An early spring tour of the vegetable garden, where Eric talks about using a hoop house cold frame to get an early start on spring vegetable plants, and how to grow sugar snap peas, plus some of eric’s thoughts on how to prune fruit trees like the old apple tree in the yard. Plus the [...]
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. [...]
We had a really warm weekend last week, so i pulled out the cold frame hoop house that we built in the How to make a hoop house cold frame video here. I put in a mix of salad greens and mesclun mix, place a wireless thermometer in, and left it to grow. I’ve gotten [...]
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 [...]
