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HOT BEDS AND COLD FRAMES _
BY C. S. ADAMS
INTRODUCTION.
No country or suburban home is complete without its home
garden, and no garden is complete without its hot bed and
cold frame. Considering the small expense necessary to . ·
construct either or both of these, it is surprising that so few
Kentucky farmers enjoy their benefits. Were it not for the .
fact that the average farmer throughout this State is favored
with an abundance of land, he would no doubt soon be forced
to resort to more intensive methods of cropping, and would,
in consequence, learn to use such contrivances as would tend I
to make for the highest efficiency. {
Such contrivances are the hot bed and cold frame, and .
the man who has what we might term the highest garden `
efficiency is the one who has learned to know their value by
employing them as helpful adjuncts in all of his gardening °
operations. Hot beds and cold frames are so suggestive of
early spring garden activity, that we ·sometimes forget
that both may be used the year round for purposes other
than that for which they were primarily intended. Of
course the hot bed, as a hot bed, is in use only three months
at the longest, after which time it becomes a cold frame.
As such it may again be used as a bed in which to -plant
late fall vegetables, like lettuce, radishes, etc., a supply of
which can thus be had until the holidays.
Through the winter months cold frames may be used
to advantage as storage pits for such vegetables as celery,
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