Great Towering Strawberries!
June 6th, 2010
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[...] Strawberry seeds in the freezer for 2-4 weeks, to imitate winter, to increase germination rates. I’m planning a whole column of it, since Aidan’s allergy test showed he’s no longer allergic to them! My insipiration: http://wordpress.thissustainablehouse.com.au/2010/06/great-towering-strawberries/ [...]
Hi,
Do you have any recent photos of the strawberry tower, I would love to see how they are going now
Thanks
Mark
Hi Mark
I did some photo’s a few weeks back and updated the post. At this stage the changes aren’t marked, but there is growth. The reason for the slowness is it is still cool here, in fact the cows water trough had a thin sheet of ice this morning.
I’ll see what I can do about putting some more up this weekend.
Cheers
Shane
I would really really LOVE to know how this experiment went. Did the plants produce well, were the strawberries tasty? What would you do differently, what would you keep the same. Any hints regarding watering set-ups, and soil, and fertilising/feeding the plants?
I have a strawberry patch that is taking up too much valuable space so I’ve scrounged some PVC pipe offcuts and am anxious to set it all up.
Thanks!
G’day Maggie
The test system worked really, really well… well until the dirty dam water broke my irrigation system. Then the strawberries dried out very quickly and perished in the summer heat.
However whilst the system was running the strawberries were exceptionally productive with each tower producing about 6-8kg of strawberries.
The things that I would do differently are;
1) Ensure that the plants growing below the towers dont grow so tall as to provide a ‘bridge’ to the towers for snails & slugs.
2) The system is ideally suited to fertigation or running as part of an aquaponics system.
3) Provide clean water so the timers dont fail!
I would highly reccomend this system to anyone. Go for it!!!