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The first frost doesn’t have to be the final curtain for your garden. Imagine pulling crisp spinach and snappy carrots in December, or harvesting fresh kale in January while your neighbor’s plot ...

This recycled cold frame design was made out of a discarded skylight, cinder blocks and a few bricks. A neighbor of mine remodeled his house and I noticed a couple of used skylights near his dumpster.

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 ...

Note: this post orginally appeared in December of 2010. It was the first missive from Beth Gellman, AKA The Garden Coach, who still blogs for us. She’ll have a new post next week. In the meanttime, ...

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 ...

I was truly inspired by Parsonage’s cold frame design, as well as the idea of making my own out of straw. Building my own cold frame will allow me to start my garden much earlier than normal, helping ...

With subfreezing temperatures and snow-covered soil, the gift of green emerging from the ground can seem miraculous. Just like in summer, when your own sun-warmed tomatoes seem far superior than ...

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 ...

I generally receive several questions from readers each fall about the use of cold frames to extend the gardening season. This method offers gardeners a technique to protect tender plants from cold ...

You could be eating garden salads already. Your home-grown broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage could be hardening off in your own cold frame, soon to be planted out in the garden. Perennial plants could ...

We've all seen how completely unpredictable North Country weather can be. Temperatures often fluctuate wildly and conditions change radically from day to day or week to week, sometimes even from hour ...