Handley discusses how snow helps plants with News Center
News Center Maine interviewed David Handley, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist, about how snow can help strawberries, blueberries and other crops and plants. Snow can serve as an insulator, said Handley, who spoke to News Center Maine at Highmoor Farm, a Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station in Monmouth. “Though temperatures can be well below zero above that snow line, just a few inches beneath it, they are hovering around freezing, or just a few degrees less, temperatures the plants can tolerate,” he said.