Since we’ve largely moved our site to more of a static content based site, we figured it would be helpful to have a general change log.
This page will generally document major changes to the site, 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!
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
- Added an interesting scientific background supporting our use of non-organic fertilizers
- Adjusted Hollyhock sowing time (earlier) to allow more summer season flowering in our seed starting schedule.
August 2023
- Added our blanch & freeze video to our blanch & freeze topic
- Updated seed starting schedules for 2024 (downloadables still TBD, but these will be re-worked for 2024)
June 2023
- Added our own pollination video to tomato growing topic
- Added our preparation and planting videos to our wide raised row growing topic
- Added our hardening off video to our hardening off topic
- Changed Stock flower seeding time to 6 to 8 weeks based on practice
- Changed Zinnia flower seeding time to 5-6 weeks based on practice