Cranberry (vaccinium) has strong antibiotic properities with unusual abilities to prevent infectious bacteria from sticking to cells lining the bladder and urinary tract. Thus, it helps prevent recurring urinary tract (bladder) infections. Cranberry also has antiviral activity.
Cranberries can be grown in a raised bed of sand and peat. Gardeners allow one foot between plants and sides of the bed, and two feet between plants. Take about one half foot of the top soil away. Now add a half and half mixture of peat and sand to fill in the six inches you removed. Gardeners recommend adding bone meal (1 cup), epsom salt (1cup), and rock phosphate (1cup) to the peat and sand mixture.
Set your cranberry plants slightly lower than the surface. Fertilize with high nitrogen emulsion in spring and again when the fruit sets. Cranberries do not adapt to a high ph (potential hydrogen) soil mix. The longer cranberries stay on the bush the sweeter they become. Try to hold off untill the first heavy frost.
Researchers no longer believe cranberries raise the urine to high acidic concentrations. Any acidic effect of cranberries is very mild, not likely to be harmful or irritating to the bladder.
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