He had knocked together a rough cold-frame, on the sunny side of the woodshed, to fit some old sash he had found in the barn. ❋ Burbank L. Todd (N/A)
At school No. 4, in Indianapolis, one of the teachers wanted a cold-frame and a hot-bed for use in connection with her nature work. ❋ Scott Nearing (1933)
When two score pots are ready, I set them in a cold-frame, sprinkle them, stretch the kink out of my back, listen to the wood-thrush a moment (he came on the fourteenth and is evidently planning to nest in our pines), and then return to my job. ❋ Walter Prichard Eaton (1917)
The most satisfactory material for use in hotbed and cold-frame sash is double-thick, second-quality glass; and panes twelve inches wide are ordinarily broad enough, and they suffer comparatively little in breakage. ❋ Unknown (1906)
It is true that they will bloom when sown in the autumn, but unless kept over the winter in a cold-frame the plants will send up stalks, only about a foot in height. ❋ Unknown (1903)
I have no glass on my place, not even a cold-frame or hot-bed. ❋ Unknown (1903)
When one has a hotbed or cold-frame it is often an advantage to set a row of tomato plants nearly 18 inches apart at the back end much earlier than they could be safely set in the open ground, and if these are allowed to grow on in place, as shown in Fig. 19, being pruned and tied to stakes, they will give some very early fruit. ❋ Unknown (1883)
The plants had been crowded forward as rapidly as possible in the cold-frame, and when set in the field were much higher than A's, but so soft that they were badly checked in transplanting and a great many of them died and had to be reset. ❋ Unknown (1883)
Well rotted stable manure may be used to advantage, freshly applied and plowed under, for early spring planting of cold-frame or hot-bed plants which are expected to mature before extremely hot-dry weather, but it has no special advantage except to warm up the soil. ❋ Unknown (1877)
In 1882 I discovered that by wintering the plants over in cold-frame, and keeping them growing all winter, those that were transplanted _without wilting_ would form heads, and then throw seed-stalks in time to form seed before frost, if they were continually wet with tepid water after heading. ❋ Unknown (1877)
Page 55 dry situation, with the north board one foot wide, the south board six inches, covered with movable glass sashes, and the earth within covered with a good coating of well-rotted manure, or rich earth, composes what is called a cold-frame, in which to sow seeds in the autumn or winter months, so as to have plants to set out as soon as the frost is gone. ❋ Unknown (1875)
In the meantime here are my tomatoe plants set out from a cold-frame; I never used a hot-bed, as in this climate it is I think unnecessary and dangerous, unless you have a gardner you can certainly trust. ❋ North Carolina Land Co. (1869)
In starting the seed there is no necessity for hot-bed or cold-frame. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)
There are numerous small-scale ways to implement cold-frame techniques without the cost or expense of a permanent structure. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Prick out the seedlings of cold-frame sown seeds into individual pots as soon as they are large enough to handle and grow the plants on for their first winter in a greenhouse, planting out in the spring after the last expected frosts. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Q: I've been thinking of building a cold-frame greenhouse (unheated). ❋ Unknown (2010)
The benefits of cold-frame growing come in the harvest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Hanaceks already have started their vegetable garden in cold-frame beds, where they have planted spinach, celery, rosemary and lettuce. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Michael Rahman, whose square-foot gardening project I discussed in an earlier column, has adapted his beds to accept a cold-frame cover of corrugated polycarbonate.
