Growing Strawberries In Rain Gutters

We are busy this year already harvesting our spring strawberries.

Growing strawberries in rain gutters.

How did you keep the straw on top of the strawberries during the winter time from the wind blowing them out. October 16 2017 at 11 49 am. This is my first summer growing strawberries in a rain gutter. A piece of gutter makes an ideal planting container and allows you to position the plants in unusual or tight places such as hanging in stacks on a wall or fence.

These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening. Just like picking is easier with most gutter systems growing strawberries in gutters allows for ease during certain maintenance tasks. 4 5 foot long sections of vinyl gutter. Growing strawberries in containers prevents the plant from spreading too far and keeps it under control.

You can also use the same concept for growing lettuces and herbs. How to grow strawberries in rain gutters. Strawberries are delicious and as far as food goes they are one of the easiest to grow if you want to learn how to grow strawberries in rain gutters if you don t have the room for a crawling plant then you ve come to the right place you might want to try using a rain gutter. So i did a little research to figure out how this was done.

We have tried growing strawberries out in our garden with all kinds of problems. A section of rain gutter about 4 1 2 feet long is enough to grow three strawberry plants. 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. Snipping first year blooms is easier snipping runners is easier and the renovation tasks that are still applicable for gutter systems are usually easier as well.

It s time for another cool gutter project. Cut a piece of gutter 4 1 2 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw or circular. Growing strawberries in gutters makes some maintenance easy. A rain gutter about 4 and a half feet long is enough to grow 3 4 strawberry plants depending on plant size.

Just looking at these lush strawberries pouring out of these gutters made me wonder just how this was done.