How-To: Cold Frame from Recycled Materials

Gardening

Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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April 22nd, 2010

Sheila Higgins shows us how to create a cold frame to extend your gardening season:

Cold frame gardening is a simple way to extend your harvest season, allowing for fresh crops year-round. The structure consists of a bottomless box that sits on the soil and a glass “light”. Construction is easy–the cold frame can be made using salvaged wood and old storm windows.