HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
COLD FRAMES 
nPHESE 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. 
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