scavenging!! and cold frames

[antipodes]

Not foraging for food but for junk! The big rubbish collection was being done in my street today (they do it every 3 months for bulky stuff) and I actually picked up something useful - a old shower screen!
Plan to use it to make a litle cold frame to get my tender crops off to a good start in the spring.
Can you use that kind of thing in the winter? I am guessing that you can't really as you are not starting anything off. You can tell I have never used on before...
Does anyone have any good instructions on building one? The screen I picked up is about 50 cm wide and about 150 cm long.

[antipodes]

[Deb P]

This is right up your street then...... ;D

http://antfarmjournal.com/AF-Journal/Tulips-Samsa-ColdFrame4-28-6/index.html

[antipodes]

oh yes that's the type of thing! I will have to measure it tomorrow and have a look at the wood I have in the cellar.
I presume the door needs to be hinged so you can open it when it gets warm?

[Kea]

I got hold of an old showr door and with my husbands help we made a cold frame. We did overlook one little thing though. The shower door had it's own frame which we simply attached to the angled box we'd made similar to the one in Deb P's post. We didn't realise until it was all attached that the supporting struts would stop the door opening more than a couple of inches until it was all screwed together. We had dismantle it slightly and saw off the supports to get it to work.