Gutter Planting Strawberries

Plant nasturtiums into smaller pieces of gutter along with chives dill or lemon balm.

Gutter planting strawberries.

This type of growing gutter is also good for microgreens pea shoots and herbs. We are busy this year already harvesting our spring strawberries. We have tried growing strawberries out in our garden with all kinds of problems. Then i added moistened potting soil.

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. 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. 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.

After the gutters were in place i filled them with 1 4 of pea gravel. Gutter planted strawberries have no such natural insulation. Consequently the soil can get too hot in the summer in many places and too cold in the winter. These rain gutters not only keep pests away but they make for much easier gardening.

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. 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. I ended up planting 65 strawberry plants in 40 of galvanized gutters. So keeping the roots cool enough to produce a good crop of strawberries can pose a problem for strawberries planted in gutters.