strawberry tower

hello everyone.

The other week the girlfriend gave me a little tercotta pot for planting strawberrys in can hold 7 strawberry plants in all, this takes up a lot less space than the ones i have growing on a bed of straw.

now this got me thinking as not a single strawberry has managed to make it off the plot yet, and if i am ever going to make that strawberry jam i am going to need a lot more strawberrys with out taking up to much space.

so i thought the pot from the girlfriend was rather a good idea, and then wondered how high i could stack serveral on top of one another. then ruled this out when i found out they cost £10 each.

whildt bumbling round on the plot i was watching the buliders on the other side of the fence ( i am hoping to be ably to scrounge the glass windows they are taking out ) and one of them whilst carry some timber beams tore down the drain pipe, and i had an eureka moment.

If i take a drain pipe say 3m long turn it on its end burry about 50cm into the ground and drill holes into the side of it i could plant the strawberrys into that. now a friend pointed out that watering would be difficult so figured a length of hose pipe down the middle of the pipe with lots of drip holes in it would allow to be resonable evenly waterd.

what do you guys think will it work??

I had an idea a few weeks ago that might help. I haven't tried it yet so it might be unworkable, but it was to use guttering on multiple levels up a sunny wall and plant the strawbs in them so they hang over the edge.

actually thinking about it i could build a free standing shelf system with the guttering that way i would have a wall of strawberrys not just a tower hmm or better yet i could place a strawberry drain pipe tower at either end with the guttering running between them, then i shoulod have loads of strawberrys, now that does sound like a plan.