Like you mentioned having the strawberry plants raised off the ground helps keep them clean which is a major benefit.
Planting strawberry plants in gutters.
If you haven t yet purchased any you can follow this link to buy strawberry plants.
A section of rain gutter about 4 1 2 feet long is enough to grow three strawberry plants.
How to grow strawberries in rain gutters.
A rain gutter about 4 and a half feet long is enough to grow 3 4 strawberry plants depending on plant size.
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.
Cut a piece of gutter 4 1 2 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw or circular.
And so we decided to really change things up and start anew by planting and growing our new strawberry plants in rain gutters.
And by that i mean well they are all dead big gardening fail.
This year however it was truly time to start over.
Planting strawberries is no different.
There are definitely benefits to growing strawberries in gutters.
Here are the primary benefits of growing strawberry plants in gutters.
You can also use the same concept for growing lettuces and herbs.
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.