A Garden in the Window

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November/December 1987
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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If you're just setting flats or plants in the sun, leave the platform as it is. You can, however, expand the use of your window garden by cutting an opening in the bottom to accommodate a planting tray of your choice. Lined with an insulation pad, it can hold individual potted plants or a bed of soil. When the tray is removed, the hole can be fitted with the cut-out wood section.

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To take the design one step further, it's not too difficult to fashion a simple food dryer by cutting two 3" holes into the upper part of the face board and fitting them with round soft vents. Then—by stapling some nylon window screen to a frame tacked together out Of 3/4" X 3/4" strips of wood— you can make a drying tray to fit over the opening in the platform. If the lower window sash doesn't close freely, trim the mounting frame to whatever width is necessary, reset the drip cap and reposition the clip plates to allow it to do so. A closed sash (or one just cracked open) will speed the drying process.

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