Wooden Coldframes? Any recommendations

[Newton]

I am looking for a quality cold frame for the garden but not £300 quids worth!

I like the idea of glass and hardwood but I am eager to explore any possibilities or manufacturers

All suggestions welcomed

[Two_Sheds]

make one out of old windows? What exactly is your budget?

[Aberdeenplotter]

Hardwood would be overkill. If you want something functional yet attractive, make your framing out of decent thickness decking boards cut to width and stain to suit. The glass can be redundant glazing units or old windows as suggested by TS.

[Newton]

It will have to look the part for the garden for swmbo. I have got room for a nice one but not for a proper GH. Just my blowaway.......

[Two_Sheds]

What are you planning to put in it, and what is your budget?

[Newton]

What are you planning to put in it, and what is your budget?

I plan on using it to hArden off, grow salad and some chilli plants and anything else I can thInk of......

Up to £60 ish

Any ideas.....

[Two_Sheds]

I don't use one, but I googled for you (there are several others, this is just an eg) Botanico Let's Grow Wooden Cold Frame

[Aberdeenplotter]

It will have to look the part for the garden for swmbo. I have got room for a nice one but not for a proper GH. Just my blowaway.......

swmbo?

My better half is pernickity to say the least. I made her some nice planters out of second hand decking boards. She is well pleased with them and I have to say I'm pretty chuffed myself. The equivalent was selling in Dobbies for about fifty quid.

So a real nice cold frame could be home made for not a lot and it is so much more satisfying to do it yourself

[hailtryfan]

I built my own coldframe. Cost me about £60.

[Newton]

I built my own coldframe. Cost me about £60.

That looks great....you must be well chuffed Thanks

[justgimmeethefaxmaam]

My mobile cold frame

As I'm very deficient in carpentry skills and fairly skint...I bought this storage box,clear polycarb with wheels at the local poundstretcher for £5.99.
It's 28 inches wide by 18 inches deep by 13 inches high.


It does the job of a cold frame very well & I can push it round to wherever there's winter sun or close to the house during frost/snow.
Later in the year it acts like a mini greenhouse for tomatoes,peppers & chillies till they can go outside in the Devon sunshine.
Through the summer I use it to store odds & ends.

Best £6 I ever spent.
I managed to bring it home on the small village bus using my bus pass,caused amusement all round.

[HeyWayne]

Mine cost me about £20

The Hay Wayne: Forgive me farther.

[Nes]

In my mail this morning, I've discovered that Wyevale (as was, now changed its name to various, trying to be more "local") is selling a Gardman wooden framed, polycarbonate glazed coldframe for £29.99 to its gardening club members (usually £69.99). I believe you can join up at the centre at the same time as making your purchase. Offer only open until 22nd March.

I bought one last year in a similar offer, and am quite pleased with it, though I would have been a bit annoyed if I'd paid full price for it, as the wood is pretty soft, and definately needed a coat of something to protect it. It now matches my shed after an afternoon trying to get paint into all the nooks and crannies, and not on the windows! It's glazed all round - front, back and sides as well as the top, so lets lots of light in.

[HungryC]

Big Cold Frame

Take a look at this...

YouTube - Mini Polytunnels inside a Polytunnel "Double Glazing"

[Two_Sheds]

storage box,clear polycarb with wheels at the local poundstretcher

I used those as cloches one year - they aren't UV stable and shatter into a million pieces after one season (well mine did)