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cold frame
noun
: a usually glass- or plastic-covered frame without artificial heat used to protect plants and seedlings outdoors
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Consider starting seedlings indoors or using tools like grow tents or cold frames to move your plants outdoors before the weather heats up.
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Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2024
Protect container plants by moving them into a garage, basement, greenhouse, cold frame or other place where the temperature stays above freezing.
—oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
Lynn Ocone, a gardening expert and an author, uses her cold frame every year at her home in chilly Burlington, Vermont.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
Ray does not have an elaborate cold frame or greenhouse.
—Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2023
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Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2024
Protect container plants by moving them into a garage, basement, greenhouse, cold frame or other place where the temperature stays above freezing.
—oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
Lynn Ocone, a gardening expert and an author, uses her cold frame every year at her home in chilly Burlington, Vermont.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
Ray does not have an elaborate cold frame or greenhouse.
—Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2023
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“Cold frame.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cold%20frame. Accessed 12 Sep. 2024.
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