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Corrugated Iron Raised Garden Bed - Update - Strawberries!
by
Carole
(IC: homeowner)
A couple of months ago I posted on Hometalk that we had built a raised garden bed out of scrap corrugate iron and some purchased timber. There was not much to see growing in the bed on that post, but since then we have planted strawberry runner and the plants have grown and are producing fruit. Thought you might like to see the results.
Sadly the wellingtons boots have neither grown in size nor have they produced any fruit. I wonder why? Bwah ha ha ha ha! I also changed the little plastic pots that were helping to hold the netting up (stuck atop bamboo sticks) to beer bottles as in high winds the plastic pots kept getting blown off.
The bottles are much better at staying put and another great recycling use for beer bottles too.
I also have a rhubarb plant in this bed which is under some black shade cloth as it does not do well in full on fierce sunshine. Tends to wither up.
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Published November 21st, 2014 9:12 PM
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Douglas Hunt on Nov 22, 2014Yum! It will be strawberry season here in a couple of months, one of the good things about Florida winters.
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