Another great video, Simeon. We are so envious! When you pulled up t the stack of drying boards, my wife said "Look! It's a lumber garden!" How awesome is that!
What a nice stack of lumber you have! Every woodworker is envious of such a treasure. You folks have a great setup going at your farm. Hard work really pays off, and we see the proof of that very often on your videos.
We call them cold frames here in the U.S.A. I believe we could build one here for that price as well, lumber isn't cheap but you could use cheap strapping or 2 by material for the frame and use more plastic on the sides instead of solid wall. We have used barrels and other containers painted black to absorb heat during the day and release it during the night, all depends on how cold it get where you live. Loved the video keep them coming.
I think you have a hybrid construction. It's shaped like a cold frame, but you're plan to heat it will make the box work more like a greenhouse. Hot beds, from what I've seen, use decaying plant matter underneath your crops for heat, but you're going with electricity or fire for heat, right? I don't think this box fits neatly into any one category, but I think it's a very good idea. 😀👍
There are several types of heated cold frames or hot beds...the historical one is the one heated with composting material. However heating cables are a newer addition and great for those who do not have the ability to build a successful compost pit...
The cold frame should work like a charm. My parents had several for years to get an early start for pole beans, tomatoes, cukes, etc... Nice editing too. "Charlie Chaplin meets Buster Keaton on the Swedish Homestead." :oD
Simeon, looks really good. Cold frame no heat beyond the sun. Heated sprouting bed has bottom heat to the beds. Warm frame; added heat to the area. Make sure you have the edges air sealed. Night drafts can freeze and damp off. If the day is at all sunny, open the cover to vent and allow a breeze. A box like that can get to 100F on a 40F day with direct sun. Don't over water or leave closed a lot because this leads to damp off. Damp off is a bacterial or fungal attack that causes the plant to die at the ground interface. The soil should be damp enough for the plants to not suffer water stress but don't wet the leaves if you can help it. Wetting the plant tops leads to fungal growth. Best cure; ventilate. If it is not going to freeze and the wind is low, crack the vent/top open. Be careful when opening not to drip water from the cover on the plants. This is one of the biggest sources of fungus.
Cool video about keeping the plants warm. 'Plants from too long inside the house are weak plants' feel the same about that, slowing their growth a bit in a cold frame is the way to go. You have created a nice place for many seedlings, would love to see how it works out for you with the smaller 'soil-blocks' and how they fit in the bigger blocks. Would love to get rid of my cheap-one-season 7x7 cm pots, 25 each tray thank you Simeon for the soil-block video's
You Swedes have so much wood! I'd build the thing of concrete block where I live (Indiana). That would basically be a termite feeding operation here (wood can never contact the ground here unless it is treated or a species that is termite/rot resistant). But outstanding idea!
Great job love watching your videos I have a small holding in n Ireland and I have just retired from business 2years ago and I’m loving life growing our food good luck for the future 🤝
That is the most fantastic handle on a rake I have ever seen. I'll have to carve or turn one since I have never seen one like that in the US. Anyone else notice?
If you dug narrow trenches around the permitter of the the cold frame and sunk rigid foam insulation panels into the ground at about 4 feet depth (below the frost line where you live) this would keep the interior significantly warmer since cold surface earth could not absorb heat from beneath the cold frame.
cool video if you have some recycled ceramic tiles you can pay them in there also and they will gold some of the heat from the sun and keep it warm after the sun goes down and use less of the heater love the idea
I use a long piece of pvc pipe 1/2 inch, wide enough for the plasyic its good for rolling and holding the plastic down. I just take about 4 screws and washers and screw the plastic down on one end. When the plastic is out /down the I use a piece of wood to hold it down. Then half way up the center and side support I cut a notch to hold the plastic. This is what I use with temporary taps. it's also easy to carry and store. I hope this helps. Have a great growng season.
nice. a quick fix on a budget. Stamp of practical since and approval. oh hey, you know how you have the chickens in the big outdoor like green house setting. why not build one of those next to it and fliter the warm air thru it? just a thought. love the videos
Built mine on the same concept of "Châssis Nantais". I'm @ 05:43 for today. Need to adapt the center board to support a 1 cm thick polycarbonate pannel of 2m x 1 m, and also a front stop with a lock to keep it in place. I used a 15° angle for width limitation ; your frame seems to be more angled. Would say 30° or so. Are you still satisfied about its construction after 2 years utilization ?
By putting this cold frame close to your house, you gain heat and save lumber. At the same time, you will need a backing for the cold frame, or the soil against the house will rot your house siding. If you cover the house siding with wood, you will get sun shadow on part of the house and sun fade on the other. I’d check with my wife and get her approval as to the location before I started this project.
You said LOW BUDGET.... Not everyone has a huge stack of there own lumber just lying around.. still you did a good job and I am sure you will have good success.
I think that would be considered a hybrid between a hothouse (or greenhouse) and a cold frame. Normally you are able to stand up and walk inside of a hothouse/greenhouse. A cold frame is normally placed in the garden bed where the plants will end up and is used to give them an early start. It is more portable usually made out of small dimension lumber and a glass top, hence the name cold "frame" They both basically fulfill the same function, give plants an early start where there is sunlight but cold temperatures. It also lets the plants get used to the sunlight. Normally you start the plants you intend to transplant into the bed under indoor lights.
It's an interesting question. I'm a native Enlish speaker, and I'm not really sure what you should call it. Hot beds generally have the warmth coming up from below, and cold frames are generally...well...cold, as in, unheated by anything other than the sun. I think 'heated cold frame' is probably the best thing to call it :-).
We might have to do this also. It's going to be too cold here also. Ours will be only two shower doors wide and long though. Our Mennonite community uses bales of hay and Windows with a heat lamp or two.
You know a rock bank at the back of the cold frame should help you to cut down the cold. Rocks will absorb the rays of the sun...thus it will give off the heat build up at night.
Well I'm no farmer , but my wife used to have these ( I built them, of course )) and she called them, 'cold frames ', which always made me wonder why 'cold' ? once the plastic sheeting is in place and the sun shines, it can get very warm inside here.
Cold because there is no other heat source except the sun? It is kind of a misleading name. Or maybe because they are used when it's cold? My dad built them with double plastic so there was an air gap of maybe 2" between layers, and was growing lettuce and such when there was a foot of snow still! But we also heaped leaves or straw around them so the sides were sort of insulated. I've also seen them dug into the ground, with just the angle of the glass/plastic above grade.
A hot bed lies inside a cold frame. So, you build a cold frame for your hot bed. I built mine like yours, except the sides. I just made the fabric on the bottom longer and folded it over the end pieces and tacked it down.
I would forget about the heating and simply keep them in the house until night time temperatures average in the 30's fahrenheit. Just having it covered at that point will protect them from freezing. The ground will absorb some of heat and give it back at night. It's not worth the money setting up a heating system especially when it's that leaky, but figuring out a way to minimize air leaks will go a long way in preventing freezing. Hopefully this thing faces south, because that is important. If it's not enough, then an insulated cover would be better than adding heat, or double layer plastic would help some. The tunnels don't face south and have too large a volume of air compared to surface area of ground. My house is south facing glass and I don't use any heat at all on sunny days even at night when the temps drop into the teens fahrenheit. Cloudy days are still in the 50 or so, which would be all right for plants. Google solar green houses.
It is a unique rake that you can't typically get here in Sweden. It is hand forged in Holland with a thicker handle, a bow on the bottom to break small clumps of soil and razor sharp teeth. Most rakes here are simply sheet metal bend into shape. www.sneeboer.com/en/our-collections/hand-tools-3282542/
The transition from indoor to outdoor lighting is very difficult fro plants who are not used to the UV overload that direct sunlight offers. Temperature issues aside the biggest issue is with the light. The "cold frame" concept is intended to lengthen a growing season similar to a green house but at true cold frame is where the plants will mature and live. Typically used to allow for the planting in natural soil when temps are generally too low. Or fear of frost is still present. Used heavily in areas where ground temps do not rise in time to have sufficient growing season for plants that do not do well as transplants.
Chris, what area are you? Your use of cold frames is something I've never seen either- always seen them just used to get a jump on spring and start the cold hardy plants like lettuce, etc. Nothing was ever left in them to maturity. Plants adapt easily to light difference as long as you time it for a cloudy day, or partially shade them for a day or two.
Looks like a fantastic project...but let's be honest, sourcing those materials at a lumber yard or home center alone will be way over $100 and there isn't any cover on yet...best make it under $250...
did you use a weed paper? bro, let the weeds pop up, you will probably find things similar to goosefoot and purslane which are ingredibly nutritious, they grow like... well they grow like weeds, and they are nutritious.
Another great video, Simeon. We are so envious! When you pulled up t the stack of drying boards, my wife said "Look! It's a lumber garden!" How awesome is that!
Sweet. Dude has his own Home Depot in the backyard.
What a nice stack of lumber you have! Every woodworker is envious of such a treasure. You folks have a great setup going at your farm. Hard work really pays off, and we see the proof of that very often on your videos.
I from the US, I enjoy your channel. Your English is good. You very well in describing what you doing. Keep up the great work. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks!
We call them cold frames here in the U.S.A. I believe we could build one here for that price as well, lumber isn't cheap but you could use cheap strapping or 2 by material for the frame and use more plastic on the sides instead of solid wall. We have used barrels and other containers painted black to absorb heat during the day and release it during the night, all depends on how cold it get where you live. Loved the video keep them coming.
I've been wanting to do something similiar on our barn. A great idea and cheaper than a greenhouse! Thanks for the info!
Well done, looking forward to seeing the finished article.
I think you have a hybrid construction. It's shaped like a cold frame, but you're plan to heat it will make the box work more like a greenhouse. Hot beds, from what I've seen, use decaying plant matter underneath your crops for heat, but you're going with electricity or fire for heat, right? I don't think this box fits neatly into any one category, but I think it's a very good idea. 😀👍
There are several types of heated cold frames or hot beds...the historical one is the one heated with composting material. However heating cables are a newer addition and great for those who do not have the ability to build a successful compost pit...
The cold frame should work like a charm. My parents had several for years to get an early start for pole beans, tomatoes, cukes, etc...
Nice editing too. "Charlie Chaplin meets Buster Keaton on the Swedish Homestead." :oD
GREAT CHOICE OF MUSIC FOR THIS VIDEO. HAHA! LOTS OF FUN!
Simeon,
looks really good. Cold frame no heat beyond the sun. Heated sprouting bed has bottom heat to the beds. Warm frame; added heat to the area. Make sure you have the edges air sealed. Night drafts can freeze and damp off. If the day is at all sunny, open the cover to vent and allow a breeze. A box like that can get to 100F on a 40F day with direct sun. Don't over water or leave closed a lot because this leads to damp off. Damp off is a bacterial or fungal attack that causes the plant to die at the ground interface.
The soil should be damp enough for the plants to not suffer water stress but don't wet the leaves if you can help it. Wetting the plant tops leads to fungal growth. Best cure; ventilate.
If it is not going to freeze and the wind is low, crack the vent/top open. Be careful when opening not to drip water from the cover on the plants. This is one of the biggest sources of fungus.
Cool video about keeping the plants warm.
'Plants from too long inside the house are weak plants'
feel the same about that, slowing their growth a bit in a cold frame is the way to go.
You have created a nice place for many seedlings, would love to see how it works out
for you with the smaller 'soil-blocks' and how they fit in the bigger blocks.
Would love to get rid of my cheap-one-season 7x7 cm pots, 25 each tray
thank you Simeon for the soil-block video's
Your English is better than most Americans, myself included!
You Swedes have so much wood! I'd build the thing of concrete block where I live (Indiana). That would basically be a termite feeding operation here (wood can never contact the ground here unless it is treated or a species that is termite/rot resistant). But outstanding idea!
Love the KEYSTONE COP MUSIC!
Very nice. We will await your next video. We really enjoy watching all of your projects.
We used old wooden storm windows for the top of our cold frames on hinges. Could be opened at different heights as we needed it. Worked great.
Great job love watching your videos I have a small holding in n Ireland and I have just retired from business 2years ago and I’m loving life growing our food good luck for the future 🤝
Drone footage of the Homestead would be great. Aerial view would put things in perspective.
I know. Expensive though. Maybe a crowdfunding would add that feature to the channel...??
Unfortunately you're not allowed to fly a drone with a camera in Sweden anymore.
www.dronesweden.se/nyheter/olagligt-med-dronare-i-sverige/
That is the most fantastic handle on a rake I have ever seen. I'll have to carve or turn one since I have never seen one like that in the US. Anyone else notice?
Terrific production quality.
Great. Can't wait to see this one finished.
I'm looking forward to see what results!
If you dug narrow trenches around the permitter of the the cold frame and sunk rigid foam insulation panels into the ground at about 4 feet depth (below the frost line where you live) this would keep the interior significantly warmer since cold surface earth could not absorb heat from beneath the cold frame.
Love all your great ideas and helpful hints..
cool video if you have some recycled ceramic tiles you can pay them in there also and they will gold some of the heat from the sun and keep it warm after the sun goes down and use less of the heater love the idea
Yes. The sand is also radiating some heat...
That's a great Idea! Anxious to see the results!
Awesome cold frame!
I use a long piece of pvc pipe 1/2 inch, wide enough for the plasyic its good for rolling and holding the plastic down. I just take about 4 screws and washers and screw the plastic down on one end. When the plastic is out /down the I use a piece of wood to hold it down. Then half way up the center and side support I cut a notch to hold the plastic. This is what I use with temporary taps. it's also easy to carry and store. I hope this helps. Have a great growng season.
I use an oscillating fan to blow gentle breeze on the seedlings so that they will grow up strong.
Yes. On warm days I can open it up and they get sunlight and exposed to the wind.
Simeone,you got it in one ,cold frame !.
love your channel!
It is also called "hardening off" plants when you acclimate them from a warm environment to the outdoors.
Yes it would be more but that is what is nice about having your own saw mill. That is one really big cold frame that's what I call them.
Loved the video info. and the crazy music. lol
nice. a quick fix on a budget. Stamp of practical since and approval. oh hey, you know how you have the chickens in the big outdoor like green house setting. why not build one of those next to it and fliter the warm air thru it? just a thought. love the videos
Built mine on the same concept of "Châssis Nantais". I'm @ 05:43 for today.
Need to adapt the center board to support a 1 cm thick polycarbonate pannel of 2m x 1 m, and also a front stop with a lock to keep it in place.
I used a 15° angle for width limitation ; your frame seems to be more angled. Would say 30° or so. Are you still satisfied about its construction after 2 years utilization ?
This is Pam in Oklahoma can you add some water jugs the water will keep the cold frame a little warmer it does here in Oklahoma let me know good luck
we call it a cold frame in Louisiana. good job
By putting this cold frame close to your house, you gain heat and save lumber. At the same time, you will need a backing for the cold frame, or the soil against the house will rot your house siding. If you cover the house siding with wood, you will get sun shadow on part of the house and sun fade on the other. I’d check with my wife and get her approval as to the location before I started this project.
We used to have old windows leaned to the wall with plastic or boards covering the sides
you have a great woodstock!
We do.
Where did you buy that beautiful rake? I’m so tired of buying a rake every year. This rake looks like something I can give to my kids when I die.
You said LOW BUDGET.... Not everyone has a huge stack of there own lumber just lying around.. still you did a good job and I am sure you will have good success.
You are right. I talk a little bit more about it tomorrow. Often you can use used lumber, scrap wood or bark from a sawmill for project like this.
I think that would be considered a hybrid between a hothouse (or greenhouse) and a cold frame.
Normally you are able to stand up and walk inside of a hothouse/greenhouse.
A cold frame is normally placed in the garden bed where the plants will end up and is used to give them an early start.
It is more portable usually made out of small dimension lumber and a glass top, hence the name cold "frame"
They both basically fulfill the same function, give plants an early start where there is sunlight but cold temperatures.
It also lets the plants get used to the sunlight.
Normally you start the plants you intend to transplant into the bed under indoor lights.
It's an interesting question. I'm a native Enlish speaker, and I'm not really sure what you should call it. Hot beds generally have the warmth coming up from below, and cold frames are generally...well...cold, as in, unheated by anything other than the sun. I think 'heated cold frame' is probably the best thing to call it :-).
We might have to do this also. It's going to be too cold here also. Ours will be only two shower doors wide and long though. Our Mennonite community uses bales of hay and Windows with a heat lamp or two.
hope you do not have termites around. Suggest you place some plastic up against the foundation. Love the music you used :)
The music and playback speed made me feel like watching a old silent movie
What is the name of the frantic piano music that you used in this video? I love it!
Is there a part 2 to this can't find the rest?
like your videos
nice music choice :)
We xall them cold frames because they are used to grow in cold weather..
You know a rock bank at the back of the cold frame should help you to cut down the cold. Rocks will absorb the rays of the sun...thus it will give off the heat build up at night.
Well I'm no farmer , but my wife used to have these ( I built them, of course )) and she called them, 'cold frames ', which always made me wonder why 'cold' ? once the plastic sheeting is in place and the sun shines, it can get very warm inside here.
Cold because there is no other heat source except the sun? It is kind of a misleading name. Or maybe because they are used when it's cold? My dad built them with double plastic so there was an air gap of maybe 2" between layers, and was growing lettuce and such when there was a foot of snow still! But we also heaped leaves or straw around them so the sides were sort of insulated. I've also seen them dug into the ground, with just the angle of the glass/plastic above grade.
A hot bed lies inside a cold frame. So, you build a cold frame for your hot bed. I built mine like yours, except the sides. I just made the fabric on the bottom longer and folded it over the end pieces and tacked it down.
The technical term in 'American' is: "one of them seed-growing things".
I would forget about the heating and simply keep them in the house until night time temperatures average in the 30's fahrenheit. Just having it covered at that point will protect them from freezing. The ground will absorb some of heat and give it back at night. It's not worth the money setting up a heating system especially when it's that leaky, but figuring out a way to minimize air leaks will go a long way in preventing freezing. Hopefully this thing faces south, because that is important. If it's not enough, then an insulated cover would be better than adding heat, or double layer plastic would help some. The tunnels don't face south and have too large a volume of air compared to surface area of ground. My house is south facing glass and I don't use any heat at all on sunny days even at night when the temps drop into the teens fahrenheit. Cloudy days are still in the 50 or so, which would be all right for plants. Google solar green houses.
I hope you have a French drain surrounding your house! 🤞
why do you use sand and not humus?
isnt it a little late for a "Frühbeet"?
cool
what's a cold frame good for?
I don't think it's a cold frame if you use heaters. Nice idea. If I built one of those it would be way way smaller.
cool looking rake, never seen one of those. who makes this type of rake?
To me that is a very common type of rake for soil, sand, gravel etc. What about it is unusual to you?
It is a unique rake that you can't typically get here in Sweden. It is hand forged in Holland with a thicker handle, a bow on the bottom to break small clumps of soil and razor sharp teeth. Most rakes here are simply sheet metal bend into shape. www.sneeboer.com/en/our-collections/hand-tools-3282542/
Typical garden rake here in the US
think you mean hot house, used to start seedlings when weather still too cold out
The transition from indoor to outdoor lighting is very difficult fro plants who are not used to the UV overload that direct sunlight offers. Temperature issues aside the biggest issue is with the light. The "cold frame" concept is intended to lengthen a growing season similar to a green house but at true cold frame is where the plants will mature and live. Typically used to allow for the planting in natural soil when temps are generally too low. Or fear of frost is still present. Used heavily in areas where ground temps do not rise in time to have sufficient growing season for plants that do not do well as transplants.
We have used this to start plants for many years. It works really well!
Im sure it does probably works a lot better than indoor starts. Just commenting non the typical cold frame usage.
Chris, what area are you? Your use of cold frames is something I've never seen either- always seen them just used to get a jump on spring and start the cold hardy plants like lettuce, etc. Nothing was ever left in them to maturity.
Plants adapt easily to light difference as long as you time it for a cloudy day, or partially shade them for a day or two.
Looks like a fantastic project...but let's be honest, sourcing those materials at a lumber yard or home center alone will be way over $100 and there isn't any cover on yet...best make it under $250...
Yes, I talk about the cost in the next video.
Heated cold frame is right. Cold frames don't have any heating, except from the sun.
Cold Frames
given the price of lumber, I have used polystyreen to build the walls. Works well. But seeing your lumberstack I shut up now
did you use a weed paper? bro, let the weeds pop up, you will probably find things similar to goosefoot and purslane which are ingredibly nutritious, they grow like... well they grow like weeds, and they are nutritious.
That's so funny he speaks German but he doesn't know the word germinate!😂👍❤️
THE NAME IN ENGLIHS IT IS NOT COLD FRAME IS CONSERVATORY
The You Tube channel, OneYardRevolution has lots of info you may find interesting on this and similar topics.
I gueas yiu donr have termites or mind your house rots
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Check out RUclipsr JesseJames Homestead.
I think of you each time I watch him.
Woodprix has very good and accurate plans.
And all Americans go meters. How long is a meter.
You know it's better to do construction in standard measurements.
A meter is approximately a yard, if you need to know the exact measurement use google, you know metric is standard in Europe?