Re: cold frame
- Subject: Re: [SG] cold frame
- From: L* K*
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:03:08 -0700
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From: GeneBush <genebush@OTHERSIDE.COM>
To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: [SG] cold frame
> Hello Lucy,
> Believe we are into regional "dialects" here a bit. The
frames I build for my
> partner JoAn has Styrofoam insulation board along the sides and
down into the
> soil. She also has old window frames to place over the top, or
use remay. That
> would be more along the traditional concept of "cold frame" I
see in articles.
> Seed bed, to me here, would be seeding directly into the
soil, a frame and
> cover. Such as the farmers do for growing tobacco plants. I do
not sow my seeds
> into the soil, but into pots and I can cover with remay if I
need to.
Okay, I understand now: this is what I had thought a cold frame
was. I don't think anybody around here does this. I think the
only things that would need this much protection around here
would be tropicals that stay in a greenhouse all year around.
It is funny, though -- you do see an awful lot of greenhouses
here on the Central Coast -- people growing orchids and stuff.
It seems so strange, when it's balmy outside all year, that so
much of our commercial agriculture is in greenhouses.
Lucy
