Putting A Coldframe In Your Garden

If you are making out your seed orders for annual flowers, you will want to include those that are sure to produce results. It is too bad that all of our colleges and universities cant have the extensive annual flower trials that are seen at Penn State. But this is done on a smaller scale in many states.

Before you order, why not check out your own state agricultural college or agricultural experiment station to see if they have tried out any of these annuals. They will probably have a list of varieties they recommend for your particular locality.

Do you have a cold frame? If not, you dont know what you are missing. If each person who has a new home would put in a cold frame 3 x 6 feet, and then in addition to it have a little bed 3 x 10 feet in which to grow plants, his yard would soon be the envy of all his friends and neighbors.

If you do not use the cold frame and little nursery bed for anything but growing for one year the new plants and garden seedlings you buy, it will pay for itself. The loss that most gardeners take in new plants and plant seedlings that they buy is appalling. They tuck them between other larger plants in a flower bed or in some border planting and then forget them.

Here they are shaded or have to compete with roots of big plants, so they are crowded out. Besides this, all too often you forget that you have tucked them in. If you are raising baby chicks you keep them by themselves until they are pretty well grown. New and young. plants should be treated the same way.

It will help a lot if the soil in the cold frame and the nursery bed is mixed up just as if you were going to use it to pot up African violets. If you can work it to a depth of 12 inches and have it about equal parts soil, sand, and peat, you are going to be amazed at the way your plants grow.

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April 14 2009 | Home Improvement | No Comments »