That's suspicious too, I guess

Seascape strawberries in a homemade eBucket - mine...space-saver model, LOL!

I planted 24 bare-root strawberry plants in this 6.5 gallon eBucket. Next time, will plant only half as many to allow more space to each plant. I normally use 5-gallon buckets for eBuckets. However, a friend collected some taller, 6.5 gallon chlorine tablet buckets from a pool guy in his neighborhood -- I've never had any food issues with the pool tablet buckets.

These Seascapes produced a nice-sized strawberry. The built-in reservoir in the bottom of the eBucket helped keep the strawberries hydrated when I couldn't get around to watering. That's the beauty of the eBucket system.







Here's a link to the eBucket construction tutorial.
The thread "Make an eBucket!" in Vegetables and Fruit forum

You can also convert a large, decorative planter into an eBucket. Basically, the same construction as for a 5-gallon (or larger) bucket or planting vessel.


Hugs!

if you click on the photo, in the lower left you will see part of a huge slug gobbling one of my strawberries

The little rat!

But the strawberries look good!

The strawberries planted in the bucket is a great idea. I did this little article on planting strawberry pots a while ago. http://garden.org/ideas/view/J...

I got 4 kinds of stawberries last year, and they are doing very well, and spreading nicely. I should get some berries next june. Can anyone write a short recommendation on the best way to know when its time to pull out an "old" strawberry plant? How do you know which are old, which are new?

Great question, Texaskitty....I'm needing the same information, as I just planted my first strawberry patch this spring.

I never pull out old plants, just make new rows every three years. Use the new plants created by the runners. The crowns of old plants will be woody.

To clarify, after using new runners for new row, the old row is tilled under. We keep three rows going at a time, then each year one row gets tilled under (you would need space for four rows, three to use and one to till under.) i don't know if this makes sense to you or not.

It does, although won't work for me, as I have to keep my strawberries in the same place once I get all the planters filled. Also, is it two year old, or four year old plants that no longer produce? I've heard both.

You know, I don't really know because I always have new runners and don't notice which ones aren't producing. I should do an experiment this year. Hmmm....