A HOMESTEADER is going to have strawberry fields for ever thanks to her vertical fruit patch.
She has managed to double the size of her strawberry garden with barely any strain on her wallet.
Thanks to her Dollar Tree buys, her towering fruit farm has only cost a total of $27.
But TikTok user @doubleoakfarm expects to make a tidy profit from this clever enterpise.
There has been a crazy reaction to her video with over 134,000 tuning in.
“I never expected the video to go viral,” she said.
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But there were consequences to its popularity.
Some of the elements of her creative fruit growing were hard to come by.
The pots were becoming increasingly hard to come by thanks to the popularity of her video.
She said stawberries were her favorite fruit, which was just as well for this market gardener.
She was going to be flooded in strawberries come harvest time.
Using pots, fertilizer, compost, and strawberry plants from Dollar Tree, with some clever adaptation, she increased her growing area.
“We just doubled the size of our strawberry garden and it only took a quarter of the space,” she said.
She created verticle 12 x pot towers, by driving a stake through the middle and was able to plant five hundred strawberry plants, all for only $27.
“I expect a healthy profit,” she said.
The bare bones of her idea may have not cost much, but these vertical towers were proving to be pretty sturdy.
She said they had survived 40mph gusts and thunderstorms.
Commenters loved her ingenuity.
“I love this so much. Shows the ability of vertical gardening at its finest,” said one person.
Easy gardening tips to save money, maximize space, and repel pests
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- Banana peels, vinegar, and coffee grounds are often recommended as natural fertilizers.
- Dollar Tree sells four packs of seeds for $1.25.
- Try a vertical planter like Amazon’s Mr. Stacky 5 Tier Stackable Planter, $35 to make more use of a small space.
- Use netting like the Garden Netting Pest Barrier, $8, from Amazon to keep away bugs that eat your vegetables.
- Try sacrificial planting to reduce the use of pesticides and keep pests away from your garden. Deliberately growing certain plants to attract agricultural pests can keep them away from the plants you want to protect. Examples include marigolds, lavender, catnip, and chives.
- For pesky weeds in your garden, the Grampa’s Weeder – The Original Stand-Up Weed Puller Tool with Long Handles, $45, from Amazon is a helpful tool you can use without having to bend over.
“Good job. A fabulous amount of strawberries,” said another.
“Everything is literally perfect,” wrote a third person.
