strawberries

I just ask myself, with the cost of the growbags/compost every year, and twice weekly liquid feeding - is it really worth it?
Depends how much you like strawberries I suppose 

well Tony  i think we both on the same track and yes cost does play the most important part of any new project i was fortunate to get hold of some second hand timber for building a wooden frame as for something to hold the grow bags on the frame I'm not going over the top with buying

so i was thinking pipes a farmer friend of ours got hold of some large second hand round plastic pipes  about a foot round but not sewer pipes he cut these in half and uses them for sheep feeding troughs i believe he got them on line at the rite price they would be just the job for what we want to hold the grow bags on the frame perhaps it mite be worth looking at a builders re-claim yard or the council re-cycle centre?

its like everything you just need to keep looking anything like that would do but i wouldn't recommend a second hand sewer pipe for obvious reasons any large plastic pipe would do the job cut in half drill a few holes in it to hold the grow bags and bingo your cracked it that's what I'm going for Tony

sounds like a good idea offwego using the pipe system i to have been looking at new ways of growing strawberries on a raised bench and if you have read my topic i was thinking about using pipes

but having costed buying the pipes i need  it seems a little costly so i could end up with a bench to carry grow bags without the pipe and i don't know if you seen Gardeners world last Friday night there was a gentleman on there growing strawberries in pots and they really did look good the pots where placed on a shelf's and didn't take up much space either so I'm going to have a look into growing strawberries in pots to which mite be the best option and cost effective don't know?

sounds like you've got it sorted offwego I'm still undecided what to go with but i have to say the pot system seems to be what we mite go with because the wife's  in favour of the pot system because we have loads of pots going spare i said to myself who's the boss in our garden so it looks like its going to be pots say no more 

No problem, I used MEDIUM GORILLA TUBS@26L

In true allotment style you use what you acquire 🤣🤣

And yes filled with multi purpose compost, the local farm shop was selling some  called “happy multi purpose compost” it seemed to have a lot of horse muck in it to me but the strawbs won’t mind