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How-To
Winter Herb Gardening: Easy Herbs to Grow in a Cold Frame
Cold frames are a great way to get a jump-start on or extend the gardening season. An easy way to get started with cold-frame growing is to put it to…
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How-To
Using Cold Frames in the Mountain West
If you’ve lived in the Mountain West, you know how erratic the weather can be here; sometimes there are swings between temperatures with as much as a 60° to 70°F…
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How-To
Get a Jump Start on Spring Planting
Don’t you just love the spells of warmer days (between storms) that remind us that winter is coming to an end? In the Mountain West, we gardeners know we still…
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How-To
How to Build a Cold Frame
Learn how to build a cold frame in this slideshow based on the article "How to Build a Cold Frame" by Rob Wotzak, which was featured in Fine Gardening issue…
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How-To
Easy-to-Build Cold Frame
Experience has taught me that the simplest solution is often the best. I wanted to spend more time using my new cold frame than building it, so I designed a…
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Kitchen Gardening
New Orleans Vegetable Trials Yield Big Results
The Louisiana Master Gardeners make the most of cool weather with their plantings at the New Orleans Botanical Gardens. Educational programs like these help vegetable gardeners with their spring plantings.
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Kitchen Gardening
Why Do Greens Bolt?
No matter what you do, when you grow lettuces and other greens in your garden, they will eventually start growing taller and blooming. Most people assume that it’s just high…
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How-To
4 Ways to Use a Cold Frame
No matter what your climate, these plant shelters expand your gardening options
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Article
How to Extend the Vegetable Growing Season
If I had a dollar for every time someone has said, “It’s too cold to grow vegetables in winter,” I could buy myself a heated greenhouse. The truth is that…
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Design
Find Out Which Type of Cold Frame Is Best
A web extra to Nikki Jabbour's article in Fine Gardening issue #153