I have two green stalks full of 🍓. If you let the runners continue to grow, they will form roots on the ends. Then you can clip it and plant it directly into another pocket or, keep the runner connected to the mother plant and plant the rooted end in a nearby pocket. Once it's rooted in and growing well, you can then clip the stem off from the motherplant. 😊
Nice! I have strawberries growing on my towers too! My fiancée designed and put together this thing that continuously rotates my towers slowly throughout the day that's solar powered and I absolutely love it!
Many strawberries, including Seascape, are evergreen perennials in the ground here in zone 5, and I've had luck with them in containers some years provided they are in the shade so they don't thaw every day and freeze every night in the spring! I'm going to try moving my greenstalk to the shade of my privacy fence during the winter to protect it from the harsh winter sun and see if the Sparkle june-bearing runners I planted into it this spring survive this winter!
You can look up varieties that do well in your state and they will take into consideration how cold it gets. There's a website that takes the data from the local university extension information for the state. It's a good place to start. I have my greenstalks on my patio so when it gets super cold, I bring them right next to the house to stay warm. My strawberries survived the -11F winter a couple years ago which was very much not characteristic of the area. They were the only thing that survived that year in the garden because I moved the containers next to the house. Even my kale died that year. It was that cold for almost a week.
To anyone wanting to root runners, I find adding soil to the cardboard tray cases of wet cat food come in, and then using little pieces of floral wire like landscape staples to keep them in place works pretty well. Couple weeks to root, then you can move the box anywhere you would want to sheet mulch. Instant squarish foot of garden space. But don't leave them much longer or you will have to slide another box under.
"I don't know anyone who doesn't like them" Meanwhile my friend is deathly allergic 😂 although to be fair, that doesn't mean she doesn't like them, it just means she likes life more.
I prefer them too for the kids. They get excited to find and eat the ripe ones. Can't get my picky one to eat berries or fruits from the store but if he picks it himself it goes straight into his mouth
I have them out in my front garden. They come back every year, all I do is much /compost in the fall and late winter. I don't bother with taking back any buds or runners- it's not that big a space, maybe two feet by eight feet, but I pull like a quart of strawberries a day during my harvest season.
I put irrigation main-line where the water comes out and run it something growing nearby. The nutrient rich water waters to another plant in the garden. ❤
U do same thing in every container- wash away nutrients. At least hes giving whatever is going out w that watering to another plant along w water- Not wasting it.
@@OrangeJuiceDripping I was referring to the solar idea in OP. Wind speed varies a lot but a solar panel, battery, and motor setup can make the job simple based on the same resource the plants are being moved to get
True facts about rolly pollys being fans of them. We had so much rain here early last month that their population exploded and they were snacking on anything and everything! I got two strawberry plants two years ago and let them make runners. It's kind of funny because the original strawberries were in a pot, and I decided to make a garden just for the strawberries so I set the pot in the middle and let the runners tumble over the sides and root around the pot. After a harsh winter, the pot strawberry died, but three of it's runners survived. I let those plants make runners the next year, so now I have plenty of strawberry plants that I'm letting grow (no runners allowed this year!) and they're all about making plenty of strawberries! Took your advice from another video though and I'm snipping off some of the flowers so that it makes less strawberries, but the ones it does make are big and juicy!
That’s an awesome success story! It’s amazing how those runners have multiplied into a full garden. Smart move with snipping the flowers too-nothing beats big, juicy strawberries. Sounds like you’ve got a sweet harvest ahead!😍🤩😍
I wasn't able to deal with the runners this season and clip them off before they started getting huge. I need to prune them and set them in some water to root (the ones with the root nodules showing) and then pot them up. Then plant them in some more greenstalks later in the season (in the fall so they can set before winter). As my son likes to say "INFINITE STRAWBERRIES!"
I had 20 out of 25 die. I did what you did here planting them. They were fine for at least a week before slowly, one by one, more of them started dying. I'm not sure if the post office holding them for over a week was the problem or not. A second shipment of a different variety that got to me faster later on is still doing ok. My ones grown from seed are doing really well. One thing i would add is to soak your roots in water for 3 days to a week before planting. As far as seeds, start those in like February and expect a 50% success rate. The seed sprouts are so small that extra care is required as to letting the soil dry out, but not over watering them. I do think from seed (when possible as not all varieties can be grown from seed) gives the best chance of success when transplanting.
I had a voluntary strawberry I planted last year without any fruit but this season, it came back with lots of strawberries. We ate it when it's really red and omg the sweetness of that strawberries was so good.
So glad to see I did about the same thing for my first try at bare root strawberries (I was sure I was going to kill them all). They are green and getting a lot of new growth, and out of 20 plants only one died. Seeing I didn't do it completely wrong gives me some hope! Unfortunately everything outside my house is crawling with hundreds and hundreds of lanternfly nymphs, and they like to jump on you. So not sure how much attention the strawberries are going to get until we get the lanternflies under control.
My parents planted strawberries (I believe they’re wild strawberries? Much smaller than normal strawberries) a few years ago and they haven’t left our garden since! And even spread out farther than we’d anticipated due to their runners 😅😂 I might have to plant some in a container so they don’t run off again 😂😂
As someone who follows your playlists as a navigation to find the videos I need, I would love it if you could add this video to the strawberry playlist if you can! Great tips! Thank you!
Idk how to grow strawberries from bare root. 😭😭😭 I’ve tried for the last 2 years and they always die on me. I will keep trying with ur advice. I do have some that I got already started in my greenstalk. And they’re on their second year! Theyre definitely giving more this year. Very easy way to grow strawberries 🍓
I planted Seascapes in my vertical planter this year. Mid Michigan 6a. When winter comes can I leave this outside? I got one of your vego beds two yrs ago and have strawberries in them now and doing good
I have four GreenStalks with strawberries, two June-bearing (Earliglo) and two Everbearing (Tribute). One suggestion for watering after first planting: water the individual pockets as well as using the top watering. Plant roots may take a bit of time to reach the soil moistened by central watering.
I grew strawberrys from seed from home bargains, last year. The strawberries were tiny, like wild ones. They over wintered in the greenhouse and are looking normal sized this year. So I'm thinking they take a year to mature.🤔
Ahhhhh I needed this like a month or two ago! I planted seeds. OMG They take forever to germinate, forever! The I bought some of the bare roots and nothing happened with that. Of course I didn't know what I was doing with them! The directions really didn't tell me any of this! Thank you! Now I know!
It depends on the type of pests? We get Japanese beetles on ours and it looks like they only like the top tier of the Greenstalk. I'm going to try and rearrange the towers so that they have something other than strawberries growing on top and see if that minimizes the beetles. I saw a baby praying mantis on one of our strawberries. Hopefully it helps with the pests.
How many years can you keep a strawberry plant..I’ve had mine for four years and it still produces. I also get new ones from runners every year but wondering about the mother plant and how long to keep it. They’re in pots by the way
Strawberries is one of my favorite to grow. I have Everbearing strawberries. I live in Zone 3 and they come back after every winter. I tried growing a bunch in a vertical planter last season, but they all died in winter. Thankfully the ones in the ground are still fine. Beware the squirrels. I had to build a cage to keep them from eating my berries.
How much direct sunlight do the strawberries need? I’m in 10B like you, but I’m a few blocks from a SoCal beach and we are still socked in with June Gloom. I’m lucky to get 3 hours of weak sunlight per day. EDIT: the high today is 69 degrees and is not expected to change for the next several weeks still.
They honestly don't need full sun conditions to produce fruit. I have some planted below my grape arbor, filtered sun throughout the day and they do just fine. Live in the same area.
I did my first tower this year and I have to warn you not to go too high because it did fall over. I then rebuilt it and put it on a work table and it's been great. To control birds getting access I used netting built in a box shape over the table anchored on tall plant stakes. The stakes were zip tied to raised beds on each side of the table.
@@lyndelgado6138 It was. We just had strong winds and I used some 6' plant stakes that weren't strong enough to support the weight as it tipped. It would have worked out if I had used something a bit more sturdy to secure it , rebar perhaps.😂
I have strawberries planted in seeds ang I got it by saving the seeds when we went to osaka on a strawberry farm and I was able to grow bear fruits ang I got lots of runners and planted it, I almost have less than a hundred strawberries in my garden Japanese strawberries are so soft and sweet, I want to know where you got those planters that you can roll, i got st amazon 7 tier but wont roll out just steady. Thank you
I planted seascape strawberries in my tower and they didn’t make it through the winter 🥺 I do live in zone 6a but I was lead to believe they would be fine in my tower 🥺thankfully some runners made it to a container I had sitting next to the tower and I still have three plants left so hopefully I can’t build my strawberry crop off of them. I do think in colder climates planting them in a tower might not be a good idea, just my thoughts. 💐💚🙃
Hey Kevin! I was really excited to grow strawbs this year and bought about 40 bare roots from my local big box store. Unfortunately 100% of them died even though I was very careful to plant them carefully following your advice! 1. Do you guys carry bare roots or have a store your recommend for bare root strawberries and 2. Is it too late to try starting again with an ever bearing variety or would it be best to just wait till next year to try again? Thanks!
I planted all my bareroot seascapes in my green stalk and not one came up. So weird, watched your videos on how to. I never have any luck. maybe I should stop buying them from Etsy lol. 😂
thats funny i just subbed this month and have been binge watching all your videos and i just planted 20 ozark strawberries in a tower here in inland empire haha
Started my bare roots inside started transitioning them outside for 5 days. Decided they look great and healthy enough to go in their permanent spot with full sun and day later they were all dead and I can’t get them to come back unfortunately. Live and learn wish I watched this first haha
?my soil has sunken way down in my greenstalk. My strawberries are growing and have flowers and fruit on them. Can I pull them out to add more soil and Not loose all the fruit/flowers? Zone 9 so getting hot also. Thanks!!! Great video
Hey, really important: don't use dyed red nectar in your hummingbird feeders! it hasn't been fully researched, but anecdotal evidence suggests it can lead to health issues in hummingbirds, even if the dye is safe for humans. Just make your own with water and sugar, it's safer for the birds and way cheaper. It won't impact how attracted they are to your feeder, either.
I love having my strawberry plants in the GreenStalk, but this year every single strawberry was pecked by birds or something (and they didn't eat the whole berry)! Is there some way to protect the berries??
I saw a video saying that birds might take a bite, just a bit without eating the whole, if they're thirsty, so setting up a bird bath where they can drink can help with that.
I'm looking at this tower and anticipating that it would definitely fall over as soon as strong winds hit. It would have to be STRONGLY tethered to some large stakes, and with the compartmental design I'm not even sure how I would do it.
Since you guys are the go-to for great products, can you guys come up with a painted metal vertical stack? Plastic is a joke here in AZ, the sun eats plastic for lunch.
Also, I live in E TN where we get a lot of sun during the summer months (95+ feels like 105 due to humidity) and the planters have lasted with that kind of beating even in afternoon sun.
after two winters of multiple nights at-20f and losing all my strawberry plants i ordered a GreenStalk late spring. Collected the correct amount of high speed container soil and then went to buy some starts......guess what? every store was sold out! i managed to buy 4 sickly plants from Wal Mart, i am sure no one else wanted them. I ordered some bare root from online but it was already the second week of May......for now i have some lettuce radish and onions taking up the space till i can get more strawberry plants to get an early start on next year........
I went with Ozark Beauty. The runners are at the point where I’m beginning people to take them. I may end up getting another greenstalk just for the runners. I did have some bare roots die but thankfully I have all of those runners to replace them.
I’m re-thinking using ANYTHING plastic especially recycled plastic products. I’m on board with Regenerative Gardening with Blossom and Branch RUclipsr in Colorado. She’s really given me good insights, research data and long-term ideas on what I use to grow my organic food. Very inspiring! 🍓🍓
Agreed, especially after the article I read about a possible connection between microplastics and blood clots. I can't get away from plastic too much though because I live in an apartment. Need pots.
Love for Tuck! ❤ thanks for covering this! I live in Houston and starting my first garden... protection from the extreme heat is definitely something I'm interested in on top of protection from the pests!
what about holes/drainage for this planter? and can I plant this indoor in the winter. I mistakenly bought strawberry crowns in November and it's too late to plant, its refrigerated but I'm worry that they will die by Spring. Zone 4b
Rather than stacking all of them together into one, I'll just stack 2-3 and make a couple of smaller towers instead of one tall one. I get a lot of wind, too, and worry about the whole thing going over in the wind.
You can drill some holes in the side of some pots and run some twine or something through the holes and stake them down. You’d probably have to do three sides if you done it that way. If you’re going straight into the ground you can row them then make a trellis and attach them to stakes at the end of the row and the start. Then make sure the strawberries grow up between them
I get really crazy winds in TN and I have them only 4 tall for the originals and 5-6 tall for the leaf. The soil keeps them from falling over. Just make sure they are well watered and don't dry out.
I forgot to mention my Greenstalks all are on my cement driveway so I don't have a way to try to stake to the ground. That's why I break mine down into shorter segments, trying to keep everything upright. Today, for example, we have winds gusting to 45 mph. I just checked and none have blown over. Others have asked about the insect net covers. I have them on mine and the covers haven't flown off, either. Fingers crossed!!!
The only strawberry plants available locally are the everbearing varieties, and most places only have one variety to choose from. It varies from year to year.
I tried growing strawberries in DIY PVC towers and they do produce but once 30 C degree weather comes they all get stressed out, dry out very fast even if I water them constantly daily. I have a few towers in a more shady area and they seem to do better than the ones fully exposed to the sun. The sun just cooks them completely once summer arrives. I also have another issue... the ants and aphids moved into the towers in spring and started feeding on my strawberry plants. It is quite hard to grow vertically in small pipes and the location matters a lot, not all places are viable.
Yes, everything likes to eat 🍓 I lost my first round to deer 🦌 that i didn't realize could get in and would! And then to bugs 🐛... hopefully third time is the charm! 🙏
I live in a windy area (corpus christi, tx), how would one of these towers hold up? I'm assuming there is some weight because of the stacked soil, but if I get one, I may only have about 3-4 levels for stability.
I have Hood, Albion, and Tri-star strawberries. I love the pink blooms on the Albion. I like having June-bearing and Ever-bearing. We get to eat them longer that way.
So, I need help. I planted mine just like Kevin did sort of close to the edge of the pocket and did not bury the crown at all. So when my strawberries hung over the side, they were so heavy that they crimped the stalk they were growing from, and I’ve lost quite a bit of strawberries because it just, basically breaks the stem. Any tips?
I have two green stalks full of 🍓.
If you let the runners continue to grow, they will form roots on the ends. Then you can clip it and plant it directly into another pocket or,
keep the runner connected to the mother plant and plant the rooted end in a nearby pocket. Once it's rooted in and growing well, you can then clip the stem off from the motherplant. 😊
Nice! I have strawberries growing on my towers too! My fiancée designed and put together this thing that continuously rotates my towers slowly throughout the day that's solar powered and I absolutely love it!
Berry cool! 👊🏻🌻👊🏻
That is a seriously awesome upgrade!
Many strawberries, including Seascape, are evergreen perennials in the ground here in zone 5, and I've had luck with them in containers some years provided they are in the shade so they don't thaw every day and freeze every night in the spring! I'm going to try moving my greenstalk to the shade of my privacy fence during the winter to protect it from the harsh winter sun and see if the Sparkle june-bearing runners I planted into it this spring survive this winter!
You can look up varieties that do well in your state and they will take into consideration how cold it gets. There's a website that takes the data from the local university extension information for the state. It's a good place to start.
I have my greenstalks on my patio so when it gets super cold, I bring them right next to the house to stay warm. My strawberries survived the -11F winter a couple years ago which was very much not characteristic of the area. They were the only thing that survived that year in the garden because I moved the containers next to the house. Even my kale died that year. It was that cold for almost a week.
Hi do you know what the website is called?
OMG I just got my bare root strawberry babies in the mail today! What a perfectly timed video
To anyone wanting to root runners, I find adding soil to the cardboard tray cases of wet cat food come in, and then using little pieces of floral wire like landscape staples to keep them in place works pretty well. Couple weeks to root, then you can move the box anywhere you would want to sheet mulch. Instant squarish foot of garden space. But don't leave them much longer or you will have to slide another box under.
or root the runner in a solo cup clipped to the edge
Thank you so much for this advice, I had this question!
"I don't know anyone who doesn't like them" Meanwhile my friend is deathly allergic 😂 although to be fair, that doesn't mean she doesn't like them, it just means she likes life more.
Haha, fair enough 😂😊
I heard growing the white variety helps with it! And they are sweeter imo💪
You said your friend is allergic to strawberries which is different from liking them.
But.... Does Kevin know her? 🤨🙃
@@kevinz8049 interesting. A friend allergic to red tomatoes is not allergic to the sweeter yellow varieties
I prefer everbearing. I eat them while gardening each morning. Love my tower.
I prefer them too for the kids. They get excited to find and eat the ripe ones. Can't get my picky one to eat berries or fruits from the store but if he picks it himself it goes straight into his mouth
none of my blueberries ever make it to the house cause they ripen early in the year when I'm doing the most gardening.
Same. I love having a couple while I water in the morning
That sounds amazing! Starting your day with fresh strawberries straight from the garden is the dream. Your tower must be a real treat every morning
I’m doing a GS tower that has 2 levels of June and 2 row Evies. I’ve Seascape! First time trying this year! Almost some ready!
I have them out in my front garden. They come back every year, all I do is much /compost in the fall and late winter. I don't bother with taking back any buds or runners- it's not that big a space, maybe two feet by eight feet, but I pull like a quart of strawberries a day during my harvest season.
After failing pineberry varieties, I landed on seascape too. This is by far my favorite.
I had really good luck with seascape when I lived in Northern California. One of my favorites too
I put irrigation main-line where the water comes out and run it something growing nearby. The nutrient rich water waters to another plant in the garden. ❤
You are washing the nutrients away from the Strawberries which defeats the purpose.
U do same thing in every container- wash away nutrients. At least hes giving whatever is going out w that watering to another plant along w water- Not wasting it.
I’d like to see a solar powered tower turner, something that does 1 spin an hour or so.
I was thinking about if it had wind blades to rotate it when he was talking about turning them.
I literally started drawing up exactly that idea lol
How to calculate blade size and wind needed per hour to turn it lol idk where do we start! @Avishadur
@@OrangeJuiceDripping I was referring to the solar idea in OP. Wind speed varies a lot but a solar panel, battery, and motor setup can make the job simple based on the same resource the plants are being moved to get
Excellent idea!!!
True facts about rolly pollys being fans of them. We had so much rain here early last month that their population exploded and they were snacking on anything and everything! I got two strawberry plants two years ago and let them make runners. It's kind of funny because the original strawberries were in a pot, and I decided to make a garden just for the strawberries so I set the pot in the middle and let the runners tumble over the sides and root around the pot. After a harsh winter, the pot strawberry died, but three of it's runners survived. I let those plants make runners the next year, so now I have plenty of strawberry plants that I'm letting grow (no runners allowed this year!) and they're all about making plenty of strawberries!
Took your advice from another video though and I'm snipping off some of the flowers so that it makes less strawberries, but the ones it does make are big and juicy!
My strawberries were frozen in a block of ice in their pot. When they thawed out they started growing again. I thought they would be dead for sure.
@@barbaramix1683 nah, they’re like mint. Hard to kill
That’s an awesome success story! It’s amazing how those runners have multiplied into a full garden. Smart move with snipping the flowers too-nothing beats big, juicy strawberries. Sounds like you’ve got a sweet harvest ahead!😍🤩😍
How do you prepare them for winter? I am in zone 7. Thank you for sharing your experience ❤
Kevin how many bags of the strawberry field did you use, and how much do you sell tower for. Thx Tim
I wasn't able to deal with the runners this season and clip them off before they started getting huge. I need to prune them and set them in some water to root (the ones with the root nodules showing) and then pot them up. Then plant them in some more greenstalks later in the season (in the fall so they can set before winter). As my son likes to say "INFINITE STRAWBERRIES!"
I had 20 out of 25 die. I did what you did here planting them. They were fine for at least a week before slowly, one by one, more of them started dying. I'm not sure if the post office holding them for over a week was the problem or not. A second shipment of a different variety that got to me faster later on is still doing ok. My ones grown from seed are doing really well.
One thing i would add is to soak your roots in water for 3 days to a week before planting. As far as seeds, start those in like February and expect a 50% success rate. The seed sprouts are so small that extra care is required as to letting the soil dry out, but not over watering them. I do think from seed (when possible as not all varieties can be grown from seed) gives the best chance of success when transplanting.
Kevin, I have Seascape strawberries in one of your vertical gardens, this was super helpful, thank you!
I had a voluntary strawberry I planted last year without any fruit but this season, it came back with lots of strawberries. We ate it when it's really red and omg the sweetness of that strawberries was so good.
So glad to see I did about the same thing for my first try at bare root strawberries (I was sure I was going to kill them all). They are green and getting a lot of new growth, and out of 20 plants only one died. Seeing I didn't do it completely wrong gives me some hope! Unfortunately everything outside my house is crawling with hundreds and hundreds of lanternfly nymphs, and they like to jump on you. So not sure how much attention the strawberries are going to get until we get the lanternflies under control.
Hoping you get some big boys!
My parents planted strawberries (I believe they’re wild strawberries? Much smaller than normal strawberries) a few years ago and they haven’t left our garden since! And even spread out farther than we’d anticipated due to their runners 😅😂 I might have to plant some in a container so they don’t run off again 😂😂
White flowers? Probably wild strawberries. I've replaced grass with patches of them. Let them run!
As someone who follows your playlists as a navigation to find the videos I need, I would love it if you could add this video to the strawberry playlist if you can! Great tips! Thank you!
Idk how to grow strawberries from bare root. 😭😭😭 I’ve tried for the last 2 years and they always die on me. I will keep trying with ur advice. I do have some that I got already started in my greenstalk. And they’re on their second year! Theyre definitely giving more this year. Very easy way to grow strawberries 🍓
I planted Seascapes in my vertical planter this year.
Mid Michigan 6a. When winter comes can I leave this outside? I got one of your vego beds two yrs ago and have strawberries in them now and doing good
I left my strawberries in my tower and they died I’m also in zone 6 a. Maybe you’ll have better luck ? 💐💚🙃
I have four GreenStalks with strawberries, two June-bearing (Earliglo) and two Everbearing (Tribute). One suggestion for watering after first planting: water the individual pockets as well as using the top watering. Plant roots may take a bit of time to reach the soil moistened by central watering.
I grew strawberries, from seed, in grow bags and buckets, this spring, with seeds from Botanical Interests.
Nice! Impressed. I haven't grown out from seed yet, even with our own seed! - Kevin
I grew strawberrys from seed from home bargains, last year. The strawberries were tiny, like wild ones. They over wintered in the greenhouse and are looking normal sized this year. So I'm thinking they take a year to mature.🤔
I grew them from seeds for my hydroponics. I love the fact they have no runners. And no bugs and birds.
Where do you keep the buckets? Don't they heat up and dry out fast if the summer sun shines on them?
I have 5 plants from seed but no berries yet.
Would love to see you do a video on the runners and start new roots for the next season. I just don't picture how to do that. Thanks
Ever think of growing Royal Sovereign strawberries??
What is the average harvest in pounds per plant while using a GreenStalk 7, when selecting the Seascape variety? I'm in Zone 7b, SE Missouri.
The green stalk looks so perfect for saving space. Gotta try one out. I used 9 3g pot for my strawberries this year 😂.
I bought one and hope to get mine going this weekend. A bicep injury slowed me down from doing it sooner.
@@PorchGardeningWithPassion nice! Hope it works out for you and wish you a speedy recovery from the bicep injury
Ahhhhh I needed this like a month or two ago! I planted seeds. OMG They take forever to germinate, forever! The I bought some of the bare roots and nothing happened with that. Of course I didn't know what I was doing with them! The directions really didn't tell me any of this! Thank you! Now I know!
What type of herbs or companion plants would grow well in a Greenstalk planter to help prevent pests on strawberries?
Thanks for a great video, btw!!
It depends on the type of pests? We get Japanese beetles on ours and it looks like they only like the top tier of the Greenstalk. I'm going to try and rearrange the towers so that they have something other than strawberries growing on top and see if that minimizes the beetles. I saw a baby praying mantis on one of our strawberries. Hopefully it helps with the pests.
How many years can you keep a strawberry plant..I’ve had mine for four years and it still produces. I also get new ones from runners every year but wondering about the mother plant and how long to keep it. They’re in pots by the way
Strawberries is one of my favorite to grow. I have Everbearing strawberries. I live in Zone 3 and they come back after every winter. I tried growing a bunch in a vertical planter last season, but they all died in winter. Thankfully the ones in the ground are still fine. Beware the squirrels. I had to build a cage to keep them from eating my berries.
I plan to do this next spring but I'm also buying the Greenstalk insect netting bag to (hopefully) protect the fruit from my ravenous squirrels. 🤨💚
That's what I have, too, to protect them from the varmints.
We've got that on the store now!
Hey man. I'm in town for the girls flag football tournament. I have time for a tour! My Vegas garden beds are Producing thanks to you all!
How much direct sunlight do the strawberries need? I’m in 10B like you, but I’m a few blocks from a SoCal beach and we are still socked in with June Gloom. I’m lucky to get 3 hours of weak sunlight per day.
EDIT: the high today is 69 degrees and is not expected to change for the next several weeks still.
You could probably look up partial shade varieties online that could do well in your type of climate.
They honestly don't need full sun conditions to produce fruit. I have some planted below my grape arbor, filtered sun throughout the day and they do just fine. Live in the same area.
Can you make a video about filling raised beds again I made a 6 foot by 4 foot garden bed and now realize i have to buy a cubic yard of soil.
You can't go wrong with growing strawberries! Literally the best fruit! 😍🙌🍓
Hello. Your yt channel is awesome!
They are annuals here in TX! There is no 'next season' but I do like the idea of the sea scape variety and will try those next spring in my GS.
I'm your neighbor in Louisiana. I fully agree with this in Louisiana too.
Phoenix has annual strawberries as well.
Is that because of the heat?
@@veryberry39 yes
I have strawberries that came back from last year. Zone 8b in Texas. It probably depends on variety.
I did my first tower this year and I have to warn you not to go too high because it did fall over. I then rebuilt it and put it on a work table and it's been great. To control birds getting access I used netting built in a box shape over the table anchored on tall plant stakes. The stakes were zip tied to raised beds on each side of the table.
It has to b LEVEL b4 u fill it n start stacking them.
@@lyndelgado6138 It was. We just had strong winds and I used some 6' plant stakes that weren't strong enough to support the weight as it tipped. It would have worked out if I had used something a bit more sturdy to secure it , rebar perhaps.😂
I have strawberries planted in seeds ang I got it by saving the seeds when we went to osaka on a strawberry farm and I was able to grow bear fruits ang I got lots of runners and planted it, I almost have less than a hundred strawberries in my garden Japanese strawberries are so soft and sweet, I want to know where you got those planters that you can roll, i got st amazon 7 tier but wont roll out just steady. Thank you
I planted seascape strawberries in my tower and they didn’t make it through the winter 🥺 I do live in zone 6a but I was lead to believe they would be fine in my tower 🥺thankfully some runners made it to a container I had sitting next to the tower and I still have three plants left so hopefully I can’t build my strawberry crop off of them. I do think in colder climates planting them in a tower might not be a good idea, just my thoughts. 💐💚🙃
I also live in 6a and put my tower close to a wall that gets southern exposure. In the winter the sun heats up the wall and it radiates heat at night.
@@canhope1821 very good idea! Thank you ! 💐💚🙃
Hey Kevin! I was really excited to grow strawbs this year and bought about 40 bare roots from my local big box store. Unfortunately 100% of them died even though I was very careful to plant them carefully following your advice! 1. Do you guys carry bare roots or have a store your recommend for bare root strawberries and 2. Is it too late to try starting again with an ever bearing variety or would it be best to just wait till next year to try again? Thanks!
I planted all my bareroot seascapes in my green stalk and not one came up. So weird, watched your videos on how to. I never have any luck. maybe I should stop buying them from Etsy lol. 😂
Very cool definitely trying this! Are there other things that grow well in these towers?
I’ve done lettuce, flowers, herbs and strawberries successfully
@@canhope1821 wow thank you!
thats funny i just subbed this month and have been binge watching all your videos and i just planted 20 ozark strawberries in a tower here in inland empire haha
Been waiting on this video!!!! Thanks! Do you use any fertilizer through out the season and what is it if you do?
How are you keeping your planter from blowing over?
Absolutely amazing👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹😮😮😮❤❤❤
Started my bare roots inside started transitioning them outside for 5 days. Decided they look great and healthy enough to go in their permanent spot with full sun and day later they were all dead and I can’t get them to come back unfortunately. Live and learn wish I watched this first haha
Yummy. How do we store the bare roots if we propagate?
?my soil has sunken way down in my greenstalk. My strawberries are growing and have flowers and fruit on them. Can I pull them out to add more soil and Not loose all the fruit/flowers? Zone 9 so getting hot also. Thanks!!! Great video
Where do you buy that tier planter that is rolling and how much. Thank you
Would those grow towers work in a cold climate, or would the strawberry plants get to cold and die?
Fun stuff! I can’t wait to see what my new Greenstalk does for me this summer 👊🏻🌻👊🏻
Hey, really important: don't use dyed red nectar in your hummingbird feeders! it hasn't been fully researched, but anecdotal evidence suggests it can lead to health issues in hummingbirds, even if the dye is safe for humans. Just make your own with water and sugar, it's safer for the birds and way cheaper. It won't impact how attracted they are to your feeder, either.
It's not that safe for humans either. Red 40 is tied with Crohn's disease, migraines, and other issues
Thanks big Kev! We appreciate you
Hi, Can you do one on using seedlings?
I love having my strawberry plants in the GreenStalk, but this year every single strawberry was pecked by birds or something (and they didn't eat the whole berry)! Is there some way to protect the berries??
I saw a video saying that birds might take a bite, just a bit without eating the whole, if they're thirsty, so setting up a bird bath where they can drink can help with that.
Yes, Greenstalk sells an insect net just for the towers. I use mint to protect from deer, insects, and birds. Money well spent.
If you move a strawberry grow bag into greenhouse over the winter, can you expect to grow next season outside? I live in zone 6
I'm looking at this tower and anticipating that it would definitely fall over as soon as strong winds hit. It would have to be STRONGLY tethered to some large stakes, and with the compartmental design I'm not even sure how I would do it.
What brand of plant caddy is under your tower? And why don’t you have it on your store?
Great content, Eric🎉 How do you over-winter them in zone 6A?
Can I let the runners go and will they produce strawberries if they root, Or can I cut the runners and plant them as new plants??
Since you guys are the go-to for great products, can you guys come up with a painted metal vertical stack? Plastic is a joke here in AZ, the sun eats plastic for lunch.
You could probably set up some shade cloth to help with that or just make sure to have the towers in an area where they get afternoon shade.
Also, I live in E TN where we get a lot of sun during the summer months (95+ feels like 105 due to humidity) and the planters have lasted with that kind of beating even in afternoon sun.
Working on it actually!
Nice!
Won't a metal stack in Arizona be Worse in the heat?
When will the planter mover base be back in stock?
I have two of these planters sitting around, what are y'all planting with the strawberries? I don't want just strawberries
after two winters of multiple nights at-20f and losing all my strawberry plants i ordered a GreenStalk late spring. Collected the correct amount of high speed container soil and then went to buy some starts......guess what? every store was sold out! i managed to buy 4 sickly plants from Wal Mart, i am sure no one else wanted them. I ordered some bare root from online but it was already the second week of May......for now i have some lettuce radish and onions taking up the space till i can get more strawberry plants to get an early start on next year........
Wish green stalk were available in Uk at a reasonable price.
Agreed!
I went with Ozark Beauty. The runners are at the point where I’m beginning people to take them. I may end up getting another greenstalk just for the runners. I did have some bare roots die but thankfully I have all of those runners to replace them.
Do you keep all the leaves, or prune off leaves after they reach say 5 or 6 leaves per plant?
I’m re-thinking using ANYTHING plastic especially recycled plastic products. I’m on board with Regenerative Gardening with Blossom and Branch RUclipsr in Colorado.
She’s really given me good insights, research data and long-term ideas on what I use to grow my organic food. Very inspiring! 🍓🍓
That's great! You do you
Agreed, especially after the article I read about a possible connection between microplastics and blood clots. I can't get away from plastic too much though because I live in an apartment. Need pots.
@@oxigen85 Grow bags!
@@NicolaiAAA grow bags are made of plastic.
You can grow them vertically on a wall using wooden troughs. The RUclips channel "The Ripe Tomato Farms" has some of his strawberries that way.
We have 2 of the 30 pocket green stalks with strawberries. I need to build wire cages around them. Squirrels, chipmunks maybe raccoons get them all!
Where do you buy your bare root plants from
Love for Tuck! ❤ thanks for covering this! I live in Houston and starting my first garden... protection from the extreme heat is definitely something I'm interested in on top of protection from the pests!
what about holes/drainage for this planter? and can I plant this indoor in the winter. I mistakenly bought strawberry crowns in November and it's too late to plant, its refrigerated but I'm worry that they will die by Spring. Zone 4b
Where can we buy day neutral bare root plants, in San Diego?
Where can I get bareroot strawberries??
You can do it online. I personally like stark bros.
Have you looked at Johnny's?
Urban Farmer is a good place to order from as well.
@@kevinz8049 Thank you!!
@@jklin2987 Thank you!!
;Great video 👍👍🥰
How do you secure a Greenstalk in an area that has frequent/chronic winds? Open to suggestions.
Thanks
Best way we've seen is to prop against a wall in the path of wind, so it'll tip into that wall. You can also shim
Rather than stacking all of them together into one, I'll just stack 2-3 and make a couple of smaller towers instead of one tall one. I get a lot of wind, too, and worry about the whole thing going over in the wind.
You can drill some holes in the side of some pots and run some twine or something through the holes and stake them down. You’d probably have to do three sides if you done it that way. If you’re going straight into the ground you can row them then make a trellis and attach them to stakes at the end of the row and the start. Then make sure the strawberries grow up between them
I get really crazy winds in TN and I have them only 4 tall for the originals and 5-6 tall for the leaf. The soil keeps them from falling over. Just make sure they are well watered and don't dry out.
I forgot to mention my Greenstalks all are on my cement driveway so I don't have a way to try to stake to the ground. That's why I break mine down into shorter segments, trying to keep everything upright. Today, for example, we have winds gusting to 45 mph. I just checked and none have blown over. Others have asked about the insect net covers. I have them on mine and the covers haven't flown off, either. Fingers crossed!!!
If you're old enough and living in my country, eating a strawberry before cutting or checking it for needles is pretty wild 😜
I got a tower with all salad essentials.
I wish I could get this tower wher I live 😑
i love your videos!!!!
The only strawberry plants available locally are the everbearing varieties, and most places only have one variety to choose from. It varies from year to year.
How often do you water
I tried growing strawberries in DIY PVC towers and they do produce but once 30 C degree weather comes they all get stressed out, dry out very fast even if I water them constantly daily. I have a few towers in a more shady area and they seem to do better than the ones fully exposed to the sun. The sun just cooks them completely once summer arrives.
I also have another issue... the ants and aphids moved into the towers in spring and started feeding on my strawberry plants.
It is quite hard to grow vertically in small pipes and the location matters a lot, not all places are viable.
Lol Kevin...the visuals becoming one with the bare root...ha ha ha
Yes, everything likes to eat 🍓
I lost my first round to deer 🦌 that i didn't realize could get in and would! And then to bugs 🐛... hopefully third time is the charm! 🙏
I live in a windy area (corpus christi, tx), how would one of these towers hold up? I'm assuming there is some weight because of the stacked soil, but if I get one, I may only have about 3-4 levels for stability.
Where is a good place to buy bareroot strawberries?
I saw this variety is heat sensitive. The day time temperature range is 65-75 degrees. Do you find this to be true?
Even fabric grow bags are made from plastic fabric. Gardeners Supply ones too. Time to go hemp or burlap.
Albion and chandeler are all I know how to Grow 🍓
I have Hood, Albion, and Tri-star strawberries. I love the pink blooms on the Albion. I like having June-bearing and Ever-bearing. We get to eat them longer that way.
So, I need help. I planted mine just like Kevin did sort of close to the edge of the pocket and did not bury the crown at all. So when my strawberries hung over the side, they were so heavy that they crimped the stalk they were growing from, and I’ve lost quite a bit of strawberries because it just, basically breaks the stem. Any tips?
Can you please explain “resetting for frost”
what do you mean by reset them if it frosts?
excellent vid