SNOW

[momofdrew]

Our first for this season... It wont stick but I guess I had better get my garlic in the raised bed this weekend...
I need to go over everything I planted this year and decide what I am not going to bother with and what I will do differently for next year...
then have fun planning the new garden...

 

[lesa]

We are scheduled for some snow too... Ugh! Well, the funny thing is, we never had a killing frost. I still have lots blooming in the garden, right now! This will be a first, snow kill, instead of frost kill! Happy Garden planning!

 

[Greenthumb18]

Were supposed to get a little snow Saturday. Is this weather crazy or what? I've been bringing some of my tender plants indoors that can't take the cold (aloe vera, citrus trees, banana tree, pointsettia) don't want to risk losing any of them.
I guess mother nature is a little out of the ordinary sometimes .

 

[vfem]

No snow here... but plenty of rain and we got frost from it. Very strange for this time of year. Last year it was 80 degrees on Halloween!

watching this snow come in all over the country right now is CRAZY!

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

it just wouldn't seem right if we could walk around with t-shirts under Halloween costumes instead of a heavy or winter coat!!!

 

[hoodat]

We are scheduled for some snow too... Ugh! Well, the funny thing is, we never had a killing frost. I still have lots blooming in the garden, right now! This will be a first, snow kill, instead of frost kill! Happy Garden planning!

If you can get a good snow covering your garden before a killing frost comes it will save you a lot of Winter damage to your garden. The snow acts as an insulatng blanket keeping the temperature around freezing instead of sub zero.

 

[lighthawk]

We have had a few flakes here and there but that is not uncommon. They are predicting higher than normal snowfall this year, something to do with la nina. Sure hope they are wrong. I live in the snowbelt on the eastern side of lake Michigan so I wind up with more than the rest of the state as a general rule. Spent all last weekend getting ready. I have had tender plants indoors for a month now but I had to make sure everything was put up where I will be shoveling and plowing. Nothing left on the deck but the snow shovel. This year I installed two thick plastic curtains on both sides (east and west) of the chicken run so hopefully I can keep the run clear without shoveling.

 

[momofdrew]

well that first snow flurry killed off what was left in the garden... I didnt get to planting my garlic...and we have at least a foot of snow drop on us yesterday and over night...we didnt loose our lights but my mulberry tree, box elder, crab apple and clumping birch are down well only part of the box elder that has mutipule trunks, it took out my gate and a piece of the yard fence, the mulberry split totally in half right down the middle and took out part of the veggie garden fence...some of my french lilacs have damage...this is very unusual for the north east to have measurable snow this early...it will melt and hopefully dry out so I can go finish my fall clean up...

 

[digitS']

That isn't such great news, Pam. Still, with power - gotta be thankful for that.

This was the same story for Denver & much of eastern Colorado a day or 2 ago: wet snow on leaf-covered deciduous trees, tearing down branches.

Here, we have had hard frost only recently. It is very late for that but the light frosts have succeeded in bringing down many of the tree leaves. Too bad the deciduous don't have the flexibility of the evergreens . . . but then, I guess we couldn't be calling them hardwoods.

Steve

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

what is even stranger here in NH is that many of our trees still have green or starting to turn leaves on them!