. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. POOR DRAINING PEAT by F. B. Chandler Poor draining peats are much are rebuilt, only a more common in the building and rebuilding of cranberry bogs than is generally realized. Bogs built with this kind of peat are charac- terized by very poor growth of vines. The bog photographed in Figure 1 was planted twice and still needs to have vines set in some locations. This bog is unus- ually slow to vine in, but slow- vining conditions similar to those shown in Figure 2 are very com- mon. Greasy Peat The peat which causes this trouble is o
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. POOR DRAINING PEAT by F. B. Chandler Poor draining peats are much are rebuilt, only a more common in the building and rebuilding of cranberry bogs than is generally realized. Bogs built with this kind of peat are charac- terized by very poor growth of vines. The bog photographed in Figure 1 was planted twice and still needs to have vines set in some locations. This bog is unus- ually slow to vine in, but slow- vining conditions similar to those shown in Figure 2 are very com- mon. Greasy Peat The peat which causes this trouble is often described as greasy, because it is very slippery and sticks to shovels, etc., The peat is well decomposed, although it may have an occasional piece of wood in it. This type of peat is very closely packed and has such a small pore space (air space) that the roots do not grow into the peat. Furthermore, as there is very little pore space, this peat cannot be a water reservoir and receive water from the sand above it or give water to the sand above it. Needless to say, if the roots will not grow in the peat and the sand does not receive water frcm the peat, the vines which are set in the sand have very little chance to live. A similar type of vine growth sometimes occurs in peats which will drain well and which have a fairly large pore space, but where the water is held too high. One grower kept the water at the sur- face of the bog after planting, and It took ten years to vine in. Some growers have removed the vines and sand from an old bog which had a fair or good produc- tion and a greasy peat as a bot- tom; thus, poor vine growth re- sulted in the rebuilt bog. It is probable that the original bog was slow to vine in, but once it did vine, production was fair to good, or even excellent. This would in- dicate the bog was operated in the past only on sand which was deep enough to hold the necessary water; however, when these bogs small amount of sand is put over the greasy p
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