Originally Posted by Doug Kanter

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Strawberries send out runners above the ground. At the end of each runner is
a little plantlet which will take root under the right conditions. With the
ones I've grown, the runners have been maybe 8-10" long, so that means you
want 16-20" around each original plant. The mother plants tend to get weak &
ratty after a couple of years, so you want to pay attention to the runners.
Some may hang over the edge of the planter and die. I sort of helped mine by
weighing them down on the soil with large bark chips.

They're a bit labor intensive, but so what? The difference between fresh
strawberries and store bought ones is analogous to either having sex, or
listening to a love scene from the lobby of a movie theatre, but not getting
to the door of the theatre quickly enough to see it. :-)

By the way, one advantage of your pyramid idea is that when you're designing
it in your head, you can include a way of making a tent using plastic mesh
available at garden stores. Without that, you may end up sharing most of
your crop with birds and other rascals.

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I live in Southern Kentucky. I am wanting to grow soem strawberry's at
home but because of my time demands want to do so if possible without
alot of upkeep.

Thought baout building a "container" for lack of a better term out of
railroad ties. Kind of a pyramid, one square on top of another square,
etc.

Putting down plastic for weed control then on top of the plastic
putting mulch.

I have never grown strawberrys. Are they vines that put out "runners"?
If so, will my idea not work because of the plastic? (Runners will not
be able to root)?