It's surprisingly simple to grow this summer classic all season long.

Nine out of 10 preschoolers prefer strawberries to other fruits they may be offered. Okay, there's no hard science to back this up; we just know it's true. And if your child were going to eat only one kind of fruit, you'd be hard pressed to do better; strawberries are loaded with vitamin C and antioxidants.

Grow Your Own
You'll have the best luck with strawberries if you plant them not from seed, but from young plants (available in home and garden stores), which you can place either in the ground or in hanging baskets, as long as they have full sun. Purchase plants of the everbearing variety to ensure fruit all summer long. Growing strawberries in containers has the added bonus of eliminating the need for weeding. Even better, potted plants are much less apt to be eaten by pests or succumb to diseases. And there's no need to purchase specially designed strawberry pots; ordinary planters work perfectly well.