When my interior decorator suggested I put in some vinyl garden windows in the back of the house, I had no idea what she was talking about. I called a local window contractor to ask him what they were. He told me that he would do one better than that, he would show me. He drove over to my house with a sample, and some before and after pictures of homes that had put them in.

After seeing the vinyl garden windows, I hired the window contractor to put four different ones in, at the back of the house. I could not believe that I had never seen one before this. Me, the person with the biggest green thumb in this state, knows about them now though and will be growing herbs year round.

The old vinyl casement windows that were in the spots where the new windows are going were recycled and put in the greenhouse I am building in the backyard. Since the vinyl casement windows were only four years old, I could not see just throwing them away. I am a firm believer in recycling.

Since putting in the vinyl garden windows, my plants seem to be growing much better than they were before. The herb garden that I started in the kitchen window is so convenient when I am cooking.