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Cold-Climate Gardening
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_seasonal_zo ... 94,00.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... i_67582654
Despite
a growing season that averages only 105 days, Alaskans have a weather condition that is almost unequaled. Specifically, Alaskan home gardeners encounter
no darkness during their growing season between June and August. With all that sunlight, everything tends to grow faster and bigger than what home gardeners in the lower 48 states are accustomed to.
Traduction libre:
Spécifiquement les jardiniers d'Alaska n'ont pas de période de noirceur pendant la période de culture entre Juin et Août.
Avec toute cette luminosité, tout à tendence à pousser plus vite et plus gros...
Would you believe
80-pound cabbages? And
zucchini that are the size of baseball bats? How about
having to mow your lawn three times a week? That's what Lowenfels has to do during the summer. Those baseball bat-sized zucchini also are "as tender as any six-inch zucchini you'd ever want to eat," he says.
The first question Lowenfels usually encounters from gardening strangers is, "What--gardening in Alaska?" He maintains, however, that his biggest problem is figuring out what not to grow.
As might be expected, vegetables that do best are the cool-season types like cole crops. Cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, kohlrabi and Brussels sprouts predominate, but he also grows potatoes and sugar snap peas. The latter will grow
20-foot vines during summer, Lowenfels says.
Flowers that do well include many annuals like marigolds, pansies and snap-dragons. Geraniums, dianthus, cosmos, sweet peas and even fuchsias are also popular.
Yes, fuchsias--those frost-tender plants that seemingly shiver their leaves off whenever temperatures drop below 50 degrees--are a garden mainstay in Alaska.