Discover the best ways to utilize your all year cold frame to get the maximum benefit for your garden regardless of the season. Cold frames are wonderful places to produce transplants to set out in ...

A cold frame creates a small, protected environment that traps sunlight and warmth, allowing your plants to thrive in colder months. It’s easy to build using basic materials and can fit neatly into ...

What are cold frames? Cover your garden beds with DIY cold frames to keep crops warm in winter, and learn how to use cold frames for early seed starting. Gardening guru Eliot Coleman asserts that “the ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Cold frame gardening is an effective strategy to extend your growing season. Whether you want to protect your plants from fall frosts or seedlings from spring cold snaps, these boxes are easy and ...

February played a dirty trick when winter storms dumped a lot of snow on the ground. Green-thumb enthusiasts hoping for an early start on their gardens had to wait for a thaw. But there are ways to ...

It's late winter and it’s the time of year when gardeners want to start planting something. Anything! Although vegetable and flower seeds can be started indoors, that process requires a fair amount of ...

Q: I just added two large cold frames over my raised beds and plan to get an early start on my vegetable garden this year. But I haven't been able to find a chart that tells me what I can plant when.

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