cold frame

  • growing herbs in cold frames
    How-To

    Winter Herb Gardening: Easy Herbs to Grow in a Cold Frame

    Cold frames are a great way to get a jump-start on or extend the gardening season. An easy way to get started with cold-frame growing is to put it to…

  • cold frame with plastic exterior
    How-To

    Using Cold Frames in the Mountain West

    If you’ve lived in the Mountain West, you know how erratic the weather can be here; sometimes there are swings between temperatures with as much as a 60° to 70°F…

  • How-To

    Get a Jump Start on Spring Planting

    Don’t you just love the spells of warmer days (between storms) that remind us that winter is coming to an end? In the Mountain West, we gardeners know we still…

  • How-To

    How to Build a Cold Frame

    Learn how to build a cold frame in this slideshow based on the article "How to Build a Cold Frame" by Rob Wotzak, which was featured in Fine Gardening issue…

  • How-To

    Easy-to-Build Cold Frame

    Experience has taught me that the simplest solution is often the best. I wanted to spend more time using my new cold frame than building it, so I designed a…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    New Orleans Vegetable Trials Yield Big Results

    The Louisiana Master Gardeners make the most of cool weather with their plantings at the New Orleans Botanical Gardens. Educational programs like these help vegetable gardeners with their spring plantings.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Why Do Greens Bolt?

    No matter what you do, when you grow lettuces and other greens in your garden, they will eventually start growing taller and blooming. Most people assume that it’s just high…

  • How-To

    4 Ways to Use a Cold Frame

    No matter what your climate, these plant shelters expand your gardening options

  • Article

    How to Extend the Vegetable Growing Season

    If I had a dollar for every time someone has said, “It’s too cold to grow vegetables in winter,” I could buy myself a heated greenhouse. The truth is that…

  • Design

    Find Out Which Type of Cold Frame Is Best

    A web extra to Nikki Jabbour's article in Fine Gardening issue #153