cold frame

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Recent Examples of cold frame The most common and typically most safe method is to simply move the containers indoors to a basement, cold frame, unheated garage or garden shed. Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024 In colder climates, consider adding a cold frame topper to raised beds for an extended growing season. Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024 Consider starting seedlings indoors or using tools like grow tents or cold frames to move your plants outdoors before the weather heats up. Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for cold frame
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Noun
  • The city is a hotbed of culture, ripe for exploration by art, music, and fashion lovers.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 16 May 2025
  • Now, it’s grown into a hotbed of unprecedented cordyceps activity.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • And the infrastructure needed for adequate food production – greenhouses, arable lands, orchards, livestock and food production facilities – has been destroyed or heavily damaged.
    Yara M. Asi, The Conversation, 21 May 2025
  • Turned up 5 years later on the roof of our greenhouse.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • At Cascade in Lakeshore East, residents can spend their time in a conservatory, lush with green plants indoors and a walkway lined with rocks that feels like walking through a park.
    Caleb McCullough, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
  • In addition to the orchids that typically grow in the garden’s conservatory, displays will include plants on loan from private growers belonging to two local groups — the San Diego County Orchid Society and the Palomar Orchid Society — as well as orchids and materials from local businesses.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2025

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