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		<title>Make Snow Disappear Fast &#038; Serve Your Garden Simultaneously!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At a certain point, us northerners become sick and tired of the snow. What if I told you that you can dissapear that snow faster and also serve your garden at the same time? One of the things we do is spread wood ashes over the snow above one of our raised beds. We typically [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Position:  We Are Not The Authority In Northern Growing!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before we get too deep into the weeds, we find it helpful to illustrate our position in all this growing stuff. We aren&#8217;t here to tell you the &#8220;only&#8221; way, we are here to show you &#8220;our&#8221; way. This is a &#8220;how we do it&#8221; place, not a &#8220;how to do it&#8221; environment. Occasionally, we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Necessity Behind Why We Need To Germinate &#038; Raise Plants Indoors</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2026/03/01/the-necessity-behind-why-we-need-to-germinate-raise-plants-indoors/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Northern Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seeds]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, we&#8217;re now down to a week out to kicking off our seed starting operation! It&#8217;s barreling down the pipe faster that we expected, as usual. So, let&#8217;s talk about the &#8220;necessity&#8221; behind why we need to raise our plants indoors. When we woke up this morning, it was pushing a brisk 35 below zero [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Soliciting Feedback:  The Future Of Flower Fridays</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2026/01/12/soliciting-feedback-the-future-of-flower-fridays/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OK, folks, we need more of your opinion! I&#8217;m considering another slightly major structural change to how we&#8217;ve done things the last few years. Many of you know we do what we call &#8220;Flower Friday.&#8221; During our flower blooming season, we do a weekly deep dive into a specific genus of flower. In them, we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Alaska Garden Season Begins:  Our Journey As A Northern Garden Blog</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2026/01/08/the-alaska-garden-season-begins-our-journey-as-a-northern-garden-blog/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, we changed our focus here at Frosty Garden significantly. We went from being an &#8220;Interior &#38; South Central Alaska&#8221; gardening resource to a &#8220;far northern&#8221; gardening resource. A huge part of the reason for this was because of all of you. The information we produce is relevant to Canadians, Norwegians, Swedes, people [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Merry Christmas From The Frosty Garden Crew!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/12/25/merry-christmas-from-the-frosty-garden-crew/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas, everyone! We&#8217;ll keep today&#8217;s post short. Hopefully you&#8217;re enjoying a bit of down time and are spending the holiday with those you love. We&#8217;re thankful to the crews, doctors, nurses and many others that had to work through Christmas Eve and some, even today, to keep our travels, health and various important systems [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking About Food Banks, Our First Annual Fund Raiser!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we approach the Christmas holiday and the giving season, we&#8217;d like to do something both fun and beneficial. Specifically, we&#8217;d like to recognize the incredible work of our food banks and the importance of their mission. Our mission here at Frosty Garden is closely intertwined with theirs, with our goal being to teach other [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Winter Solstice!  An Important Day For Northerners!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/12/21/happy-winter-solstice-an-important-day-for-northerners/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy winter solstice, everyone! This day is particularly important to us far northerners, it marks the point where we finally turn the page on darkness to more sun and light! When we lived in the lower 48, winter solstice was just kind of a thing that happened. But, as far northerners, it&#8217;s a point in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Soliciting Feedback:  Time Management, YouTube, Facebook &#038; Our Efforts</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/12/14/soliciting-feedback-time-management-youtube-facebook-our-efforts/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greetings followers! I wanted to solicit your input with regard to our future efforts. As many of you know, we try to cater to what you want to see and we think it&#8217;s important to establish feedback loops in our social efforts. As many of you know, we also operate a YouTube channel. We&#8217;ve seen [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving From Frosty Garden To YOU!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/11/27/happy-thanksgiving-from-frosty-garden-to-you/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving, from the Frosty Garden crew! We hope your evening is filled with good company and good food, followed by a &#8220;supposedly debunked&#8221; tryptophan induced evening coma! We just want to say that we&#8217;re thankful for all of you following along with our journey, first as gardeners and what&#8217;s since become niche extreme northern [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Growth Of Frosty Garden &#038; The Gardener&#8217;s Path</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/07/28/the-growth-of-frosty-garden-the-gardeners-path/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 05:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile, I take a step back and am curious what other people actually think of our gardening methods. Although we certainly do practice some &#8220;traditional&#8221; methods, every once in awhile I&#8217;m struck by how radically different some of our gardening practices could look to an outsider. When I started gardening, however many [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guest Garden Spotlight:  Seward, Alaska Community Garden</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/07/08/guest-garden-spotlight-seward-alaskas-community-garden/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes our travels around Alaska bring us an opportunity to show you how others around the state garden. Today, we&#8217;re going to feature the community garden in Seward, Alaska! Being a coastal community, the most immediate thing you&#8217;ll observe is how prevalent high tunnels are. Coastal influences tend to lower the ambient air temperatures to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The People Behind Frosty Garden</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/04/19/the-people-behind-frosty-garden/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before we get too far into the growing season, we figure it&#8217;s appropriate to put some faces to who Frosty Garden is! In case you don&#8217;t know who we are, we are Jeff &#38; Kayde and we are the people behind Frosty Garden! As for what we do? We&#8217;re a couple of life long gardeners, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>There&#8217;s Something Worse Than USDA Zone 1!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/04/25/theres-something-worse-than-usda-zone-1/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since we&#8217;ve been on kind of a &#8220;meta&#8221; kick with some of our posts lately, I kind of wanted to explore a recent interaction and learning experience I had with one of our readers. For the longest time, perhaps my entire life of growing perennials, I&#8217;ve always assumed that the USDA growing zone 1 was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Countdown To Summer Is On, 15 Hours Of Daylight!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/03/24/the-countdown-to-summer-is-on-15-hours-of-daylight/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, we&#8217;re 10 weeks to our expected last frost. Things are really starting to ramp up in our indoor garden these days! We&#8217;re a little bit over 600 seeds in the dirt at this point and have a couple hundred plants in various stages as well. We&#8217;re expecting to be transplanting imminently. And it&#8217;s only [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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