Kitchen Garden

YOU’VE BEEN FRAMED!

The simplest ideas are often the best and when it comes to extending the season, both in early spring and the autumn, cold frames are hard to beat.

Hardly new (the Victorians made full use of them) and not much more than a box with a transparent covering, yet they can offer just enough additional warmth and protection to allow you to sow up to a month earlier in the spring than you might do outdoors and a month later in the autumn.

You can make your own from wood such as recycled scaffold boards or pallets, bricks or any other material that will make a wall on which to support

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