Week 4: Healthy Eating Contest: Scrap This For That

I had never regrown produce before. But a few months ago I put my green onion in water to make them last longer. After our last hard freeze I planted them in a pot, and now they are flowering. It's so fun to watch nature at work. You can see them in the pot in front of the raised bed. 

In a similar vein, I had a few tomatoes that were mushy and old. I threw them in the garden and got a few growing now from the seeds! The potatoes work too, just toss in the garden.

I've been using one bunch of green onions perhaps every other day in my salads as well as a topper on various prepared meals   I've cut the cost of buying my onions be restarting the green onions in a cup of water.  The grow rather quickly. 

Growing lettuce, onions, and cilantro from leftovers or cuttings

This small scrap of purple yam grew into two great big tubs of thriving purple yams. Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes, white potatoes,  any tuber will sprout and when the tuber is not fresh enough to eat, I plant it in some potting soil in a container on my balcony. I don't have any backyard as an urban high rise apt dweller but I have a lovely micro-garden of veggies, herb and flowers on my apt balcony.  I use trellises to grow as much good in a tiny space.   SPIN Gardening isMis small otnit intensive planting. on My next growing food from scraps is ginger and pineapple. Both will grow in California climate. Check You Tube for details. 

Romaine Lettuce regrown

Our scraps window garden - inspired when scallions were at a premium and then expanded for indoor healthy "gardening" fun!

A cantaloupe melon was the beginning but I wanted more so -seeds saved, dried,and planted 

Hoping before summer to have a good yield of sweetness to enjoy !Hurry Hurry *****

I planted the top of a pineapple in a pot.  It I keep it in a sunny place and water it regularly, it will produce a new pineapple for us to eat.

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