Hi. I have much eperience with grow bags and I can tell you that the same thing happnd to my peppers- "It's almost as if the interior of the bags were still heavy and wet but the seedling tops were getting scorched and burned by the sun". I know that your strwberrys need to be watered less and topdress the soil in the bags with multch to stop that uneven moistr prob. they need full sun and some dry time. dry spouts cause roots to grow!! with bags you need to add alot of perlite. water every 4-5 days not 2-3 untill they are very dry but not wilting.

For the bush variety above, I used about 12" between plants, in rows 24" apart. You could probably space them closer than that in the row, I think 8-9" is probably optimal. That variety is not daylength sensitive, so it will bear all summer if it is kept picked. I even let all of the first pods go for seed, and while flowering slowed down, the plants still kept producing pods until frost. Most hyacinth beans, though, are (a) pole, and (b) daylength sensitive. You will get huge vines, but flowering will not occur until the days approach 12 hours in length. The vines are incredibly vigorous, and need a tall, strong trellis. I would recommend spacing pole hyacinth beans 12-24" apart in the row; while this may appear to be wide spacing, they will branch heavily, and the vines will form a dense mass at the top of the pole/trellis. The yield will be very heavy during the time they are blooming. I'm not sure how long blooming will continue after the equinox, since my plants are killed by frost while still in bloom.

Strawberries are temperate zone fruits and do poorly elsewhere. I have no idea about the refrigeration. Seems it could somewhat work at first, but you would need to pull plants every year. or grow in pots and put them yearly in the fridge. Also about 6-8 weeks in fridge would be better. Check http://strawberryplants.org/. Best site about strawberries ask there for advice.

I am not an expert but I have a June bearing type that is also hit and miss but also sends out way to many runners. I had some Fort Laramie, everbearing, that have been much better but this winter were killed in my raised bed and the grass took over what was in the ground. I could have dug them up and washed the roots off before putting them in the raised bed but never got around to it. The voles were doing a number on everything in the ground.