31+ Cold Frame Gardening Images. Grow through the winter, root cuttings. Do you use a cold frame for winter gardening, and if so, did you build your own?
Protect plants from wind and rains during stormy months. Cold frames are an ideal way to extend your garden's growing season in spring and fall without costing you a fortune. Gardeners use cold frames to extend their gardening season—both in the autumn to protect plants for a few more weeks and in the spring to get a jumpstart on sowing seeds.
Cold frames create a microclimate that can be a zone and a half warmer than your garden.
Cold frame gardening offers an affordable alternative to a greenhouse while offering many of the same advantages. Not all gardeners have the luck to live in temperate climes. Learn how to set up a cold frame and to transform a cold frame into an electrically heated hotbed. Protect your bedding plants and keep them warm to extend your growing season.