Over the week-end, Don built my first official cold frame. You can't really call the one I knocked together last year a cold frame, more like an experiment to nurture an inkling of an idea. I think this new cold frame looks great but what I'm really impressed with is that, except for the nails, all of it was built from Don's resourcefulness and scrounging abilities. The wood came from an old building we took down when we first moved here. I think at one point the previous owners used it as a duck house. A very sad duck house with no windows, a leaky green roof and very little room. The base was all that was left of it after we took it down and Don used that for the frame. The window part is an old window from when we replaced them in the house. Some time or another, I'd really like to paint it to match the house, probably around the same time Hades freezes over, I would imagine. In the next little while, I think I'll start hardening my tomato plants in it. After it is finished doing that and all the plants are in the garden (what a delightful thought!), I think I'll use it to grow my potatoes, leaving the window open, of course. I'm hoping that way, those rotten little potato bugs can't find them.
