Anybody grow cranberries?

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I grow them just to see if I can. My patch is about 6 years old, and each year I get a few more cranberries. This years harvest (pictured above) was 27. Wow, buckets of cranberry juice for sure !!!!! OceanSpray, watch out!
 

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Yeah, I think they're ripe. I'm afraid to taste them to make sure. I have them in a little dish on the counter - it's turned out to be a handy dish to also put our chicken eggs in.
 

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My understanding is that they are a bog plant - where are you located? I did try twice and was not successful. Once it was more of the bog type shrub the other was more of a ground cover and supposedly more drought tolerant.....But I got that info from a plant catalog and some are not correct or maybe not totally honest.....So please tell us the type (latin name) and your growing method. I still have not given up hope trying to grow.
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Nadine

Oh and where did you buy them from?
Thanks again.
 

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Sadly, in Arizona, there is noseason you can plant them in. I'ts too hot here. You can plant them,they sprout, they grow, grow, and they die.

But I do know a lot about them.
 

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I've never had a fresh cranberry. I guess they would grow here maybe. Blueberries grow really well out here. Add some peat and you're good to go. I think of them as sour though?
 

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silkiechicken said:
I've never had a fresh cranberry. I guess they would grow here maybe. Blueberries grow really well out here. Add some peat and you're good to go. I think of them as sour though?
eggchel from BYC had some blueberry bushes at her house. Never knew how blueberries grew until seeing them at her place. Seemed pretty easy / straightforward and I'm thinking I may have to try some myself.
 

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I think they acidic soil so dump in a bag of peat at the bottom of the hole for the plant. I didn't know blue berries grew in cali. But then again, not all of cali is LA hot.
 

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I got them from Miller's fruit tree, etc. catalog. I'm at work now, so can't check the latin name.

I grow them in a raised bed, and they grow in the same row as two giant blueberry bushes. When I planted them, I threw in tons of peat moss and even spaghnum moss, then I fertilize them with Miracid and Hollytone. They took several years to get established, and I've lost some plants along the way, and re-ordered more from Miller's to replace them.

I don't water them extra - the watery bog thing is for harvesting - they flood the bogs and the berries float to the service for easy catching.
 

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