[Swing Swang]

Hello All,

The polytunnel is going up and the crop bars are strong enough to support hanging staging. I intend to grow strawberries in bags - obviously, these will need to have the correct balance of nutrients, but light enough not to put too much strain on the structure. Will probably re-plant/replace each year. Specialist bags bases on coir seem to be available but only from specialist sites in commercial quantities, and I'm only going to need a maximum of about 16 bags and about 160 plants.

Any recommendations/advice?

Philip

[Swing Swang]

Polytunnel in construction

[Dantheman]

May be have a look at Growing Strawberries in Hydroponics tubes you would only need a tank to store water/nutrients and a pump that with a small solar panel.

[jezza]

Hello a method we used in the 1990s was to use aluminium ladders suspended from green house bars it could be adapted for a poly tunnel go on to a commercial horticulture suppliers and look at there strawberry growing bags then put them on the ladders a drip feed system is also a good idea,to replace the strawberry plants take trailing shoots and plant in 3 inch pots leave attached to parent plant till rooted then cut off and over winter for next year  jezza