Transplated 4 basil plants in my indoor garden. 3 lived and one started to die.

In this weather, I certainly couldn't have my plants outside, it's 20 degrees right now and supposed to be sub-zero by the weekend. Rosemary, you need a lot of dirt and a good-sized pot for the root. I grow cool weather crops in winter. Those that germinate and can handle 50 degrees to 60 degrees. My kitchen is often that cold over night. The heatducts seem to get kind of cooled off by the time they get to that room. So greens mostly and some herbs. Spring and fall plants like onions and winter garlic are good. Limits what I can grow. Aloe vera is weird, it can live to 41 degrees, strange #, but that's what I found on the internet. My plants are by a window and I water them with warm water often during cold spells. Greens like lettuce, some herbs, some kinds of onions and garlic can do well. I'd like to try strawberries some day. Most of the ones that grow up here are producing by June, so they are probably a cool weather fruit. My cats stay out of my plants as long as the litter box is clean. I have no dog. I have no children. As a child, my parents had me grow plants and my husband grew a plant on a window sill in 1st or 2nd grade (I'll have to ask him what grade). Kids that grow veggies eat more veggies than kids that don't grow veggies, they're finding. If they're old enough, they could start their own. Up here, we put a seed in a see-thru container and let the kids grow their own. They put the seed near one side where they can watch it sprout and grow. Fast growing stuff like radishes, lettuce, onions, you get the idea, they usually love it. At least in any classroom I've been in they did.