Gigantic VEGETABLES of Alaska

Introduction

Imagine on a beautiful sunrise you wake up, going to have a cup of coffee in the garden; and see an enormous, gigantic pumpkin bumped over the soil!

This is what happens daily in Alaska. How do 138-pound cabbage, 35-pound broccoli and65 pound cantaloupe pop up from the soil in Alaska?

Are there any more enormous vegetables or fruits? Why these are only in Alaska and not in your garden?

Are they nutritious and tasted similar to ours? How does it even happen? 

What are the magical elements leading this wonderful miracle? Well, all your answers are here.

Nature’s grace over Alaska  

Alaska is one of those countries which is situated near the north pole of the globe. Hence it is extremely vulnerable to continuous climatic changes. The country possesses only 105 days, an extremely short season for growing and agriculture.

But every change has both effects and effects. While it has a very short duration to encourage agriculture, it also receives 20  hours of Cheerful sunshine daily. Hence veggies get more and more sunlight, better metabolic rates, and time to grow bigger and bigger every day. More sunlight means more photosynthesis hence more growth. Thus day by day they become vast and attains their maximum size at maturity.

Taste and texture

Its quite simple to understand that if more photosynthesis occurs, more sugar will develop. Hence while eating an Alaskan carrot, the texture feels to be similar to other carrots however tastes more sugary. It seems that someone has injected a complete sugar serum into it. Not only broccoli, cauliflower, pumpkin, potato are there, but also carrot, radish, spinach, and lettuce are huge. 

Sometimes I wonder about Mahatma Gandhi’s statement that we have enough for everyone to feed but nothing for greed. Who says that there is not enough food for the world; this single Alaskan pumpkin can feed a whole army dying of hunger.

How they cultivate?

Well, excellent production requires excellent innovation. As many Obstacles hinder a path, that many alternatives man creates beyond. This experiment of agriculture here flashbacks straight to the 1930s. To overcome the great depression of that era, people decided to cultivate and merged lands to work together. 

However rapid climatic changes and soil texture didn’t support their efforts and up to the 1940s most of the families went by. Now remained only 20 families who had cattle to survive and feed themselves.

They started to sow seeds in January and started to transfer saplings from one pot to another and waited until May. As soon as the sun started to shower its golden rays, they transferred saplings into the soil. The warmth and long days nourished saplings to turn them into gigantic vegetables. And here there are; winning most years biggest vegetable fairs, attracting every other country towards its unique, delicious, enormous vegetables. 

Conclusion

The right thing achieves its right value only at its right place. These incredible vegetables taste betters than other vegetables in various countries. Hence, these are more nutritious too.

To grow such huge agricultural products, farming requires elaborate and extensive irrigation and fertilizer mechanism.

Also, the selection of the correct variety of seeds decides all the future of upcoming crops.

Every time after winning the heaviest and biggest vegetable fair of the world, these delicious vegetables are submitted to the wildlife animals where these contests are held.

High tunnels, low tunnels greenhouses, and many other technologies have made these vegetables grow in an appropriate period of growth time.

Along with vegetables, Matanuska- Susitna valley of Alaska also serves delicious fruits like berries, cherries, apples, huge watermelons, and many more.

However, the cabbages and pumpkins of Alaska have always captivated everyone’s sight over them.

So at least once a time, each of us must enjoy the incredible innovation of Nature; Where nature puts all its elements together with humans to arise a glorious, unpredictable, and unbelievable miracle!