Raised bed greenhouse 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.

Garden year-round with a homemade cold frame! Here are frugal ways to build a cold frame and extend your gardening time and produce more food.

Here are 23 DIY cold frame ideas to get you started. The best thing is they are all easy to build, most even without any carpentry skills.

These tips will help you get started cold frame gardening, and help you learn about the benefits of an extended gardening season.

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This post looks at the benefits of a cold frame and shows you our clever design for transforming a raised bed into a cold frame in mere minutes. I first beca…

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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…

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!