hanging strawberry planter

Don’t Call it a Comeback

June 21, 2010 by Stephanie 16 Comments

There was much support, and some skepticism, but in the end I have an an abundance of perfect strawberries from my hanging strawberry planter project. Pow! These are knock-outs.

I’m also harvesting many not-so-perfect ones from the community garden plot. Or should I say perfect to me / only a mother can love / Don’t u call this a regular jam?

However you put it, I have lots of tasty red berries so I’m pretty happy.

For more of what I’m harvesting click here. And check out what others are harvesting on Daphne’s page.

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Project Update: Hanging Strawberry Planter

May 17, 2010 by Stephanie 10 Comments

Not a whole lot of work went into my hanging strawberry planter project. I tucked some extra runners into a hanging planter I found at a thrift store and hung it off the garage. I’ve kept it watered for 2 months now and look how well it is doing. It is covered in little green strawberries and a ton of flowers. Not too shabby.

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Weekend Project: Hanging Strawberry Planter

March 20, 2010 by Stephanie 13 Comments

This project has more recent updates. For all the posts related to this project click here.

For the past 2 years I have been growing tomatoes in those fugly Topsy Turvy planters. Sure they are ugly, but I don’t have a lot of space and I love a lot of tomatoes and they actually do grow great tomatoes. Last year I hung three on the southwest corner of my garage and no one even noticed the crappy green ivy design because of all the cherry and grape toms dangling from below. There were a few factors that made it a success for me and I’ve listed that all here.

This year I decided to try a strawberry planter because let’s face it, who wouldn’t want delicious fresh strawberries growing off their garage? I had a bunch of strawberry runners over at my community garden plot and I found this handy “Flower Tower” at Value Village for few bucks. You can buy Topsy Turvey ones with the same general idea, or I can assume that cutting some holes in a bucket would really yield the same results. I filled the planter with garden soil, tucked in the runners, and voila – a hanging strawberry planter.

For now the biggest challenge has been to water it without the soil running through the holes. But as it compacts a little, it seems to be holding better. I’ve got about 36 plants in there so lets hope for a good harvest. If this works it may be the only way I grow strawberries again! Here are a few hanging container products if you want to start your own: