January 2026 Ice Storm

Sunday evening after scraping ice off the tunnels for the second time. Just gotta stop and appreciate the beauty even if it’s inconveinent.

Last Saturday night into Sunday brought on of the worst ice storms the upstate of South Carolina has seen in a long time. As I write this 5 days later, we are still covered in 2” of ice in places on the farm. Drifts of 8-10” in some places like in-between hoop houses.

Our new mini hoops on the left there held up really well. They are gothic style which is worth the extra money if you get even one snow a year. The snow sheds off them so much faster and easier.

We had to make tee-pee tents for some of our sweet peas- they were already climbing 3’ high. They did take a bit of damage in the 8 degrees of Monday night. But we’ll just prune back a little and they’ll regrow before we know it.

You know- my gut told me this was going to be a doozy of a winter. We have another several inches of snow coming tomorrow evening. Some rain next week to melt all this off would be very much appreciated! Time to get ready for round 2!