Growing Strawberries Gutter System

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

Growing strawberries gutter system.

To grow strawberries with this system you start with a mounded hill of soil about 8 inches high and 24 inches across. Here are the primary benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters. 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. Strawberry plants are small.

Here s how i did it. Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage. You can also use the same concept for growing lettuces and herbs. Strawberry plants do not set large nets of roots and growing them in a gutter should not be a problem as properly evidenced in many places do a google image search for strawberry tunnel cultivation.

With some scrap wood i made a support system for the two gutters one gutter holds water and the other holds soil. I decided to build hall s self irrigating gutter let s call it a sig to grow strawberries. A variety of people have devised their own ways to come up with their own rain gutter gardens. Since strawberry plants are short regular picking requires either a lot of.

This type of growing gutter is also good for microgreens pea shoots and herbs. A rain gutter about 4 and a half feet long is enough to grow 3 4 strawberry plants depending on plant size. Make strawberry picking easier. In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system.

The hill system also known as the mound system. It saves space and helps you maximize your produce output. They don t have woody stems so their growth is usually only. In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing.

Extend this mound into a row as long as you like. In the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety.