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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  April 2019

  Or make a cold frame with some bricks/blocks/beams and an old window from a skip. No hammering, glueing or cementing needed for a temporary structure. 😊 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  April 2019

  I’ve never had a cold frame, if the sides are solid brick do the plants get leggy stretching for the light at the top? 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  April 2019

  If the back is higher than the front lots of light gets in ... and of course you put the smaller plants at the front where the sides/front are lower. 
  And of course you can always line it with light coloured or reflective material 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Rookie80 Posts: 8

  April 2019

  Thanks for advic all. Have them in pots now and will put them inside when cold. Plan is to build some cold frame but too lazy for now!

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