Strawberries - can you move them?

[Kitchen Gardener]

I plan to move my allotment strawberries about a bit today. I want to dig the bed over to remove deep weeds so my plan is to lift the plants, dig the bed then put the good ones back in one half and save the other half for the new runners, which I will plant in pots in good compost. My thought is that by putting all this years plants together, I will know which plants to get rid of in rotation (understand that strawberries need replacing after three years). So the ones I put in last year will have another year (they were amazing this year), this years will have they own new half of the bed (and be good for another two years) and the new runners (three years). Will this work? All this was prompted by a poor show of strwberries at home from three year old plants, so yesterday I dug them all up and planted runners in good compost in pots. I have some one year plants in a stawberry planter and think I shall buy another two of these for home to aid being able to move them about when we redesign the garden next year, so fingers crossed.

[Jungle Jane]

Sounds like a good plan kg,every year ive put the runners within my strawberry plants & Im lost as to which plants are old or new,had some great strawberries mixed in with tiny ones. Need to move them as I had loads of sawfly larvae,they're not on the leaves anymore so they're probably all in cocoons in the soil. I bought some strawberry seeds (florian) pink flowers,in the wyeva1e 50p seed sale yesterday,I'm wondering about starting them under grow lights. They don't grow too big & it says on the packet sow oct-dec for early glass protection.

[burnie]

I was always told to replace strawbs every 5 years, in line with what the commercial growers do and not to plant them where they have grown before. I have grown them in containers and then planted outside in the past and this was successful.

[rosiepumpkin]

I just moved the whole lot, older plants, newer ones, all in together. They'll sort themselves out.