"Staycalm"
As to the strawberries - do you cut off the daughter plants in the middle
of
the runner? Do you keep those really long woody looking roots too?

Actually the daughter plants will probably be the best plants to keep and
you should toss out the old mother plants (old strawberry plants are prone
to disease). So long as the daughter plants have roots you can cut off the
runner at the daughter plant.

Amy