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Old 03-22-2014, 03:12 AM
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Originally Posted by John Galt View Post
We've noticed here that the frost is the deepest late in winter/spring when the top layer of soil is thawed. It's common to see a bottom-of-frost depth of 12 feet on bare ground with no snow cover; and that's in a normal year.
You have to be pretty far north in Canada to see frost that extreme. You are safe at four feet locally. Most years will not even be close to it. I have been waiting for the snow to melt. A couple of days ago we found three inches of frost where we will be digging after the weekend hopefully.
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