Strawberries in growbags

i grew strawberries in a growbag last year. i think i had 6 in a bag: 3 "holes", 2 strawberry plants in each hole. Worked well, but you do have to keep on top of watering and so on.

the other way i planted them was in a large pot, an upended empty squash bottle (with holes pierced in the lid/plastic) in the middle (to fill with water as a slow-drip feeder) with the plants around the outside. That pot was then stood on a larger pot, and when runners came through, they were fed down to the soil in the larger pot. you do this each year, so you wind up with a tower of strawberries. In theory, anyway, i didn't get any strawberries off it last year because you cut the flowers off with that technique, force it to put its energies into the runners so you get lots of plants, but this year i should get a good harvest from them. I hope! its quite a good method if you're short on space.

The only other method i can think of is either hanging baskets (they do surprisingly well there, only you *really* need to keep on top of watering with those) or putting them in window boxes or boxes on a wall, again, thinking in terms of vertical gardening, if space is a problem.

HTH

keth
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Thanks for that, Kethry. I still can't decide what to do. I'll probably leave things as they are or possibly pot them on into larger pots. I don't fancy a tower. I used one of those strawberry pots a couple of years ago - watering it was a nightmare (I probably didn't plant it up right).

Last year I grew strawbs in growbags, 4 plants to a bag.I ended up with big healthy plants but very crowded. At the end of the season the bags were packed full of roots. I don't think I would put more than 4 plants in to 1 bag.

Just got a booklet from Ken Muir with some strawberry plants and in it it say you can plant ten strawberry plants in one bag by stagerring them five on each side. I am tempted to try that. Maybe not ten but say eight.