Archive for June, 2009

Growing Strawberries Upside Down is easy with the strawberry bag planter.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

It can be easy to grow strawberries, no matter where you live and what climate zone. Even if it’s in an apartment or condo and you don’t have a big yard to plant your garden in. Using the upside down strawberry planter is a great way to grow rich, succulent berries year round even if you don’t have a lot of space available. It can turn unused sections of your deck, patio, or even bedroom into a super place to grow strawberries. All this without the fuss or mess that a regular garden.

When an upside down strawberry planter or strawberry bag is used it can help to increase the yield you are accustomed to seeing from your regular strawberry gardens. Because of the way in which the roots will grow together, and the plants will hang down causing less stress, the growth will be much more than regular plants out in the garden. Not to mention the fact that you won’t have worry about harmful pesticides or other agents you add to your regular garden. Nobody wants that on food they will be eating, and now you won’t have to worry about it.

When you grow your strawberry plants upside down, it will help promote rapid and healthy growth of the plants, with no worries about weeding. When the plants are using less energy to fight the forces of gravity, they are using that reserve energy to grow larger, fuller plants. This means you’ll see larger, plumper strawberries, and even juicier than you’re used to.
The strawberries will become much juicier because of all the extra energy the plant is putting towards growing, instead of keeping its weight up to combat gravity. This creates a win-win situation for you, and for the plants. The strawberry plants will have an easier life-time and longer lifespan while you get to enjoy sweet juicy strawberries all year round.

The upside down strawberry planter should be used with lots of strawberry plants. No more sewing only one seed, with this planter you can put two seeds in every seed port, which creates a much better opportunity for the plants to grow, and take root inside the upside down strawberry bag. This gives you full control over how and where you water, and how much sun the plants get as well as the oxygen in the air will be absorbed by the plant much better because of the added airflow around all the stems and leaves. All of this creates much fuller and bountiful strawberry plants.

The upside down strawberry bag lets you grow strawberries in places you never imagined, with fuller growth, and many more berries with each crop. This translates too much less money spent at the supermarket, and you’ll be well stocked with strawberries year-round. Making jam, or strawberry tarts will never be as fun as it will be when you’re using your own strawberries, from your own plants that you grew right inside your house with no back-breaking garden labor required.

Even in the cold Canadian North, Upside Down Strawberries still prevail!

Friday, June 5th, 2009

We have a friend that has a cottage up in Northern Quebec, in Canada. She’s been using various methods to grow strawberry plants and tomato plants indoors since she has short summers and has only limited growing time available to her. Last year we told her about the upside down tomato planters that are available and she loved those for her tomato plants. Then later last year we were having a phone conversation and I brought up the new strawberry bag again and how growing upside down strawberries are the new thing to do, especially when there’s in climate weather.

At first she was a little skeptical as to how they would work and if they really could support so many plants, and produce as good of a yield that she was already used to from her tomato planters. We told her we thought that she’d be pleasantly surprised, and that they would work just as good if not better than the tomato planters she was already familiar with. After a little more time spent chatting, she decided to have us order her an upside down strawberry bag. We easily ordered her a bag over the Internet and then shipped it up to her the following day when it arrived.

It’s been a few months now and we spoke to her about the strawberries. The other day we got a call from her though. Goodness was she ever pleased that we had let her know about these wonderful upside down strawberry bags. She went on to explain how they haven’t been having a very great summer this year, and it’s even snowed twice last May, and has already hailed once in June. She carried on explaining how with all this horrible weather and lots of rain she’s still able to have bright leaved plants inside the house, with some strawberries already sprouting on some of them.

All this while she doesn’t even have to go outside and bear the forces of nature, or brave it out to the garden lugging all her tools and watering cans and all the stuff necessary for a proper garden. With the Strawberry bag she can simply have a couple hanging gardens inside, watering as required with a year round yield of delicious strawberries. She was even commenting on how she doesn’t have to use pesticides or setup traps for all the lingering raccoons and foxes that like to come down from the forest and nibble on her berries from time to time.

She has asked us to order her 3 more bags so she can start up another garden, and give two of them to some of her Canadian friends that she thinks will enjoy having the ability to grow upside down strawberries in their cottages year round. At the end of the conversation she even made reference to her earlier skepticism about the upside down strawberry bag, and called herself a dummy for not jumping on the chance when she first could of.

We’ve been hearing nothing but stories like this one submitted to our comments and through friends that have also used the hanging upside down strawberry garden. Whether it’s the weather, saving time or just ease of use, we’ve not heard a single complaint about them yet. What a wonderful way to go about growing large yields of strawberries. Even in Canada.