Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Organic Strawberries

Strawberries are repeatedly on the dirty dozen list as one of the fruits with the highest pesticide residue. That’s enough to make you want to grow your own. Which is just what I did with my niece recently. We drilled holes in the bottom of old pots and buckets, dropped in some empty recycling containers so we didn’t need as much dirt in the large buckets then filled them with organic potting soil almost to the top. Gently placed the organic strawberry plants in the soil and added more around them, packing lightly until the plants were securely in place.

Grace will tell you what to do next.
"Put them in the sun, water them with water and wait til they turn red."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Grace and Anderson love to simply snap off a red ripe strawberry and plop it into the their mouths. YUM!