If you live in a multi-storey building, and you have a balcony, as well as a little extra time and a desire to use the space to good use, use a simple and simple device for growing strawberries. Harvest will not make you wait long and will soon please you.
In order to create do it yourself device for growing strawberries watch this video:
For our device you will need:
- Sewer pipe with a diameter of 110 mm (for internal works), 2 meters long;
- A cap for a pipe with a diameter of 110 mm;
- Roulette;
- Pencil or pen;
- Metal ruler;
- Jigsaw or hacksaw;
- The hair dryer is construction;
- Glass jar 0.5 l;
- Soil;
- Strawberry seedlings;
Detailed description.
1. We take a pre-prepared pipe. Using a tape measure and a pencil, measure and draw marks every 15 centimeters.
2. We put the markings along the entire length of the pipe.
3. Using a bendable ruler, draw lines along the pipe along the marks.
4. Hacksaw saws according to the marked lines of the hole to half the diameter of the pipe, alternating the right and left sides.
5. We connect the construction hair dryer to work. With it, we heat the pipe in the cut-out places until the PVC becomes soft.
6. Next, using a glass jar, we press a soft spot into the pipe into the inner part, this way we get a cell.
7. We create cells along the entire length of the pipe on both sides.
8. Now you can begin to fill the soil into each "pocket" with the subsequent planting of strawberry tubers, after putting the plug on the bottom of the pipe.
9. Then the pipe needs to be fixed in the designated place from the lower and upper parts.
It remains to wait for the harvest!