As hotflasjr said below, the cranberries are only flooded for process fruit harvest - or water harvest as we say, only about 3 days per field.
The cranberry vine is a groundcover - the whole field is covered, there are no rows. Look down at the picture of the dry harvester, thats what the fields look like all year, other than the vine changing colour - green in spring summer, slowly turning red in the fall to burgandy colour in the winter.
You are absolutly right about harvest. We get all excited about starting. We are waiting, and waiting. You get eager and start a little early just to try the equipment out. Then three days into full harvest you start counting down the days until you are done.
My cran babies as we call them - the red heads keep us going. My daughter, Clarajust turned 7 - she is a full red head like her mother and little Jack is 18 mo but mow he is blond just like I was. I'll put mor epics up later.
Hey hotflashjr, I'm surprised you guys still use helecopters, too expensive out here in BC. We still use them for fertlizing, but he will only come in for dad if he is doing a few of the neighbours - about 300 acres. I remember a helicopter pulling totes when I was about 5 or 6, but that is when everyone went to water harvest.
I have a furford - or western as well, I actually like it better than the darlingtons, but I got a good deal on them so thats what we use most.
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