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Heavy snow cover means great gardening.
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toni
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject: Heavy snow cover means great gardening. |
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I got this link in a email newsletter from Burpee Gardens. All these years I have been a fanatic for snow and now I have proof that snow is a good thing 
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS279688+27-Feb-2008+PRN20080227
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Very useful link! Thank you Toni. The article is spot on when describing the snow as a duvet. I'm preparing for the fact that some of my tender plants are gone because of the barefrost and winds this winter.
Come April, I'm outside fertilizing if we get a snow fall. The plants won't burn and the snow helps dissolving and distributing the goodies.
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Netty
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I always shovel my porches off onto my gardens for extra protection. We had had a lot of snow this year, but also a few complete meltdowns followed by flash freezes. I'm expecting a few casualties this spring 
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kuntrygal
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:02 am Post subject: |
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Toni, are you going to build a snowman and show him off? How much snow does your area have. I have been watching CH 8 and the pictures they are showing are gorgeous. 
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:28 am Post subject: |
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Toni do tell us how much that snow helps your garden ,It did help mine last year.They said on tv Dallas has gotten about 8 inches and is still falling.I know if you got it too you are out playing and snaping pictures.
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toni
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| glendann wrote: | | They said on tv Dallas has gotten about 8 inches and is still falling.I know if you got it too you are out playing and snaping pictures. |
Nowhere in Dallas county got more than about a half inch of snow, the 8-9" happened up along the Texas/Oklahoma state line.
I got a few large wet flakes but none stuck. We got a trace of sleet this morning and about 1.5 inches of rain but no snow.
Everything has moved off to the northeast so the fun stuff is gone.
| kuntrygal wrote: | | Toni, are you going to build a snowman and show him off? How much snow does your area have. I have been watching CH 8 and the pictures they are showing are gorgeous. |
The pictures were pretty but most of it melted pretty quick.
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Palm Tree
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: |
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Now there we have it and I am so glad about it too.
Not only is snow a lot of fun to play in - it is also good for soil.
I especially like the duvet simile. 
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