How To Plant Strawberries In A Rain Gutter

A rain gutter about 4 and a half feet long is enough to grow 3 4 strawberry plants depending on plant size.

How to plant strawberries in a rain gutter.

Just looking at these lush strawberries pouring out of these gutters made me wonder just how this was done. Pvc end caps pvc glue a drill potting soil strawberry plants start by cutting your gutter sections and gluing on the end caps. The great thing about some of these plants like strawberries is if you have them above they ll hand down and create a hanging garden you can pick from. 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.

You can mount the gutters vertically or horizontally to save space. A section of rain gutter about 4 1 2 feet long is enough to grow three strawberry plants. Not just strawberries either but all kinds of fruits and vegetables can be grown in gutters. With some scrap wood i made a support system for the two gutters one gutter holds water and the other holds soil.

Another great thing about this is that your berries will be portable. This year however it was truly time to start over. Benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters. Cut a piece of gutter 4 1 2 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw or circular.

Strawberries in rain gutters is becoming a popular idea. In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system. And by that i mean well they are all dead big gardening fail. 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.

There are definitely benefits to growing strawberries in gutters. 4 5 foot long sections of vinyl gutter. It s time for another cool gutter project. I decided to build hall s self irrigating gutter let s call it a sig to grow strawberries.

After the gutters were in place i filled them with 1 4 of pea gravel. So i did a little research to figure out how this was done. Here s how i did it. And so we decided to really change things up and start anew by planting and growing our new strawberry plants in rain gutters.

Here are the primary benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters. Like you mentioned having the strawberry plants raised off the ground helps keep them clean which is a major benefit. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. The first set i installed a few weeks ago went well so i decided i might as well go ahead and install a few more.