Re: GP snowpack

At 04:59 PM 3/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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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Alan :
        He pulled the same stunt on me. I am going over very soon and 
when I am there I will steal the weather back to the Province it was 
ment to be sent to in the first place.

                                                Bill Van>

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