By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer

Here's another good idea I picked up from Teena Spindler and Kay Evans's talk on "Creating A Beautiful, Edible Garden" at the  Annual Garden Seminar of the Master Gardeners of Orange County:

Plant a blueberry bush in a large pot.  Then underplant it with strawberries.  (I'm inclined towards Alpine strawberries because they don't develop runners and stay in nice neat mounds.)

Since blueberries like acidic soil and much of the West has alkaline soil, growing them in containers is the only realistic option.  (You can tell yourself you'll keep amending the soil, but it's so much easier to control pH in a pot.)

But even if I had acidic soil, I think I might grow blueberries this way just for the pretty factor.  And the strawberries, especially, would be much easier to harvest.

Dave Wilson Nursery's recipe for a soil mix for blueberries in containers

More info on growing blueberries from Sunset

Blueberry recipes to try when your crop exceeds your cereal needs

The recipe I'm hoping I'll have enough berries to try out this summer -- Blueberries in black pepper-Syrah syrup