Growing Strawberries In Rain Gutters

A piece of gutter makes an ideal planting container and allows you to position the plants in unusual or tight places such as hanging in stacks on a wall or fence.

Growing strawberries in rain gutters.

October 16 2017 at 11 49 am. And by that i mean well they are all dead big gardening fail. Just like picking is easier with most gutter systems growing strawberries in gutters allows for ease during certain maintenance tasks. It s time for another cool gutter project.

We have tried growing strawberries out in our garden with all kinds of problems. So i did a little research to figure out how this was done. Cut a piece of gutter 4 1 2 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw or circular. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening.

A rain gutter about 4 and a half feet long is enough to grow 3 4 strawberry plants depending on plant size. How to grow strawberries in rain gutters. Pvc end caps pvc glue a drill potting soil strawberry plants start by cutting your gutter sections and gluing on the end caps. A section of rain gutter about 4 1 2 feet long is enough to grow three strawberry plants.

This is my first summer growing strawberries in a rain gutter. You can also use the same concept for growing lettuces and herbs. Personally our strawberry bed has a framed hardware cloth cover. We are busy this year already harvesting our spring strawberries.

Growing strawberries in gutters makes some maintenance easy. I ve been feeling an urgency to get this blog post update out because i have been seeing ridiculous growing traffic on our strawberry planting in rain gutters post and i think we should let you all know that growing strawberry plants in rain gutters hasn t turned out so well for us. How did you keep the straw on top of the strawberries during the winter time from the wind blowing them out. 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.

Growing strawberries in containers prevents the plant from spreading too far and keeps it under control.