If you look up during the winter, when all the deciduous trees have dropped their leaves, you might spot something still growing up there, tucked in the bare branches.It might be mistletoe, that beautiful parasite that we smooc
How to Use a Cold Frame for Fall Gardening
06.06.2023 - 16:42 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
How to Use a Cold Frame for Fall GardeningWhen the Persephone Period approaches, most of us are tucking our gardens to sleep and hunkering down for the long winter.
Unless we have a cold frame, that is. Then it’s just business as usual around the garden.
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Cold frames provide an ideal way to extend your growing season well into the fall and even all the way to winter.
They’re easy to construct, don’t require any fancy equipment, can be built using scraps, and can dramatically lengthen the amount of time you have available to grow plants.
Whether you use them to start seedlings or you transplant tender garden plants into your cold frame, you can keep the garden joy going for months longer than you could otherwise.
In most areas of the US, you can grow goodies to enjoy during holiday feasts.
When everyone else is eating sad spinach from the grocery store, you can be devouring fistfuls of fresh-from-the-garden lettuce, or even strawberries. Sharing is optional.
We’ll help you kickstart your fall growing adventures with this guide to fall cold frame gardening. Here’s everything we’ll go over in this guide:
In case it’s not obvious already, I’m a huge fan of cold frames. I try to be mindful and accepting of the cycles of the year and the changing seasons, but darn it! I don’t want to stop growing at the end of summer!
I love a good high or low tunnel for extending the growing season, but you can’t beat a cold frame. It’s much warmer inside than it is in a tunnel and you can more easily control the environmental conditions.
Plus, I love a DIY project that you can build out of scrap wood and an old storm window. No need to buy
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