Cold frame gardening is an effective strategy to extend your growing season. Whether you want to protect your plants from fall frosts or seedlings from spring cold snaps, these boxes are easy and ...

Our growing season is short – so why not extend it with a cold frame? Cold frames act like mini greenhouses, protecting plants from frost, freezing temperatures and stormy weather. During ...

It takes time for plants to harden themselves to cold temperatures, and plants will become more cold-hardy as we transition from fall to winter. So, very cold temperatures in October or November ...

Or there may be a combination of factors that weakened the plant so it couldn’t survive the cold.” Summer is a different matter. Hardiness zone numbers are only about winter cold. They say ...

Hardy plants and tough evergreens can also be damaged by prolonged spells of severe cold when soil becomes frozen. Roots are unable to take up water and plants die from lack of moisture.

LAFAYETTE, N.Y. — In this week's Gardening Update, Carol walks us through some of the things you can do with your plants in the winter months, when it is way too cold to keep plants outside.