Thursday 29 September 2011

A perfect container for growing strawberries in the balcony

As you know, I have lost my strawberry twice patch so far, once to some unknown disease and other time to beetles. So, to avoid having to buy everything from scratch again, I decided I must have some sort of back up strawberry patch. The only problem is that my little garden hardly can fit more plants and having duplicates for six varieties of berries takes a lot of space. Fortunately I found a perfect container to fit all of my berries in a very compact way.

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A great container for growing strawberries


While I was browsing around the 100yen store (dollar store) I found this amazing planter. It is a stackable three way pot. It is great, just the perfect size and depth. I can set my strawberries the same way as in a traditional strawberry jar pot, but because this one can be taken apart it is much easier to maintain. Also, I can shuffle around the levels to assure each plant gets lots of sun when they need it.

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I can stack them and keep all my strawberries in a little corner


It is always good having a back up for valuable plants and this is just the planter I needed. Some of the strawberry varieties are hard to get or a bit expensive. I will save a lot of troubles and costs in case something bad happens (it already did, but more about that later).

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Now I only need to make some tags


The next step is to keep organized, I need to make some good labels and tag which strawberry is which one.

18 comments:

  1. I wonder what the "something bad" was...

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  2. Great pots to gain place. It could probably be used for herbs as well.

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  3. I do hope things work our for you! There's nothing quite like fresh strawberries.

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  4. Awww...I miss 100yen shops. Kawaiii... Have you tried growing ichigo together with herbs. It might help to prevent diseases.

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  5. I'm so glad to be back visiting you in your amazing garden. I am ashamed to admit I have ample garden room and yet have no strawberries at all, and here you are growing them splendidly in containers. Amazing! Your tomato harvest was gorgeous, too, what a bountiful crop you had. Looking forward to seeing your strawberry harvest, too!

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  6. Great pots fer, I like the idea that you can take them apart and move the plants around. So frustrating when you lose a plant and you get nothing that year for your troubles. Hopefully this will help remedy the problems you are having.

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  7. You got this at the 100 yen store? I've seen this sort of pots but they are expensive here. I hope you have more success with strawberries this time around.

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  8. You are right - in a small place we need to go vertical!

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  9. That's a pretty cool berry pot. I hope you grow lots of berries. Your sunflower seeds are on the counter maturing. I am glad that I cut the head when I did, for the birds have pretty much cleaned the seeds from the other heads. My email address: annras80610@yahoo.com. Send me your mailing address, and I'll send you some sunflower seeds.

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  10. So cute pots! Hope you will have a lot of strawberries to harvest soon!

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  11. Fer, you amaze me as to how innovative you are.

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  12. Those pots are great solution indeed to a space-constrained garden. I hope your new planting will yield plenty of sweet and fresh strawberries soon.

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  13. The perfect choice! I wonder if I can find one of those around here. It's great to have that flexibility!

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  14. That looks so handy! I'd love a few! We have a 100 yen shop here, Daisun, I will go and have a look...you never know! What kind of strawberries are you growing in there?

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  15. Thank you very much! I hope the strawberries grow well. The new backup will come handy

    Mrs Bok ~ I have a bunch of Japanese breed strawberries; Mostly june bearings and one ever bearing.

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  16. Love the page, doesn't seem to be enough gaigins gardening in Japan blogs out there! There is a small gardening group on www.alttokyo.com but not enough gardeners.

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  17. these are nice pots! which reminds me, i have to go get some of my container garden tomorrow. thanks for sharing!

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