Re: NB GP snow
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- Subject: Re: NB GP snow
- From: J* V*
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:02:25 -0800
Hi Al,
No problem with snow pack here on Vancouver Island (except the ski hills)
but I'm just about ready to start planting rice.
Jake -- Port Alberni
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> From: Alan & Sharon Eaton <eatrich@magma.ca>
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: NB GP snow
> Date: March 24, 1999 11:12 AM
>
>
> >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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> Ken-yes,agreed,it "frustrating the way some people rub it in",but you
know
> the story of the old bull and the young bull---our weather is the old
> bull,Giant Pumpkinly speaking.
>
> But you take the cake re snow.How did you ever grow the amazing 711
> provincial record in that sub-arctic climate.I predict too that your
record
> is safe for several more years.
> You can be justifable proud of that 711.
>
> I believe now that you take the prize for snow at present and I am a
> distant second for anyone on here.Don't usually chit-chat much
publicly,but
> is is a GP garden snow/ice pack. Time to let it
rest,and
> melt-----take care
>
>
>
>
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