Imagine if you can have a fresh green salad in February or some juicy red tomatoes in November. Sounds like a dream doesn’t it? Maybe you’ve heard of it. Maybe you’ve seen it. Maybe… it’s cold frame gardening.
Yes. All of this can happen in your very own garden. And you don’t even need a lot of space for this. So for your convenience, we have gathered the most important and basic info you will need about cold frame gardening.
Cold frame gardening is a form of planting different types of green life in an enclosed environment with the aim of extending the growing season of the plants. Building a cold frame is not a hard task. All you need is to make a wooden panel frame from an old glass window and put the glass over the frame. The glass roof should be oriented towards the sun in order to capture as much light as possible. If you do not have glass you can use a thick transparent plastic sheet.
The whole idea of the cold frame’s structure is to protect the plants from the harsh conditions of late autumn, winter, and early spring. It shelters the green life from snow, rain, strong winds, hail and ice. Thanks to the window roof it also collects sunlight and warmth, keeping them inside the frame for a longer time. A cold frame structure usually keeps a difference of 5 to 10 degrees between the inside and outside environment.
You place the seeds inside the frame and they grow into plants, resistant to the cold weather. Still, the collected heat needs to escape in order not to fry out your crops. The best thing you can do is to install a vent with a closing mechanism. Opening it every two days would be enough.
The cold frame is perfect if you want to harden young plants. To harden them means to acclimatise them to harsher weather
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