Cold Frame

Using a specialized greenhouse, farmers Tom Prieve and Sue Wika grow fresh vegetables year round -- without a crushing electric bill.

45 BEST tutorials, free building plans & ideas on how to build easy DIY greenhouses, simple cold frames, garden tunnels & hoops with low cost materials!

Discover the season-extending, incredibly versatile, and simple cold frame — the key to turning you garden into a year-round vegetable factory.

45 BEST tutorials, free building plans & ideas on how to build easy DIY greenhouses, simple cold frames, garden tunnels & hoops with low cost materials!

Hi – (click on a picture to enlarge) - I'm recovering after a hip replacement and would like to share some pictures of our allotment from the last few years. Last year - with work commitments and the weather against us, we weren't able to get done much at all... it really was all a bit of a washout. There are approx 40 plots on our site, just nice, it's surrounded on all sides with back gardens and you can't see it from the entrance so we get very little trouble from veggie burglars. I've cut the main grass here for a few years and yet people still wang rocks on there... so I cut high and it's been enough to stop someone coming in with a sprayer. But we love our allotment and the time can just fly by. Our first plot was 20ft x 100ft -- the first thing we did was to put up four reinforced pallet bins, bolted together, one 6x4 and three 4x4. We fill the big one first, then turn this into the next one, then the next one until the last turn goes through a stout wooden…

45 BEST tutorials, free building plans & ideas on how to build easy DIY greenhouses, simple cold frames, garden tunnels & hoops with low cost materials!

Lean-to Greenhouses 12ft x 24ft bespoke Lean-to greenhouse with maintenance free roof. Installed and delivered for £9,995 inc vat If you have a location available on your house or garden wall, this could be an ideal home for a lean-to greenhouse.Dwarf wall, cedar panels or glass to ground - t ...

45 BEST tutorials, free building plans & ideas on how to build easy DIY greenhouses, simple cold frames, garden tunnels & hoops with low cost materials!

If you are an avid gardener, you might call yourself a mediator between your plants and your local climate. You do everything within your power to ensure that your plants grow bountifully under the benevolent guise of nature, sun, and rain. Throughout most of the year, this is the most effective way to make your […]

If you’re the type of food gardener that wants to enjoy a 4-season harvest, you need learn about cold frames, ASAP. That is, if you’re not already using them. Cold frames aren’t complicated, mystical or difficult to use. They are nothing more than a basic raised bed with an old door, window or other piece ...