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Window boxes and hanging baskets are an excellent way to brighten up small spaces, such as windows, decks, patios and porch railings. Or they can be an actual complete garden for homes with no actual garden. Used to grow flowers, vegetables and herbs

Location
Conventionally boxes are placed on exterior windowsills, however there is no reason why the trend to indoor gardening should not include window boxes and baskets, especially for homes with no garden, or greenhouse.

Ability
There is no restriction on age or ability to growing or enjoying window boxes. flowers and colour brighten every ones life.

Description
All plants imaginable for window boxes are readily available from all garden centres, you are really spoiled for choice, you can have a single variety box or one with a mixture of plants which can include trailing and free standing plants. Do you want to brighten a dull corner or do you want to create a stunning display. Choose plants with similar growing needs that will not crowd each other out and most importantly a long flowering season. take advice there is plenty available. See HIPS 281.

Dedication
Window boxes and baskets like most forms of gardening do need a degree of dedication, boxes and baskets more so than traditional gardening as they totally rely on the gardener for water and feed, this however can be minimised by the use of water retaining materials mixed in the soil and modern watering techniques. The amount of dedication also depends on whether you are using single crop boxes (all in, all out). or you are trying to achieve constant colour or cropping.

Closely Related Activities
Gardening, Passive hydroponics and growing indoor vegetables, see HIPS activities No's 736, 280, 281.

Cost
Costs can vary from a couple of pounds for a simple single variety box. to several hundred pounds for a complete wall display, that includes specialist blooms and plants, start simple and experiment. beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Grow what you like looking at.

Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.

Energy

Arms

Legs

Sight

Hearing

Speech

Learning

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