Re: cold frame
- Subject: Re: [SG] cold frame
- From: L* K*
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:34:58 -0700
----- Original Message -----
From: Claire Peplowski <ECPep@AOL.COM>
To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:37 PM
Subject: [SG] cold frame
> In a message dated 7/11/01 9:08:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
stedman@RCN.COM
> writes:
>
> << > Gene: Thanks for all your help (and to everyone else,
too). Since I don't
> >> have a cold frame, >>
>
> Nancy.
>
> You do not need to construct a proper frame to get the same
services of a
> cold frame. Find a suitable, south/southeast facing locations
and use a
> wooden fruit box from the market. Knock the bottom out and
sink a few inches
> into the soil. You can cover in bad weather with some rigid
plastic or
> whatever you have around the house.
> Learning the many advantages of a cold frame need not be a huge
project.
> Many gardeners around here plant tropical vegs in five gallon
pails with the
> bottoms cut off. Whatever works!
I'm not sure what a cold frame is. I thought I knew, but Gene's
description sounded like a seeding bed, and I had thought there
was more to it than that. I never hear anybody around here talk
about them -- is that because people don't do them where there's
no killing frost (or nearly none), or because there's another
name for them?
Lucy Kemnitzer
