window boxes without drainage holes

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I need four or five window boxes with the drainage holes already drilled.I haven't got a drill and is it too much to ask that the holes are already there, since they are essential.
Amazon no help.
Can anyone point me to a website which might help? Been looking around and it seems you have to do it yourself, but I can't.

Have a look in wyvale garden centre as I've got some with a tube that you water which means they never get dry as there is a reservoir underneath the soil. Also you don't need drainage holes then.

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Get a drill or borrow one, or get a gimlet.
If your window ledge is sheltered you don't need drainage holes.

I second using a gimlet. Not difficult.

A screwdriver or the tip of a sharp knife does just as well if your stuck

Do you drink wine? A corkscrew does the trick

Can you ask a neighbour if they have a drill you can borrow?

Are looking for plastic or wooden window boxes. The plastic ones have very thin plastic over the places the holes should go so would be easy to do with a knife or screwdriver. It just cuts down on manufacturing costs.

I would put in a layer of gravel and plant into a slightly smaller window box and place them on the gravel
Water into the gap until the pots sit in 1/2 inch-inch of water.No water logging and easy watering and no staining of your window sills.

Thanks so much, everyone. I didn't know that the plastic covering the holes was so easy to poke through.
I shall get a gimlet ( though I thought that a gimlet was something to do with gin).
I may also have some gin.

Mmm gin said in a homer like voice

seventh has it completely right.

For ease of watering little plastic bottles with bottoms cut off with gravel in the bottom and embedded/hidden as you plant also help watering easily as it gets to the roots.

I heated a screwdriver in a gas flame & used that to make holes. I did feel a bit like a torturer from a not very good crime novel as I did it.