Fall is a fantastic time for gardening, but those cooler temperatures can sometimes feel like they’re putting a pause on all the fun! That's where a cold frame comes in handy - it's one of my favorite ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

CUISINE & CULTURE Using frost blankets to extend the growing season was discussed in last week’s column. Today’s column suggests cold frames as another way to extend a garden’s growing season.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- With this spring's swinging temperatures feeling like the dead of winter one day and mid-July the next, it's not been conducive to starting a garden. But Tottenville resident ...

A compromise cold frame like ours might be a consideration for people, who, because of poor soil, (like us), pursue growing in raised bed structures above the ground. We think that paying attention to ...

Spinach is a cool-season crop, but it'll need help to thrive during cold winters. Here are some protection methods for ...

First source your lid (or lids). An old window or even a shower door will work well. Then cut lengths of lumber to size to match your lid. You can choose how tall you’d like your cold frame to be, but ...