How To Build A Cold Frame With An Old Window

Today’s feature is a DIY cold frame instruction set found on two different websites. I’ve been searching online for simple, cheap cold frame plans that use recycled materials–and are easy to understand–but it’s been a tricky task. These two sites come close since they use old storm windows:

Mag Ruffman’s A Greenhouse for $20 as well as this plan with an adjustable height feature for more mature plants: Stretch the growing season in fall and spring with this versatile, easy-to-build, modular cold frame.

Cold frames are useful things for gardeners to have on hand. They enable you to grow plants that wouldn’t normally do well in your area and to start seeds and raise seedlings early. You can use them to protect tender plants well into fall and even to force bulbs such as tulips, hyacinths, daffodils and crocuses during the winter months.

I mainly use my cold frame to start bedding plants a little earlier and they do work like a charm for that purpose. If you’d like to extend your growing season, why not give cold frames a shot.

For better pictures, check out this blog (that’s where I found the above two links):Cold Frame Information and The Saga of the Cold Frame.

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