Raised garden bed cold frame

To convert summer beds to winter gardens, you can make an easy cold frame for raised beds you already have in the yard. Click for more.

This is an instruction set how to build your own food garden cold frame based upon a roughly 8 foot by 6 food raised garden bed.

This easy-to-move, low-maintenance box has a special feature: a hydraulic riser that regulates the temperature in the cold frame.

Driving through La Pine, Oregon, (home base for our Central Oregon outing) in route to a nursery (you’re not surprised are you?) Andrew spotted these mini greenhouses... On top of raised beds… And they are built to open and close with ease! Smart huh? More smarts…they are using water filled milk jugs to slowly water the beds. We later learned that the temperature can fluctuate greatly here, it can be in the 80’s during the day and at night, below freezing. So it makes sense to be able to…

As you know I have been growing a lot of our own food in garden beds at home. I have 5 large and 2 small raised garden beds on rotation which all had nets covering them. Unfortunately I have these …

Cold frames are great garden accessories that can help you continue gardening even in harsh weather conditions like rain and snow.

Cold frames

How to salvage and repurpose old windows made from Perspex to build a DIY cold frame greenhouse to protect your plants in harsh weather.

A very pleasant visit to Margaret MacLennan in Essex, to see her Galanthus Collection. The weather was not the most hospitable, but luckily Margaret and her husband were, so it was immense fun. Margaret in her greenhouse, showing us her 'workstation' Margaret is an enthusiastic twin-scaler , a method of propagating bulbs which stimulates the basal…

Veggie Planting Time/Big Box Stores Go Heirloom- Friday night we went to a small, local nursery to start buying garden veggies. I decided to call them since I had never started the sweet Italian Melrose/Marconi pepper seeds. I thought they might possibly have some. It turned out they had some Giant Marconi in stock, so I bought a couple! I will save my seeds for next year- From TheDailysouth.Southernliving.com GIANT!!! I also found some heirloom sweet Italian Nardello peppers, so bought a…

Planting season is upon us, so let me tell you a little story of how this garden came to be. When we bought a house last year, I failed to inquire about the summer weather, thinking it would be just as warm and clear as it was on our open house day. NOPE. Instead, I encountered summers full of chilly fog and harsh winds, much to the dismay of my aspiring green thumb.

Cold frame made from 2 window well covers, a few screws, a small handle, and a cedar board frame made to measure. Plenty of headroom for taller plants, great for hardening off transplants.

Simple project to protect tender plants in winter

45 BEST tutorials, free building plans & design ideas on how to build easy DIY greenhouses, cold frames, backyard garden tunnels & hoops!

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45 BEST tutorials, free building plans & design ideas on how to build easy DIY greenhouses, cold frames, backyard garden tunnels & hoops!