American Cranberry

[Bowsnbucks]

Does anyone have experience growing American Cranberry ?? Most info says they like wet ground, but does anyone have success in just moist soil ?? ( Not in wet, marshy ground ) Thinking about planting some A.C. but don't want to risk trying if they don't fare well in just regular moist soil.

 

[Jameson]

Viburnum trilobum?

I have some planted at my parent's place, and some planted at a hobby farm I used to hunt. Stuff at the parents isn't on wet ground at all, nice drier hillside, and are growing great. Stuff planted at the farm was planted in wetter ground, but not swamp, and they did very well.

 

[H20fwler]

I'm putting out a bunch that I am getting from the state this spring in my brush strips. It will be in moist ground.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Jameson - Yes - Viburnum trilobum. From most of the info on it, it sounds like planting anywhere other than wet ground is useless. If you have it growing well on a drier hillside, I'll give them a try. We have some wetter ground, but other things are planted there. Don't want to crowd.

Gonna have to cage them to get them big enough to maybe survive bears coming to dinner. It's a shot in the dark, but worth a try. So many things we'd like to plant, but the #*&!!% bears will destroy them.

 

[Native Hunter]

What Stu just said ^

I have a viburnum trilobum in my back yard on a fairly dry slope in partial shade, and it grows like crazy and just keeps spreading by sending out shoots.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Stu, post #5 - Yep. I should have said highbush cranberry. I know the difference, but didn't word it clearly / correctly. Trilobum is the one I'm referring to.

Native - Good to know the hillside works for you. We have a good number of small springs that seep out of our hillsides here & there, so soil is moist in many places. One section of our property along a mountain road has small springs ( tiny trickles ) running all through it. I may try some in there to also help as a road screen. Soil isn't sopping wet and no standing water, but it's certainly moist.

 

[Sconnie]

We did a few hundred Highbrush Cranberry about 7 years ago. Most are near the river bottom in moist sandy loam ground that gets flooded once or twice each year, those are the plants that have grown the best. As you get farther from the river and drier they grow; just more slowly. I love the cover they provide and so do the deer, turks, and grouse!

 

[bwoods11]

I would like to try HB Cranberry. For whatever reason it has never been recommended to me on tree plans. Next time!

 

[chummer]

I have a massive one growing in the center of a clover plot. I get more pics of deer browsing it than eating the clover. There is always a partridge or two under it as well. It is growing in a place that floods but then dries very fast. I wish had more but that seems to be the only one around.