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Strawberry Tower

Here´s what you´ll need:

• Three different sand buckets (in descending sizes  and in different colours)
• One bag of Plants Plus or Earthcore Potting Mix
• Between six and ten strawberry plants (depending on the size of your buckets)
• Kids Garden Gloves
• An Earthcore Trowel and Fork

When choosing your strawberries look for the following varieties:

Strawberry ´Delight´

Sweet medium sized fruit and pretty pink flowers

Strawberry ´Hokowase´

Large sweet fruit early in the season

Strawberry ´Lowanna´

Large fruit over a long season. Bred for Aussie conditions.

Strawberry ´Supreme´

Sweet, firm fruit early in the season. Higher in Vitamin C than other varieties.

Strawberry ´Red Gauntlett´

Large sweet fruit. A popular commercial variety

Strawberry ´Tioga´

Medium sized fruit with a classic strawberry flavour

1. Ask an adult to help you drill holes in the bottom of your buckets for drainage.

2. Half fill the largest bucket with potting mix and place the middle size bucket on top.

3. Plant the bottom bucket with strawberries, topping up the sides with potting mix as you go, so that there is a ring of strawberries around the middle bucket.

4. Now fill the middle bucket roughly half way with potting mix and place the smallest bucket on top.

5. Repeat step 2, only this time plant a ring of strawberries in the middle bucket.

6. Finally, fill the smallest top bucket almost to the top with potting mix and plant it out with strawberries.

7. Place your strawberry tower in the sun. Water and liquid feed regularly and you´ll be rewarded with a cascading tower of strawberries, so sweet that you can eat them straight off the bush!