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Tanya White
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I love the humble cold frame.

Currently, we primarily use ours:
-to grow winter salad greens
-to harden off seedlings
-as a temporary nursery bed for things like sea kale (while not growing winter greens)
-as a protected area for potted plants in case of a cold snap

Does anyone have any other interesting ways of using a cold frame?
 
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Hi Tanya,
You covered everything I have or would have used a cold frame for. I'd be curious if anyone else has anything else.

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I use mine to start apples from seed until they're ready to transplant into the ground. Mostly like that my food frame is vole proof and weed free.

Seed slanging, dirt sniffer

 
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Depending on how it's built, it could be a dandy solar dehydrator in late summer.
 
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I currently don't have a cold frame but I utilized my last one as a warming area for jugs of water in the fall.  In an hour or so those jugs would warm up enough to water the last few crops when needed.

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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:Depending on how it's built, it could be a dandy solar dehydrator in late summer.



Dang it!  Now you've got my wheels a turnin'!  

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Douglas, I really like your idea. I found this example in action.
 
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