The cranberry, also known as the cranberry orange, is a lingonberry evergreen small shrub dwarf trailing vine plants, mainly grown in cooler areas, and cranberries with high water, low calorie, high fiber, multi-mineral and other characteristics, especially popular.
Cranberries grow where
Cranberries are grown on the ground, but there are two methods of harvesting, one is wet harvesting, the other is dry harvesting, more commonly used is the wet method of harvesting, it will make people feel that it is growing in the water, wet harvesting is in the field inside the water, to let the water level higher than the canes of its cane, so that cranberries will be floating on the water surface, this time to the fruits of the circle together can be harvested. The cranberries will float on the surface of the water, and then the fruit will be circled together and ready for harvesting.
Where to grow cranberries
Cranberries like to grow in highly acidic soil, which makes them grow better. Usually cranberries grow in very cold wetlands and are found in producing regions around the world, mainly in the five northern states of the United States.
The cranberry grows at the base of large mountains, near lakes, bogs, or ponds, and in North America it grows mainly in soil deposited by dissolving glaciers.
The cranberry looks like
The cranberry plant height between 5-20 centimeters, vine-like branches longer, spreading two meters or so, small flowers for the dark pink, the form of a crane, the flower head and mouth more like a crane, also called the crane berry, the fruit is 2-5 centimeters long, ripe and then become crimson, the taste of the heavy acid, slightly sweet.