Brussel Sprouts Await the First September Frost
My garden is host to ten Brussels Sprouts plants, each are sporting rows of miniature sprouts climbing the thick, stout stalks. This vegetable will continue to grow and mature well after the first frosts of September, and will actually become sweeter and more tender as a result of the cold weather. I will cull the sprouts from their stalks sometime during mid September, blanching, vacuum sealing and freezing them for use during winter. Time for tending my garden is growing to an end for several weeks, my Artist-in-Residence at Denali National Park is nearly here and I need to get packed and ready.
Gail Niebrugge, Landscape painter