A cold frame creates a small, protected environment that traps sunlight and warmth, allowing your plants to thrive in colder months. It’s easy to build using basic materials and can fit neatly into ...

17:41, Tue, Oct 14, 2025 Updated: 13:08, Thu, Oct 16, 2025 As autumn deepens, preparation for winter in the garden becomes essential. If you haven’t got a greenhouse to protect your more delicate ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

In Tasmania, the growing season is quite short so gardeners do what they can to extend it if they want to grow warm-weather crops such as tomatoes, chillies and eggplants. Hannah has built a snug ...

It's late winter and it’s the time of year when gardeners want to start planting something. Anything! Although vegetable and flower seeds can be started indoors, that process requires a fair amount of ...

Cold frames are an ingenious way to shield plants from cold weather while creating the perfect microclimate for growth. Building your own cold frame from recycled materials is an eco-conscious, ...

Now that the weather has finally started to warm up, we are all anxious to get gardening! The temptation is always there to start digging before the ground is really dry enough, or to pop in a few ...

Niki Jabbour isn’t feeling deprived. Even though she lives on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Nova Scotia, she manages to harvest fresh produce every month of the year. Author of “The Year-Round ...

Temperatures may plunge and snow may fall, but the flow of kale and collard greens from Todd Spitler’s backyard garden hasn’t slowed. What sorcery is this? It’s just the “magic” of a cold frame.

We've all seen how completely unpredictable North Country weather can be. Temperatures often fluctuate wildly and conditions change radically from day to day or week to week, sometimes even from hour ...

The Building Material Thrift Store in south Hailey will present a free workshop on cold frame construction using reclaimed materials, from 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 15. You’ll learn from Rebecca Bundy, ...