If you're up for a DIY project, you can turn glass panes into a makeshift cloche or cold frame to protect your plants – and there are plenty of ways to use a cold frame in the garden.

A cold frame 6ft across and 4ft from front to back should be large enough for most gardens, allowing a decent-sized bed of compost or gravel. The frame should be 2ft at the back, sloping to 1ft at ...

Building a simple coldframe or a cloche, which is like a mini-greenhouse with an arched roof, protects plants and extends the growing season. Skip to Article. Set weather.

You’ll learn how to set up a tunnel cloche and a cold frame, how to use and maintain them, and which crops you can grow in them. Cloches. Undercover Device: The Cloche September/October 1984 ...

If you want a really inexpensive garden cloche, aim for plastic instead and just cut the bottom off a 5-gallon water bottle (the kind you buy at the grocery store to use in a water cooler, or with ...

A cold frame is typically a wooden box with a lid, such as a discarded window or sliding glass door. that you can prop open during the day and close at night. However, ...

The multi cloche from Gardman (01406 372227; www.gardman.co.uk) makes things easier. It acts as a multi-functional cloche, cold frame and mini greenhouse all in one.

For our The New Good Life series, Sally Coulthard shares how to use cold frames and cloches to protect vegetables and plants in the garden.

The tunnel cloche stretches over a long row — nineteen or twenty feet is not uncommon — and can span a four-or five-foot-wide bed with ease. It consists of a frame covered with translucent ...

It must be great to be perfect. You know the kind of gardeners and gardens I mean. The tomato stakes never lean crazily, the pumpkin vines never get borer, and the sweet corn stands proudly erect t… ...

Most things need to have been planted by now, but there are a few things that'll do alright, if you bung them in now - so long as they have PROTECTION in a greenhouse, cloche, cold-frame or ...