Twenty Free, Do It Yourself Coldframe Building Plans

Extend your gardening season with a cold frame, row cover or cloches. Here's how to build your own with free plans and guides.

 

 

How to Build a Coldframe for Winter Gardening  Popular Mechanics Magazine's step-by-step building guide.

 

How to Build a Wooden Cold Frame  Here's a nice design and a step-by-step guide to building your own version. - RunnerDuck.com

 

Build a Portable, Wooden Cold Frame  Extend your gardening season with this downloadable do-it-yourself design from Garden Gate Magazine

 

Build an Attractive Cold Frame  Use these plans and illustrated step-by-step building guide from This Old House Magazine.

 

Seedling Shelter Cold Frame Plans   Popular Woodworking Magazine offers some of the best quality free woodworking plans you'll ever find. Step-by-step articles from their back issues and books, prepared by experts, are accompanied by clear photos. Downloadable PDF plans are available at the bottom of the article.

 

DIY Cold Frame Garden Box  Here's a step-by-step guide to help you build an attractive, durable cold frame at RemoveAndReplace.com.

 

Free Cold Frame Projects and How-Tos  Here's a bunch of interesting cold frames, row covers and cloches that Tipnut.com collected from around the Internet.  

 

How to Make Cloches  Build miniature hoop houses with plastic pipes and sheeting to protect your garden rows. - WestSideGardener.com.

 

Better Homes & Gardens' Simple Cold Frame Here's a guide to building and using a small cold frame with inexpensive plastic sheet glazing.

 

Martha Stewart's Cold Frame Follow a how-to video and use a materials list and step-by-step guide to build your own.

 

A Small, Inexpensive, Hoop Greenhouse  Here's a design, from SowAndDipity.com, that you can build in about an hour with materials that you can pick up at your local hardware store.

 

Free Mini Greenhouse Plans  Download Shopsmith's free plans, a material list instructions for building a mini greenhouse style coldframe with two hinged top panels for easy access to your plants.

 

Free PVC Row Cover Plans  Get free instant download plans from, PVCPlans.com, for an inexpensive coldframe project using PVC pipe. Then, click through the website section called "Submitted Pictures" for dozens of practical and fun projects and more plans created by do-it-yourself builders.

 

How to Make Soda Bottle Cloches  Garden Gate Magazine offers its online viewers a variety of useful projects and beautiful garden designs. Here are some of their videos that show you how to make practical bell jars from old plastic soda bottles.