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Walden Effect

Boy was that groundhog right.  I've always heard that snow grabs nitrogen out of the air, fertilizing the ground.  But is it really true?  A search of the internet turned up these interesting facts....

...snow and rain probably deposit the same amount of nitrogen.  So, rain is the poor man's fertilizer too.

...the amount of nitrogen deposited by rain or snow doesn't depend on the number of inches of precipitation.  In fact, one study showed that as the amount of precipitation increased, the concentration of nitrogen in that precipitation decreased.  In other words, rain or snow washes the nitrogen out of the air --- if it keeps raining or snowing after a certain point, the available nitrogen up there gets depleted.

So I guess I'll just have to enjoy the beauty of snow and not count on masses of fertilizer!

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