Homemade Strawberry Planter

[veg4681]

If you have spare green plastic lawn edging lying around...........howabout using it to make a raised conical spiral for planting into????? Should be relatively easy to achieve if you have a large reel of it!

Sounds absolutely splendid! Yeah, you do get more room within each tier below a tower system. Doesn't it get better and better? We (all post contributors) should all be proud.

[andrewo]

I've got a load of small terracota pots and a spare post, thinking of planting strawberries into the pots and then attaching them to the post to save on ground space and go for height. Do you think this will work, any ideas for attaching the pots to the post?

[Hazel at the Hill]

You could drill though the post and thread through some rotproof cord then run each end of the cord through the hole in the bottom of the pots and tie a short stick (to secure the cord). Fill the pair of pots with soil and plant up. Voila!

Do more than a couple of times, vary the length of your cords and you will have a strawberry maypole!

[andrewo]

Thanks Hazel, good term for it, a strawberry maypole is born