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Using Sweet potatoes can yield yummy nutrient rich, greens and a beautiful plant!
Growing sweet potatoes! The slips will eventually be planted next to the shallots I grew from a sprouted shallot. I think it's really interesting how one mother plant can spawn a whole bunch more!
Here I am with my compost pile "scraps". I gingerly pulled out the mystery tomato and squash starts and replanted them in my flower garden and a pot. We'll see what I get when they mature!
Yippie Skippie - I've not shopped for green onions since March - so fun now in the pandemic to step outside and harvest my second/third/fourth cuttings from my regrown green onions. Nothing better than a freshly cut - anything for great flavor. I decided to plant the "stubs" with some dill seeds and have found it makes an interesting pot on my front step. Didn't have much success with the lettuce - tried it twice - but it wimped out on me.
My apartment does not get much sun, but at this time of year, there is some light that comes into my western window. Having nothing to lose, I put the bottoms of two heads of romaine lettuce into a coconut shell bowl with a little bit of water to cover the bottom. It was a joyous surprise to see that within a few days, I had grown these beautiful green leaves. Though they are small, they are the perfect micro greens needed to compliment my sandwich. There is something so gratifying in both watching the regrowth and enjoying the taste of something fresh and homegrown from what would have been thrown in the compost bin.
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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.
We did the same!
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 !
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.
Growing lettuce, onions, and cilantro from leftovers or cuttings
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.
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 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.
I'm trying this with celery... eager to see how it goes!
When garlic sprouts, the shoots are edible but quite strong in flavor! If you cook with them, the garlic flavor gets milder. Don’t discard garlic that sprouted garlic! It’s perfectly fine to eat!
I eat bok choy - but it's so expensive! I cut the bottom off of my last bunch and put it in with my seedlings - now hoping it will grow and flourish!
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