You can't see, but there are little lettuce sprouts in the cold frame. I built it myself! It was mostly easy and fun. All you need are:
-An old window (from a junk yard or building surplus)
-Some scrap 2 x 6s or whatever other size lumber you prefer (cut to fit the window and build a box higher in the top than the back, which means you'll have to have two triangle-shaped pieces to create an incline)
-Hinges
-Nails or screws
-A saw
-A tape measure
-Some scrap 2 x 2s or thereabouts for corner posts
-A hasp or latch of some kind (optional)
-Weather stripping (also optional)
The only thing that I couldn't do myself was cut the one piece on the diagonal to make two triangles. I had to have my dad help me because he has a band saw. But if you have and are handy with a rip saw (I do not, and I am not), that is an option, too. I also didn't use carpenter's glue, but that might have been helpful.
I would write more detailed directions, but I didn't have any. I had to figure it out for myself, and I imagine that someone with better visual sense would make fewer mistakes than I did if they just took the time to make a diagram. I just made mistakes anyway, and then took it apart and put it back together again. It worked out in the end.
2 years ago
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and a great job you did too.
Your sprouts look great.
Doesn't gardening provide the most satisfying possible combination of excitement and serenity?
-Lorie
Wow! The cold frame is great!
thanks, lorie! you're right; it takes both enthusiasm and patience too. jacob wanted to "weed" today, when really the sprouts in question are all too tiny to tell the weeds from the non-weeds. i told him we have to be patient!
allie: you should try to make one! it's not hard. you could easily find some real instructions online too.
Feel free to come over to my place and weed.
Meri: how about Saturday?
(i'm not even kidding... :p)
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