How Do You Raise Strawberries In Guttering

Put the stop ends on and the gutter is ready.

How do you raise strawberries in guttering.

Cut a piece of gutter 4 1 2 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw or circular saw for pvc rain gutters. Michael drilled holes in the gutter towards the bottom every 1 1 2 or so for proper drainage. Use hole saw to make holes. Using a drill make drainage holes in the base spaced about 15cm 6 inches apart.

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. Now fill up the soil in the holes you made and plant strawberry plants carefully in each hole. Rooting and then transplanting them helps keep the strawberries coming each year. In time we decided we just preferred the june bearing so we ripped out all of the ever bearing.

Then clog pipe from both sides. How to grow strawberries in rain gutters. Plant the strawberries in early spring. 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.

Trim the roots of the strawberry transplant to 6 inches with scissors to make planting easier. Measure and mark 27 inches from either end of the gutter to find the center. You can also plant in the autumn where winters are milder. This process is simply more difficult when you grow strawberries in gutters.

In the past in our strawberry bed we grew berries of the june bearing and ever bearing variety. Not to mention the flavor of home grown strawberries can never compare to store bought strawberries. Make two more marks 9 inches from each end of the. Measure your space and using a hacksaw cut the gutter to the lengths you require mine are 1 metre 39 inches long each.

Flexibility of gutter strawberry systems.