Growing Strawberries
By: Trish Kuffner, author of The Children's Busy Book
Growing Strawberries
Strawberries are easy to grow and delicious to eat. Best of all, the plants bear fruit year after year.
Materials- Strawberry seedlings
- Compost
- Straw mulch
Directions
- Help your child plant strawberry seedlings about one foot apart in a sunny area with well-drained soil. Plant multiple rows about two feet apart.
- Water the plants regularly.
- For the first three months after you plant them, remove the blossoms from each plant.
- During the first two growing seasons, remove all the runners from the plants. These techniques help the plants grow sturdy.
- You won't get any berries in the first growing season, but you will get berries in the second growing season.
- When cold weather arrives and the ground freezes, cover your plants with straw. Remove the straw the following spring.
- Starting in the third growing season, let the runners grow. These will form new rows of strawberry plants. Remove the older plants in the fall.