn where winters are milder. Make strawberry picking easier. For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket. Plant the strawberries in early spring.

I ended up planting 65 strawberry plants in 40 of galvanized 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. In the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety. Things you ll need for growing strawberries in gutters 1.

Add the soil in the gaps you made and plant strawberry plants precisely in each opening. 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. Ogrodwcentrum divide pvc pipes into equal sizes as many you want and make holes according to. You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced.

All you need to do now is to locate a correct spot to hang these pipes. The gutter can now be filled with compost leave a small space below the rim for watering and you can plant your strawberries. This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use.