Hey kids, why not create a colourful strawberry tower which in a very short time will be dripping with delicious berries.

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!