I am always amazed and impressed by how many common fruits and vegetables came from the americas. A book I have thoroughly enjoyed is, Lost crops of the Incas : little-known plants of the Andes with promise …
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://ia800204.us.archive.org/0/items/bub_gb_iT0rAAAAYAAJ/bub_gb_iT0rAAAAYAAJ.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjB6vitjfKMAxWcFzQIHRnNNmgQFnoECG4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1QFqZYpOsdtvnt3DGBh-Cj
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That’s a link to the book, I believe in full.
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That’s what i read too 
and that’s what i thought as well. It’s a registered trademark name but i can’t seem to find the scientific name
Do NOT plant garlic with strawberries unless you’re not looking to get any berries.
So I’m trying companion planting this year and was wondering why nothing was visiting my strawberry flowers 
Garlic REPELS pollinators.
So unless you’re growing lettuce and things that don’t need pollination. Do not plant garlic with your strawberries… been getting a bunch of dead flowers due to lack of pollination even though i have pollinators and now i know why…
F. What the internet says on this one 
Yes,there is a yellowish - white alpine strawberry as well.
Bees don’t seem to mind the pungent aroma when it comes to my onion or chive flowers…
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You can put garlic around taller flowering plants and they will still get pollinators. Since strawberries are so low to the ground the garlic repelling factor really has an effect. The some of the commercial fields here have a row of onions for maybe every 5 rows of strawberries.
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You are right.
It is Fragaria x ananassa “Pineberry”
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I planted some extra Albion bare roots right next to garlic in one of my beds and the flowers we forgot to pull did pollinate. I don’t know that there’s a hard and fast line here.
This is my first year intentionally companion planting. (Normally pack my gardens so the effect is there it a lesser degree.) I’ve put green onions, basil and sage next to my strawberries.
I’m seeing it now 
How often do you remove old strawberry plants and plant new ones? Several videos indicate anywhere from 1-5 years. There are many different opinions as to when. Just curious to see how often the forum members do the rotation. I’m considering the change at the end of the 3rd year. What is your thoughts on the rotation?
I have read every 2 years for everbearing and every 4 years for June bearing.
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Best strawberry was off a trail fishing in Washington state. The hike to the amazing glacier fed lakes in the Cascades saw these tiny white strawberries along the trail.
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That sounds terrible lol. Only 2 years…
I would say when you notice they’ve slowed down
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Going to try Eclair…
Éclair is a great new gourmet strawberry - all about the flavor! This berry is fragrant, sweet, juicy, and even features hints of raspberry and citrus. The berry-of-choice for discriminating connoisseurs, this unique taste is quickly becoming a favorite of those who have tried it! Because of the diverse parentage of this new variety, there is confusion about its production window.
I guess i will be confused too until i grow it out.
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never heard of them. where did you get it?
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I got mine from scenic hill… but they are at alot of our fruit tree nurseries too.
Super Cheapo at ParkSeed right now… ive never ordered from them so YMMV $5 for 20.
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depends how to manage them. i only replace plants to try a different variety. i could keep them indefinitely the way i grow them as im rooting new runners for next year’s berries then yanking the old ones and rooting that years runners for next etc. longest I’ve kept 1 variety going is 5 yrs. those were sparkle, one of my top 5’s.
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I didn’t do a good job explaining what I was going to do for replacement plants. My June bearers are putting out several runners now. I’m pinning them down as they grow out and I should have plenty for replacements. Correct me if I’m wrong but I think your growing them and fruiting in 1 year and then replace them with runners for the next year. I recently visited a strawberry farm and they purchase new plants and start over each year. I have a couple of varieties that I like and I plan to keep these going without purchasing more plants.