Greenhouse over raised beds

Follow these step-by-step directions to build your own cold frame to fit over your raised garden bed and protect your plants from frost and snow in winter.

These homemade greenhouse ideas make use of recycled and reclaimed materials to extend your growing season.without shelling out a lot of money.

This covered, raised garden bed keeps tender plants and seeds warm so you can plant earlier. Build one (or many) with these step-by-step instructions complete with photos.

A PVC hoop house lets you grow raised bed greens in the snow.

Driving through La Pine, Oregon, (home base for our Central Oregon outing) in route to a nursery (you’re not surprised are you?) Andrew spotted these mini greenhouses... On top of raised beds… And they are built to open and close with ease! Smart huh? More smarts…they are using water filled milk jugs to slowly water the beds. We later learned that the temperature can fluctuate greatly here, it can be in the 80’s during the day and at night, below freezing. So it makes sense to be able to…

Here in the Maritime Northwest, year round growing is easier and, to my mind, more rewarding, with season extension techniques. Perhaps the cheapest and easiest semi-permanent option for season

This post looks at the benefits of a cold frame and shows you our clever design for transforming a raised bed into a cold frame in mere minutes. I first beca…

DIY Raised Garden Bed With Cover

There are benefits of using raised garden beds but with time and experience the negative aspects started to outweigh the positives.