First, look up your hardiness zone. I'm guessing zone 6, you should be able to grow lots of things there. Strawberry varieties: they're all going to taste better than the store, so don't stress about it. Perhaps choose an early and a late variety, like Earliglow and AC Valley Sunset. Do you want it for fresh eating or to make jam? You'll need lots more plants to make a year's supply of jam for your family. (100 plants? 200? More than I have room for.) For fresh eating, probably 50 plants/household of 4. It's an estimate, it depends on how much you like strawberries. Raised beds: I have cinder block and wood, and I like the wood because it's easier to build. I got terribly tired of lugging around cinder blocks. I use untreated pine wood, about 1"x8" by however long/wide a bed I need. They'll rot after a while, but I estimate 8-10 yrs. Blueberries: pots are nice, because blueberries need such acid soil or they won't grow and definitely won't bear. I have alkaline soil, and if I want my blueberries to thrive I should put them in pots. However, I also have issues with watering pots. So, they might be better off in the ground at my house. Grapes: whatever kind of trellis, make SURE it's easy to prune. Don't grow it on chain-link fence. I have grapes on an arbor, which will be lovely once it fills in. It might be challenging to prune, and grapes need severe pruning every spring. Get some books (Grape Grower by Lon Rombough is the best), you'll need to learn something about it. Wood posts with taunt wires are standard grape trellises for a good reason. People like seedless grapes a lot, I have Interlaken (green), Somerset seedless (red) and a seeded table grape called Swanson Red. I'm considering a blue like Mars, but I have access to unlimited quantities of Concord for jam, so there isn't a good reason to plant one. So, figure out what exactly you want and make some good plans. Get the infrastructure in place before planting and you'll be glad that you did. If you're a weekend warrior, perhaps just put in strawberries this year. If you're retired and have lots of time, perhaps you can handle building grape trellises too. Here is a link that might be useful: Plant hardiness zones

I have Pink Lipstick (same species as Pink Panda) and it's ornamental as well. Occasionally we get the berries before the bugs and the birds but we use this more as an ornamental ground cover. They ~seem~ to make more berries when they are potted up but that may be an access issue as far as critters are concerned. Either way, it isn't enough of a difference to make me want to grow them in pots. They are pretty in baskets though!

Big difference in the number of plants that will fit in each! That may be your deciding factor. Only tried the pyramid in your second photo 1 time and was very disappointed in the productivity and plant health. What sounds good in theory - feeding and watering from the top down just doesn't work in practice IME. But the first pic is a BIG waste of growing space and filler. Expensive as all get out to fill and then less that 1/3 of it is used to grow anything. I would never go more than 2 tiers and then make the top tier much smaller relative to the bottom one so there is a more effective use of the soil rather than 2/3 of it just there to support wood frame. Remember you have to be able to reach the center of the top tier for picking and replanting and pest control without climbing up into the bed. And you have to have enough access to bare soil for runners to root. Just some things to consider. Dave

I have hanging planters that are about 4-6 inches deep and they seem to work well so far. You will probably be fine.