. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The Story Of Lulu Island, Vancouver, British Columbia Some 13 Growers Now Cultivating the American Cranberry of Commerce, Amid this Spectacular Metropolitan Area, with Spectacular Mountain Scenery All AboutâLarge Bogs on "Mined" Peat PropertiesâBeing the Second of a Series of West Coast Cranberry Articles. by Clarence J. Hall Lulu Island, a part of Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is the newest cranberry producing areaâof which I had heard much, but had never visited before. It began to come into the cranberry
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The Story Of Lulu Island, Vancouver, British Columbia Some 13 Growers Now Cultivating the American Cranberry of Commerce, Amid this Spectacular Metropolitan Area, with Spectacular Mountain Scenery All AboutâLarge Bogs on "Mined" Peat PropertiesâBeing the Second of a Series of West Coast Cranberry Articles. by Clarence J. Hall Lulu Island, a part of Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is the newest cranberry producing areaâof which I had heard much, but had never visited before. It began to come into the cranberry marketing picture in the late '40's. It was reputed as an area, where cranberry ibogs could be built inexpensively, relatively, because large tracts of land had already been cleared and "mined" of a few feet of top peat, these peat beds extendmg down to as much as 30 feet. These tracts, thus, made an ideal cranberry bed, on peat, which grows cranberries so well. The companies which mine this sphagnum peat sell it far and wide as peat moss for use in horticulture, such as on lawns, golf courses, shrubs, flowers, in greenhouses. It is, as is commonly known, a great soil builder. This clearing and mining of the top layer of peat left cleared beds of peat, and the beds were without utilization. So the growing of cranberries was the answer to the use of this waste land, just as the Cape Codders of more than a century ago utilized otherwise waste land on the Cape and began our cranberry industry. Lulu is Delta Land This island, perhaps 12 miles long by about five wide, thus comprising ' about 50-60 square miles is delta I land. That is, it is "made" land, fbuilt up over the centuries by the I washing down of soil from the mighty Fraser river, which runs far into the interior of enormous British Columbia. Just a word about this river, along which we were taken for 50 miles or soâmuch is fertile valley, where farming is in progress, but there are gorges and spec
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