Cold-Framing It...
This spring has been the year of the cold-frame. I convinced Woodman that I desperately needed a large cold-frame that sat over my smallest raised bed. I came home from work one afternoon to find, much to my delight, that he had made the perfect cold-frame, it was sitting in the back of the truck, ready to be moved into place. Lucky me! I promptly helped Woodman move the frame and rushed to the garden supply store the next morning to find a soil thermometer. This purchase officially nudged me into the garden geek category. I now eagerly check the temperature of the soil under the cold-frame, watching it slightly fluctuate with the changes of weather. It stays between 50-60 degrees Fahrenheit, rarely does it drop below. Thanks to Woodman's ingenuity and my nagging-wife demands, I am able to extend the planting season for tender things (like greens) a month earlier and one to one-and-a-half months later, depending on the weather. I have plante...