Cranberry quotations: What is reality?
The web site for the American Cranberry Company contains some hackle-raising punctuation. The frequent use of quotation marks may imply that all is not as it appears. Here is an excerpt:
2. How are cranberries grown? Cranberries are grown in “bogs.” A bog is an area of wet, spongy ground with soil made up of decaying vegetative matter. For cranberries, you also need very sandy, acidic soil. The bogs are traditionally surrounded by “dams” to aid irrigation, flooding and harvesting.
3. How do cranberries grow?
Cranberries grow on “vines” that travel along the ground, called “runners” and with shoots, called “uprights.” The vines get very thick in the bogs and “choke” almost all other plants so that the bogs are almost all cranberry vines. The vines produce a “bud set” where the actual berry is produced.
(Thanks to investigator Karen Hopkin for bringing this to our attention.)