A couple of weeks ago Eric and I were talking on Gardenfork Radio about his new DIY Cold Frames video, and I mentioned winter gardening in hotbeds. I’d seen some hotbeds in the garden in Colonial Williamsburg, where they still garden the way colonial people did. Hotbed are like Eric’s cold frames with glass on top [...]
Plans for a cold frame hoop house in this GardenFork.TV episode from the archives. Using the cold frame as a season extender allows you to harvest greens later into the fall, and if you follow the procedures outlined by Elliot Coleman in his book, The Four Season Harvest, you can harvest food all winter. nice. [...]
On Christmas Day we went out to the garden to take care of what we should have done in the fall. And we made a video about it. How unusual. I’m a big fan of Eliot Coleman, and his book, The Four Season Harvest. Its full of a ton of information, one of the things [...]
We’ve already had 2 frosts here, and I wanted to continue the salad green season. In this episode we build a cold frame out of easily found materials. The vent I use on one end of the cold frame is available from Charlie’s Greenhouse, I’ve also seen them in the big home improvement stores, they [...]
