What's up everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast and as we move into October and into fall

We are going into full fall in winter gardening mode in a lot of parts of the world. What that means is that many of us need to figure out

ways to extend the season and get as much production out of our gardens and our

land as we possibly can. But how do you do that? You have

frost coming in in many parts of the country right now and the temperatures are

dropping and the amount of sunlight is also dropping.

So what can we do?

Well, one thing that you can do is you can add cold frames or build cold frames in your garden.

Cold frames are transparent roof enclosures,

usually built low to the ground,

and they're designed to protect plants from bad weather, specifically things that are too cold, whether that is too wet, and it also

is supposed to heat up that area where the plants are being grown a bit basically via

convection so it's kind of like a sun oven except for the fact that it's in such

a cold

cold frames were used in addition to heated greenhouses.

They were used basically as part of the greenhouse's foundation brickwork.

And what this allowed to happen is for seeds to be germinated in the greenhouse

and then moved to the attached cold frame to be hardened off and then they would be planted outside.

So it was sort of a manufacturing type process where you go from one place to the next to the next.

In general, cold frames are a wonderful, wonderful addition to home vegetable gardening

Just because what they're doing effectively is they're creating a microclimate so a microclimate is a tiny pocket of air or space or volume in the garden that is

different than the surrounding climate so they're going to boost the temperature

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