Growing Upside Down Strawberries

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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.