Gardening in Alaska : Snow Makes Sprouts Sweeter

Talk Dirt To Me

Do you love to make mud pies, grow a houseplant, eat veggies, or stop to smell the bouquet on your co-workers desk? Everyone enjoys a bit of green growing around him or her and then there are those that are passionate and needy when it comes to dabbling in the dirt. With this blog, we'll try to satisfy those needs and tell you about what's going on with the Anchorage gardening scene. You know, as I finally learned, it's all about the dirt.

Photographer and gardener Fran Durner (fdurner@adn.com) writes the blog.

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Snow Makes Sprouts Sweeter

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Posted: November 4, 2008 - 3:59 pm

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Caralee Hendrickson, left, Autumn Coleman and Julia Nelson harvest brussels sprouts from a Vanderweele Farms field recently. Stephen Nowers/ADNGlad to see that we can keep extending the growing season with those cool weather cole crops such as the brussels sprouts.

Julia Nelson adds brussels sprouts to a tote during a harvest at Vanderweele Farms. Stephen Nowers/ADNI keep hearing how cabbage and carrots and potatoes only grow sweeter with a few frosts or so, but honestly, how do you dig them when the ground is frozen?

I'm still throwing my kitchen scraps outside in a pile but was also covering them with a shovel of dirt every so often. Only now, my shovel just makes a hollow ringing sound when it hits the ground.

I think I'll just let the carrots and cabbage sweeten in the fridge from now on.

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