Cold and warm bed frames - Get a jump on spring

Cold and warm bed frames - Get a jump on spring

Greenhouses cold frame, cold frames, boxes, sun, nesting sites - call them what you want. All these small structures are designed, affordable and easy to maintain to extend your growing season. Once thought of as a poor man's greenhouse, these small fields growing a great addition to your garden, if you have a complete greenhouse. Let's take a look at the differences between these structures.

A cold frame, sometimes known as a sun-box, is probably the easiest. E 'an excellent place to acclimate the plants first planted in the greenhouse. This is basically a bottomless wooden box about 1 meter is placed on the ground or sunk into the ground a few inches. The size depends on you, but are small so that you can easily reach everything inside. If you want to build directly into the system, then add a layer of 4-5 cm of topsoil and compost.

The most important part of a cold frame is a sloping roof made of a transparent orsemi-transparent material to transfer heat from the sun. Sash windows old job as cover, but you can use film or rigid plastic products. It 'important that the lid must be secured to the flexible and adjustable ventilation. Both cold frames and windows of Dom rely solely on the sun (which is why they are called sun boxes), for their warmth as you put them in a sunny sheltered, protected from the wind.

In areas of cold winter days, the cold frame for the start of the annual early rustic and lettuce. E 'also a good place to harden before planting of seedlings in the garden. As the weather gets warmer, you can use cuttings, starts to tender annual and even some seeds germinate. Sow cool weather crops in the frame in the fall, so you have a source of fresh vegetables and root crops during the winter months.

A cold frame is an incubator containing a heat source. It may be a thermostat electric heating cable, a lamp or even manure! Each of theseHeating methods are plants from frost, but is regarded by the outside temperature dip at about 15F degrees.

To install heating cable, dig about 6 inches of soil and lay the cable, loop back and forth. Cover with about 2 cm of sand and then 4 inches of soil. To use frozen eight incandescent 25 watt bulbs in the head, and close to a power source and a timer. For heating the outbreak of fresh manure, dig an area under the frame of about 12 cm. Fillmanure mixed with straw and then 4 inches of soil on top. Because of composted manure, will heat!

A cold frame greenhouse is actually a small greenhouse, and there are several kits on the market. They are generally larger than the cold frames are available, up to 2 meters in height. You have a frame of wood, metal or hard plastic, the support pages of a semi-transparent polycarbonate plastic, often with double walls for insulation. The roof is tilted and bent, sometimes byCentre so that it can be accessible from both sides. Durable, rigid and lightweight, easily moved to the garden.

There are many ways to extend the growing season and provide a protective environment for your plants. Why not add a couple of frames in a cool greenhouse or cold frame to your garden and enjoy the spring salads, fresh from the garden

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