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bliss,n.y.- heart of Wyoming County

My grandfather always maintained that a good winter snowfall was good for the land. He called it " the poor mans fertilizer."
Was this a myth or does the formation of snow flakes attach to nitrogen atoms/molecules in the atmosphere and thereby add N to the land?

Does anyone know?

11/19/2008 12:03:47 PM

Waquoit Mass

ever see the hay fields on the ny thruway on the way to niagra? they appear green at melting in the spring. poor mans nitrogen yup

11/19/2008 1:01:12 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Reality...Snow traps nitrogen..look it up..Along with Lightning

11/19/2008 1:49:48 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

Big Al Berard "wait till next year" always said that!

11/19/2008 5:28:13 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Snow brings nitrogen down, but so does rain. All my plants look better immediately after a rain, better than they do if I ran the irrigation on them. The benefit seems to be short-lived, and in my area at least, infrequent.

11/19/2008 6:19:32 PM

Rhode Island

dave if i put my house plants out in a blizzard will they still get some much needed nitrogen?

11/19/2008 9:28:08 PM

Marion,IN

check out Tom Beachys diary from a couple years back, he has a picture of an amish farmer plowing his field when it is snowing.

11/19/2008 11:30:34 PM

Georgia

Nitrogen or not send some of that snow down our way....this drought has got to end.

11/20/2008 8:40:05 AM

bliss,n.y.- heart of Wyoming County

Jason D
Bring a truck. You can have all you want from wny in return for 20 degrees of additional souther heat.. grin..

11/20/2008 9:54:43 AM

Georgia

lOL...bill..will do and ill even give ya 25 degrees.

11/20/2008 10:20:31 AM

[email protected]

Correct...Snow fixes atmospheric N & delivers it to Earth.

11/20/2008 2:34:19 PM

Waquoit Mass

if theres a lot left in that keg you may be out in that blizzard pap lol

11/20/2008 3:39:31 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

When you start talking about a keg, that brings to mind a way to add highly concentrated nitrogen to your patch..........

11/21/2008 12:30:02 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Dave, on the way to Niagara,last year...all I saw was SNOW...BIG GIANT FLAKES for about 300 MILES!!!!!!!!! YAHOO!!!!!!!! LOL Peace, Wayne

11/22/2008 2:30:35 AM

Darfield, British Columbia, Canada

That it right and parts of Ontario got up to four feet of the nitrogen laced powder. I'm glad I live on the west coast

11/22/2008 11:14:02 AM