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RE: First cold frames for the winter

in Hive Diy3 years ago

This is some awesome work man! You should try improving your tags for the post so you can get more communities lol. Palnet, neoxian and proof of brain are pretty common and popular all-purpose communities. I tag those on all my posts and sometimes you get some good votes from them, sometimes you don’t.

The winter boxes look good, what are you going to try and grow in them? Something hearty like potatoes or something? Just curious what could withstand the cold temps. Are you going to line the dirt with black wrap to absorb as much heat as it can?

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My biggest struggle with tagging is that I don't know what each tag represents. I wish there was a quick reference guide to know what content is good for palnet, pob etc. Ive seen someone get down voted by an entire community for using the POB tag for something a curator felt didn't belong there, so I've been careful.

Also, for the cold boxes, if you put it in an area that gets a lot of sun, you can grow lettuce and kale over the winter. No need to wrap it or anything, the dirt stays warm in there as long as you have a solid 6 to 10 inches of dirt above the ground.

We did this in the spring when the weather was still cold. Sarah put those plastic lettuce containers that you get at the store over the seedlings, and it drives as a mini greenhouse. Even when there was frost on the ground, everything underneath the plastic flourished.