What’s your guys thoughts on a cold frame? I think it could be worth the investment, just for hardening off, but can they take some snow weight?
What’s your guys thoughts on a cold frame? I think it could be worth the investment, just for hardening off, but can they take some snow weight?
I think it’s one of those if it’s in a 4 hour window, don’t put it in the middle of the lawn for 12 hours kinda issue.
The issue is planting day can be a night time of 5c but tickling 30c during the day. It’s a crapshoot so the better the hardening I can do the less issues.
Iirc most of my issues have been with stuff that doesn’t like moving, the cucumbers and melons.
Thankfully we’re a bit warmer here so I can start bigger things straight in the soil. Not that it matters, my mellons and cucumbers tend to succumb to vibe borers. I’ll have to be a lot more diligent this season since they’ve gotten me the past two seasons :(
Voles got my cukes year one, but they didn’t make an appearance after (rest of the street filled in with houses is my guess).
I started my aero tomatoes at the wrong time to utilize my tent for my starts properly, lessons learned. Also almost missed the window on planting my starts, dealing with some stuff right now, but that’s life. Will just need to spend a little more at the ol HD.
The adventures of experimenting and life in general haha.