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	<description>Our subarctic gardening experience in Fairbanks, Alaska...</description>
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		<title>Our Greenhouse Heating Strategy:  How To Not Light Hundred Dollar Bills On Fire</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Night number one in the greenhouse was a success! Despite temperatures getting down into the mid-20&#8217;s, our plants were just fine! So, let&#8217;s do a multi-part series on our greenhouse &#8211; how greenhouses work, the design and heating systems we use and what our general goals are! We&#8217;ve spent a lot of time pursuing what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Preference Between Shelf Based vs. Table Based Indoor Nurseries</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A theme you&#8217;ll likely notice about our indoor nursery is that we grow on tables, in contrast to popular shelf based systems. This is on purpose and has become our preference after trying things out both ways. A big reason we like growing on a &#8220;single plane&#8221; is because we can see all our plants, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Growing A Garden From Seed Really Cheaper Than Buying Plants?</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2026/03/19/is-growing-a-garden-from-seed-really-cheaper-than-buying-plants/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of our interests in gardening is understanding the economic side of it. We call this &#8220;gardening economics&#8221; and it&#8217;s the study of input costs, garden outputs and the general &#8220;profit and loss&#8221; the garden presents. We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but almost all home gardens are &#8220;upside down&#8221; from a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Energy Efficiency When Growing From Seed:  An Intro To Scalability</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2026/03/18/energy-efficiency-when-growing-from-seed-an-intro-to-scalability/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grow Rooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Growing Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indoor Garden Lighting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In our season kickoff post, we glossed over a term &#8220;early season grow room&#8221; that deserves a bit more exploration. Especially for us northerners that pay a pretty penny for their electricity. Energy is, hands down, the largest cost input of raising our garden from seed in the subarctic! One of the design parameters we&#8217;ve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How We Re-Use Plant Labels, Almost Forever!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2026/03/02/how-we-re-use-plant-labels-almost-forever/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As long term gardeners, one of our necessary focuses is on sustainability of our equipment. Whether your driving factors are environmentally focused or economic and saving money, it&#8217;s an area most of us can agree upon. Plant labels are one such area where we make this decision. We&#8217;ve been re-using plant labels for decades. Our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Final Thoughts On Late Season Greenhouse Heating In The Subarctic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s talk about greenhouse heating. We&#8217;ve done some very public studies and have said some things in the past. Let&#8217;s put some context to the discussion. Last season, we put a concerted effort into heating our late season greenhouse. We pushed it to the point where we just didn&#8217;t want to afford it anymore. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Major 2025 Milestone:  Our Plants Are In The Greenhouse!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/04/20/major-2025-milestone-our-plants-are-in-the-greenhouse/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are yet again at another major milestone for our 2025 gardens! Our first plants of the season have been fully hardened off and have now spent their first night in our heated greenhouse! It got down to a brisk 23F last night, brrr! While we were hardening off some of these early plants this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Higher End Growing Gear Worth It?  When To Upgrade!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/03/29/higher-end-growing-gear-worth-it-when-to-upgrade/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, let&#8217;s talk about higher end growing gear and when it&#8217;s the right time to start investing into the right things. It&#8217;s totally natural to have the instinct to try and save money when buying anything, especially if you&#8217;re the frugal type like us. For example, when we were outfitting our indoor grow rooms, we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why We Grow Potatoes, The Most Economic Garden Vegetable</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/06/17/why-we-grow-potatoes-the-most-economic-garden-vegetable/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Woohoo! Our potatoes have crested the soil and we&#8217;re on our way to a bountiful harvest! Potatoes were one of those crops that we avoided growing in our early gardening practice. They are super cheap to buy at the grocer, so why put our valuable efforts into growing such an invaluable crop? Well, we&#8217;ll tell [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Economics Of Gardening &#038; Growing Plants Indoors</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/05/21/the-economics-of-gardening-growing-plants-indoors/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 20:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Boy are we glad to be at this point! We&#8217;re down to having our plants under one, single grow light and our power usage is finally going to fall off a cliff! We always feel the indoor growing season on our pocket books. People tend to gloss over the actual expenses of growing from seed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Six Weeks To Last Frost &#038; Our Plants Are Outdoors!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/04/20/six-weeks-to-last-frost-our-plants-are-outdoors/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are finally outdoors! Our first round of plants are fully hardened off and survived their first evening in our greenhouse! Low temperatures hit 27 degrees Fahrenheit last night, but our heating systems worked wonderfully! We will introduce our heating systems in more depth tomorrow, but this is always a monumental point in our garden&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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