Growing Strawberries In Gutters

Just like picking is easier with most gutter systems growing strawberries in gutters allows for ease during certain maintenance tasks.

Growing strawberries in gutters.

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. This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use. Add organic fertilizer to about 20 liters of water and add that to the brick. 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.

This type of growing gutter is also good for microgreens pea shoots and herbs. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. Growing strawberries in gutters makes some maintenance easy. You can also plant in autumn where winters are milder.

In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system. You can mount the gutters vertically or horizontally to save space. Another great thing about this is that your berries will be portable. Growing strawberries in a self irrigating gutter sig.

We have tried growing strawberries out in our garden with all kinds of problems. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. Using it is simple. Plant three strawberry transplants in the gutters using the three spacing marks as a guide.

We are busy this year already harvesting our spring strawberries. In the first part of the video larry shows how to use a gutter to supply water to a row of pots. The gutter can now be filled with compost leave a small space below the rim for watering and you can plant your strawberries. A rain gutter about 4 and a half feet long is enough to grow 3 4 strawberry plants depending on plant size.

You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced. Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage. I got this idea from larry hall who made a video showing how he uses gutters as self watering containers. In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing.