Make a Kitchen Garden Window

Making an indoor window as vibrant as your outdoor garden is easy with a little effort and a little research into which plants will flourish in a window box or container. A garden window is a favorite for garden aficionados who have a large bay window in the kitchen. Winning plants that do well in containers vary greatly. Primary to the list are certain varieties of peppers and tomatoes.

A container garden is space saving and convenient for maintaining plants. Plus, making them portable can be especially convenient for gardeners who live in apartments or rent. Keeping a garden in the window with plants that are in containers can be very gratifying. Many plants that started in containers will also transplant easily into the ground, when the timing is right for taking them out of the container and planting them in the garden. Often they may remain in the container and be planted directly in the garden, container and all.

The tequila sunrise pepper may be found in your seed catalogue under a different name depending on where you get your mail order plants, but it is a gorgeous yellow pepper that get to be about five inches long in a container in the window. It does famously in window boxes, where the upright growth pattern makes for a textured appeal to the eye. Plus, they're delicious.

Other pepper hybrids, regular green bell peppers, are especially bred to grow in containers. The plants attain about 12 inches and bear fruit in about 45 days. For peppers, they are highest in vitamins A and C when they are fully ripe, or in the yellow or red stage of growth.

Dwarf tomatoes and hybrids, perfect for containers and window boxes, are found in gardening catalogues from the primary seed companies. Find plants that complement each other, such as the golden hybrid of a tomato that can be grown with the red companion. Even though the plants are dwarfs, they bring out a profusion of tomatoes to be picked all throughout the summer.

Keeping the garden in the window healthy is easy with basic, light fertilizing, similar to that done in your main, outdoor garden.

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