Blogs about: Cold Frames

Do You Really Need That Skip?!3 comments

Sarah wrote 22 hours ago: Well actually yes! But do you need them as often? Just like residential recycling, the industry can … more →

Tags: Advice, polycarbonate, glass, Aluminium, double glazing blog, skip hire, overloaded skip, loading skip correctly, recycling

The Olla Plan 20132 comments

jkmcintyre wrote 1 week ago: Spacing tomatoes and ollas in raised beds I have decided to focus my ongoing olla experiment on toma … more →

Tags: Tomatoes, starting seeds, vegetable garden, vegetable starts, olla irrigation

Pop-Up Greenhouses And Cold Frames

Editor wrote 2 weeks ago: Our weather in Seattle can often be less than ideal for getting a garden started in the spring or ma … more →

Tags: gardening, Greenhouse

Day 106: Garage door upcycle3 comments

cathy381 wrote 1 month ago: Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Gloomy with drizzle. High temp: 58 degrees F; low temp: 54 degrees F. Apr … more →

Tags: cold frame

April Showers2 comments

mylittlefarmintown wrote 1 month ago: We are getting a lot of rain in southern Wisconsin today. I prefer the liquid variety of water to th … more →

Tags: Gardening and foraging, gardening, Hobbies, spring, Wisconsin, mesclun mix, Asian Greens, French salad mix

Bottoms up in the flower beds

Fletch the perchcrow wrote 1 month ago: Amanda tells me that Georgian gardeners were known to test the soil temperature with their bare bott … more →

Tags: gardening, Cockermouth, Heritage Garden, gardening, Wordsworth house, lake district, heritage vegetables, National Trust, seed-sowing

Day 105: Rain, rain, go away

cathy381 wrote 1 month ago: Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Mostly cloudy; more rain tonight. High temp: 55 degrees F; low temp: 44 deg … more →

Tags: restarting onions from scraps, planting potatoes, proper seed spacing

Learning About Hobby Farming2 comments

Barbara wrote 1 month ago: One day I hope to live on a farm. But, until that day comes, I have been learning everything I can a … more →

Tags: Classes, Charlottesville City Market, farming, Farming Classes, Greenhouse, high tunnels, Michael and Audrey Levatino, soil blocker, Ted's Last Stand

Day 99: A good day for updates

cathy381 wrote 1 month ago: Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Gloomy with rain and storms. High temp: 58 degrees F; low temp: 46 degree … more →

Tags: Home Vegetable Gardening, Cold weather gardening, getting ready for spring planting, using a plexiglass-topped table as a greenhouse, plexiglass-topped table as greenhouse

Building Hot Houses

landisb wrote 1 month ago: Mike will often make note of the fact that I like to pick up free items from freecycle, craigslist o … more →

Tags: Garden, Frugal, Hot House, green house, Flats

The Mystery Toad1 comment

Barbara wrote 1 month ago: This past winter, I started experimenting with some cold frames. Barry made them and gave them to me … more →

Tags: wildlife, toads, wildlife in Central Virginia, toads in the garden, Eastern Spadefoot Toad, toads in Virginia

Accidental Popeye Power6 comments

Mike Oscar Hotel wrote 1 month ago: Is it time to plant?  Already?  ALREADY?  Not quite.  But if I wanted to get a jump on the season, I … more →

Tags: Healthy Living, Homestead, Homesteading, homesteader, Self-Sufficiency, Suburban Homesteading, small homestead, brick cold frame, Colorado

Forget Wordsworth’s "Daffodils"… here’s Zoe’s "Odes to a Cold Frame"4 comments

Fletch the perchcrow wrote 1 month ago: Poet’s favourite: Lent lily daffodils in Wordsworth House garden Normally at this time of year … more →

Tags: gardening, Cockermouth, Daffodils, gardening, Heritage Garden, lake district, Limmerick, National Trust, Poetry

Planning for Perennial Food19 comments

Mike Oscar Hotel wrote 1 month ago: Turning the garden, fall 2009. We’ve had mixed results with gardening here on the H.H.A. (Happ … more →

Tags: Homestead, Winter Gardening, Healthy Living, Homesteading, homesteader, Self-Sufficiency, Suburban Homesteading, small homestead, high altitude gardening

Still Early Days: Weeds, Seeds, and Sprouts

arlingwoman wrote 1 month ago: I used to think transitional weather was weather with temperatures changing gradually from cold to w … more →

Tags: local food, Community, Lettuce, radishes, Community Gardens, spring crops

Karen's Garden Journal: First week of March, 2013

ksgg wrote 2 months ago: It’s finally March with spring around the corner and we still have plenty of snowflakes coming … more →

Tags: Garden Journal, Cold framing, What we're eating..., gardening

Karen's Garden Journal: January 2013

ljamstutz wrote 2 months ago: January is delightful month. I know many people are not fans of the first month of the year but I am … more →

Tags: Garden Journal

Season Extension1 comment

jhchoi0112 wrote 2 months ago: A montage of 3 different season extension methods. … more →

Tags: film, Garden, Season Extension, cloches, low tunnel

Day 80: Gardens converge2 comments

cathy381 wrote 2 months ago: Thursday, March 21, 2013. Sunny but chilly. High temp: 37 degrees F; low temp: 20 degrees F. Fresh g … more →

Tags: Cold weather gardening, thoughts on gardening, Winter Gardening, winter carrots


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