Fruits and Nuts: Strawberries as Groundcover?, 1 by SCNewbie

SCNewbie wrote:
The reason I'm asking this is because I saw an ad at CraigsList last night & the sales pitch was to put them where you couldn't grow anything else.

I have a "thing" for functional aesthetics (blueberries for my hedges, etc) and if you guys think this would work, I'd love to use strawberries as groundcover out front. They'd take over, be evergreen, and provide fruit - everything I'm looking for!

Specifically, at the front of my 160' wide yard is a large rolling ditch with nothing but weeds in it right now, and I've been racking my brains for 2 yrs trying to figure out what to do with it. (see pic below) Very little water runs thru it when it rains, so they wouldn't get drowned, and it gets full sun, all the time.

At the flat, top part of the yard, where I took the rails out, I'm putting a 5-6' wide flower bed, but then the ditch is beyond that.

What do you think?