Re: OT: Weather
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: OT: Weather
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 22:54:30 -0700 (MST)
Barb in Santa Fe wrote:
>Hi, Ellen--if you can find a source of mulch, you can still mulch right on
>top of the snow (that might even prevent some premature melting). Well,
>like I would really know, being from somewhere where the snow rarely stays
>on the ground for more than a few days, but I've heard it elsewhere...
Oh yes, that is the thing to do *but* since I always mulch with
pine needles...they are buried under the snow and the *ice*, now.
We are going to change our mulching habits next year...it is always
a guessing game about the snow and now this year, the buried pine
needles. The conifers are still doing their ice-coated-branch
rendition so if they recover, we will lop some of them off in our
woods in which, mercifully, most trees are still standing.
We still have snow cover and it is snowing heavily which is what
we like on the flowers. We trust the irises are napping.
Very, very cold and a terrible wind. More freezing rain today in
New Hampshire to add more ice. Some communities that escaped the
power outage lost their power today as more trees fell or cracked.
Most white birch are bent completely to the ground...
Ellen
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Ellen Gallagher / e_galla@moose.ncia.net
Siberian iris robin / sibrob@ncia.net
Northern New Hampshire, USA / USDA Zone 3
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