Do strawberries need all day sunlight, and do the grow like ivy?

Strawberries need six to eight hours of sun.

Strawberries do need lots of sun and water. How much sun depends on where you live. For instance where I live it gets very hot. I planted where they receive morning and afternoon sun, and shaded from the blazing mid-day sun and for my berries it works. There are two types of strawberries. Those that are individual clumping berries and those that send out runners off the mother plant. I have both. And both are delicious, not as big as what the comercially grown ones but smaller and sweeter. I eat them right off the vine . . . But they are not invasive and easy to control. In one old patch, they come up every year on their own and we planted those at least a dozen years ago.

Not as invasive as ivy.. do send runners that you can snip away after a nice size on their own and expand your plantings.. over the years, the original plants can fizzle a bit, but the former runners act as the new plants I've had better luck planting them in mounded rows like u pick farms do.. Not sure why it makes a difference but for me it seems to

They want a healthy amount of sun. And if you have the plant with runners, put them in a contained area (with a border). They easily stay contained.

I have mine in hanging pots and put the runners that are real healthy back in the pots for next year and put others in pots that hang lower. I usually have the majority come back the next year and they are left out in the winter and put under the lilac tree. I usually have to replace a couple of the older plants each spring.