How to plant a strawberry hanging basket
Find out how to create a strawberry hanging basket, for attractive flowers and tasty fruit through the summer.
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Strawberries are not only delicious but versatile, too – you can grow them in the ground and strawberry planters.
Find out all you need to know about growing strawberries in our practical guide: How to grow strawberries.
You can also grow strawberries in a hanging basket – it will not only look great, but will provide you with rich pickings of fresh fruit over several weeks, and all for just a few pounds.
Choose your varieties carefully and you can have fruit from June until early autumn - find out how to enjoy strawberries all summer.
As a guide, a 35cm basket will hold four plants. Here's how to create a strawberry hanging basket.
You Will Need
- Strawberry plants
- Hanging basket and liner
- Multi-purpose, peat-free compost
Step 1
Make a few holes in the polythene lining of your basket, to allow for drainage.
Step 2
Fill the basket with multipurpose compost to just below the rim.
Step 3
Space the strawberry plants evenly around the edge of the basket.
Step 4
Water the basket well to settle the compost and encourage the roots to grow. Start feeding the plants once flowering has started. Hang the basket in a sheltered, sunny spot to encourage pollinating insects and help the fruit ripen.
Snip off runners
The strawberry plants will produce runners after they have fruited – snip them off and pot them on to create new plants for free. They’ll produce fruit of their own the following year so it really is worth the effort.
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