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	<title>Winter Preparation &#8211; Frosty Garden</title>
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		<title>Preparing Perennials For A Harsh Winter</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/10/11/preparing-perennials-for-a-harsh-winter/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Frost Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perennials]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s discuss an important winter preparation for subarctic perennials. If you&#8217;re on the edge of a growing zone or putting in new perennials in extreme cold climates, like we are, this can be the make or break thing that results in survival of your valued perennials! For particularly high value perennials, we opt to put [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Freezers Going Into Winter, It&#8217;s Not What You Think!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Blanch & Freeze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter Preparation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[You all know how much we like our blanch and freeze preservation method! Every year, we always field questions like, &#8220;How many freezers do you have?&#8221; Well, we figured you might like it if we showed you what our &#8220;big&#8221; freezer looks like going into winter. For as much as we talk about using freezing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winterizing Northern Irrigation, A Step That Can&#8217;t Be Missed</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/09/25/winterizing-northern-irrigation-a-step-that-cant-be-missed/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 05:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irrigation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Winter Preparation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is rarely one of our more popular posts, but an essential one for us northerners. If you&#8217;re operating irrigation systems, it&#8217;s important to winterize them before the cold sets in! We are quickly running out of days where our overnight lows are above freezing. Soon, we&#8217;ll dive into freezing temperatures all the way until [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Increasing Perennial Survival Rates In Extreme Cold Climates</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/10/11/increasing-perennial-survival-rates-in-extreme-cold-climates/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Perennials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter Preparation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re going to talk about and show you one of the precautionary steps that we take to aid our perennial&#8217;s survival through our bitter and harshly cold winter! As you can see, we cover our more vulnerable plants in a layer of straw. We usually aim for about 3 to 5 inches or so. We [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Final Community Garden Harvest Of 2024</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Harvesting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter Preparation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, tonight we wished our community garden &#8220;good winter,&#8221; taking our very final harvest of the season! It&#8217;ll likely be our last time visiting the garden, at least until next spring! We gathered some kale as our final harvest, which was just beginning to show the signs of stress after experiencing quite a few hard [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Does Hard Frost Look Like?</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/10/08/what-does-hard-frost-look-like/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate & Weather]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Winter Preparation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s looking increasingly like it was a good decision for us to pull the plug on our gardens this week. We&#8217;ve had our first day where frost simply did not let up through the day! But, this does allow us an opportunity to dive into the concepts of &#8220;light frost&#8221; and &#8220;hard frost.&#8221; These [&#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>
				<category><![CDATA[Composting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mulch]]></category>
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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>Hope In The Late Season Cold Climate Garden</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/09/24/hope-in-the-late-season-cold-climate-garden/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, our runner bean crop was definitely not one that we were expecting to go anywhere this year! As of just a few weeks ago, we had pretty much given up hope that we wouldn&#8217;t have a bean harvest at all this season. After all, our bush beans had all ready failed tremendously! As you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Using An RV Winterizer To Winterize Garden Irrigation</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/09/23/using-a-rv-winterizer-to-winterize-garden-irrigation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Irrigation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Winter Preparation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As freezing temperatures appear to be soon descending upon us, it&#8217;s probably important for us to discuss winterizing irrigation lines and hoses! We usually perform this task prior to the freezing temperatures rolling in. The reason we do it is that it helps our equipment last much longer and will prevent the damage that ice [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Snow Melt &#038; Early Season Perennial Maintenance</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/04/23/snow-melt-early-season-perennial-maintenance/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Asparagus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raised Beds]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[With our perennial beds finally accessible and free of snow, it&#8217;s time for us to do a little early season perennial maintenance! For those of you who were with us late last fall, you might recall this perennial bed preparation we strongly recommend for you northern gardeners. We cover our perennial beds with 3 to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Using Straw To Protect Perennials In Cold Climates</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2023/10/07/using-straw-to-protect-perennials-in-cold-climates/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 03:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve got perennials and you want to give them the best possible chance of overwintering, this tip is for you! We&#8217;ve found it very valuable to cover many of our perennials with 2 to 4 inches of straw, prior to the cold temperatures setting in. What this does is create a second insulation barrier. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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