Rain Gutter Strawberry Planter

With some scrap wood i made a support system for the two gutters one gutter holds water and the other holds soil.

Rain gutter strawberry planter.

How to grow strawberries in rain gutter planters video. You buy the coir pith as a brick look up 5kg coir pith block machine on youtube to see how it is produced. 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. This year however it was truly time to start over.

Aight y all i today s video we re building a true diy strawberry planter using a re purposed rain gutter. Here s how i did it. In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system. You can mount the gutters vertically or horizontally to save space.

Check it out and i thank ya for watching. 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. 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. 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.

We have tried our space saving idea to grow strawberries vertically using pvc pipes tutorial here. Cut a piece of gutter 4 1 2 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw or circular saw. 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. This will yield about 70 liter of coir pith ready to use.

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. A section of rain gutter about 4 1 2 feet long is enough to grow three strawberry plants. Add organic fertilizer to about 20 liters of water and add that to the brick.

These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. For instance in a wheelbarrow or in a large bucket. 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. Using it is simple.