Variants of making vertical beds for strawberries do it yourself

If you have a relatively small area, you want to plant everything and a lot, vertical beds are what you need. There are plenty of options for designs, materials and forms for such plantings. This article will tell about the vertical beds for strawberries, made by hand.

Advantages and disadvantages of vertical garden beds

The undoubted advantages of these beds include the saving of land space: A garden bed can be made along a fence, against a wall of an economic extension, in a garden in the form of a flower bed, suspended on a terrace or a verandah. You can create a whole vertical garden on one square meter.

Vertical beds will allow you to control the amount of moisture coming to the strawberries, and prevent overwetting.In addition, the plant root system, located above the ground, will be protected from sudden changes in temperature, from freezing in early spring. It will be quite convenient to wrap such beds with film. During the care of landing there is no need to bend, everything is available and close at hand.

Vertical beds can be made from any available materials, even from plastic bottles, because they also make strawberry stands from plastic bottles so that the berries do not rot, lying on the ground. That is, they are profitable from a financial point of view. Production of beds does not require complex technical skills and time consuming.

The disadvantages of such structures include nutritional limitations. If the vertical beds for strawberries are made from small containers, for example, from plastic bottles, the amount of soil there is small, the roots experience some starvation. Feeding in such plantings are carried out more often.

Options for the manufacture of vertical beds: from which you can create a design

As already mentioned, you can make vertical beds from any available materials: from plastic bottles and pipes, from old wooden barrels, baklazhka, from tires, from old furniture (drawers), you can use construction pallets, racks, flowerpots for pots, bags - everything that lies idle. How to make a bed for strawberries, consider next.

Vertical bed with tires

You can make a bed for strawberries with the help of old tires. The tire size is not important; if the tires are of different sizes, you can make a bed in several tiers.

Tires to start clean, wash and dry, then carry out painting in the desired color. Next, on the sides of the tire cut holes, preferably at the same distance. To create the structure, you will need a plastic pipe, the size of which should correspond to the height of the intended bed. In the pipe also drill holes around its entire circumference and height.

The first tire is installed, a pipe wrapped with synthetic fabric is placed vertically in its center, and the ground is filled up. Further manipulations of the same kind are carried out with all existing tire-tiers. When the flowerbed is ready for use, water is poured into the pipe, which flows into all tiers of this bed. Strawberry bushes are planted in the holes made in the tires.

Vertical pipe-shaped bed

Strawberries can be successfully grown in plastic pipes left over from repairs, let's figure out how to do this.

To do this, you need pipes of different diameters: one not more than 2 cm, the second not less than 15 cm, and more preferably.

Holes are made in both pipes: in a wide pipe, the holes must be larger in diameter (for planting strawberries), and smaller, respectively, smaller (for water). The height of the pipe depends on your desire; it can be many pieces half a meter high, staggered on a mesh fence.A narrow pipe is inserted into a pipe with a wide diameter, then the soil is poured.

Vertical beds for strawberries made of plastic pipes are convenient because plastic does not overheat in the sun, and it is easy for pipes to find a location and fix them.

Vertical bed with a rack

You can make high beds for strawberries with your own hands using shelving. Shelving can often be seen in greenhouses and not only with strawberries. The rack can be bought ready and, having determined it in place, put on the shelves pots with strawberries or containers. And by the way, if you install racks with strawberries in the greenhouse, the period of cultivation will be significantly reduced.

You can make a multi-tiered bed for strawberries yourself in the form of a pyramid.To do this, the boards can knock down square shapes of different sizes. Smaller to put in a large on the principle of matryoshka. After filling with earth and planting strawberries, when the bushes grow, you will get a flowering pyramid. Wooden structures can be made in the form of an octagon. It will also be spectacular.

Multi-tiered, you can make the beds of strawberries in plastic bottles. The bottle is cut lengthwise, leaving a part of the bottom not touched and a neck with a cork so that the earth does not spill out. Bottles tight rows fixed on the wall of the fence, a row above a number.

Vertical beds of bags

Strawberries in bags are also a simple and economical way of vertical beds. Bags for strawberries can be used from dense polyethylene, from burlap, you can sew from any dense fabric with your own hands.

Bags made of natural fabric will be the most durable and suitable for plants, as they breathe and have good carrying capacity. It is desirable to stitch the sides and bottom of the bag several times with a strong thread.

Bags are filled with primer, cuts are made for planting strawberries of 15 cm in size. At the top of the bag a strong loop is sewn, by which the bag will be attached to the support. Strawberries are planted in holes made and watered. You can place the bags in staggered order.

Strawberry planting in cylinders

Since the popularity of vertical vegetable gardens is gaining rapid momentum, there are special designs for sale in hardware stores for gardeners. The form of the structures is cylindrical, convenient holes with a small protrusion are made in the tank. Soil is poured into this tank by adding peat and sand, bushes are planted in the holes. The convenience of purchased cylinders is that the protrusions under the holes support strawberry bushes as they grow, the plants do not hang down somehow and do not break under the weight of the berries. For the winter, the cylinders are covered with agrofibre.

"Pocket beds"

The pocket garden was invented by foil-insulated agronomists. Demonstration at one of the agricultural exhibitions aroused the interest of many gardeners, and the design became popular. It is quite possible to make such a multi-tiered bed for strawberries with your own hands.

Production technology:

1. For a bed of two meters in height, the material needs four meters (no matter what height of the bed you make, the material comes in two lengths). Putting the material in half, stitch horizontally, retreating 5-7 centimeters. This is done to be able to hang the bed.
2. Next, leaving the upper edges of the stitched backstage, we stitch the edges and the bottom of the material, thus making the bag.
3. The entire surface should be marked out into rectangles, not more than three per meter of material. Along the marking lines - stitch, retreat from the seam about 3 cm and make a semicircular slot. Then, these vertical beds during watering will receive moisture flowing down the cut valve, so the cut in a semicircle is more convenient than a straight cut.
4. Into the upper link we insert a rigid tube, hollow inside, in order to stretch the string. The ends of the twine are tied to the support. In our pockets we fall asleep nutrient substrate and plant strawberries, water.

Hanging bed options

Suspended beds - also a kind of vertical garden. You can make such beds by using most of the same materials as in vertical plantings.

For example, plastic pipes. The pipe is cut along, the ends are closed with plugs, it turns out a chute into which the soil is poured and strawberries are grown.The gutter with the aid of twine is fixed on the visor of the veranda or an outbuilding, or on a tree. The length of the gutter can be chosen convenient for you; you can also make several levels of such gutters.

Vertical grid bed

The bed from the construction grid does not require a lot of skills. The desired length of the material is rolled into a ring, the edges are fixed. Along the edges of the grid is covered with straw, you can use a dense film, but with a straw it turns out more interesting and more natural. Drainage is placed at the bottom of the ring, then the ground, bushes are planted on the sides, gently pulling the foliage through the mesh cells. Then a layer of straw - soil, strawberry on each side. The number of layers depends on the height of the mesh ring.

Peculiarities of growing strawberries in vertical beds

Vertical beds are best placed on the field, if there is no such possibility, let it be an illuminated area without a shadow of large trees, strawberries need a lot of sun. If the planting is properly located, they have enough light and heat, moisture, then you can collect a large crop: up to 12 kg from one bed. Important is the composition of the soil in the beds.

The plant in most cases is limited in access to nutrients, such as, for example, in beds of plastic bottles. The capacity is small, the soil is small, so you need to take care of the soil in advance: sandy, humus soil would be the best option.

The same applies to moisture: in small containers the ground will often dry out. To avoid possible problems, gardeners use the addition of hydrogel in the soil.

Care of vertical beds requires a minimum of effort: they do not need to be weeded, no need to cover the ground under the berries, so as not to rot, berries are difficult to reach for snails and small rodents, and harvesting does not require bending in three deaths before the bushes.

Creating original beds for strawberries with a no less original design will give the site an aesthetic look, unusual beds will also become an element of decor.