Raised bed cold frame

Follow these step-by-step directions to build your own cold frame to fit over your raised garden bed and protect your plants from frost and snow in winter.

Prolong your harvesting season by adding an easy-to-build garden cold box on top of your raised bed. This DIY cold frame will take 2 hours from start to finish and is well worth the effort!

Cold frames are essential for every gardener's toolkit. Used during the growing season to help seedlings germinate and flourish, they're frame structures

Discover the many benefits of cold frame gardening at home. Protect your plants from frost, reduce pests, and extend the regular growing season for cold hardy crops. An easy way to enjoy fresh produce longer!

The month of October was swallowed whole by family matters. First my father-in-law passed away and then seventeen days later my mother-in-law slipped quietly away in her sleep. They were always good to me... to us all and I find myself tearing up just typing these words. For me, one of the ways grief expressed itself was a terrible tiredness that made me want to avoid anything routine; including the computer, the internet and blogging. It has been weeks since I posted anything. Slowly…

This winter I had some scrap wood left over from a basement finishing project so decided to attempt to build some cold frames to extend my garden season on two of the four beds. The process simply…

Recently, we built a much anticipated, beautiful bit of infrastructure for our garden – a cold frame. This is a welcome addition to any cool temperate garden, where we’re all constantly working on creating warm microclimates to extend our season to get tomatoes earlier and longer, reliable eggplants and abundant basil. Cold frames can be […]

Driving through La Pine, Oregon, (home base for our Central Oregon outing) in route to a nursery (you’re not surprised are you?) Andrew spotted these mini greenhouses... On top of raised beds… And they are built to open and close with ease! Smart huh? More smarts…they are using water filled milk jugs to slowly water the beds. We later learned that the temperature can fluctuate greatly here, it can be in the 80’s during the day and at night, below freezing. So it makes sense to be able to…

Learn everything you need to know about a cold frame! A cold frame allows you to plant earlier and grow cold hardy crops like lettuce and roots!

A cold frame with a glass top can give you a 12-month growing season. It's the easiest and most economical way to extend your harvest.