A window-sill garden
You can have a bright, cheerful garden in your house all winter—a
window-sill garden of house plants!
You can buy small house plants at many stores. Put them on a window
sill, or on a table near a window where there is plenty of sunlight.
Keep the dirt damp, but not muddy. Flower pots have holes in them to let
water seep out, so put a dish under each pot to catch the water.
Some plants may grow bigger. If so, move them to bigger pots. You can
use tin cans or cottage cheese cartons. Have your mother or father put a
few small holes in the bottoms of these homemade pots.
Plants such as ivy or philodendron look nice in glass bowls. But a glass
bowl must have gravel at the bottom to catch the water that seeps out of
the dirt.
a window-sill garden
Not all plants will grow indoors. Those that will are called house
plants. They grow well if they get plenty of sunlight. The dirt should
be kept damp, not muddy.
