Cold Frame Gardening

Future plans are to run an electric line out to the cold frame so it becomes a hot bed... (Sequence of construction from start to finish) 20190829_135026.jpg 20190829_143110.jpg 20190829_155719.jpg 20190829_164612.jpg 20190829_171934.jpg 20190830_111128.jpg 20190830_121251.jpg 20190830_122154.jpg 20...

A friend gave me a sweet potato from her 2018 harvest in early May 2019. I put it is water and waited and waited for it to sprout. After much waiting, I finally transplanted to pots and yesterday put them in the raised bed (aka a cold frame without the windows on top ;) ). 20190804_165559_1_20.jpg 2...

This looks like a book report by a High School student. A brief introduction to cold frames.

Download it here: https://www.hws.edu/fli/pdf/cold_frame.pdf

Scott

What (and when) do you plant your Fall crops in your cold frame?

Scott

What (and when) do you plant your Spring crops in your cold frame?

Scott

I saw these on a recent trip to Virginia (in January!).
They are called bell jars.

You can get them here: http://shop.colonialwilliamsburg.com/Bell-Jar

Our plans were to attach the windows with hinges. We did not however because we plan to refinish them. Plus we should have renoved the old caulk and re-caulked them. Well the winter took a toll on them (if they were used as a "window" they would have been fine, but as a cover, with snow and rain... ...