White Halloween? Yes, it snowed yesterday in New York! But not at all in a magical Christmas way… Here’s a glimpse of what we had to deal with pretty much all day long.
According to a city official, the last time New York had a such an early snowfall was 140 years ago, when in 1879 “the earliest accumulation of at least one inch of snow in Central Park” occurred on November 1st (Read more in this NYT article).
The situation upstate, predictably, was even more severe. According to my sources, there was snow in the garden already on Friday, and yesterday the ground was covered by 16 inches of it.
Needless to say, I’m very happy that I did my garlic planting last weekend. Why was I doing it in October anyway? You see, garlic is a biennial plant, which means it takes 2 years to mature. If you planted a garlic seed in the spring, it would grow into a single little bulb — not a cluster of cloves that we’re used to buying in the market – by the end of the year. Over the winter that bulb would split into individual cloves that . . . CONTINUE READING → Garlic & Halloween Snow
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