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Growing => Growing in Greenhouses & Polytunnels => Topic started by: snow white on May 04, 2013, 22:44

Title: cold frames
Post by: snow white on May 04, 2013, 22:44

I have just put a cold frame up on my allotment.  Any tips for getting full use of it?

Title: Re: cold frames
Post by: wil4025 on May 06, 2013, 11:20

You can use a cold frame for lots of things, like hardening off new plants, making plants bigger when its cold outside, not frost or snow though. Keeps wind off things. I use mine when Ive run out of space in the greenhouse and when the plants are so big they go in coldframe, potting on etc.

Title: Re: cold frames
Post by: JayG on May 06, 2013, 11:45

When mine has done its job of protecting and hardening off young plants I use it to grow bush tomatoes in (I have to raise the covers and eventually remove them altogether but it does give them some protection from the elements and a slightly better chance of avoiding blight spores landing on them.)

Title: Re: cold frames
Post by: spud on May 30, 2013, 21:57

I grow our salad material in deep beds/baths, I made poly covers to help with the cold and wet conditions. Here is a short video ...

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Hope you enjoy.

Title: Re: cold frames
Post by: A. Fallowfield on May 30, 2013, 22:07

Mine shrank, must be the cold weather! ;)
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I knew those old floppy disc boxes would come in useful one day!