Re: GP snowpack
Alan & Sharon Eaton wrote:
>
> There is a good GP grower in Nova Scotia who tells me he is ahead of me
> with his growing this year since he has already rototilled his GP garden.
>
> This,as I look out my window at lots of snow over the garden.
>
> So decided to measure the depth,used an iron rod and measured 26" at
> several places.There has been no drifting,this is the actual average depth.
>
> Wondering if anyone on here presently has that depth on the ground.
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Hi Al...With that amount of snow, you qualify to be in Northern New
Brunswick...You got me going, I just had to take the old shovel out and
see what I could find. My first two mounds are under 37 and 39 inches of
snow with no drifting. On my third mound I quit at 5 feet but this one
being close to a fence does have a bit of drifting. My vegetable garden,
where there is a lot of drifting is covered with about 6 to 7 feet of
snow. We can still travel over the fences around the farm by snowmobile.
These measurements are just to the top of my mounds, not the ground
level itself. Because of all this snow, I have to make the mounds in the
fall...There isn't enough time in the spring to work the ground properly
after the snow has melted...
Al, isn't it disgusting the way people rub it in that they have already
"tilled their garden"....Ah,,,but's it's fun just knowing that our
pumpkin growing season is around the corner and that slow and easy does
the trick.......Ken Reinsborough....Dalhousie. N.B.
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