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Buy a Strawberry Planter

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When it comes to strawberry planters, there are thousands of choices. We’ve reviewed all of our favorites to help you narrow it down to just three styles that will help you produce the best berry crop possible.

While you can certainly plant strawberries in any type of container, but strawberry planters can have some advantages over other types – namely, space saving features! So we decided to list some examples of these as well as share our tips in making sure you get the best one.

Our First Pick: The Mayan Planter

We love this planter because it has a unique look that many planters do not offer. It is also a very affordable option and gives you plenty of options in choosing how to plant your strawberries. There are many different ways to plant your strawberries in this container, and it will give you plenty of space. With several of these planters, you could likely yield a nice amount of strawberries!  From Amazon, Click Here to Read Reviews

 

Garden Stackers Planter

While these are not meant specifically for strawberries, we think they perform pretty well for growing strawberries in containers. These stacking flower pots are perfect for growing strawberries indoors or out and don’t take up too much space. They’re cheap, and they’re sturdy once filled with dirt. Available From Amazon

 

Smith & Hawkens Grow Pot

This grow pot is another good option for small and confined spaces. This is a traditional style of growing pot for strawberries which offers pockets where you can plant your berries to give you a nice indoor or outdoor option. It also has a nice decorative appeal as well. Click Here to Read Reviews at Amazon

Tips to Consider When Buying a Strawberry Planter:

Before you pick the right one for you however, it’s important to consider some different things to help make sure it’s going to live up to your expectations.

Watering: Strawberries need watered quite often. With most planters you can do a few things to help water your plants evenly, as outlined in our tips on How to Grow Strawberries in Strawberry Pots. Soil should always be moist, but be careful not to over water – strawberries do not like that either!

Number of Plants: With strawberry planters, they typically will work well but not yield as much as if you were to plant them in the ground. This is because in the ground you will want to keep them at least 12 inches apart for maximum productivity, but in planters they do not get that much space.

Choose the Right Berries: Since strawberries are self reproducing, they will usually grow tendrils and start to spread. When growing them in pots, it is best to choose a variety such as Alpine Strawberry seeds or another that does not grow roots as rapidly. Their root systems are shallow, but they do spread to create new plants, and so that’s another thing to consider when planting in a pot or another container.

Now that you have some ideas on where and what kind of strawberry pots to buy, we hope once you plant them you’ll send a picture to us so we can show it off in our upcoming gallery coming soon!

How to Build a Strawberry Bed: Strawberry Planter Plans

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If you’re looking to learn how to build a strawberry planter, there is some very good news for you: it is really easy to do! You do not need to do a lot of work or worry about measuring or anything else – you can have a beautiful strawberry garden in no time at all!

Anyone with limited garden space will appreciate an easy to build and easy to use planter, since strawberries are self reproducing and can tend to spread out and grow – yes, they can take over your whole garden if you don’t take some precautions! (Thankfully, there are no attack of the killer strawberries movies out there!)

By building a raised bed, you can control exactly where the strawberries grow, and you can also make sure the you use the perfect soil for strawberries as well, since they can be pretty particular about what they like!

Plants need to be planted about 12 inches apart, so the larger the bed the more plants you can fit into it. We like a 4′ x 8′ size, as it allows you to grow about 24-30 plants quite easily, ensuring you a nice large crop of strawberries!

Here are the materials you will need:

(3) 2x6x8 boards
8 nails or screws
A hammer or a screw driver
A saw
Potting Mix
Strawberry Plants
Straw

And here is a quick sketch of what we’ll be creating:

Step 1: Cut one of the boards in half. We’re using two of the boards for the length of the bed, and we’ll cut the other board in half to make up the sides of the width of the bed. Since boards aren’t always uniform in size and shape (even though, yes, we know technically they should be!) the best thing to do is measure from both sides about 4 feet and see if they are in the same place. If they are, great! If not, pick somewhere in the middle to give you nice even sized boards.

Step 2: Choose a Place for Your Bed: You are going to want to build your bed wherever you plan on keeping it, since it is going to get pretty heavy and difficult to move on your own once it is together. Strawberries LOVE sunlight, so make sure wherever you choose to place it that it will get at least 6 hours of sunlight in that spot each and everyday.

Step 3: Lay out the framework. You are going to place the longer 8′ boards about 4 feet apart from each other so they are running parallel and then the 4′ boards on each side to make a box.

Step 4: Nail the boards together. Nailing is pretty simple, you could instead use a power screwdriver and screws if you’d rather go that route. Both ways work, so do whatever is the most comfortable and convenient for you. Some beds can hold up just fine without this step, but it is really up to you to decide. Nails and/or screws will help it stay sturdier and last well over the years.

Step 5: Fill with dirt. Strawberries like a mix of potting soil, sand, and peat moss, see Strawberry Potting Soil to learn about which types of dirt are the best.

Step 6: Plant the Berries: It wouldn’t be called a strawberry planter if you didn’t plant strawberries in it, now would it? To plant the plants, just place them about 12 inches apart from each other, and make sure the dirt covers all of the roots.

Step 7: Fertilize and Water. Once your plants are all in their rightful places, you’re ready to fertilize and water them. You should only fertilize your crops once when transplanting and then again only after they bear fruit – fertilizing them too much not only wastes money, but risks the possibility of damaging the plants as well.

Step 8: Cover with straw: Straw will help protect your plants from the soil getting too hot, it will also help reduce the likelihood of ground insects and mold as well. This is especially important to do when planting the strawberries in the fall.

Step 9: Take Care of Your Plants: Now that the hard part is over, you’re ready to just take some basic every day care tips. If it is fall, not much to do until spring. If it is spring or summer or if your plants have flowers or fruit on them already, pinch it off so that the plant can put its energy into growing roots. See more on this in our Strawberry Care FAQ.

Now that you know how to build a strawberry bed, you’ll be sure to enjoy your strawberry plants all through the season. Do you have any strawberry planter plans you would like to share? Tell us about yours in the comments section below.