Ever wish you could keep your garden going even when it gets chilly outside? A cold frame can help you do just that by giving ...

Winter gardening can be a great way to keep growing fresh vegetables and herbs even as temperatures drop. A simple cold frame is a practical tool that helps protect your plants from frost and cold ...

Cold frames are season-extending covers constructed over vegetable beds to keep the frost off. Like a miniature, temporary greenhouse, they are employed in early spring to create a warm space for ...

Fill your December cold frame, hoop house, or row with hearty spinach, kale, collards, and mustards. All of these cold-hardy ...

Just because the cold season is coming, it doesn’t mean that you should say goodbye to your garden immediately. With the help of raised beds and cold frames, it makes it easier for you to stretch your ...

Cold frame gardening is an effective strategy to extend your growing season. Whether you want to protect your plants from fall frosts or seedlings from spring cold snaps, these boxes are easy and ...

It's late winter and it’s the time of year when gardeners want to start planting something. Anything! Although vegetable and flower seeds can be started indoors, that process requires a fair amount of ...

Question: I would like to continue growing some vegetables over the winter, and I am hoping I can start my seeds earlier in the spring. How can I construct a simple cold frame and maximize its use ...

Niki Jabbour isn’t feeling deprived. Even though she lives on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Nova Scotia, she manages to harvest fresh produce every month of the year. Author of “The Year-Round ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Managing a greenhouse is a lot like milking cows. A greenhouse requires attention seven days a week. Watering plants, winter heating, summer cooling, and constant pest and disease monitoring consume ...

The Building Material Thrift Store in south Hailey will present a free workshop on cold frame construction using reclaimed materials, from 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 15. You’ll learn from Rebecca Bundy, ...