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COLD FRAME & HOTBED sa PLANT COVER x HOTBED xx GARDENING xx GREENHOUSE How to garden with a cold frame. Includes plans for building a frame. A look at cold frames and hotbeds, what they can do and instructions for building a 3-ft.x5-ft.x6" unit. Ideas on gardening fun for children. Included are: (1) using milk cartons and egg shells for planters, (2) making a terrarium in a jar, (3) growing mustard and watercress in a sponge, (4) growing alfalfa sprouts in a jar, (5) making salt-dough pots, (6) growing a "hanging forest" of sprouting carrots, parsnips, turnips and rutabagas, (7) growing plants from an onion, a potato and various nuts, pits and seeds, (8) making a jar that shows how a lima-bean seed grows, (9) building a mini-greenhouse (13"x19") from pine strips and clear plastic wrap, and (10) building a planter box that is hinged in the middle with glass inserts so that the box can be opened to show the roots. How to build a "Grow Box" that can be used to raise seedlings, convert into a germination unit for sprouting seeds, or as a worm culture box for 100+ earthworms. How to build a 36"x66" cold frame. Vegetable garden season stretchers. A look at a variety of simple greenhouses, cloches, and cold frames which you can build or buy. How to build a miniature greenhouse with a wooden base and a plastic top suspended over a wire frame. How to build a cold frame for vegetables. Frost-free flora. Get a head start on the growing season with this cold frame that incorporates a salvaged wooden window. Roll-around greenhouse (cold frame). Unit is 48" long, 26" wide and 43" tall. Two windows at 45-degree angle open up to get inside. Storage shelf is under the planting area. Built of pine. Est. cost: $60. Gallery greenhouse. Small greenhouse (window box) clamps on to the railing of a balcony, etc. Est. cost: $45. Start your gardening early with a cold, or hot, frame. How to build and use one. Simple, portable, triple-decker sun box. Cold frame built from scrap lumber and an old wooden storm window. How to construct a large, portable cold frame. PVC pipe frame, covered with polyethylene sheeting, is hinged to a base of 2x4s. Build a cold frame (72"x36") as a cheap alternative to a greenhouse. Alternatives for greenhouses. Tip on extending your vegetable growing season. Looks at crop selection, cold frame, row covers, hotbed, and simple greenhouses. Homebuilt solar food dryer does double duty as a cold frame in the spring. How to build and use simple, functional cold frames. How to build a cold frame that uses old window sashes. Also shows a simple take-apart unit that is designed to back up to a basement window. Tip: Use heavy foam packing containers to start seeds and plants. Tip: Use clear-plastic sweater boxes as miniature cold frames for starting seedlings. Hotbed made from heating cable and rigid foil-faced insulation. Est. cost: $20. Tips on using a cold frame for hardening off plants. Tip describes making a hot bed from the foam crates used to ship grapes. Cold frames, simple structures with a world of garden uses. How to use one to extend the growing season, for propagation, overwintering and forcing. Includes instructions for building a simple cold frame and on caring for the plants. How to construct a small storage cabinet with a cold frame on top. Tip shows how to build a planter and cold frame in the shape of a carpenter's tool box. A hoop-house cold frame consists of a PVC "Quonset hut" framework covered with heavy plastic sheeting. May be disassembled for storage. Stretch the growing season. Cold frames let you jump-start spring planting and winter over tender plants. Tips on siting, building and using a cold frame. Tip tells how to make a temporary cold frame using hay bales and a glass-paned window. Pattern for a simple cold frame. An outdoor hotbed uses an underground heat cable to raise lettuce throughout the winter. Tips on making a simple cold frame about 3-ft square. Includes a plastic cover for winter and a lath cover for shade during hot months. Real gardeners use cold frames. Tips on building and using cold frames. How to make and use a simple cold frame. Tip: Start perennials from seed in a simple, homemade cold frame. Simple cold frame is constructed from two plastic window well covers mounted to a strip of wood. Tips for cold frame growing. Techniques for extending the growing season in spring and fall through use of cold frames, cloches, and other devices. Two portable cold frames. A simple version is made by nailing two plastic window-well covers to a hinged 2x4 frame. The second (61"x38"x24" high)is built from plywood with two Plexiglas panels. Simple cold frame is created from hay bales and an old storm window. Simple plan for a cold frame that goes together quickly and also breaks down for storage. How to build a cold frame for under $20 by using old aluminum storm windows. Tip: How to build an adjustable cold-frame cover with slats that pivot to control the amount of sunlight that can get to sensitive cuttings. Guidelines for gardening in the Yukon in growing boxes, giant wooden cold frames with plastic-covered sashes. The construction and use of a cold frame to extend the growing season for vegetables. Solar garden shed is built using pole construction. It includes room for a potting bench, large equipment and garden tool storage. A glazed southern wall provides light and heat and serves as a cold frame for the growing beds inside. Special raised bed under a cold frame allows tulips and other bulbs to grow farther north than they can normally be grown. Tip on constructing a warm box which provides gentle bottom heat to speed up seed germination. Tips on building a cold frame and using it to start or raise herbs. Short seasons long harvests. Description of using underground heating mats to extend the growing season of herb gardens in far-northern climates. Plant warmers. Tips on building a simple cold frame. How to build a portable electrically heated cold frame. How to build a combination cold frame and hot bed. Tip: Convert a child's toy wagon into a portable hotbed. Step-by-step guide to building a cold frame with an old window sash or storm window as a cover. A case for cold frames. How to use them to extend the gardening season. Salads in the snow. How to grow fresh greens in the winter by using polyester row cover, cold frames and a movable hoop house. Tip shows how to make an adjustable lid-lifter for heavy cold frame lids. Gardening under glass. How a cold frame can give a 12-month growing season. Includes plans for a simple cold frame and tips on cold-tolerant crops. Tip shows how to make a cold frame from hay bales and an old window sash. How to install electric heating cable to warm a cold frame. Small tabletop hothouse uses a 25-watt electric bulb for heat. Portable cold frame glazed with plastic. Frame is light, easy to move and shatterproof. Easy-to-make cold frame is 28"x96"x15" deep. Top of frame is covered with corrugated Filon. Hothouse is built from a simple wooden frame and corrugated fiberglass. Unit measures 8-ft. long. Collapses for storage. Est. cost: $50. A quickie cold frame for early planting is made by bolting two window-well covers together. How to build a seed incubator from a wooden box and two ceramic light fixtures. Tip shows how to build a cold frame using two recycled window sashes. Knockdown cold frame system can be used to build any size frame. Take apart for storage. Build a seed-starting solar cold frame. Made from wood and translucent corrugated fiberglass. Inexpensive, easy-to-build grow-frame allows a New Zealander to grow lettuce all year. Covered with 4" wide plastic strips. Inexpensive cold frame is made from polystyrene insulation board, plastic glazing and some miscellaneous wood and hardware. In praise of a patchwork garden. Tips on raising herbs and vegetables in small spaces. Includes plans for a cold frame. How to build and maintain a cold frame and a tunnel cloche. Deluxe, four-season cold frame. Use it for spring seedlings, summer lettuce, winter kale, etc. The greening of winter. Special section on growing fresh vegetables during the winter. Includes an improved miniature solar growing frame (plans must be ordered). Includes tips on what and when to plant. A 4x4-ft. raised-bed frame incorporates a removable trellis and removable cold frame to form a "modular gardening system". Est. cost: $60. How to make cold frames for raised-bed salad vegetable gardens to extend the life of the garden for several weeks. How to construct a 2x3-ft. wooden sprouting box that is self watering. How to start vegetable seedlings indoors. Describes the benefits of a bottom-heated cold frame. How to turn an old tire into a cold frame. How to construct a double-layer cold frame from two layers of fiberglass. How to build a heat-storing cold frame with a back wall of rock. Gardening tips for raised bed gardens. Covers use of a polyethylene cover to increase the growing season, succession planting and composting. How to build a portable "Sun-Saver" from plywood and aluminum foil to provide even light distribution for seedlings and houseplants. How to make a variety of hotbeds so you can raise salad greens, even in snowy, sub-zero zones. Tip: Inexpensive cold frame is made from lengths of plastic pipe fitted over stakes in the ground. The arched pipes are covered with clear plastic. Tip: Homemade, solar-heated cold frame to build. Garden all winter with solar grow frames. A look at various styles and shapes. How to grow salad vegetables thru the winter in solar-heated cold frames. Tip: Plan for a cold frame made from discarded window sash. Build a cold frame from a half sheet of plywood and an old glass window. Tip: Make a seed-starting greenhouse from a two-liter plastic soda bottle. Tip: Build miniature greenhouses from old wood-frame windows. The solar salad bed. How to build and use a solar cold frame to raise lettuce during the winter. Product testing: Sun-powered ventilation for plants under glass. What is available in automatic vent openers for cold frames and greenhouses. Tip: Temporary cold frames in your garden made from bales of hay and some plastic. The complete winter salad. Use cold frames to raise salad vegetables throughout the winter. Grow early vegetables under these double cold frames designed by the French. Includes plans for building your own 2x4-ft. modules that are light and maneuverable. Est. cost: $10. Tip: Make a self-watering cold frame for seedlings by digging a trench in the ground, lining with gravel, installing strips of old jeans to provide water and covering with an old window. Tip: Temporary cold frame made from styrofoam. Tip: Simple cold frame made from two sawhorses and plastic sheeting. Tip: An old venetian blind gives controllable shade to a cold frame. Hay bales and old storm windows are used to assemble a simple mini-greenhouse for starting plants. Tips on making double cold frames from old windows. Double-vented cold frame lets hot air escape. Lath screen doubles as a cold frame. Ideas on manure-heated hotbeds. How to build a solar-heat-absorbing door for your outside stairwell to the basement. Allows the steps to double as a cold frame. Garden trailer becomes a temporary, mobile cold frame. Tip: Inner lid of foam insulation allows greens to be raised all winter in a cold frame. Sketch shows how to make a collapsible cold frame. How to grow salad plants in a cold frame throughout the winter. Covers site selection, soil, choice of crops, methods for protection against intense cold and harvest information. Easy and inexpensive cold frame to build using a reclaimed window sash. Tip: Make a portable cold frame from a pallet. A-frame design is covered with heavy-duty plastic. Tip: Make water-walls (plant insulators) from discarded gallon jugs. Trench "greenhouse" growing technique lets you harvest warm-season crops 10 to 20 days earlier or extend the growing season in cooler climates. Preparing an old-fashioned hotbed that uses fresh manure to provide supplemental heat. Tip shows how to build a cold-frame cover from an artists' canvas stretcher. How to build a raised bed with a plastic-covered tunnel or hoop house. Est. cost: $40. How to make cold frames. Offers information on using recycled materials, temporary and permanent structures, site selection and venting. Tip on installing a cold frame in front of a basement window to supply heated air from the basement. Plant with early season extenders. A guide to hot caps, walls o'water, grow domes, cold frames, plastic tunnels and row covers. Double-duty compost. Mini-hothouses created from nursery pots, wire and plastic bags are placed in a compost pile which helps warm the soil in the pot. Mobile cold frame (20"x50") is built from 1x8s and an old storm window. Fiberglass cold frame acts as a solar-heated greenhouse. Sides are 16" high, 68" long, and 73" wide. Peaked, hinged roof panels are easily raised for access and ventilation. Designed to come apart in easy-to-store sections. Six styles of cold frames you can build yourself. How to make a cold frame, a hot bed and a cloche to get your seeds started early. Units use translucent corrugated fiberglass instead of glass. Extend your growing season with this portable hotbed. It features an automatic solar-powered vent system. Covers a 33"x76" area. 8 garden aids for a bountiful harvest. (1) Vertical fence planter. (2) Cold frame/solar dryer. (3) Raised-brick planting bed. (4) Horizontal tomato cage. (5) Cucumber trellis. (6) Raspberry supports. (7) Tomato ladder. (8) Pole bean trellis. How to make a castered hotbed/greenhouse. One of 12 winning designs from the PS/APA Single-Sheet Plywood Project contest. Mini greenhouse for starting seedlings. Includes an automatic watering system. Ends of the unit open for ventilation and cover folds back completely for easy access. Holds three 20"x31" flats. Overall measurements are 35" wide, 72" long and 32" high. 4-in-1 backyard center features a cold frame, potting table, barbecue area and storage shed. Constructed of exterior plywood. Plans must be ordered. Learn-by-doing growing box has a bottom section for compost and earthworms. Above that is a sprouting tray for seeds, topped with a box for growing plants. The A-frame cover has slots for acrylic plastic or lath panels. Simple cold frame is made from notched 2x6's (for easy setup and takedown) and some clear plastic sheeting. Build a simple wood-and-Plexiglas hot box to start seeds or cuttings. The secret is the electric temperature controlled mat installed in the box. Tip: Use a retaining wall as one side of a cold frame. Portable cold frame folds flat for storage. Built from a half-sheet of exterior plywood and clear acrylic. Propagating frame is a miniture greenhouse, covered with plastic film, and provided with a means of ventilation and heating. Early starter. A simple-to-make propagator (cold frame). A wooden framework is glazed on the top and four sides with clear plastic. Cold-frame gardening. How to build a pit-style cold frame from concrete blocks and a window sash. Portable cold frame. A 24"x40" cold frame with storage shelf underneath is mounted on two wheels for easy moving to follow sun or protect from frost. Convert a basement window well into a cold frame or hotbed. Convert an existing outdoor planter box to a small greenhouse by covering it with fiberglass screening or plastic film stretched over a simple wooden framework. Pattern for a simple cold frame. Roll-around cold frame can follow the sun and be rolled into a garage during periods of frost. | |||||||||
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