via Garden Desk on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
Today's high temperature was 55 degrees and tonight it will get down to 30. Exactly a week ago we got eleven inches of snow. By Thursday is was all melted and the thermometer topped 70!Last year, the end of March was pretty hot and then we got a week of snow and ice in April! The weather here in northern Kentucky in March and April is always unpredictable. So if you want to be successful early in the garden, you need a good cold frame!
Years ago I had a good cold frame, but since I began intensive gardening again two years ago, I haven't yet managed to get another one. I wanted to make one last year but I was too busy with building the deck and with the vegetable garden re-design.....
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I want to start some plants, our growing season is short in the spring. It will go from freezing nights to 115 degree days within three months. I don't have enough room inside to start enough seedlings. Can you germinate seeds in a cold frame? Any suggestions, helpful hints?
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via Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
If you're looking for the easiest, and cheapest, way to propagate your seedlings then you can't go past this primitive coldframe.
Aaron from GroovyGreen recently posted this very simple DIY on putting it together but honestly, I think most people could work it out from the picture. . ..
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via Gardening Question of the Day (from the Old Farmer's Almanac) on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
What is the best location for a cold frame? (answer).From The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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via 1-2-3 Go Garden! on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
Yesterday we made the twenty-minute trek to the little town with a second-hand store that had stacks of salvaged wooden windows for sale at reasonable prices.
The store looked different as we arrived. A large yellow sign out front proclaimed “Everything in the Store 50% Off – One Day Only.” The inside of the store looked different, too. It looked neater. Somebody had gone through it, removed the piles of junky stuff and arranged everything tidily. Where were the windows. . . .
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Well, I am doing my research on cold frames and I thought I would share with you what I have found.
Here are some instructions for building a cold frame using an old window. . .
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What is the best location for a cold frame? (answer).From The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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I'm thrilled. My honey created it out of sheet insulation & twinwall polycarbonate for the "glass". I've filled it with arugula, winter lettuces, mache, claytonia, sorrel, parsley....we may make a second coldframe in the spring as a hotbed for germination.
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What is the best location for a cold frame? (the answer).From The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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via Kerry's Garden on 2006-03-18, 18:26:30
The second automatic vent I ordered came a couple of weeks ago. It has been so wet and cold since then I didn’t get it installed. I noticed this morning that the other lid with the autovent already installed was open a few inches so I decided to take advantage of today and get the other one installed. It went on without a hitch.
The cold frame still had some lettuce & radishes that I had planted last fall. The radishes were history. The lettuce looked good but a taste test told me it was too bitter to fool with. Perhaps it was planted too early last fall. We had a very warm winter and it may have gotton too mature before slowing down for the winter. I pulled what was in there and reseeded with lettuce, radishes and spinach. I tried to rotate but its hard when you are dealing with a little less than 32 ft sq.
I did notice that some of the flats I had seeded late this winter have sprouted. Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago I forgot to lock down the lid without the auto-opener and a wind blew it open. Some of the tags I had on the flats identifying what was what blew off. Now its seedling surprise with some of them. I’m sure I’ll be able to figure them out once they get some size on them.
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