Vertical strawberries?

[sweetpea]

Maybe I just need a pep talk, but I would like to know who has actually tried strawberries in those vertical garden arrangements, or those stacked, ever-shrinking pyramids? I have real struggles with every conceivable critter who eats strawberries, plus I'm tall, and it's hard to be dealing with something that low to the ground, so I'm thinking of saving space, saving my back, saving my sanity planting them in this way. I know they should be in guilds, and that would spread them out farther....I'm just not sure what to put the effort into without feeling like I am probably wasting my time trying something that experimental.

Thanks.

[sweetpea]

Ohhhh, I just thought...I have to redo my mandala anyway, and maybe I should make the stacked pyramid mandala? Or would that put them all too close together? The mandala has a circumference of 30 meters, about 10 meters across.

[Grasshopper]

I have
If I was to change it, it would be a bigger pipe maybe 100MM
Bigger holes further apart.
I have started some in pots a few days ago to keep the runners and then I will go back to vertical.
I had difficulty trying to start runners from the vertical so i had to keep buying strawberry plants.
Not cost effective.

[eco4560]

What about a strawberry spiral like a herb spiral - would that get them high enough to keep the critters away? I grow mine as a ground cover and it has performed effectively i.e. there are now hundreds of strawberry plants in my garden. So if they don't yield much per plant it doesn't worry me. There's always some that the critters missed.

[sweetpea]

The pipe looks very nice. Interesting about the runners. I was looking for that size pipe to make a cheese press, and it's not readily available around here....

Eco, I do need to grow the strawberries to sell, so protecting the fruit is important, and I'll have to have beer/yeast bowls everywhere, get the voles drunk if nothing else!!

[Grasshopper]

Monster big pipe stuck in the ground would be good
You need to find a nice plumber who does commercial work and get 400 or 500 mm pipe or just get a whole lot of 20litre buckets and stack them
Do voles only burrow, if so wire mesh at the bottom, if not they will still get to them

You need a carpet python
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You got me thinking ....... Im up-sizing the next one to 300 to 500 mm have a friendly plumber friend who might be able to help with the pipe too.
I will also use them as ground cover too

You can never have too many strawbs, raspberries or blueberries