Question by lulu_kadoo: how do cranberries grow?
do cranberries grow in water or on the ground, do you have to plant them or not?
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Answer by norm
They grow in water.
Cranberry bogs they call them.
Cranberries are one of the few food crops that is native to New England (Cape Cod) is the cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon), which grows in acid bogs. A bog is a water-logged depression filled with sphagnum moss (peat moss), and is so acid and poor in available nitrogen that typical plants cannot grow there. Many members of the heath family, such as blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) and azaleas (Rhododendron spp.), also grow well in acid, peat soils.
The cranberry plant–called a vine by growers–is a long-lived perennial less than eight inches high with trailing, thin, wiry stems that bear small, opposite, evergreen leaves. Cranberry flowers appear around the Fourth of July; these are white to light pink, downward-pointing, bell-shaped, axillary flowers. The common name cranberry is a modification of the colonial name “crane berry,” because the drooping flower looked like the neck and head of the sand crane, which was often seen eating the fruits.
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They grow in bogs. They need constant water and high accidity. You really can’t do it at home.
on twelve year old boys
well norm had a good answer but take it from someone that has grown and harvested cranberry’s the bog that cranberry’s grow in is dry land and there is lots of other things that will grow in a cranberry bog unless you use pesticides to stop the growth of weeds and other plants . the area that the bog takes up is a square acre and is about 2 to 3 feet deep in the fall during harvest time the bog is flooded with water so the berries on the vine will float in the water. at that time a thrasher is used to remove the berries from the vine . the berries are collected by raking or pooling them in to a conveyor belt in to a truck to be delivered to the processing plant