The perfect strawberry bed...

[Jono]

What you will find is that strawberry plants are very susceptible to viruses and after three years the foliage wil become affected and the size and quality of the berries will be markedly reduced. If you can, just take on a new row beside your existing strawberry bed and remove a row at the other end. That way you don't have a year when you have a dearth of berries and you are not building up disease.

Ah I see, this makes sense. Thank you.

[Sylvan]

i too am knew to this grow your own but i read somewhere that tomatoes and strawberries are both from the potatoe family and so both carry the same diseases so i dont know that using compost you used to grow tomatoes in to grow strawberries is a good idea hopefully someone else will confirm or dismiss this

Strawberries are extremely susceptible to verticillium
wilt, which also infects tomatoes.
Many modern varieties of tomatoes are resistant to verticillium wilt, so you could have it in the old tomato compost without knowing.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/300...YG_3012_08.pdf

"Do not plant susceptible strawberry cultivars in soil where tomato,
peppers, potato, eggplant, melons, okra, mint, brambles, stone fruits,
chrysanthemums, rose or related susceptible crops have grown for the
past five years."