Cold frame it is
tyler | October 4, 2007I did some basic math and measurements and some architectural type drawings and figured out that a greenhouse would just not work…at least like I had been thinking. So I went back to the cold frame plans.
I remembered I had a book called “Four Season Gardening” that had some plans for a cold frame so I tracked it down in our library of books and read the chapter again. I’ve settled on building a “Dutch light” of sorts. Basically I’m taking 4 storm windows, and building 4 removable window units out of cedar. Then I build up a box around the one raised bed and lay the window units down on top. Couldn’t be simpler. I went to Menards tonight and picked up 2 lengths of 2×2 cedar. Cut to the correct lengths it makes the frame on to which to screw the window. I also noticed some tongue and grove cedar boards that I plan on using to build the box.
I need to resize the raised beds down to 8 x 3 instead of the current 8 x 4 so the window units fit correctly, but I didn’t like the width of 4 feet anyway. It was just too difficult to reach in and do anything in the middle of the beds. So no loss there. I’ll simply have 3 8×3 beds instead of 2 8×4 beds. All in all, I’ll gain growing space.
I know what my saturday project is!
Oh yeah…garlic came today from seeds of change. If I can get the cold frame built on Saturday and Sunday maybe I can plant them late sunday afternoon.
