Growing Cranberries
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- Life in the garden: The Lost Season - episode 1 - Cranberries
The cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) is a great lowbush shrub to add to your garden landscape. We hope you enjoy this look at the bushes that I have in my garden. They are now three years old and are finally producing enough of a harvest to actually do something with them. Haven't yet decided whether to make sauce or dehydrate them to make craisins. I've had a fairly easy time growing them in New Hampshire zone 5a. The varieties I have are Stevens, McFarlin, and Pilgrim. I got the Stevens cranberry plants from Fedco. They have been the larger and more productive of the plants so far. The McFarlin and Pilgrim plants came from Burnt Ridge Nursery. These fruited for the first time this past year, but the plants started and have remained much smaller than the ones I got from Fedco. It looks as though they may no longer be available on the Burnt Ridge site, but I have included a link nonetheless in the event that they should become available again in the future. Hope you enjoyed the video! Feel free to come back for more life in the garden or to check out the other stuff on the channel.
Fedco - fedcoseeds.com...
Burnt Ridge - www.burntridge...
those are huge cranberries cant wait to get mine and do what your doing cheers mate
Thanks! Good luck to you and your future huge cranberries.
I was wondering yesterday if cranberries were a bush or a tree. So glad you posted this. Wow congrats on that. I wonder if they'd grow for me in FL or if it's too hot here for them.
My guess is that they would grow, but may not fruit as well. I think they need some of that northern cold for dormancy during the winter months. The ice and snow finally melted off of them last week and the plants are looking bigger and better than ever.
there are highbush cranberry, but they are an unrelated species. they are called so because they are a large bush and the fruit look and taste very similar
Please let me know how yours grow? I live in central Florida and have been thinking of trying all my garden will be container gardening. Are you going to use hydroponics or any other form of gardening besides the normal gardening method? Thank you for your time.
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Hi from Scotland ! 🏴
QUESTION:
We to have a cool Autunm (Fall) & a Freezing Winter. 🥶
GROWING Cranberries :
Do they need some sort of Mulch (Leaves/Straw/Kept Covered through the Freezing Temps. Maybe gets down to say -12C (10F) at its lowest (!)
Hope you can advise. Thanks.
After Christmas Gift 🎁
I've just found a Box of Semi Wrinkled / Stratified 2022/23 Cranberry Berry Fruits, I bought for last Christmas. 🤭
Guess what ? They are USA "STEVENS" Yay !!! Ho, Ho, Ho.
Must of thought of "Growing" some last Holidays : But didn't know how to do it !?! So left them on the Seed Table in the Greenhouse. Scotland has tons of Peat (Acidic Soil) to no problem their.
Any over Wintering of Home Grown Seedlings would be appreciated Tip wise.
Many Thanks. 😎
Watched your Cranberry Video, like you do, after eating a Huge Christmas Dinner with Turkey (USA imported Meal Tradition from the 1950s !) UK folk mainly ate "Goose." And now we eat Cranberry Jelly or Sauce too. . . (Another USA import !) Maybe at New Year us Scots can Export our Whisky and Shortbread Biscuits (Cookies) your way instead ! 😄
🎄 Happy Festive Holiday 🎄
Wonder if your Cranberry Crop was even bigger re size of Berry and the amount you had grown too ? Update Video to show !?! Or did you eat all those Cranberries. . . 🙃
They would have no problem in that temperature range. They are hardy to far colder winter temps than that. We got to -30F last year and the plants survived just fine.
I want to be able to make an endless supply of cran raspberry juice I need to know how to seed save and get the seed from them. Do you have a video showing the full process of growing and collecting the seeds.
I wouldn't bother collecting seeds. The plants are all pretty good ground cover spreaders once they are established. I think you would have better luck just letting them spread or splitting the larger plants. You'll need quite a few for an endless supply, not to mention the raspberries. I wish you lots of land and luck in your endeavors.
So what is the more tasty sort of cranberry ?
I don't think you can go wrong with any of these, but the Stevens American cranberry is has been the most productive of mineand the taste is great.
Thoes are huge cranberries
I was impressed by how big they got too.
Nice cranberry bro
What a beautiful harvest. They are so big too! I am going to try to grow some from seed. I would love to make some cranberry sauce too😄😃
Either this guy has small hands or those are the biggest cranberries I’ve ever seen! 👍
I would say I have average size hands. The Stevens American cranberries can get quite large.
Since you are experienced with cranberry plants, I would like your help. How long does the main plant lasts? How do you deal with runners? Further information would be much appreciated.
The main plant can last years and years, although it is hard to tell where the main plant ends and new growth that replaced old growth begins. I let the runners spread and take root. Plant in an area that allows for this. Makes for excellent ground cover.
I still think that you should flood the backyard!
I will consider it for next year.
Lol love this video
Where are you located, and what are the zone limits for growing this fruit?
New Hampshire - USDA Zone 5B
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what soil pH do cranberries need??
Vaccinium, so pretty acidic. 4.2-5.5
Very lovely
Thank you! 😊
What's your zone and soil like?
Southeast New Hampshire, zone 5B. Soil is sandy and acidic.
Thanks for answering query re cold Temps !
Do birds eat the berries?
I haven't had much problem with birds. Every once in awhile I think birds might pull some berries off the plants but they don't seem very interested in eating them. Unlike my blueberries, which they love to gobble up.
What do you fertilize them with?
I have only applied a small amount of fish/seaweed fertilizer and some sand, which isn't a fertilizer, but you are supposed to add some every couple of years. Like other vaccinium they do well in acidic soils.