
Berries · Perennial
Cranberry
Ericaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 30 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–7b
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 28 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:raised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- heavy / waterlogged
Seed & start
Perennial
Plant once, returns every year.
Stachi's tip
Cranberry wants acidic, permanently moist soil (pH 4-5) — like blueberry but even wetter. In a raised bed only with its own acid-moist zone.
The plant's year: sowing, transplanting, harvest
Sowing
No sowing weeks recorded.
Transplanting
Harvest
Good neighbours
Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Avoid these neighbours
No known conflicts.
Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline+gpt-5-review
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
- Gartenakademie Rheinland-Pfalz – Cranberry, die rote Beere aus Nordamerika (https://www.gartenakademie.rlp.de/Gartenakademie/Themen/Boden-und-Pflanze/Cranberry-dieroteBeereausNordamerika)
Where these figures come from
- Timing
- Horticulturally established — consistent across the cited standard works.
- Spacing
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
- Companion planting
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
- Crop rotation
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
- Yield
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Sources: LLM-Baseline+gpt-5-review · LLM-Baseline-Intercrop · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer · LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage · Gartenakademie Rheinland-Pfalz – Cranberry, die rote Beere aus Nordamerika (https://www.gartenakademie.rlp.de/Gartenakademie/Themen/Boden-und-Pflanze/Cranberry-dieroteBeereausNordamerika)
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