Cold frames

[Charlotte]

Given that there's not a lot to do in the back garden at the moment other than wading in mud and spoffling the chickens, I've been at a loss to know what to do.  So inspired by Juliet, I've been down in the SEEKRIT BUNKER, making cold frames out of stuff I found in local skips:



There's more photos and background on my blog.

So what should we grow in them first, do you think?  I'm itching to get started 

[clarion]

Kewl recycling!

[ScumOfTheRoad]

How about asparaguses - though I have no idea if this is too early and cold for them.
Maybe choose some veggies which are know to thrive on, ahem, chicken manure.

[Adrian]

Excellent recycling

[Wobbly John]

How about asparaguses - though I have no idea if this is too early and cold for them.

Asparagus needs about 3 years from planting to crop.  

I'd get some early, quick growing salad stuff in them - radishes, lettuce, spring onions, etc.

Cold frames really come into usefulness a bit later for starting stuff in seed trays or  hardening off plants that have been started off indoors.

[ParrettPedaller]

This time of year I'd prepare a hotbed, then put the cold frame(s) over the hot bed.  You could try any early variety of veg.