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- How to properly plant a cold frame - Tips for a long garden season
- Preparatory work - This is how natural heating comes into the cold frame
- Plant the cold frame correctly - tips for the schedule
- Rational planting technology saves time and effort - that's how it works
- Tips
Already in February, the cold frame can be planted
How to properly plant a cold frame - Tips for a long garden season
With a cold frame, the garden season extends over all four seasons. Built with a little manual skill, the protected conditions provide ideal conditions for growing and growing your ornamental and useful plants. How to expertly plant a cold frame is provided by this guide.
Previous article How to properly fill a cold frame - Instructions for practitionersPreparatory work - This is how natural heating comes into the cold frame
With the following preparatory work, you will create a perfect microclimate in the cold frame that will allow you to use it almost all year round. The art consists in a balanced filling, which acts as a natural heating. A mixture of horse manure and straw in equal parts as well as garden soil and compost in the ratio 3: 1 is needed. How to do it right:
Within a week of being filled, a pleasant heat has developed in the cold frame. This results from the decomposition of the filling material by diligent microorganisms. If the lighting conditions improve from February / March, the starting signal for this year's gardening season can be given, even if there is still snow.
Plant the cold frame correctly - tips for the schedule
A cold frame with natural heating offers a wide range of uses. Here you can grow early and winter vegetables, prefer heat-requiring young plants or cultivate delicate summer plants. The following schedule should serve as a suggestion for your individual planting:
Of course, the cold frame is not reserved exclusively for the cultivation of crops. Here, cold-sensitive flowers and perennials find ideal conditions to ensure a vital growth advantage after sowing, before they are planted in the bed and on the balcony.
Rational planting technology saves time and effort - that's how it works
The exemplary schedule shows how versatile you can use a cold frame for planting. So that sowing, growing and transplanting are smooth, time-saving and gentle on plants, the following growing techniques have proven themselves in practice:
Seedlings and young plants benefit from the heat that prevails in the cold frame as a result of uninterrupted rotting. The fully grown plants will take you and the pots out of the ground, so they can only be potted and planted in the field. In the cold frame the freed area is used for new cultures.
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If the procurement of horse manure or cow dung is a difficult task, you can install a natural heater in your cold frame in other ways. A mixture of autumn leaves and garden and kitchen waste in equal parts, enriched with horn meal, develops a pleasant warmth within 2 weeks.