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Posted: Feb/09/2008 2:09 PM PST
This is what the strawberries looked like last year, the season was poor and the plants are old. Planning to re-do the patch and am curious if anyone has any experience with vertical tubes that I have seen at Raintree Nursery for strawberries-- the tubes have a water connection and holes for a couple dozen plants if I recall. Making a fence around this patch and putting bird netting over it stopped the pilferage and worked well-- thinking of using this space for blueberries and getting a tube or two in a warmer area (a more southern exposure) Thanks. Attachments:  |
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Posted: Feb/12/2008 7:34 PM PST
Never heard of growing strawberries with a tube! Interesting concept! |
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Posted: Feb/14/2008 5:14 AM PST
G'Morning, Looking through the internet would find an example of making your own in Tuscon and growing bags hung or propped and large commercial growing tubes usually hydroponic orienated. The one I noticed is on the front page of Raintree's website: http://www.raintreenursery.com/ (scroll down to almost the bottom of the page) This is like the strawberry pots some msy have. What would be beneficial for my situatuon is the lack of good humid warm to hot early weather that a tube would mimic which could warm up quickly and is a smaller footprint and limit access to slugs and other strawberry lovin insects and air flow to limit molds. The downside would be more water and the cost of buying or making the tube. I already have quite a few hanging baskets and water timely. If this works my mom could have strawberries she could pick herself. Ideas would be using a cardboard tube filled with peatmoss to hold water inside the larger tube and dissipate slowly. The larger tube could be 3 6" plastic pipe which is cheap (cheaper than plastic culvert 12-20") that is cut lengthwise in say 2/3rds sections and glued back together and banded to get a larger circumference. Just some ideas toying in my head. I also leaning more to grow more blueberries and less strawberries, just want a few for my corn flakes. We'll see. |
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Posted: Feb/15/2008 6:48 PM PST
I just bought the bag one from Walmart (picture in my 2008 album). I've never done this, hope they grow. EBZ what you did is so nice! 
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Posted: Feb/21/2008 10:20 AM PST
This is a very interesting idea and I'll have to do some more research. I purchased alpine strawberry seeds and was wanting to do them in containers, but the tubes sound like a much better idea. Thanks for sharing the information. |
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