Product Description

Approx 60cm (24") high x 43cm (17") diameter. Note: this comes with everything except the compost and the plants (barrel, tube, netting, base, pole, and rim)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3749 in Lawn & Patio
• Brand: Primrose London

Features

• Grow strawberries from your own garden or patio, no matter how small it is.
• It has a capacity of 50 litres for compost and is capable of harvesting up to 32 plants at a time. Simply to use so you only need to harvest what you need so you can have fresh strawberries all the time.
• A very clever and innovative Victorian style tub in a terracotta finish complete with net and supports to protect the fruit. Made from durable polypropylene for long life, it is made from twinwall, frost resistant polypropylene for long life.
• You can plant up your tub at any time of year, however the recommendations tend to agree on early spring or autumn. Generally speaking, although you will get a reasonable crop the first year, the second and third years will be the most prolific.

Customer Reviews

Fairly good performance
This item is an absolute nightmare to put together, even with two people doing the task. The metal rods that hold the top and bottom rims onto the main body need to be tight, but it takes an awful lot of manipulation to manage to get the hooks on the rods to clip into place as a result. The cups in which the strawberry plants are planted are not a perfect fit but are easy enough to insert into position, although they fall out easily until soil has been inserted and planting is completed.

The unit feels reasonably robust once it has been put together and I had a very good yield of strawberries even in my first season of growing from bare rooted plants, which were not planted until June. I did use miracle grow compost, which might have helped, but I was impressed with what I achieved with absolutely no experience beforehand.

Once filled with soil, the item becomes very heavy and difficult to move, so it needs to be placed where the strawberries are going to be grown straight away. It is possible to turn the planter so that the plants all have exposure to sunlight, but anything more would be very difficult as I do not think that the planter design is robust enough to cope with a wholesale move.

I have given this three stars solely because of the difficulty of initial construction; it really was hard to do even with assistance.

fantastic
Possibly one of the better things I have bought items for the price.Fairly easy to assemble and looks great. Well done