Strawberry planter from bricks

Many years ago when Rosalie, the resident strawberry eater, wanted to grow our own, I put out a bunch in one corner of the garden and soon grew to regret it.

Strawberries are not that easy to control. They go every which way and there's a definite routine one should follow to do it right, and it's a lot of work. But that's not what I'm here to talk about. Likely the growing info is easy to find on the Internet, or maybe I'll get to it later here.

What I'm here for now is to tell you how to make a quick and easy planting bed for strawberries, or anything else.

Those bricks in the photo above were free for the hauling, and you find bricks like these if you're patient and persistent. And if you can't wait for free ones, you can buy them at Bowerson Shale in Hanover, OH.

It took about 60 bricks to make an 8-ft. circle around a 6-inch-high pile of soil. That's big enough to plant a dozen strawberry plants. You can't see it in the photo, but there's a small (2-ft.-high), woven-wire fence around it - enough to keep out deer and other pests, so far at least.