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  • From: "Adriana Gutierrez" <gutierrez-lagatta AT home.com>
  • To: market-farming
  • Subject: Re: late snow and cold frames
  • Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:48:25


I thought I'd fill 8 cold frames with cold-weather
> crops, then remove the frames as these crops get their true leaves, and move
> the frames to a new area and plant the next succession crop. My soil temp
> outdoors is now 44 degrees, so I could seed outdoors, but I'm expecting snow
> storms to dump snow in my area until mid-May.

I read about some people who built a 20' x40' perimeter of straw or hay
bales, filled it with wood chippings and other composting materials and
then built a PVC hop structure over it. As the materials composted they
generated sufficient heat to warm the hoop structure for growing
throughout the winter without any supplemental heat source. Perhaps a
similar approach could be used for cold frames. Build the perimeter with
bales, fill with compost materials, cover with a couple of inches of good
soil and direct seed or simply place seed flats on top of the compost
materials. Then cover the perimter as you would any other cold frame.




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