Antarctica is turning into a garden paradise. 🍉
At the continent’s Vostok Station, less than 1,000 miles from the South Pole, Russian researchers were able to grow eight watermelons in conditions not well suited to the summertime snack,over the weekend. The largest watermelon grew to 5.11 inches in diameter, while the heaviest was a mere 2.2 pounds.
The fruits’ “taste and aroma are not worse than” those of your regular old watermelon, Andrey Teplyakov, a geophysicist at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, which runs the station, said in a translated statement, according to theTo grow the watermelons, the researchers planted them without soil in a greenhouse at the station in early April.
noted. And while it’s quite impressive to see these sorts of fruits and vegetables sprout up in one of the coldest places on the planet, the experiments are also meant to see whether produce could be grown at future stations in space.Culinary Masters 2023
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