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The pineberry (I chose the “White Dream”) is a funny sort of fruit. It’s the sort of thing that one might expect to find at the tea party given by the Mad Hatter. They’re expensive too, at £3.99 for 125g, so they seemed to be a good fruit to try to grow from scratch. I chose to plant them in hanging baskets with a normal strawberry so that I could give them lots of special care and attention and so far it appears to be working.
How to plant strawberries and pineberries in hanging baskets
You will need:
– One hanging basket for every three plants
– Pineberry and strawberry suckers
– A rich compost mix (I used John Innes potting on soil and farmyard compost)
– Hanging basket liner (moss)
1. Cut the liner to fit inside the hanging basket
2. Fill with the soil / compost mix
3. Gently (they’re fragile!) transplant the suckers into the soil
4. Water on a regular basis (I used a DIY drip feed irritation system made from an old water bottle)
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| Pineberries in a hanging basket after about a month |
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