#coldframes

On April 1st I decided to plant out all the onions, shallots, broccoli, and cauliflower into my largest cold frame. Our 10-day weather forecasted the nights to be above freezing so I got busy planting

The hydroponic lettuce has been growing wonderfully and I am loving this red variety. The buttercrunch lettuce is starting to create a nice little head. I did take some of the larger outer leaves for a

On Thursday in a small window between rain showers, my son and I got the cold frame covers out of the back of the garden shed and onto the cold frames. There are 2 of these 6’ x 9’ cold frames. This one

and how a one-minute assembly sucked up three of my days

On Sunday the forecasts at night were to be warm enough that the mid-hardy plants could go out to the cold frame. So I set about making the notes on each type plant’s info sheet. Then I’d moved them out

I tend to like to start my seedlings earlier than most and they grow fast in the greenhouse. My alternative is to cover my raised beds with hoops and thick plastic to give my plugs an earlier planting

Growing seedlings for my gardens is a joyful experience and quite satisfying too. Here I will share a few photos of the plants inside the greenhouse, as well as, how I use hoops in the raised beds to harden