Mr. Stacky 5 Tier Stackable Strawberry, Herb, Flower, and Vegetable Planter - Vertical Garden Indoor/Outdoor

I love this thing. Compact, easy to assemble. Now I have a little herb garden now right by the back door.

Decent sturdiness, look cool, enough storage for plants, good color, function as they should.

I purchased this stackable planter to grow strawberries in. It's a good concept, but it's really small for what I want to do. Also, trying to keep it evenly watered with regular soil was impossible, so I swapped to a 2/3 coco coir, 1/3 compost mixture, which seems to be doing a great job. There's no place to grow runners, so I just let them grow down to the ground, then place them in solo cups filled with dirt and fasten the runner to the soil using a paper clip. I'm not a fan of wasting strawberry plans, I guess I'm a plant hoarder in a way, but this method works best for us thrifty people.I have my planter outside in my greenhouse. 110 degree Oklahoma summers are brutal, but at least it stays around 86 in the greenhouse with misters on. In the winter, I will move the planter into my garage so that my plants can overwinter in the planter -- this will be interesting. If using the saucer, the plant is pretty sturdy, I don't understand how people are saying that it's not sturdy. Perhaps in gale force wind, it may topple over.PROS:Overall, I like the concept. After changing from soil to the coir/compost, drainage and water retention improved.I like the way this planter saves space by stacking the potsEasy to set up and quick to get startedCONS:Too smallI'm relatively pleased with my purchase -- thanks for a nice product. Please make it larger.

The media could not be loaded. We use herbs so much in our cooking we decided might as well start growing them ourselves! This stackable planter has worked out great. We are currently renting and only have a patio without any grass that belongs to the property so this was a great option for us to start growing! It was incredibly easy to assemble and we love that it stacks and saves space. When pouring water at the top it trickles down to all the others (although we still water each part individually just to get every part), it also has a plate at the bottom to catch all the excess water that was drained. We can’t wait to have fresh herbs available and are thinking of getting another for strawberries! I do wish it “locked” into place better, it’s a little too easy to take each piece down - would be nice if it had a sort of twist on in the middle, like if it could screw into itself.

I like this product, because I purchased two of them, however after I planted, I realized that unless you put this item in a place that gets sun all around it, that one side didn't get the sun it needed. So, I would suggest that you put a mixture of plants ones for full sun and the other side for partial sun or shade plants. I love the conservation of water idea. Pouring water on the top and just letting it go through to the other plants is awesome, however you have to put water in the first two tiers to make sure all plants get watered. This is a good sturdy product the plastic is thick and they interlock well with each other. The catch plate helps to catch excess water, in which you can reuse to put on the plants, however you have to unlock it and then lift all the containers of plants off it and then pour it on the plants and then reattach it so you have to lift the plants and put them back on it and lock it. It is hard to do it with all the containers attached, so I have usually taken the first 4 tiers off and then unlock the bottom one, pour the water and then lock the bottom one back in place and then put the other containers back on the bottom one. However, it was trial and error at first. Second, it is a good idea to over fill the boxes with soil or your potting mix and then pack it down, because I am finding that, because I didn't do this, my potting mixture is coming out, and not covering my plants so I have to make more potting mix and add it to the emptying pots. I hope that this helps. I do think it would be great for strawberries, but again the sun issue is the only thing I want people to be aware of.

So far so good with the strawberry Mr Stacky. I am only using 3 out of 5 stacks. When you water the plant at the top, it trickles down throughout the plant because of holes in the plastic. I chose a lighter color hoping it wouldn’t draw in as much heat and scorch the plant. Seems sturdy enough, the layers do click in to each-other with some finagling.

Easy and well designed

Stacks nicely, seems strong enough. I put a metal pole through the center into the ground (it’s on the top of a filled barrel). The only issue is watering: it’s really difficult to keep it well watered. I will eventually use a pole with holes drilled in it to try to get enough water to each level… trying to water each level with a hose doesn’t really work and the plants just don’t get enough water. I found this out when I recently had to move its location. I took off each level and all of them were dried out, I do like it and now have lots of strawberries.