Growing cranberries?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 25 Jul 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

catlin	25 Jul 2002
I absolutely love cranberries but they are hard to get in Germany (and if you get them, they are expensive as hell) so I am wondering if it is possible to grow them here on a balcony? Has anyone tried this already out?

Marion	25 Jul 2002
Wow, different climtes I guess. They grow wild around Nova Scotia, you can pick yourself sackfuls of them in the fall. The main thing I know about cranberries is they like lots of water. Commercially here they grow them in semi-swamps.

catlin	25 Jul 2002
Hi Marion, Thanks for the help! Hm, I will check out some catalogues and see if I can get some seeds or cranberry plants to grow them.

Laurel	25 Jul 2002
I think cranberries require too much room to grow well on a balcony... like marshes with acidic boggy soil. But I found a webpage for you that talks a little bit about cranberries as house plants! http://www.cranberrycreations.com/info.html#whygrow Laurel

amyel	25 Jul 2002
Catlin, I regret to tell you that cranberries require alot of moisture and room to bear fruit. Even in North America, they don't seem to be "everywhere"...I know the state of Maine is a big cranberry region, as are a couple of the Canadian East coast provinces. Not sure about the west coast, but I assume they do grow out there. So, regretfully, I don't think they would do very well on a balcony in a container - and even if you got it grow, I doubt it would produce fruit. Having said that, can you get dried cranberries in Germany? We get them here. They dry like raisens and are quite tart...but oh so yummy!

jade	26 Jul 2002
jade runs off to the cupboard to get her dried cranberries.......... munching while typing............ *mouth full* yup, they grow them here in beautiful supernatural british columbia! jade :D ps do you know how much rain we get? toooooooooo much!

amyel	26 Jul 2002
Quote: Originally posted by jade ps do you know how much rain we get? toooooooooo much! I'd like a little of that rain, jade. It's raining here today for the first time in....oh, maybe three weeks! Feel free to send a nice two hour shower here once a week, preferrably at night, and I'll not complain!

jade	26 Jul 2002
oh, but we haven't had any rain for weeks either.....my garden can attest to that! but otday it's a little cloudy so maybe we will get some. (just as i typed those words the sun came out heehee) oh well, maybe some rain next week. love jade

purplelady	26 Jul 2002
It is very very dry here, I think it has rained ONCE all summer so far. I like cranberries quite a bit. Frozen cranberry juice concentrate is good. I once bought the dried cranberries and used them in homemade bread. That was really good! I wouldn't even attempt to grow them inside though.

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