Kitchen Garden Forum

We're trying to design a system for growing strawberries at a height that doesn't require bending or stooping (mindful of my deteriorating hips!). We've come up with an idea about planting trays between poles that hold polystyrene boxes at waist height into which we would put compost and plants.

Does anyone have any better proposals?

Hi Tigger,
The staging in my tunnels are 29" off the ground and I have grown about a dozen Strawberry plants in old Fish Boxes, for many years, just inside the tunnel on the staging. I also grow lettuces of the loose leaf varieties in 2 Litre pots in the same way and when they run up to seed eventually I allow one variety to flower and I harvest the seed. This is done in rotation for Lollo Bionda and Lollo Rossa.(Have not bought a seed for years.) This proved invaluable when I had my replacement knee. I also suffer from Arthritis generally and I also have a Salad Table up by the house which is 4'x4' and again 29" off the ground.
This is covered with anti-white fly netting and the four legs of the table are placed in florists buckets full of water. Slugs and snails are therefore excluded. You may think about that with your Strawberries. Just keep the buckets topped up with water which last year was not necessary!
Your idea, I know, will be a great success.
JB.

4 tier Mini greenhouse frame - grow on the 2nd and 4th shelf. About 8 to 10 plants in a growbag on each shelf.

You'll get a fantastic crop in a very small place and if grown outside it's really easy to net it to protect against the birds.

i use 7 inch guttering that i bought in our local builders supply store .i just screwed them onto wooden stakes .i did have to make ends for the guttering and also drilled little holes about 1/2 inch up from the base for drainage.