How often do strawberry plants need to be replaced for effective fruiting?

My own experience has been that healthy plants reproduce themselves well and the young ones eventually push out the older, less productive mother plants. If the runner plants are too successful, you might need to remove the parents and possibly even thin and transplant the young ones. I grow day neutral varieties, as we like fresh berries all summer. They are somewhat less vigorous in vegetative growth, as they concentrate more energy on fruiting. June bearing varieties will produce more and bigger young plants at an earlier age. A well fed and maintained bed will work great for many years, but if you find the fruit production drops much, it's time to start working in new "blood".
How often do strawberry plants need to be replaced for effective fruiting?
the plants will spread on their own - when you notice the plant no longer producing as much, then remove. personally i have left plants for 5+ years and they still had large yeilds.
Reply:I planted Strawberries about 5 years ago. I looked at them the other day and my original plants have died (on their own). Loads more plants though from the runners, and its give new space to fill up with these this year.
Reply:The plants propagate by runners there is a method by which you remove older plant from one side of the bed and let the newer plants that grew into vacant area by runner, run back into an area that you removed older plants from, at which point I would say you never have to replace the plants just this renovation...look up renovating Strawberries on google, I mean yahoo, damn I bet I lose point on that faux pas
Reply:i have been told every 3 years it is only the main mother plant. i take cuttings of the runners and transplant mine into a new bed then the same thing 3 years later.rotation of plants i found to be usefull
Reply:The younger plants do not push out the older ones. Our bed is 4-5 years old and this year is the first year we saw a decrease in production. SO.. I dug it up and found many LARGE OLD plants (original) so I pitched them and it was obvios that the older plants were hogging up the room. I cut the runners off the pitched plants and replanted them back into the bed. Time to start again.