NOUN
- protective covering consisting of a wooden frame with a glass top in which small plants are protected from the cold
How To Use cold frame In A Sentence
- A cold frame in a sunny corner uses no resources except scrap lumber and an old window frame.
- The little auriculas are blooming in their cold frame.
- They are neatly arranged in tufts on a short footstalk, which becomes surrounded with young growths, all as clear in their markings as the parent plant, so that a well grown specimen of three years or even less becomes a beautiful object, whether it is on rockwork or in a cold frame. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
- Scatter a shallow layer of horticultural grit over the top and leave the pots in a cold frame or cold greenhouse. Times, Sunday Times
- Pot them on instead and grow them for a few more weeks in a sunny, sheltered part of the garden or cold frame or unheated greenhouse before planting out.
- The simplest way of growing plants under glass is to use a cold frame, a modest construction of low walls topped with a wooden frame and glazed with glass or polythene.
- Sow seeds of herbaceous perennials and alpine plants in a cold frame or unheated greenhouse.
- The young seedlings are usually wintered in a cold frame.
- Sow an early batch of parsley in a cold frame or under a cloche.
- Cover this with cloches or a cold frame and wait until the temperature drops to 25C before sowing early salads, broad beans and herbs.
