Planting strawberries in a wooden barrel
If you have an old whiskey or wine barrel that you no longer use, don't throw it away. Instead, turn it into a strawberry tower for your garden. Not only is it practical, but it enriches everyoneCottage gardenwith its rustic vintage look.
Strawberry tower made from fruit and vegetable boxes
You can also use empty plastic fruit and vegetable boxes for a DIY strawberry tower. These are great for this project because they are very sturdy and already have large holes in the walls. This guarantees optimal air circulation and saves you the effort of cutting them out by hand.
Plant strawberries in the laundry basket
And here is another simple and cheap strawberry planting idea. There are also laundry baskets on the market with holes that can easily be converted into a strawberry tower. Place a potato sack inside, fill it with soil, poke holes in the jute sack with scissors and plant the strawberries in the holes. You can plant flowers on top to make the strawberry tower a real eye-catcher.
Make your own strawberry columns from wire mesh
If you are looking for a sustainable solution without plastic, then these standing wire strawberry columns would be right for you. You decide how high and how wide your cylinders should be. To line the inside of the tower, you can use non-woven fabric, coconut fiber mats, or even straw. By the way, you can find out what you can grow on strawin this article.
Wooden strawberry pyramid
The strawberry pyramid is an original alternative to classic wooden raised beds. Replicating the construction is not difficult, but requires some manual skills. You have to work carefully when cutting the boards. Find out how you can build a strawberry pyramid yourselfin this article!
Strawberry pyramid or column made from car tires
If you are a fan of cool upcycling ideas for the garden, you can build a pyramid out of car tires. To do this, you simply need old tires in different sizes, which are stacked on top of each other and then planted. A pot is usually placed right at the top in the middle.
Very tall strawberry towers can be built from car tires of the same size. It is important to insert a perforated PVC pipe into the middle of the column so that irrigation is more effective. The strawberries feel particularly comfortable here because the car tires keep them quite warm. You can find more garden ideas with old car tiresin this article.
Growing strawberries in wooden pallets
Wooden pallets are robust, inexpensive and very versatile. In addition to patio furniture, swings and privacy walls, self-made raised beds made of pallets are also very popular these days. You can find building instructions for a vertical raised bed made of pallets in our article “Build a raised bed out of pallets: For strawberries, vegetables, etc.“
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