We took snow blower and blew snow on flowerbeds. To help plants from this not normal low temps. Hope it helps.
Your plants will love it under the snow. Mine were buried under five feet of the white stuff a couple of years ago and came back without mishap.
My strawberry plants are under about 3 feet of snow right now. All snuggled under their blanket until spring.
Great idea! (Snow ought to be useful for something!). Lacking snow, I now have Christmas tree limbs protecting a couple of new/tender perennials. All the others have been through this before without damage. Koszta, I love the way you use what is to hand--very smart of you!
Jane snow is known as "the poor mans nitrogen". So, evidently it is really useful and we don't realize it immediately.
Yes Carolyn, but I prefer "nitrogen" that I don't have to shovel! Up north, I used to judge what might be the last snow of the season ( hope trumps experience!) and just throw lettuce seed out on the snow in the garden. It planted itself with the melt, and the extra nitrogen was good for the lettuce. Now I use compost with rotted chicken manure in it. It still needs shoveling to some extent, but the temperature isn't in the 'teens when I toss!
No need to blow extra snow on the gardens ... mother nature has already put at least a foot all over everything! I do shovel off the decks onto the garden for extra protection from the bunnies. They cant eat it if its covered!
Three years ago we had a lot of snow, and very low temps. All our plants did fine. Last winter we had no snow and very low temps, and I lost count of dead plants. I'm glad you've got snow when it's so cold.
I only panic when we have a - coldspell temps when we don't have snow cover....the snow does help protect the plants from the weather but not from the voles, etc. that are underground....and that love eating the plants or bulbs.
You cannot buy calcium chloride ice meltter around here for love nor money and I am so sick of shoveling---if only the Wednesday warning is winters last gasp!!--------------Weedy
