This is my new strawberry, eggplant, and chili planter. I filled it with about 18" of debris, per
@dave wonderful idea. Then 18"s of layers of mulch, garden soil (if you can call it that), and potting soil. Draped old shirts over the SW side to keep the metal from burning the strawberries. And planted the strawberries, as I had already bought the roots. They are now covered as its supposed to freeze tonight. I will have to transplant some of them later, as there are too many for the aamount of edge I have. I have never once got a strawberry in all my years of gardening in TX. I THINK I was buying the wrong type, as I always got the ever bearing type. ( fresh strawberries all summer!) And, by the time they could start producing, it's too hot here for them. This time I got those that have a big harvest and are done in June.
Sorry the picture is out of focus, but I had to run drive the goats out of the yard, then it started thunder and lightening, so i came in the house.
