Just don’t attach it where snow and ice could come crashing off the roof onto it! We have a metal roof, and it’s nothing you want to stand near. One year a nine inch layer of solid ice the length of our house came down with a crash, even bending the wrought iron porch railings. We could barely get out of our house.
i hear you. we have a metal roof on our garage. when it lets go w/ a foot or more of snow it makes one heck of a racket! heavy to move after.
@clarkinks
Not sure if there is a creative way to introduce microclimates on a slightly larger scale using windbreaks and otherwise? I guess that won’t protect against wrath of God hale storms, tornadoes, or May arctic blasts…which the plains get way too much… but maybe a way to add some variety to plantings so that a few trees produce something? I’m thinking of planting some fruit trees a half mile away. Not very far but just to see if I could get lucky and introduce some randomness into the scenario.
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i have 4 large norway spruces on the n.w side of my property. they make a thick windbreak and barely any snow builds under them. they saved many of my plants from the cold dry winter air. norway spruce are fast growing and one of the best windbreak trees hands down.
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