Welcome back to the @run-a-muck-farms laboratory where I am cooking up a whole bunch of strawberry split stands on the 3D printer. This is my first year with growing strawberries, so every day is a learning experience, haha. One thing I do know is that it's best if you don't let the berries touch the soil because it can cause them to start to rot prematurely. Well, I had started a bunch of these before and had already had them in the garden, but what I have learned is how far these plants spread out.
So needless to say, it's time to print more stands and expand out becuase my strawberry gardens are starting to really get going.
As they start to finish up, I have been taking them out to the garden and putting them in the hot spots with the plants that have been spreading out the most. These stands are split in half by design so they can be wrapped around as needed. The best thing I have found is to slighly over lap them to branch out with another layer around each plant.
Some obviously needed more than others and so as you expand, you start to overlap the stands with the neighboring plants. This is fine because the goal of this is to eventually cover the entire bed with these stands as the plants grow out and I get more delicious berries!
So the printers are about to be working 24 hours a day for a while until I have enough of these stands to go all around the beds. I now have 3 strawberry beds so I have a bunch of printing to do. I am going to also scale down the design to fit my smaller printer so I can get more pumped out and put out in the garden as these things really start to pick up some growing speed!
I feel every homestead needs a 3D printer. You can do so much with them, all it takes is a roll of plastic, an imagination, and some files from the internet on sites like Thingiverse, Printables, and others, or go out there and learn to design your own 3D products using something like Tinkercad.
Until next time...
Keep being ungovernable, grow fresh food, and just enjoy your life!
