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		<title>Essential Harvests:  Dealing With Too Much Garden Production</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other day, we eluded to the concept we use that we&#8217;d call &#8220;essential harvests.&#8221; Let&#8217;s define that, which will help you more clearly understand our objectives with gardens and food harvesting. There&#8217;s little doubt that many gardens will produce far more food than is reasonably needed. The pictures we&#8217;re showing here illustrate the very [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lazy Gardening 101:  The Chop &#038; Drop Composting Method</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some folks don&#8217;t believe us when we tell them we are lazy gardeners. Anyone who&#8217;s been doing this for awhile is bound to figure out the easiest and laziest ways to do things. Today, we&#8217;re going to talk about one such technique that we call &#8220;chop and drop.&#8221; When you harvest plants, there&#8217;s often a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Repurposing Old Equipment:  Even &#8220;Old&#8221; Stuff Can Still Be Useful</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/06/12/repurposing-old-equipment-even-old-stuff-can-still-be-useful/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 03:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, if you&#8217;re a bit like us and have replaced or want to replace a given gardening setup, it&#8217;s a good idea to hold onto that old growing gear if you have the room for it. You might just find a great new use for it down the road! For example, we replaced pretty much [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chop &#038; Drop:  How We Leave Our In Ground Garden For Winter</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/09/25/chop-drop-how-we-leave-our-in-ground-garden-for-winter/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, now that our community garden is fairly well cleared out, we wanted to show you how we leave our garden going into winter. It might look messy, but there&#8217;s a method to our madness. We heavily practice a concept that we call &#8220;chop and drop.&#8221; Basically, this means that as we trim up our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chop &#038; Drop Gardening:  Saving Serious Time In The Garden</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/08/04/chop-drop-gardening-saving-serious-time-in-the-garden/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 02:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As many of you experienced gardeners know, not every aspect of growing is sexy and fun. We try to put at least a little bit of focus on those &#8220;less interesting&#8221; things, since they&#8217;re just as much part of the process. So, today we&#8217;re going to talk about chop and drop. When we harvest out [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our General Pre-Winter Composting Goals</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2023/09/20/our-general-pre-winter-composting-goals/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 02:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re always amused at just how many of you like to look at our compost piles over the season. So, we&#8217;re going to show you our piles as we start the descent into winter and talk about what our general goals are for winter composting. We&#8217;ve talked a fair bit about how we leverage both [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Organic Vs. Non-Organic Gardening Are Not Absolutes, Here&#8217;s Why!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2023/06/25/organic-vs-non-organic-gardening-are-not-absolutes-heres-why/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve gotten some flack in the past over the fact that we aren&#8217;t &#8220;purist&#8221; organic gardeners. We heavily use synthetic fertilizers, like them, recommend them and unabashedly stick up for them. That doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t practice a lot of organic techniques and other practices deeply focused on benefitting our environment. For example, here we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Early Season Compost Harvesting Is Always A Challenge In The North!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2023/05/19/early-season-compost-harvesting-is-always-a-challenge-in-the-north/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 02:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, we&#8217;re giving a shot at an early season compost harvest! Our spring harvest is always a bit challenging, since most of our compost pile is still frozen! This is our finished &#8220;wood chip&#8221; compost that we talk about, where we hot compost in the summer and cold compost over the long winter. This composting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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