Strawberry grow kit

[Lyndyloo21]

Brought wilson & gregory strawberry grow kit. Yep from Poundland.. contains no instructions.. including in the plastic base and lid . A bag of .. not sure what it is it looks more like dry cat nibble 🤔😑 then there is a disc compact of something .. coud be soil not sure ?? And seeds in a foil pocket.
Not even a step by step guide . Where do I start to assemble it. Help!! Have 5 inpatient Grandchildren 🙄😉

Need help assembling a strawberry grow kit 🤔🙄

I don’t have any experience of growing strawberries from seeds but I think I once read that germination can be very hit and miss, and your impatient grandchildren may have to wait a couple of years to pick any strawberries. Honestly you’d be better buying a few plants, or begging some runners off a strawberry-growing friend to pot up.

Is there a pot of some description?

Put the dry disc into a bowl, and let the kids add some water. It should absorb the water and expand to make compost.

Once all absorbed [you may have to add more until it is fully expanded] put it into the pot. the cat nibble might be fertiliser so mix that in before putting into the pot.

Open the foil packet carefully, and sprinkle over the top of the soil.

Get a kitchen fork, and gently move it across the top of the soil as if you were putting very small fork lines onto the top of a shepherd's pie.

Place the pot into a tray of water, and let the soil soak up as much water as it can - you should see the surface of the soil start to get wet.

Then tip the excess water out of the tray [lift the pot out when you do this], and place it back on the tray to drain.

Then wait a year or two to get a strawberry to fruit properly - so go out and buy some strawberry plants in the meantime!

Thank you for your tips .. 😊

Phew!! Thank you so much. For info but tomorrow i Will be going back into town for strawberry plants that have already started. . But thank you again much appreciated 😀 note to one self .... for quick fix don't waste my money!! 😅

Just a word of warning. I inherited strawberry plants and they TAKE OVER! And I never got any strawberries bigger than my little fingernail.

Those sound like alpine variety Blockbuster. Drag them all out and replace with some big beauties if you haven't already - I took around 1000 out last year as I had sown a fair number and they went ballistic in my forest garden. I am still finding them. I bought 4 new plants, all different varieties and put them in this winter; and am now cropping from them. The hope is that I can control them better as they send out their runners as they are in a bed area surrounded by grass, and it will be easier to contain them.