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      <image:title>Fall Carrot and Beet Seeds Dry Out Before They Can Sprout in Hot Soil</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gardener checks soil moisture at sowing depth in a dry carrot and beet seedbed under the late-afternoon sun.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Deer Strip a Vegetable Bed in One Night When Dry Weather Thins Wild Browse</image:title>
      <image:caption>Two deer beyond black Deer-X netting at sunrise, with torn plants, dry cracked soil, and hoofprints in a raised vegetable bed.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Weeds Drop Seed Before You Pull Them</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gardener in a work glove pulling a dried thistle with mature seed heads from a dry garden bed at sunset</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Grass Seed Washes Away Before It Sprouts</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gardener kneeling beside a newly seeded lawn patch where rain wash channels carried grass seed downhill before sprouting.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Rabbits Eat New Lettuce and Kale Transplants Overnight</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cottontail rabbit eating a lettuce transplant in a raised bed at sunrise, with clean-cut stems in front and healthy lettuce and kale under two dark green pop-up mesh covers behind.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Leaves Sink to the Pond Bottom Before the Net Goes On</image:title>
      <image:caption>Floating pond net pinned along the bank catching leaves before they sink, with deer in the distant field.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Squirrels Dig Up Tulip Bulbs Hours After You Plant Them</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gardener securing burlap over a freshly planted tulip bulb bed to deter squirrel digging</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Chickweed Takes Over Cleared Garden Beds</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gardener pulling common chickweed from a cleared raised bed, with biodegradable paper mulch pinned over the far half.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://dalen-products-store.myshopify.com/blogs/knowledge-center/hard-freeze-damages-pumpkins</loc>
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      <image:title>Hard Freeze Damages Pumpkins</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gloved gardener cuts a mature pumpkin from its vine with pruners, with a white frost cover over the row behind.</image:caption>
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