I order them out of a catalog or at a local nursery center.

Ah ha! There is someone here who grows strawbs :-)

Get on the Internet and type in Growing Strawberries, and see what kind of
local response you come up with.

Done that .. and read the catalogs. Unfortunately, the marketing hype tends
to make all strawbs 'sweet', 'delicious' etc as opposed to some being
'plain', 'not that sweet', etc. So I hoped for some info from people who had
experience of growing them.

Or maybe they are all stunning fruit ;-)

I'll just have to pick some and hope...

Best,

- h