Bev, this has probably been covered adequately but there are three schemes of strawberries: June bearing, everbearing, and day neutral.
What has passed for years as "everbearing" really aren't. They bear
a big crop, usually in June, and then one or two (usually one) smaller crops later on.
This trait is missing in day neutral plants. As soon as it's warm enough to grow, the set on a flower cluster and mature the berries. About six weeks later they do the same thing with pretty much the same size crop, and again, and again, until frost nips the last blossoms and then they go dormant.
I've found the plants live a long time and produce a longs time, five
years or more. They set a lot of runners but sometimes as many as three out of four will be puny and make small plants of weak growth. As soon as the runner roots, feel it's girth and if it's stem thin, get rid of it.
they set runners periodically all summer too (between crops usually) and you do a lot of elimination of runners.
The two varieties I've grown are Tristar and Tribute. Both are excellent berries, modest sized as berries go but unlike some which are hollow or white inside, both these varieties are dark red to the center and solid. The Tristar plants petered out after the second year and so I've not replaced them but rather have all Tribute plants
now. Too bad, too, those were really good strawberries.
fourth generation plants in the bed and I can't tell much difference between those and the originals (provided I grub out the little ones).
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