Microfarm Cedar Cold Frames

The right equipment makes all the difference in the world. Something as simple as a wool sweater, for can mean the difference between a fun afternoon at the football game, versus a shivering eternity to get back to the car. With a power drill instead if a screwdriver,  you’ll have that that IKEA bed assembled and already be taking a nap before the cardboard has even settled.

Your organic garden is no different.  Having the right equipment – like a raised bed filled with premium organic soil, or sturdy fencing to keep out wildlife– will greatly improve your experience. Protecting edible plants with a high performance agricultural fabric is another smart use of technology that has a couple of major benefits.  Growers depend on this specially engineered floating row cover fabric to protect plants from insect pests and frost.

This reusable, ultra light, non-woven material allows light, water and air to pass through, while warming the grow environment around plants during the day, and protecting from frost at night. Row cover fabric allows growers to extend the fall growing  season by several weeks and also start late winter cool season crops a few weeks sooner.

Protecting plants with row cover fabric can be as simple as using sod staples to pin sections of fabric over hoops cut from steel wire. This classic low tunnel, Conestoga wagon look is a fast, economical option especially for large gardens and for farm applications.

The low tunnel style cold frame will certainly serve the backyard gardener in the same way, but it does get tedious to remove the staples to routinely harvest cut and come again leafy green varieties like kale and lettuces. And while functional, the low tunnel cold frame isn’t going to be making any design award speeches any time soon. The home gardener, who most likely uses cedar raised beds of some fashion and has invested in creating an attractive looking home and landscape, will benefit from a cold frame design with a more style and convenience, like the Microfarm Cedar Cold Frame.

It’s a smart gable design framed with untreated red cedar, and fitted with Agribon AG19 row cover fabric. AG 19 is on the lighter end of the spectrum, and has the right combination of frost protection for cold nights, but won’t overheat the grow environment on those brilliant winter days here in the Southeast.

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The Microfarm cedar cold frame is made to fit our Kitchen Garden and Cedar Timbers raised bed designs, but is also compatible with many other popular raised bed designs.

Want to extend the productive life of your cool season garden? A  Microfarm Cedar Cold Frame will do the job in style.  While the 4’x6’ and 4’x8’ sizes listed below are our most popular, this cedar cold frame design can be made to fit almost any sized bed. click here to get started.

4’x6’ Microfarm Cedar Cold Frame $295

4’x8’ Microfarm Cedar Cold Frame : $345