My Chicago Garden

yeah! NWS forecast was off by at least 2 degrees, maybe as much as 8 degrees. My home weather station reported a low of 40 during the overnight. The forecast for the next 7 days has temperatures in the low 40s in the evenings so we should be good to go for another week [...]

The great folks at the National Weather Service are forecasting 38 degrees across the Chicago area but the computer model point forecast is showing 35 degrees tonight for Wheaton.  Ouch! That’s one degree below their 36 degree cut off for frost. That’s a good 3 days ahead of my planning, but well within the [...]

I probably could have built the cold frame in one weekend but I wasn’t dedicated to doing it. I came very close though.  The materials were obtained from Menards (have I mentioned Menards completely out classes Home Depot and Lowes by orders of magnitude?)

First I had to reduce the size of the 4×8 [...]

I 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 [...]