Although you may live in the middle of the city, you can still enjoy growing your own flowering plants and herbs. An outreach assistant at Greenbridge, the community horticulture program of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Lis Thomas, will show us how to set up a window box yourself. You can grow flowers and fresh herbs here.

The steps to do it are as follows:
1. Hang your window boxes in a window where you have space. Once it is hung securely, add soil.
Always a mix called “potting soil” and make sure you obtain soil which is organic and has low-release fertilizer.

2 Fill up the soil in until it is about an inch from the top of the window box. Use the following measurements as guideline: A 30″ long and 6″ deep window box will need roughly 16 quarts of soil.

3 Choose your plants according to your location. Give yourself a wonderful day in enjoying and observing the sunlight coming into your window. By doing this, you can determine what kind of plant you can grow, be it plants that take full sun, or plants that are a little shadier.

4 After determining the sunlight and the plant you want to grow, get to the garden center and start selecting flowers and plants you want to grow.

5 Arrange your window flower boxes or other window boxes. Because a window box is perfectly viewable from the street and has a lot of different levels, it will be wonderful to get yourself thrillers, fillers and spillers. Make sure your plants have room to grow.

6 Remember to water your flowers and plants.