Cold frame plans

If you're looking for ways to extend your growing season, a cold frame greenhouse may be the thing. Here are few ideas with step by step instructions.

Cold frames are essential for every gardener's toolkit. Used during the growing season to help seedlings germinate and flourish, they're frame structures

Learn everything you need to know about a cold frame! A cold frame allows you to plant earlier and grow cold hardy crops like lettuce and roots!

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

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

Recently, we built a much anticipated, beautiful bit of infrastructure for our garden – a cold frame. This is a welcome addition to any cool temperate garden, where we’re all constantly working on creating warm microclimates to extend our season to get tomatoes earlier and longer, reliable eggplants and abundant basil. Cold frames can be […]

These tips will help you get started cold frame gardening, and help you learn about the benefits of an extended gardening season.

A cold frame is an easy way to stretch the homegrown harvest to year-round. Learn how to garden with a cold frame with these simple tips.

The above picture shows some of the greenhouses that have been built using these plans and instructions.There are more pictures at the end of this article thanks to the users that have been kind enough to send in a photo or two of their handiwork. Introduction This greenhouse is 8ft…