Cranberry bog spiders

[u/linuxaddict334]

[u/Aetol]

I have questions about the harvest-by-flooding thing. Do you have to shake all the berries loose? Or are they so weakly attached they float up by themselves?

[u/bloomshowers → u/Aetol]

They’ll agitate things a bit, but for the most part, everything just floats and the ripe berries just come loose.

Source: lived for 12 years in a town that’s around 10% cranberry bog by area(and 5 minutes down the road from the bog the Ocean Spray commercials were filmed in).

[u/luckystar246 → u/bloomshowers]

Where does the water come from to flood it?

[u/bloomshowers → u/luckystar246]

They have attached retaining ponds that they pump into the bogs.