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From the "Dig In" blog at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
"Storm window magic: Nurturing spinach"
Within the next few weeks, while others are still dreaming of tender spinach from their own gardens, Annie Wegner LeFort of Bay View will reach through the window of a wooden contraption in her backyard.
And voila! She will pick her own garden spinach, fresh from the cold frame, to toss into her first homegrown salad of the season.
The pastry chef for Sheridan’s Cafe in Cudahy planted spinach in a raised bed around the end of last September, and gave it cold weather protection with an inexpensive contraption made from recycled odds and ends, known as a cold frame. [...]
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This is great! Thank you for the post.
Thanks for this post, Boo. A lot of people are just learning or re-learning gardening; they also think they can only garden in the summer. Cold frames are great way to extend the season!
Loved mine, had my spouse make one for me out of a simple 3 ft x 5 ft wood box and a couple old storm windows. Great for getting a jump start on seedlings or hardening plants off which have been started indoors. Mine was roughly adapted from one Martha Stewart showed in her magazine nearly ten years ago; her website has info about building one entirely from scratch. It could probably be modified to fit an old storm window, though.
If you live in a cold climate (Zones 3-5 here in U.S. for example), try some mache for a winter salad, along with radishes, arugula and spinach.