Last summer I used some old tires that I cut the sidewalls out of to create a cascading strawberry bed. I planted about 30 plants from several everbearing varieties then waited... The late planting didn't yield much, those plants threw dozens and dozens of shoots to new plants.

Well, later winter I expanded the bed with more tires then early, early spring, I dug up and transplanted a couple dozen starters into the expansion and gave away about 100 starters to other families in our clan, effectively thinning the original bed...

Now, less than a year since the first planting, in addition to the multiplication to other beds, we are harvesting almost a quart of strawberries every two or three days!! This has been quite a fun project for the homestead!!