FrostyGarden.com Changelog

Frosty Garden → FrostyGarden.com Changelog
Originally Crafted: June 11, 2023 Last Modified: May 6, 2026

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This page will generally document major changes to Frosty Garden, which will hopefully help our readers identify new & updated content!

Some things on our site may be updated without a change note, sometimes even significant things!  All of our major articles have a “last revised” date, helping you know when we last touched that topic!

March 2026

  • Migrated site to a “relatively” dedicated web server in preparation for 2026 and beyond.  We found an affordable solution that will allow us to scale, long term.  This will solve intermittent resource constraints and should also increase site availability. Again, thank you to our site supporters for helping us to serve hundreds of thousands of readers!
  • Finished a new article on the costs of growing a garden from seed!
  • Minor updates and additions to our cold stratification article.
  • Migrated site delivery to optimized Apache/NGINX model.  Apache now handles dynamic delivery, whereas NGINX handles static delivery.

February 2026

  • Updated text to speech on feature articles to a vastly improved technology.  David Attenborough now reads our articles for you and it’s absolutely incredible!  (Our goal is accessibility, across many learning styles and preferred ways to engage content.)  Again, thank you to our site supporters, your contributions help accessibility decisions that cost “real money” easier to make.
  • Started our full length article on growing carrots in subarctic climates!

January 2026

  • Updated annualized content for the 2026 growing season
  • Minor tweaks to the front page, sowing schedule and topics pages, fixed many long standing or annoying issues
  • Updated various uses of unicode around the site to make things look a bit more 🔥🔥🔥!
  • Finished article on pH Control in Container Gardens!
  • Finished article on choosing your garden’s fertilizer!
  • Finished article on advanced container gardening!
  • Finished article on the best northern vegetables!
  • Ugh.  We again completely failed to update last season’s blog entries here, so we again had to go through the effort of catchup.  Our workflow is vastly improved.
  • Migrated JPEG images to WEBP format for faster performance and lower bandwidth usage.  (Important for off-grid and slow internet peeps!)  Thank you to our site supporters, your contributions directly help enable projects like this as it costs “real money!”
  • We finally accomplished the custom PHP work required to get our blog posts displayed by category!  Hooray!  This also illustrates we don’t always do a good job assigning categories.  We’ll try to do better.

October 2025

  • Backend:  Reworked site backup strategies and locations, updated backup software to latest version.
  • Backend:  Performed major updates to web server, updated PHP to more current version, other minor and essential software updates

March 2025

  • Added TTS (text to speech) across all our major articles to increase general accessibility.  Thanks to Kokoro Fast-API for making high quality TTS a thing!
  • Added our new Cold Stratification video to our cold stratification article
  • Added our new Seed Viability video to our seed viability article
  • Finally caught up with old blog entries.  Hopefully we won’t let that happen again, that was a lot of work!

February 2025

January 2025

  • Updated annual focused content from 2024 to 2025
  • Catch up on older blog articles.  We really need to stay more caught up on this, it’s a serious pain to do it later.
  • Started a couple of new articles for future release
  • Published an article on cold stratification of seeds, a practice we want to perform more
  • Published our article on designing & building indoor grow rooms to round out our indoor growing information

November 2024

  • Added our “brand new subarctic gardener” article.  Slowly correcting our introductory articles to be more beginner friendly.
  • Somewhat unrelated, but another one of our efforts.  Started GardenHooch.com, a place for us to document our garden inspired liquors, liqueurs, cocktails and other garden derived inbibes.  More to come on this, it’ll likely take us several years to get off the ground!

October 2024

  • Added section on achieving full self-reliance in northern climates to our new-ish self-sustenance article
  • Updated our front page with our new (but not fully finished) 2024 rose garden!

April 2024

  • Continual blog work for the growing season.
  • Changed back end infrastructure & provider to help reduce costs a little bit.  Also got us out of year long contracts to allow better mobility, if needed.  (This was not a small project!)
  • Started initial IPv6 web server support as we’d like to have native, dual-stack network support to allow non-proxy access.

March 2024

  • Published our long form article on growing celery in cold climates.  Thanks Barb!
  • Various updates across several articles in preparation for the growing season.  Our goal is continual refinement, clean up of language and better reader accessibility.
  • Learned how to create fun ordered list icons using unicode, so peppered these in a few places (such as on the front page)
  • We’ve been getting higher levels of engagement on our blog & topics this season, so we’ve re-enabled email subscriptions to post replies.  Our default is to not subscribe so as to not send any unsolicited emails.  P.S. If we notice abuse, we’ll remove this feature.

February 2024

  • Added new article on the topic of self-sustenance
  • Minor tweaks to our garden planning page, to overall keep it focused entirely on garden planning.  Moved some topics over to self-sustenance.
  • Added our article on building & designing smart grow rooms.
  • Updated one of our last “old pre-2020 articles” that focuses on variety selection for far northern gardens.  Also made a video for parity.
  • I think we have one “old” article left to update, and I’ve been dragging my feet on it as I don’t care for the topic!
  • Various updates across several articles in preparation for the growing season.  Our goal is continual refinement, clean up of language and better reader accessibility.

January 2024

  • Minor updates to various articles.  Nothing really ground breaking, just 2nd/3rd draft kind of stuff.
  • Started on a couple new long form articles for later release

December 2023

  • Playing around with the idea of adding a “table of contents” to our main topics for easier, at a glace, navigation.  Work in progress, but we think this is the right path forward to assist with navigation of our long form content.

November 2023

  • Announced Frosty Garden sticker campaign!
  • Developed article on the comparative performance of increasing air versus soil temperatures
  • Caught up on some missing blog entries from social media
  • Generally refined the flow of some of our gardening basics articles.  A lot more work to be done here in refining our introductory/beginner content.  Fundamentally, we need to separate “growing from seed” from “beginning subarctic growing” as they’re not always intertwined.
  • Converted several Unicode graphics to more modern Unicode 6.0 graphics to provide a more modernized look and feel.

September 2023

August 2023

June 2023