<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url><loc>https://gardensatmathews.garden/</loc><lastmod>2026-09-02</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>1.0</priority></url>
  <url><loc>https://gardensatmathews.garden/stats/</loc><lastmod>2026-09-02</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.8</priority></url>
  <url><loc>https://gardensatmathews.garden/gallery/</loc><lastmod>2026-09-02</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>1.0</priority></url>
  <!-- weekly, like the three surfaces above it: the index gains a row every time a planting is
       published, which is a garden event and not a seasonal one. It is the parent of the 224
       /planting/ pages already advertised in sitemap-plantings.xml, so its priority sits with
       /stats/ rather than with / — a crawler that finds this page finds all of them.

       changefreq: weekly is NOT optional here, and it is written in prose in this comment on
       purpose. stamp_assets.py:162 inserts the lastmod stamp by regex lookahead on that element
       name across the WHOLE file — comments included — and then asserts the number it inserted
       equals the number of source pages. Naming the element literally in a comment counts as an
       extra one: it fails the publish with "stamped 7 into a sitemap with 5 URLs" and writes a
       stamp into the middle of a sentence. Same for the lastmod element itself. Every entry needs
       the real declaration; no comment may spell either tag out. -->
  <url><loc>https://gardensatmathews.garden/plantings/</loc><lastmod>2026-09-02</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.8</priority></url>
  <!-- yearly, and the only page here that is not weekly: /about/ describes method, and the method
       changes on the scale of seasons rather than harvests. A weekly changefreq on a page that does
       not change teaches a crawler to distrust the other three. Lower priority for the same reason
       it is last in the nav — it is the page you read once. -->
  <url><loc>https://gardensatmathews.garden/about/</loc><lastmod>2026-09-02</lastmod><changefreq>yearly</changefreq><priority>0.5</priority></url>
</urlset>
