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We had to replace the wheels on our aging Gorilla cart this year, so we figured we'd put together a brief tutorial on the subject. We've replaced most of the pneumatic tires on our garden equipment with no-flat tires, it's definitely the way to go. Pretty simple job overall, but might be helpful for someone who's never done something like this before. We hope it helps you. As always, you can find tons of cold climate gardening content at https://FrostyGarden.com These are the wheels we purchased. They worked for us, but we can't guarantee what you might buy will fit your specific cart or that the listing will remain the same as the wheels we purchased! Amazon can be a bit shifty sometimes, so review things carefully! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0991JTMQX

This isn't one of our typical videos. While this video is less focused on gardening, it's a very important topic to gardeners that are operating small engine machinery to help them with their gardens. This video covers all of the annual maintenance tasks that are called for if you're operating a Honda FG110 Mini Tiller. This work is very important to conduct on a regular basis to keep your tiller in full, operating condition. From the oil change, to the air filter to servicing the transmission, we go through 100% of the service we perform on our tiller every year. We don't plan to do many of these kinds of videos on equipment maintenance, despite maintaining a half dozen or more small engines in our fleet. This is kind of a one-off, since it's highly relevant to gardening and that's what this channel is about. That said, we do want to be "all encompassing" from the front-end of gardening to the back-end, and everything in between. Even if you're not a mechanic, the maintenance on this unit is 100% within the grasp of anyone willing to try it. While there is a skill difference between growing things and working on things, they both deal with problem solving and getting things done. I am not a mechanic or even what I'd deem a "shade tree" mechanic. I just do the work that's necessary, follow instructions and try to save a lot of money through DIY whenever possible. It's not particularly difficult once you learn the basics and understand what you're looking at, which is exactly what we show you in this video. We don't expect this video to be particularly popular. Instead, we aim for it to be helpful, fulfilling and targeted to those who also own a Honda FG110 tiller and might be interested in performing their own maintenance. That's something you'll learn about us. We march to our own drum, not necessarily the beat that video platforms or viewers may expect us to. This tiller has been great for us, we use it every single season. It's been with us for quite a few years now, on account of us servicing the unit on a regular basis. It's a very important tool in our gardening assets, so we want to do everything possible to keep it well maintained. As always, you can visit us at https://FrostyGarden.com for a wide range of cold-climate focused growing articles and other growing focused topics. Thanks, as always, for watching. If you think we've earned it, we'd love it if you gave us a like & subscribe.

We had an interesting discovery happen in our raised beds, now as the snow is starting to recede. We were taken aback by an onion looking thing. Upon closer inspection and reviewing our plans from last year, we are pretty sure this is Allium Fistulosum. This particular variety, we think, is called Guardsman. This onion is in the family of Siberian Onions and it's apparent they can survive down to at least zone 3! What a surprise for us. We will do some more experiments with this variety and make sure this is a repeatable result. Nonetheless, a cool discovery! As always, you can visit us at https://FrostyGarden.com!

In this video, we take you along for our initial planting session at our 1,700 square foot community garden. We grow 100% of our plants from seed ourselves. Growing in an exceptionally cold climate, we generally have to be quite strategic about how we go about planting. We use a strategy of planting our cold hardy and frost tolerant crops first, then once we're confident there won't be any late frosts, move into our frost sensitive crops. This saved our bacon (broccoli?) this year since we ended up getting a hard frost plus about 1/4 inch of snow just days after we transplanted. Lots of other good tidbits in this video as well. We hope you enjoy! As always, you can find tons of cold climate and subarctic focused growing information at https://FrostyGarden.com

We've given this presentation a few times in several cities and towns across Alaska. We figured that the content would be useful to our broader audience, so we decided to record it! This was our presentation given to the Anchorage Gardening Club in March of 2024. We like to describe this lecture as basically a synthesis of our understanding when it comes to family scale food production in extreme cold climates. We cover a number of different topics. It starts with the foundation, plant temperature tolerance and various things we can learn about plants from that. We then dive into climate, weather, first/last frosts, microclimates and all the complicated environmental factors that go into gardening successfully in colder climates. We then cover a number of general cold climate gardening techniques and methods you can use. From there, we discuss the techniques that we use, basically covering our specific growing methods and philosophies. We wrap everything up with a few tips and tricks for both beginner and advanced gardeners. This is an hour long presentation. So, feel free to get comfortable and kick back for a bit, should you enjoy the topic. We understand this isn't the average "fast moving, flashy cut" thing most people want to watch on a video platform. That's OK by us. We do think it is a valuable addition to our channel and that some of our viewers may enjoy it. We are marching to our own drum here and not necessarily trying to fit into the algorithm. As we mention in the intro to the video, we did cut the Q&A at the end for the sake of time. We do invite you to ask any questions that you might have down in the comment section and we'd be happy to discuss things further. In case it's not entirely obvious, our efforts with Frosty Garden go well beyond just producing videos. We are trying to be active in various cold climate growing communities and focus on many different aspects of cold climate gardening education. We are multi-faceted, trying to meet various people how they would prefer to be met. For the record, I do know I say "umm" and "right" a lot. I don't have the patience to hyper-edit things, especially on an hour long video. Thanks for understanding! As always, we have a ton of cold climate gardening articles out there, waiting for you. We cover all the kinds of things we talk about in this video and many, many more! https://FrostyGarden.com If you do sit through this video, we honestly can't thank you enough. We deeply appreciate your support of our channel and we hope you gained something from our efforts!

Nine weeks to last frost here at Frosty Garden. This was our seeding schedule for the week, a pretty easy one overall. It gets a lot busier from here, we've got about 700 plants in the nursery right now. We are trying a few different formats for videos here, to see what works well for us. (And of course, you!) This one is way more of a "day in the life" type of thing. If you have a preference for "shorts" vs. borderline ASMR, or maybe something else...we'd love your comments! We're not quite video editing superstars yet. We are still practicing and figuring out how to do it! Please go easy on us!

This short video covers an essential step for tomato production that we regularly perform all season. We run into a surprising number of experienced gardeners that don't know about this! If you've had troubles with "growing tomato flowers but not tomatoes" this is exactly what you need to be doing to help things along. Performing the techniques we show in this video will ensure you get a tomato on every single flower, as soon as possible. As always, you can find a ton of cold climate gardening information at our website, https://FrostyGarden.com Relevant Topics To This Video? Growing Tomatoes In Cold Climates: https://frostygarden.com/topics/growing-tomatoes-cold-climates-sub-arctic/

Our second livestream event this year. We spend a bit of time covering our general operations, the status of our garden and what we've been up to. From there, we launched into the Q&A portion of our livestream. It was information packed, we even went over on time a bit! Thanks so much for being a part of our community. We hope we throw in a ton of gardening know-how that you can learn from. Next livestream will be some time in early June, you can find them on our Facebook channel. (@frostygardens) Also, this week's video suffered a bit of data loss, so we're just going to skip it and move into our next video that we had planned. Sorry about that, freak issue with transferring over data to our NAS. As always, you can check out a ton of cold-climate gardening content on our website at https://FrostyGarden.com!