HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 



COLD FRAMES 



THESE are simple hotbeds without the heat. No 

 manure being used in them eliminates the need of 

 digging a pit or using a subframe. With the help of a 

 cold frame, the home gardener may extend the season of 

 fresh vegetables four weeks in the fall and enjoy such 

 hardy vegetables as radishes, lettuce, onions, etc., two to 

 four weeks before they can be gathered from the open 

 ground in the spring. 



Cold frames are most useful companions to the hot- 

 bed. After plants have reached the size that makes trans- 

 planting from the hotbed necessary, they may be shifted 

 into the cold frame to be properly hardened off before 

 being set into the open ground. Beans, beets, carrots, etc., 

 sown in the cold frame the latter part of August will 

 bear the crop when frosts outdoors have put an end to 

 vegetation. By keeping out the cold, cold frames form 

 the connecting link between the hotbed and open ground. 



