The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: sabrina on October 09, 2015, 11:53:33 am
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For the first time and due to lack of space I decided to try cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets in the pollytunnel. They have done very well. Bushy and hang down I am still getting tomatoes off them. So pleased and will do this again. Also did some lettuce and it worked OK. Thinking I will add herbs to the basket idea next year. The ground space I used for cabbage etc and this worked so well. Freezer has plenty veg in it to see us through the winter. Thinking of trying strawberry plants now. Can I lime the ground and then plant or does the ground need to be left a bit. I put in a lot of well rotted horse manure last winter but not sure how this would work with strawbrries if I did the same again.
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Solve the problem with strawberries in the baskets. I used to grow them like that to keep the slugs off.
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There are lots of ways of making a strawberry tower if you google, saves space, keeps the slugs off and is easy to net against birds.(Though you could always plant a few especially for the birds!)
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Sounds a great idea to grow strawberries from thecrop bars. How would you capture tthe runners?
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Plant them into a hanging basket?