[Market-farming] Garlic & Walking Onions & snow

Kate Halstead rockyprairie at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 23 20:34:19 EST 2009


We got our single digit temps....and then got 2 1/2 feet of snow mulch
followed by 5 to 12 inches of rain (depending on which valley you were in)
and the worse floods the area has ever seen.
 
So much for the mild weather of Western Washington. Extremes R Us. Now we've
been socked in with freezing fog for over a week and no end in sight. Burn
ban on so the wood stove is out, which means crank the electric and pile on
the layers. Whatever happened to 45 and rain (our old 'normal')? I promise
I'll never whine about it again, if it ever shows up.
 
Still feeling lucky when I see/hear what some of the rest of you have to put
up with on a very regular basis.
 
Kate, Zone 7 (or is it 4?) and getting very stir-crazy

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From: market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Shawnee
Flowerfarmer
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 5:16 PM
To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Garlic & Walking Onions & snow


I'm trying to be grateful for all the snow mulch on the stateline between
Illinois and Wisconsin.  Really! snow mulch is good!  Protects the plants
from these below zero temperatures, sort of.  I should just crawl in with
them until spring. How's everbody else doing, weather wise?
Shawnee, zone 5 and a bit winter goofy


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From: kampy at grm.net
To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:58:26 -0600
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Garlic & Walking Onions



Thank you Shawnee!

 

It will be interesting to see what happens.

 

Where are you that you have all that snow? We're supposed to get lots of
snow tonight.

 

Marie in Misosuri

 

Marie 

Kamphefner

kampy at grm.net

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To: market-farming@

Whatever else happens, those walking onions will walk all over your garden
just fine.  And if that didn't happen, and you want some more, email me
off-list and I will send you as many more sets as you could EVER  want-free!


(Ahem!  I still garlic sets in the back of my van)  Shawnee, zone 5, the
rest of the garlic safe under three of snow and a foot of straw mulch.

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From: kampy at grm.net
To: bobbett at alltel.net; market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:42:48 -0600
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Garlic & Walking Onions

Thanks Bobbett,

 

Now I feel better about planting them today. The road crew guy thought I was
crazy out planting today. I pretended not to notice him.

 

Toni, I'm glad I'm not the only one forgetting the bulbs. Maybe I don't have
"oldtimer's disease" after all?

 

Marie in Missouri

 

 

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