Gutter Planting Strawberries

Then i added moistened potting soil.

Gutter planting strawberries.

Consequently the soil can get too hot in the summer in many places and too cold in the winter. We have tried growing strawberries out in our garden with all kinds of problems. Place the gutter in a location that provides at least 6 hours of full sun per day before filling the gutter with soil and planting the strawberries. Move them as needed to areas where aphids are attacking new growth.

Elevate gutters on flat stones bricks or. We are busy this year already harvesting our spring strawberries. This type of growing gutter is also good for microgreens pea shoots and herbs. After the gutters were in place i filled them with 1 4 of pea gravel.

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. Gutter planted strawberries have no such natural insulation. The gutter can now be filled with compost leave a small space below the rim for watering and you can plant your strawberries. 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.

Plant nasturtiums into smaller pieces of gutter along with chives dill or lemon balm. Move them as needed to areas where aphids are attacking new growth. So keeping the roots cool enough to produce a good crop of strawberries can pose a problem for strawberries planted in gutters. While strawberry plants generally comes back and produce for 3 4 years before they are done we managed to squeeze one more year out of ours.