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Re: Cranberry Info Needed

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About 3 weeks ago, we were on a bus tour of Nantucket Island which included
the cranberry fields.  Although they are called bogs, they really are sandy
and not marshy, at least not on Nantucket.  The cranberries grow an air
bubble inside which renders them buoyant so they can be harvested by
flooding the "bog" then scooping up the floating berries.  The native wild
cranberries apparently grew in marshes.  I don't see why they should not be
grown in a square foot garden except they might not be very productive.  But
it might be helpful to look into soil types in areas of the US where
cranberries are grown commercial (Nantucket, New Jersey, Wisconsin. Rhode
Island, Washington, Oregon,  ..).  There are over 100 varieties  -  four
account for most of the $200,000,000 annual crop:  Early Black, Howes,
Searles and McFarlin (I read this somewhere).

Olin

-----Original Message-----
From: John Orwick <oldjohn@juno.com>
To: doreen@fgi.net <doreen@fgi.net>
Cc: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: Cranberry Info Needed


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>On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 20:13:28 -0600 "Doreen Howard" <doreen@fgi.net>
>writes:
>> One answer I've already received from a commerical source is 1,000
>>pounds per acre--which is hard to translate into a single plant.
>>Doreen
>
>With 43,560 square feet in an acre, that calculates to 43.5 square feet
>per pound. That sounds like a lot of space. I thought that Cranberries
>grew in Bogs. How do you create a SQ FT BOG ??
>
>oldjohn@juno.com
>John Orwick
>El Monte, CA [20 miles east of Los Angeles]
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