It's time to start planning the garden and I'm thinking about trying to plant cranberries -- the MacFarlane plant badge. So I did a little searching here, and found a number of older threads that might be of interest to my fellow XMTS newbies. http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...ge-help-41062/ http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...n-scots-20308/ http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...t-badge-50790/ http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...t-badge-25236/ http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-garden-58161/ http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...elp-2-a-41067/
Are you really going to try growing cranberries?
It looks do-able. They're a ground cover like blueberries....here's the first site I found: http://www.cranberrycreations.com/growing.html
Don't get too bogged down!
Cha chaa....I set that one up.
good luck, they need to be grown in a fairly acid soil, down around 4.5, if possible. If you don't have natively acid soil, it can be really hard to get the pH that low. Pretty much the same requirements for blueberries down here.
Tilling lots of rotted mulch and leaves into the ground wouldn't be a bad start on lowering the pH of your plot. Let us know how it all turns out.
--dbh When given a choice, most people will choose.
Natural plants are fantastic. Wouldn't it be great to have articicial plants available for all clans though ? Best, Robert
Robert Amyot-MacKinnon
[QUOTE=Ancienne Alliance;1147310]Natural plants are fantastic. Wouldn't it be great to have articicial plants available for all clans though ? /QUOTE] Yes, Robert, it would. My plant badge for Clan Stewart is the thistle and that plant is forbidden entry into California. It is considered a pest because it reproduces so easily and would be dangerous to the local plant life.
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Originally Posted by Destin_scot good luck, they need to be grown in a fairly acid soil, down around 4.5, if possible. If you don't have natively acid soil, it can be really hard to get the pH that low. Pretty much the same requirements for blueberries down here. Good tip. We've got blueberries started, but I keep meaning to do a ph test. Piberdbh, all the fall leaves go into the beds in November and we usually get more to mix in when spring comes around. .....we'll see.
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