Growing your own organic strawberries is all the rage these days and right now is the perfect time to make a start. Perfect for cultivating in clay pots, wooden vegetable\/fruit cartons or directly in the ground, young plants, or’ runners’ as they are called, are available in nurseries now and are relatively inexpensive. The ideal growing medium is 20% river sand (not saline sea sand), 20% organic compost, 20% old, well rotted organic manure and 40% sweet earth; drainage must be good.<\/p>