This year however it was truly time to start over.
Rain gutter strawberry planter.
Check it out and i thank ya for watching.
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.
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.
These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening.
You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced.
Diy strawberry gutter system easiest way to grow strawberries click show more for all the links and other info i mentioned in the video in today s vide.
Cut a piece of gutter 4 1 2 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw or circular saw.
In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system.
Yes and the answer is rain gutters by using rain gutters or some pvc pipe as your pot you can keep your strawberries fresh and clean and oh so delicious to eat.
Another great thing about this is saving space if you don t have the room for a crawling plant you might want to try using a rain gutter.
Here s how i did it.
You ve seen pallet projects before but this one is simple relatively quick and results in a planter that you can use to grow strawberries veggies screening shrubs or greenery of your choice today we are going to see how to grow hydroponic.
Using it is simple.
How to grow strawberries in rain gutter planters video.
Aight y all i today s video we re building a true diy strawberry planter using a re purposed rain gutter.
And so we decided to really change things up and start anew by planting and growing our new strawberry plants in rain gutters.
Just make sure to secure the gutters well so you don t end up losing your crop.
You can mount the gutters vertically or horizontally to save space.
For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket.
This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use.
Add organic fertilizer to about 20 liters of water and add that to the brick.
Strawberries are delicious and as far as food goes they are one of the easiest to grow.
I decided to build hall s self irrigating gutter let s call it a sig to grow strawberries.
With some scrap wood i made a support system for the two gutters one gutter holds water and the other holds soil.