Rural Gardening: March on the Homestead, 1 by msrobin

msrobin wrote:
I guess I'm confused about your cold frame. Do you have a pic posted on another thread that I could see? Sounds like you have more of a GH. I just use a low tunnel like the one is this picture. It takes 45 feet of flexible pvc pipe cut in 9' pieces. Each end of pipe goes over a 3' pc of 1/2 rebar pounded in the ground 1'. A standard roll of 20'x 25' plastic covers it, held closed on the ends by those plastic alligator clamps and rocks or logs around the bottom sides to hold the plastic down. It's easy enough to open the ends and use the clamps to hold the plastic (kind of rolled up) on the end hoops. You have to open it when the sun starts hitting it, cuz it heats up rapidly! This pic is from 2 years ago and is early summer. I attached that plastic netting fence to it, so I could grow beans up the netting, and lettuce and broccoli underneath. Which BTW worked great and I had them growing all summer.