Let your kitchen scraps become your next kitchen garden crop....using these techniques, and including your children in the process, is a gateway experience for your children into the world of growing beautiful and edible produce.... 25 Foods You Can Re-Grow Yourself from Kitchen Scraps How To Grow Vegetables From Kitchen Scraps Have some fun, and save some money with it.
A sunny window ledge ought do it...obviously some of these things are seasonal....they would be good classroom projects too.
It balances out some of my contentious stuff, demonstrating that I'm not just a one trick pony in this place. And I like to post stuff that is interesting and useful...some of the herb prpogation my be accelerated by using an appropriate rooting hormone.
A few years back, I had a friend who raised a few pigs. A year later he got rid of the pigs. That abandoned pig pen turned out to be the best garden he ever had. Didn't do a thing. It was just volunteer vegetables that had been run through the pigs and just started growing.
When I was a teenager our cesspool caved in one Easter Sunday morning. Come summer, we have the biggest, most beautiful tomatoes I've every seen. We called them our volunteers
hehehe. One of my ex's sisters fell into a cesspool in wayback times. One of the other sisters convinced her that jumping up and down was safe. I wasn't there, but sure was treated to the story. (One of the other sisters deserved it, but not that one.)
except for ginger and an avocado tree or two ... ive never been able to get pieces of veggies to grow anything. They look pretty but to producing anything... never been able to do it. And while i appreciate the info i still wonder if people actually get produce from these bits of veggies
I've gotten lettuces to reproduce using the above method, and maybe you could get kale or chard that way also but root vegetables … I don't know....
Re; Blue Duck post #8. I had a similar experience. Mom was canning tomatoes. Seeds and skin went to sows in farrowing house. Next summer I found huge sweet bright red slicers where the runoff ran off. Weren't pretty inside but made THE BEST blt's you could imagine.
It depends upon the plant....unlikely able to grow a whole carrot from a stub that has grown feeder roots....but that carrot will produce leaves which are edible and will produce seed which can in turn be propogated to grow into whole vegetables which can be eaten....similar with celery, though it will produce new stalks, perhaps not identical in size to the original, but none the less, edible and have culinary utility. I see this kind of methodology as useful as a teaching tool in educating the young in the ethos of self sufficiency, and as a means of preparing them unconsciously for austere times when survival means squeezing the greatest possible utility out of things that would be otherwise discarded to landfill. It encourages the notion of adaptability...to look at alternative possibilities, for common things other than the standard end for objects that have no apparent use, i.e. as waste to be disposed of in the trash.
