Making a Cold Frame for your Garden

One of the challenges for cool climate gardeners is the short growing season. It can seem like a race to get plants to maturity and ready for harvest in time before the frosts descend once more. One way to extend the growing season is to start crops indoors, on your windowsills, early in the year. That way, you can sow certain seeds long before your last frost date and improve your chances of a viable harvest. But plants grown inside require hardening off before planting out in your garden. Making a cold frame for your garden could be the perfect solution.

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