Most June bearing berries will produce a row mat about 2 ft wide the season you plant them. Plants spaced 12 to 18 inches apart in a straight row. After harvest you remove all the plants except a few and start over. If you don't remove most of the plants, you will have severe crowding in you bed.

Would a raised bed 24" wide be wide enough? Or should I go 36"? I don't want the vines lapping out of the bed if possible.

Thanks!

Don

24 inches is wide enough. As runners grow you place then where you want. At 4 to 6 inches from the mother plant the runner will put out a small scoop on the bottom of the vine. It will take root there and then shoot on further. Place these where you want and maybe put a tsp of dirt on that spot. Runners will come out of the mother plant in all directions and if they are too close to the edge, just cut the end off.

my grandmother always said you can't hurt a strawberry plant. You just give them a "haircut" anyhow and anywhere to keep them under control. My mother remembers going out into the garden with my great aunt with a huge knife and my aunt would grab a wad of runners and hack them off and throw them in a bucket to dispose of so that the plants wouldn't get over crowded and stay confined to their garden area. There was never a lack of berries that she ever remembers. I know this wasn't scientific but not all gardening is scientific. Sometimes it is nice to just do things the old fashioned way.