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		<title>When To Sow Cucurbits And Other Very Large Seeds!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2026/05/07/when-to-sow-cucurbits-and-other-very-large-seeds/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 01:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This one might be a little &#8220;too little, too late.&#8221; But, if it applies to you, you knew it was too late long before you saw this post! And that&#8217;s cucurbits in the indoor grow room! Cucurbit is a fancy gardener&#8217;s way of broadly discussing squash, pumpkins, gourds, cucumbers, zucchini and many melons. It encompasses [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Harvesting Squash:  How To Harvest, Cure &#038; Preserve Squash For The Long Haul</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 03:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are continuing to knock down those harvests! Our winter squash is a huge one for us, easily bringing in well over a hundred pounds of food. Like onions and potatoes, they require an &#8220;extra step&#8221; prior to winter storage, so let&#8217;s discuss! Just like with potatoes and onions, we need to cure our winter [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Major Milestone:  Our In-Ground Community Garden Is Now In!</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/05/25/major-milestone-our-in-ground-community-garden-is-now-in/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 19:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, today was another huge day! We&#8217;re hurting pretty good, but we at least have something significant to show for it! Our community garden is now 98% finished! It was a good day at the Fairbanks Community Garden! This is our ninth season here and it was good to see both familiar and new faces [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Challenges Involved With Starting Cucurbits Indoors</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2025/05/13/the-challenges-involved-with-starting-cucurbits-indoors/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 01:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many a new growers venture into cucurbits, such as squash and cucumbers, and get one of the biggest surprises! Unlike pretty much all other seedlings, these plants rapidly increase in size and stature. When these plants are started too early, they are exceptionally challenging to take care of and will, quite literally, take over. Hopefully [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winter Squash Focus:  Delicata</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/11/15/winter-squash-focus-delicata/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[And this one brings us to our last featured favorite winter squash this season! This one is very special to us and is also one of our most recent additions to our garden. One of the things we simply cannot grow in the subarctic are sweet potatoes. Being a tropical plant, they simply take too [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winter Squash Focus:  Thelma Sanders Acorn Squash</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/11/14/winter-squash-focus-thelma-sanders-acorn-squash/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 23:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re back again with another in our favorite winter squash series! This one was a surprisingly tough nut for us to crack, a proper Acorn squash! Acorn squash are in this weird classification within the world of squash. Technically, they are recognized as winter squash, but the actual species (cucurbita pepo) is a member of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winter Squash Focus:  Moranga Pumpkin</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/11/12/winter-squash-focus-moranga-pumpkin/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Continuing with our winter squash favorites series! Another pumpkin like variety, this one&#8217;s another favorite of ours. Moranga pumpkin! While this winter squash isn&#8217;t quite as productive as the Galeux D&#8217;Eysine we featured previously, it&#8217;s characteristics definitely make it worth growing for us. A native of Brazil, the Portuguese name for this squash is &#8220;Abobora [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winter Squash Focus:  Galeaux D&#8217;Eysine</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/11/10/winter-squash-focus-galeaux-deysine/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 23:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OK, folks. We had promised a short &#8220;winter squash favorites&#8221; series during the growing season! So, since we&#8217;re into November and the time of celebrating squash, let&#8217;s get to it. Overall, what we&#8217;d tell you is that the success and failure of winter squash at subarctic latitudes is highly variety dependent. There aren&#8217;t &#8220;great guidelines&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Harvesting &#038; Curing Winter Squash</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2024/09/22/harvesting-curing-winter-squash/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 02:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, we are definitely getting into the final stretches of our annual harvests. Our winter squash is a big one, so let&#8217;s talk about what we&#8217;re doing here. As we mentioned, we wait until our first frost to harvest our winter squash. This allows all the greenery to significantly die back, which helps a ton [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winter Squash Varieties:  Golden Nugget</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2023/09/27/winter-squash-varieties-golden-nugget/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the final winter squash variety that we&#8217;ll show off for you all this year, we present a long time cold climate favorite of ours. Golden Nugget! A rather small buttercup type of squash, this variety took the All America award way back in 1966. Typical fruit weigh in between one to three pounds, with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winter Squash Varieties:  Delicata</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2023/09/25/winter-squash-varieties-delicata/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 03:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OK, back to a couple more winter squash reviews! This variety is one of our most recent additions to our winter squash lineup and it has been impressive so far! Delicata squash, sometimes called peanut squash, has turned out to be an excellent northern producer for us. Putting on three to five squash per plant, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winter Squash Varieties:  Galeux D&#8217;Eysine</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2023/09/22/winter-squash-varieties-galeux-deysine/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2023 02:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We left you with a cliff hanger yesterday. So, if Moranga squash wasn&#8217;t our favorite pumpkin variety to grow&#8230;exactly what was the variety that did actually fill that spot? Introducing our Galeux D&#8217;Eysine! Often declared as one of the &#8220;ugliest&#8221; pumpkins you could possibly grow, despite this, there are very good reasons this one is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winter Squash Varieties:  Moranga Pumpkin</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2023/09/21/winter-squash-varieties-moranga-pumpkin/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 02:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had some interest expressed about the winter squash varieties that we grow. We&#8217;ve definitely found &#8220;hit or miss&#8221; results with different winter squash varieties in the far north, so we figure it might be helpful to talk more about some of them and why we grow them! Our first variety that we&#8217;ll feature is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Curing Winter Squash For Long Term Preservation</title>
		<link>https://frostygarden.com/2023/09/18/curing-winter-squash-for-long-term-preservation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for us to talk about winter squash! There&#8217;s a bit of nuance that goes into them, so we&#8217;ll talk about how we treat them and ensure long storage times over the winter! We ended up harvesting our winter squash prior to first frost this year. We &#8220;usually&#8221; wait until the first frost as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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