Cooking Series: Cranberries. Growing Your Own Cranberries
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Growing Your Own Cranberries
You do not need a bog to grow cranberries. They are a great addition to the home garden—and, come harvest time, they are a surprise condiment for holiday sauce and desserts.
Here’s all you need to know to grow cranberries at home:
A 10x5-foot plot will yield up to 10 pounds of delicious berries. Six 3-year-old plants spaced evenly throughout the bed will grow together to form a thick mat and produce during the first season.
Cranberries are best planted between late April and the end of May.
For best results, cranberries should be grown in full sun in a 50/50 mix of garden soil and composted bark (for acidity and drainage). If your soil is sandy, remove the top 8 inches and line the bottom of the bed with a sheet of 6-mil plastic.
Poke plenty of drainage holes in the plastic, then fill the bed with the soil mix. Scratch in 1/2 pound of 10-20-10 fertilizer, and you are ready to plant.
A light mulch of sawdust or sand will help to root the runners. Water the new plantings every day for 2 weeks, as you would the rest of your garden.
Flower buds open from late May to June and produce ripe fruit in late September to early October.
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