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Got time to make a cold frame?

You can use a cold frame all year round. Right now it’s good for acclimatising your seedlings and protecting succulents

A cold frame is a friend. You can use it throughout the year. In spring and early summer, to harden off young plants; in winter to protect your alpines.

Here’s our guide to building a cold fame

Make your own cold frame – we did. If it helps, here’s a pdf to download and use – click this link to open a new page

March is still a cold month, so if growing plants or protecting seeds outside it is a good idea to have a cold frame. This is a cold frame cartoon, with one worm in a cold frame and the other outsdie, with frost on its nose. The worm in the cold frame says, "It's a cold frame" The other worm says, No good, I'm looking for somewhere warmer to hang out"

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Put Pollinators First

If you haven’t already, take a look at our Put Pollinators First page, supporting the BBC Gardener’s World campaign to reduce the decline of insects and bees in our gardens. Join the campaign and plant some wild flowers in your garden, as well as deadheading your daffs.

That’s enough from the worms, here’s some tip-top advise from the experts

Including protecting your plants from slugs advice.

Gardener’s World talk about feeding your soil

RHS talk about what to do this month – spring is in sight …

Garden Organic talk about what to plant this month

Great direction, packed full of links and further reading

Year-round garden pruning guide

Great advice and full of quick and simple tips too, for example … don’t cut into tender plants or evergreens right now as their top growth provides insulation from penetrating cold.

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