HUBERT EARL: USE SIMPLE COLD FRAMES FOR LATE FALL AND EARLY SPRING SALADS

By Elizabeth Irving

Reprinted with permission, Cognition Fall '94

Spinach, onions and lettuce,to name but a few fast-growing cold-tolerant veggies, overwinter nicely in covered cold frames and come to life and growth extra early in the spring.

Hubert Earl recommends a simple way to accomplish this. In his Eastern Ontario garden, he makes an early fall sowing or transplanting of hardy greens and onion sets into a cold frame (read: wooden box with no top or bottom) that is not too tall. Where possible, he situates the cold frame on a south-facing slope or on the south side of a building. Just before freeze-up, he covers the cold frame with some old windows and puts a few bales of hay or straw around it. "The sun starts beating on it in March, and we're eating from it before anything else is in the garden," says Hubert.

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