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cold frame
noun
a bottomless, boxlike structure, usually covered with glass or transparent plastic, and the bed of earth that it covers, used to protect plants.
cold frame
noun
an unheated wooden frame with a glass top, used to protect young plants from the cold
Word History and Origins
Origin of cold frame1
Example Sentences
would be better: a greenhouse or a modest cold frame?
“Sometimes when I go to the cold frames to pull something out, and I have half-forgotten what’s in there, it’s like pulling a surprise out of a grab bag,” she said.
Don’t open your cold frame if the temperature is below freezing, during a snowstorm, first thing in the morning, or in the evening or beyond, Warnock says.
An open cold frame would be ideal, where they could be left over the winter.
Buy Nothing Atwater member Kirsten Eggers had long been meaning to build cold frames with the doors that had been collecting dust in her backyard.
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