Windowsill Garden

Windowsill Garden
Hey Kids:
Have you ever tried to grow vegetables on your windowsill? Now is a good time to get started so you will have plants for your garden.
In our area, sweet potatoes are a popular alternative to winter squash.
To make a garden full of sweet potatoes, take one or two potatoes.
Place tooth picks around the middle of the potato so they will hold the potato in a wide mouth pint canning jar.
Fill the jar with water almost to the toothpicks.
Hold the jar over the sink while you place the potato in the water.
In a few weeks, sprouts will come from the top of the potato and roots will grow into the water.
When the weather warms, pull each sprout loose from the potato and place it in rich garden soil or a hanging basket.
This fall you will have some “good eating”.
If you want a salad garden try cutting the core from the bottom of several different kinds of leaf lettuces.
Place them in cereal bowls of water.
Put the bowls in a sunny window.
Be sure to check the water daily and add more when needed.
In a few weeks, leaves will appear and so will the roots.
You can place the lettuce plants in garden soil or pots near your kitchen for easy access to healthy salad lettuces.
Sprinkle a few carrot and radish seeds around the lettuce to complement the salad.

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Gail Cartee is a writer and teacher of hands-on family devotions. She and her husband live in the foothills of SC.  They have three grown children and three grandchildren. Gail writes Sunday School lessons for children and teens. She teaches in a  public school near her home. Gail often gets inspiration for her hands-on lessons while working in her organic garden.

Visit Gail at http://gailcartee.blogspot.com/ or email her at gcartee8645@windstream.net.

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Posted by on Mar 15, 2016 in God's Creation Archives | 0 comments

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