We just finished Melanie's Strawberry Barrel. It's our last strawberry barrel for the season. Below are pictures of her barrel & what ours looks like, now that it's filled with plants.
We use a grinding disk to cut a slit in the barrel. Heat the area around the slit with a heat gun until we can push a wine bottle in and make a plant pocket.
We leave the wine bottle in the pockets until they cool. Then we remove the bottle.
We drill holes in 4" pipe (more holes at the top, and very few holes at the bottom) so we can water from the center of the planter, as well as water directly into the pockets. We can fertilize the plants from the center, too.
Our planter, now that the plants have been growing a couple of months. We've harvested lots of strawberries!
Herb garden. Rosemary, parsley, sage, chives, basil, mint, etc. would grow well in Melanie's barrel, too.
Our veggie garden...
Strawberry barrel....
We let the broccoli go to seed (bolt) to attract the bees. George wasn't sure what I was doing, until he saw the bees hovering all around the broccoli. We usually grow borage & horehound plants, but they didn't come up this year. I'll plant some next spring - just to make sure we have them in the garden. They are bee magnets!
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