Cold Frames and Cold Crops: Extending the Season

Cold Frames and Cold Crops is about growing delicious veggies, beyond the usual gardening confines and calendar, using cold frames and the cool season crop palette. Odette McIntyre from the Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton will join the Kanata-March Horticultural Society and will share her knowledge about how to extend the season with cold frames, the different cold frame options as well as costing. We’ll also have a look at cold weather vegetables, their resistance to cold in particular, why they should be included in your growing spaces, what they are and how to grow them. This is an up to date view of gardening in Ottawa.

This in-person meeting will be held at the Old Town Hall, 821 March Rd (laneway entrance for the Old Town Hall is on Klondike Rd, across from Shopper’s Drug Mart), 7:30 pm – 9 pm (doors open at 7:15 pm). Non-members are always welcome for a visitor’s fee of $5, or you can become a 2026 member for $20 (individual) or $30 (couple).

Photo:  Odette McIntyre

Odette McIntyre became a Master Gardener in 2015. She shared her love and knowledge of plants with York Region gardeners, through Lake Simcoe South Master Gardeners advice clinics, giving workshops, including a range of organic gardening topics and cold season production.  Odette joined the Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton after relocating to the Ottawa area and has presented to local gardening groups, the Ottawa Public Library Gardening Programs, the Central Experimental Farm’s “Friends of the Farm” lecture series and the Ottawa Home & Garden Show both in English and French.