Can anybody help me with a few seeds of the American Cranberry?
Thanks in advance,
Elsa
CLOSED: Wanted: Vaccinium macrocarpon (American Cranberry)
is that the same thing a high bush cranberry?
I googled "High bush cranberry". According to the info I got , it is Viburnum trilobum, and cause vomiting if eaten in large quantities. The American Cranberry is easy to grow. My youngest doesn't eat grapes at all, and I usually substitute cranberries in recipes. It gets rather costly - think they are imported, and would like to grow some in my vegetable patch.
Hi Elsa, Happy New Year!!!
We call those bog cranberries, not American cranberries which would kill your son :)) Don't want to do that!
Get some help on this, but they are harder than heck to grow and only grow in a specific part of the country "where nothing better will grow". (People in Massachusettes might take exception to me sayihng that, but it's aquote I heard often on the cape. They grow where there is a very, very acidic soil, a bunch of water, and some special moss or something. They are not a vegetable garden plant at all. So sorry because it was a really good idea.
Suzy
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/53170/
Hi Elsa,yes Happy New Year from me too...how did you go with the cannas,sorry don't mean to hijack this thread
Hi Suzy,
I read an article on the internet saying that it isn't hard at all to grow the above mentioned cranberry, but I can't find it now... so typical! Anyway, seeing that it isn't according to you folks that know, I'll just have to grow other berries. ........ Thanks so much for the info.
Elsa
Hi Judy,
The cannas are doing great. Our temps hasn't been as high as usual, so they were a bit slower to flower. Apart from the temps, the tree that was not supposed to cast any shade had a growth spurt and they received some shade- I transplanted them, and four of the different batches of seed has been flowering. Will take pictures and upload them. So far they are all yellow/apricot, but different shades. The brown/purple leaved ones hasn't flowered yet, but they are growing nice and big, so I don't think it will be long.
I gave some of the plants to my mom, and she has a pink-ish flower as well as a lovely red. Can't tell you the names unfortunately as it isn't important to her, and my little Pekingese puppy decided that the name tags I had in my garden were solely for his entertainment. Needless to say, I don't have which are which, but luckily it doesn't take away from the pleasure they give me. Thanks so much for sharing your lovely seeds with me.
Were those I mailed you any good?
Elsa,
First you need a bog! Here is the link to the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association which will give a bunch of basic information about Vaccinium macrocarpon. I haven't ever heard of a "high bush" cranberry, though there are high bush blueberries here which are cultivated varieties.
I come from a double cranberry background. I am from New Jersey which has a healthy cranberry crop every year and now I live in Massachusetts, north of Boston, somewhat north of the bogs here.
Go to www.cranberries.org to find out more about our North American Cranberry. You will still need a bog, but you will have better luck finding information. Also, my daughter's university, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has a Cranberry Station down in Mass near the Cape {Cod, that is}. They have a very informative website also. www.umass.edu/cranberry This will give you some agricultural information as well. UMass-Amherst is our state agricultural college, among other things. Go UMASS!!
Happy New Year and good luck to you with growing cranberries. The European ones are different.
Martha
{from Massachusetts!}
Thanks Martha! I will have a look. This is the website I got the idea from...http://seedrack.com/10.html. I don't have a bog :( Guess that is the end of my "Cranberry Dream"
Elsa