Growing Strawberries In Gutters

We are busy this year already harvesting our spring strawberries.

Growing strawberries in gutters.

Growing strawberries in gutters makes some maintenance easy. In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. You can also plant in autumn where winters are milder.

These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. In the first part of the video larry shows how to use a gutter to supply water to a row of pots. A rain gutter about 4 and a half feet long is enough to grow 3 4 strawberry plants depending on plant size. For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket.

You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced. This type of growing gutter is also good for microgreens pea shoots and herbs. Another great thing about this is that your berries will be portable. Add organic fertilizer to about 20 liters of water and add that to the brick.

Plant three strawberry transplants in the gutters using the three spacing marks as a guide. We have tried growing strawberries out in our garden with all kinds of problems. 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. Just like picking is easier with most gutter systems growing strawberries in gutters allows for ease during certain maintenance tasks.

Growing strawberries in a self irrigating gutter sig. Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage. Using it is simple. Snipping first year blooms is easier snipping runners is easier and the renovation tasks that are still applicable for gutter systems are usually easier as well.

I got this idea from larry hall who made a video showing how he uses gutters as self watering containers. In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system. This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use. In the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety.