. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. --â¢-â.- Pine and Augustine mull over the first harvest in their house in Kingston, Mass. cost of the repair work was prohibi- tive, Pine said firmly, "Let's de- mystify this plumbing business," and they did just that. In fact, "with that point of view we proceeded in everything," says Augustine. The ground needed to be turned over in the large garden (one-third acre) in which they grew a variety of vegetables. The organic farmer does not use commercial fertilizers of any kind, but employs partially rotted veget
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. --â¢-â.- Pine and Augustine mull over the first harvest in their house in Kingston, Mass. cost of the repair work was prohibi- tive, Pine said firmly, "Let's de- mystify this plumbing business," and they did just that. In fact, "with that point of view we proceeded in everything," says Augustine. The ground needed to be turned over in the large garden (one-third acre) in which they grew a variety of vegetables. The organic farmer does not use commercial fertilizers of any kind, but employs partially rotted vegetables and plants from the previous year's garden and other naturally produced compost. No herbicides or pesticides are used either. With these roles in mind the women hoped to discover the efficient methods they believe have been provided in nature to help them grow large and healthy crops. A piece of cultivated land must sit fallow after pesticides and herbi- cides have been used on it, for I between five and forty years before it can be classified as fit for organic I growing. Augustine's and Pine's bog has not been worked for five years, and so it just qualifies. When asked how they plan to ; employ organic methods on the i bog, Pine replied that they would hand-weed the bog before blossoms â and after harvest and try to bring in , some ladybugs to fight off the j "bad" bugs. Other than that, regu- j lar practices of using bees for l pollination and possibly getting a sprinkler system set up was all they had figured out so far. Both women candidly seek advice from seasoned growers. The whole business of growing cranberries came over them in the form of an irresistable offer made last fall by the fruitful bog itself. The women had not put any energy into the bog the first spring . . "basically because when we moved in here," explained Augustine, "we had to fix up the house, and we put all our energy into that and the garden. All that we had heard
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