Build a Cold Frame for your Raised Garden Bed

Our appologizes in advance for the video quality. We weren’t able to adjust the lighting after taping and learned a great lesson in outside video recording! We built a frame around our existing raised garden bed to get a head start on spring planting and extend the fall growing season. Some of the cold season plants are spinach, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, peas, carrots and potatoes. These can all be started in our area, which is N. Idaho, inside as soon as late February to mid April. They prefer temperatures below 75 degrees and can germinate in temperatures as low as 60 degrees. To harden off the plants that have been started indoors we will place them outside, during the day, (in the cold frame) gradually over a period of about a week.