Clasp two window-well covers together for an easy-to-assemble, inexpensive cold frame design. Utilize any of these eight cold frame plans this winter for building cold frames in your garden. Repurpose ...

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 ...

Learn a simple and affordable method to start your garden early using cold frames. Cold frames function as mini greenhouses ...

Shorter days and tumbling temperatures needn’t put a halt to your supply of homegrown food. When the growing gets tough courtesy of Jack Frost and company, take action by outfitting your garden with a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In Tasmania, on Muwinina country, the growing season is quite short so gardeners do what they can to ...

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, ...

This is part three of a six-part series on seed starting. Part one can be read here. Part two is here. Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats member. Enjoy unlimited access to our ...

Join The Guadalupe River Park Conservancy and Master Gardener Sharon Johnson for a workshop about the many seasonal uses of cold frames and greenhouses. Participants will learn an easy way to build a ...

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 ...

Believe it or not, last weekend in Portland I saw blooming shrubs – outdoors. On top of it, I had to peel off my Inland Northwest winter travel clothes in the face of 58-degree temperatures. Spring is ...

Extend your Iowa growing season by weeks with a cold frame. A cold frame is basically just a miniature greenhouse. And like a greenhouse, a cold frame can extend your growing season. A greenhouse, if ...

The warmer temperatures of October have come and gone, but autumn in Colorado often extends into November. For avid gardeners ...