Since strawberry cultivars are prone to accumulating debilitating viruses getting old stock over the back fence may not always work out.

This might also have something to do with the rather frequent replacement of one kind with another.

My MIL grew up on a farm growing them and she won't eat strawberries because none measure up to their Marshalls. But what I read indicated there may have been disease problems, or? I grow several kinds of Alpine Strawberries, they are very small but flavorful and keep on cranking them out.