Build your own strawberry container garden and enjoy the sights and smells of your new plant all year round! Once you taste your very first, home-grown strawberry you will never again be satisfied with store bought ones.

What You’ll Need: * Strawberry Plants – 5 to 10 plants * Quality Dirt or Soilless Potting Mix * Oblong Planting Container – 16″ to 18″ long x 7″ to 9″ wide x 6″ to 10″ deep * Pea Gravel or Small Rocks * Organic Fertilizer

Select Your Container

You can choose any container you like. Strawberry plants are much more forgiving than many think. Extended oblong containers work great during any season.

There are also strawberry pots that are taller with several openings on the sides for cascading down. If you are gardening indoor strawberries the container should have a reservoir tray.

Select Your Strawberry Plants

Any strawberry plant will work Make sure you get established plants too. If you know of someone that has had strawberry plants for a few years, they may be able to get you started

The strawberry plant will bear fruit for you in the same year. Otherwise you may need to wait a couple of years for your harvest. The everbearing variety is a great pick for bearing fruit every summer.

Set Your Dirt and Container

Arrange about 1″ of your dirt in the bottom of the container. Order a layer of the pea gravel or little rocks on the soil. Set enough to thinly cover the dirt. This will assist with drainage. Now put the rest of the soil in the container. Allow from 1″ to 2″ space to the top open.

Scoop five to ten holes in the top at about 3″ to 4″ deep. If you want ten plants dig 2 rows of five holes. If you just want five plants dig one row of five holes.

Use the fertilizer according to its directions. You can now sprinkle water on the holes. Then slightly wet the dirt.

Lay Plants In Container

Leave fewer than an inch between each plant. The plants can lay close together, but leave soil around roots with leaves sticking out. Add a little bit more water to each plant.

Warnings & Tips

* Place the strawberry container outside in the sun during the spring and summer months! The plant will surely love it.

* Don’t Forget to water a couple times on really hot days.

Your Own Strawberry Container Garden One of the simplest
ways to garden is Container Gardening, and there is nothing
like growing your own strawberries. Store bought
strawberries have no taste or sweetness compared to the
mouth-watering sweetness your own strawberries will have.
Find out how to get started here!

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