Growing your own food is easy, fun, cheap and healthy!
Strawberries are one of the easiest foods to grow, plus they look pretty!

What you will need:

- A container like a hanging basket is ideal
- Soil or peat-free compost
- Three or four strawberry plugs (little plants)
- Watering can

Hanging baskets are perfect for growing strawberries as it keeps slugs away and the fruit, leaves and flowers look very pretty as they flow over the sides.

1. Fill the basket with soil.

2. At the edge of the basket make a hole in the soil, place a strawberry plug in it and cover up with soil so that the top of the roots are level with the top of the soil.

3. Continue adding plugs around the edge of the basket, making sure there is enough space between the plants for them to grow.

4. Give the plants a good watering and hang the basket in a sunny, sheltered spot.

5. Check the basket each day to make sure the soil is moist and to see if any strawberries are growing. As soon as one turns red, pick it. Be sure to cut the stem with the strawberry.

6. Enjoy all the delicious ways to eat strawberries – on their own, with ice cream, as jam, in a fruit salad, as a cake topping…