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Variety trials workshop to feature taste tests

November 20, 2019

Marmian Grimes

A  Nov. 22 workshop on the Georgeson Botanical Garden vegetable variety trials will include taste tests of beet and carrot varieties.

Photo by Debbie Carter. Glenna Gannon prepares to harvest Brussels sprouts grown for the 2019 variety trials.
Photo by Debbie Carter. Glenna Gannon prepares to harvest Brussels sprouts grown for the 2019 variety trials.


Glenna Gannon, the research coordinator for the variety trials, will talk about the trials, the vegetables that were tested, results and best practices for growing these vegetables. The workshop will run from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, in Room 154 of the University Park Building, 1000 University Ave.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension will host the free workshop. Participants are asked to sign up at http://bit.ly/2QAi1Ha. The Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station has conducted the trials the past three summers.