[snow white]

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

[wil4025]

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.

[JayG]

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.)

[spud]

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.

[A. Fallowfield]

Mine shrank, must be the cold weather!


I knew those old floppy disc boxes would come in useful one day!