Discover the best ways to utilize your all year cold frame to get the maximum benefit for your garden regardless of the season. Cold frames are wonderful places to produce transplants to set out in ...

Q: I just added two large cold frames over my raised beds and plan to get an early start on my vegetable garden this year. But I haven't been able to find a chart that tells me what I can plant when.

Just because the cold season is coming, it doesn’t mean that you should say goodbye to your garden immediately. With the help of raised beds and cold frames, it makes it easier for you to stretch your ...

A cold frame is one of the most invaluable things a gardener can own during the winter. It offers a safe place for tender plants to overwinter, provides a growing environment to start seeds where ...

Cold weather doesn’t have to mean the end of gardening. If you want to keep growing fresh food when temperatures dip, there are ways to make it work. With a little planning, you can get your garden ...

Temperatures may plunge and snow may fall, but the flow of kale and collard greens from Todd Spitler’s backyard garden hasn’t slowed. What sorcery is this? It’s just the “magic” of a cold frame.

If you are new to raised bed gardening, you have questions about where to put your garden, how to build it, and how to plant ...

Though I never claim to be a gardening expert, my passion for gardening increases year after year, and I find that I am eager to try new things. Well, new to me. Garden structures such as cold frames ...

Question: I would like to continue growing some vegetables over the winter, and I am hoping I can start my seeds earlier in the spring. How can I construct a simple cold frame and maximize its use ...

Note: this post orginally appeared in December of 2010. It was the first missive from Beth Gellman, AKA The Garden Coach, who still blogs for us. She’ll have a new post next week. In the meanttime, ...