Gutter Planting Strawberries
So keeping the roots cool enough to produce a good crop of strawberries can pose a problem for strawberries planted in gutters.
Gutter planting strawberries. 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. 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. 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. The gutter can now be filled with compost leave a small space below the rim for watering and you can plant your strawberries.
After the gutters were in place i filled them with 1 4 of pea gravel. Move them as needed to areas where aphids are attacking new growth. Strawberry planting in rain gutters may 22 2014 by laura 18 comments we ve have grown strawberries in our gardens going for five seasons now and we have thoroughly enjoyed it. Move them as needed to areas where aphids are attacking new growth.
Plant nasturtiums into smaller pieces of gutter along with chives dill or lemon balm. 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. Elevate gutters on flat stones bricks or.
I ended up planting 65 strawberry plants in 40 of galvanized gutters. We have tried growing strawberries out in our garden with all kinds of problems. Gutter planted strawberries have no such natural insulation. Then i added moistened potting soil.