strawberry specifics...

things are getting complicated in the strawberry bed...i harvested the last of the turnips this morning ( they ave been done for a while and have been disappearing bit by bit...thank whoever for gently replacing the critter net when they were done ) and found several runners ( top photo ) with some growing in awkward directions ( second photo ) so...i began to be the human interventionist...the center leaves in the runner destined to be another plant were just in the wrong spot for any sort of rational bed so i buried a pot and pinned it down, destined to become a plant in my nascent nursery ( third photo ) ...actually there are now five stolons pinned into pots because the soon to be plants just won't fit...and there are seven runners pinned into place to become part of the bed's population which leaves one runner ( so far ) that has yet to be pinned down into a pot because it is still too short...the bottom photo will give you an idea of the exuberant reproductive work the plants are exerting...plants that have produced a runner are now blooming and i am inclined to think those that are producing berries now will be reproducing later...all of which adds up to a lot of intervention on the gardener's part...it will sort itself out before the season is through and the plants are mulched for winter...perennials have come to the community garden and the seem to be planning to stay...more as it comes up.