Ok, my plan is to get four pallets, screw them together in an open box shape, fill the inside with suitable growing medium and plant Strawberry plants in the gaps in the pallets. What do you think? a good idea? What similar methods do people use? I'm just trying to keep them off the ground in case we get another wet summer. :-\ :-\ :-\
why not use straw to keep them off the ground - they ain't called strawberries for nothing ;)
Hi Pjb
The only problem I can see would be watering, I would get a piece of drain pipe, block one end (otherwise the water would just go to the soil at the bottom), drill holes in it and place it in the centre to water through.
I grew mine this year raised off the ground on three two-tier bits of greenhouse staging from the tip (inspired by a picture I saw in a very expensive catalogue). I stood them side-by-side, and put a deep, good quality grow bag on each, and fed and watered them through pre-placed water bottles. Earlies went in one, then mids, then late. (I kept the perpetuals at home in a posh planter thing.) I covered them with netting when in flower. A couple of slugs found their way up, but otherwise, they were pest and disease free and my neighbours kept going on about it being the biggest crop they had ever seen. And I didn't break my back picking them! I will definitely do it again - cheap and no draw-backs that I could discover!