How to Start Tomatoes in a Cold Frame

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Tip 1 - Gardening Tips from Eliot Coleman: How to Start Seedlings in a Cold Frame - Blog

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by Xyso | permalink

Are you ready to get a start on the gardening season? With a cold frame you can jump in now.

For further reading: http://www.chelseagreen.com/blogs/gardening-tips-from-eliot-coleman-how-to-start-seedlings-in-a-cold-frame/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Managing a Cold Frame, Low Tunnel, or Mini-greenhouse | Homeplace Earth on WordPress.com

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by Andrew Gilligan | permalink

My first experience with season extension structures was a cold frame. I have found cold frames to be of best use as solar powered plant starters. I grow lots of seedlings in my two cold frames, beginning with brassicas plants in February and ending with brassicas plants and lettuce in September. In September, I set out the kale,…

For further reading: https://homeplaceearth.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/managing-a-cold-frame-low-tunnel-or-mini-greenhouse/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - Seed-Starting 101: Starting Seeds Under Protection

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by u 00c 9variste NICO Lu 00c 9 TIS | permalink

This is part 2 of a six-part series on seed starting. Part 1 can be read here. Starting seeds early, when done right, is one of the most satisfying aspects of gardening. To see young, green shoots perk up through the soil while winter carries on outside is incredibly gratifying. It’s as if spring begins... Read More

For further reading: http://civileats.com/2010/03/19/starting-seeds-under-protection/ ^[3]

Tip 4 - Garden With Cold Frames to Grow More Food

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by Felipe Molinos | permalink

Garden with cold frames. Providing a warm and protected space in your garden for spring seeds will allow you to get a head start on your gardening season. Cold frames, made of lumber or hay bales and old windows or glass shower doors, are the perfect way to control the climate in your nursery beds.
Tags: Garden With Cold Frames, Seed Starting, Mini Cold Frame, Spring Planting, Extending Spring Crops, Organic Gardening

For further reading: http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/garden-with-cold-frames-zmaz07djzgoe.aspx ^[4]

Tip 5 - 4 Ways to Use a Cold Frame

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by Carlis Stuber | permalink

For further reading: http://www.finegardening.com/4-ways-use-cold-frame ^[5]

Tip 6 - Coldframes

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by susanna vitelli | permalink

For further reading: http://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/garden/coldframes ^[6]

Tip 7 - making plans for starting tomatoes..cold frame/or indoors?

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by Kacprzak Hubert | permalink

My last frost date is in May. The last few yrs I have started my plants in my kitchen window. I want to put out more this yr tho. I have read about using cold frames to grow cool season veggies early, and this morning for starting things early. I understand the plants will still need to be germinate...
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For further reading: http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/2165491/making-plans-for-starting-tomatoescold-frame-or-indoors ^[7]