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Strawberry Pots Aren’t Just for the Fruit. Its ‘Windows’ Make for Striking, Efficient Displays
The fenestrated pots can also hold herbs, succulents and trailing flowers, and gardeners can bring them indoors for winter care.
- Strawberry pots feature side pockets designed to keep fruit off the ground, preventing rot while maximizing growing space for small areas.
- Typically crafted from terracotta, these tall, urn-shaped vessels feature planting windows that accommodate strawberries, herbs, succulents, and trailing flowers for diverse displays.
- Colorful options include trailing geraniums and petunias, while Cordyline 'Festival', a dramatic grass, anchors larger planters. Succulents like 'Gold Nugget' and 'Cobweb' create striking eye-catching displays.
- Ensuring water reaches roots in every pocket presents a challenge. Insert a PVC pipe with holes drilled 2 inches apart vertically through the center to water and fertilize efficiently.
- In colder areas, the entire pot should be brought indoors during winter to protect clay from cracking. Gardening columnist Jessica Damiano advises ensuring ample sunlight and avoiding overwatering.
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Strawberry pots aren’t just for the fruit. Its ‘windows’ make for striking, efficient displays
You’ve seen them — those odd planters that look like buildings with windows and balconies on their sides. Maybe you’ve planted strawberries in them. Or maybe you’ve just never understood them. Typically made of terracotta, the pots are usually tall and urn-shaped, but shorter, wider options are also available. They are, in fact, strawberry pots, and those windows are intended to hold soil and strawberries, keeping them off the ground as they gro…
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Strawberry pots aren't just for the fruit. Its 'windows' make for striking, efficient displays
Strawberry pots, those odd planters with windows and balconies, are more versatile than they seem. Originally designed to keep strawberries off the ground, they also make for lovely and efficient displays of other plants.
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