This article has great tips when to cut runners from your strawberry patch and replant to enlarge your harvest yield.
Replanted strawberry runners will not produce the first year but will the following spring.
Harvest To Table website shares how to transplant strawberry runners into your garden.

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http://www.harvesttotable.com/2012/10/starting-strawberry-plants-from-runners/
Creative In Chicago website shares a easy project that trains birds to leave your strawberry harvest alone.
It is inexpensive and effective.

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http://www.creativeinchicago.com/2012/06/strawberry-protectors.html