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Where will you put your cold frame?

Cartoon image from the wrigglers. The cartoon is of a worm in a cold frame, the floor of the cold frame is paving slabs – the text reads, Coldframes can be located on soil, grass and concrete. There is a speech bubble coming from under the concrete paving slabs, it say: "Ow! I banged my head"

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

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Acclimatising in the not-so-great-outdoors

The cartoon starts with a fact in the top left corner, it reads, "Hardening off plants in a coldframe helps them acclimatise to outdoor conditions, Gust of wind for example". Cartoon showing Two worms outside in the soil, it is windy and a small seedling planted out is getting destroyed by the wind. One worm says to the other, windy today isn't it? " The other worm replies, "no, Tuesday."

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

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Warming to the idea of a cold frame?

A Wrigglers' cartoon about using a coldframe to acclimatise plants. The image is of a house window packed full of plants, the tedrils of the plants are creeping through the window seals . The two worms in a pot outside, one says, "I don't think they have heard of a cold frame.

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

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Seeds planted today

Organic gardening seeds – white Lisbon onion Marigold mixed f1 bonanza Sweet pea Beaujolais – dobies Garedeners world seeds from mr fothergills Dahlia Echinacea

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Growing Chilli de cayenne peppers from seed

Sewed the gardeners world seeds #mrfothergill Two weeks in and growing Good germination using heated propagator – #garland windowsill heater

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Coriander seeds germinated – week 2

Not sure if these are looking too leggy! Waiting for first set of leaves before pricking out Most seeds germinated. Using coriander confetti #seeds #rhs #corianderconfetti variety #planting seeds in #Garland windowsill propagator

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Achillea seeds have germinated – now in week 2

First set of ‘true’ leaves – will prick out next w/end