Overwintering Strawberries In Gutters

Can i overwinter the potted strawberries in our unheated garage.

Overwintering strawberries in gutters.

If the strawberry towers or gutters pipes can be moved into the garage or other similar shelter they will often do better than if left suspended above the ground and exposed to all the harshest weather winter can throw at them. Container grown strawberries benefit from a little winter protection. A section of rain gutter about 4 1 2 feet long is enough to grow three strawberry plants. This is my first summer growing strawberries in a rain gutter.

October 16 2017 at 11 49 am. Likewise soil warmed prematurely in the late winter or early spring can induce plants to leave dormancy too early and then suffer cold injury with sharp rapid temperature shifts downward. I decided to build hall s self irrigating gutter let s call it a sig to grow strawberries. Elevating plants in gutters can make them overheat in the summers and die or produce no strawberries.

Here s how i did it. With some scrap wood i made a support system for the two gutters one gutter holds water and the other holds soil. One of the best ways is to place the container in a bigger container and then insulate the space between with leaves or straw. In the second part he shows a two gutter strawberry growing system.

We have tried growing strawberries out in our garden with all kinds of problems. Multiple blizzards and dangerously low temperatures. So it couldn t blow anywhere. This past winter which was our strawberry plants first as new plants was particularly brutal.

The garage has a window and also glass panels along the top. These climate conditions in addition to the shallow metal gutters in such close proximity to the roots of the plant really did them in. Cut a piece of gutter 4 1 2 feet long using tin snips for metal gutters and a pvc handsaw or circular saw. Overwintering strawberry towers or winterizing strawberry plants planted in gutters or pipe systems is more difficult.

We are busy this year already harvesting our spring 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. Personally our strawberry bed has a framed hardware cloth cover.