Kitchen Gardening from Scraps

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I came across this a while ago and these are just a few things that can be used to grow new produce from scraps that we might otherwise just toss in the trash or compost bin!
The bottom part of a head of lettuce can be placed in a pan or container of approximately half an inch of water, place in a sunny window sill and it will grow a new head of lettuce, you can continually repeat this with your new heads of lettuce! (Change the water every two days )
You can do the same with onions, just cut off the bottom end where the roots would be, let it dry out for a day or two and plant in a pot of soil, with the root part facing down. water as needed.
To regrow celery, just stand the base in a small dish of water for a week or so until new leaves appear in the center. The leaves will be yellow at first, and once they really emerge and turn green, you can plant the celery in the ground or in a pot.
To regrow garlic, plant cloves in a pot of soil and place in a sunny window sill, one that gets full sun exposure. each clove will grow a new bulb of 12 to 20 cloves.
I use a lot of garlic so I am going to try the garlic next weekend after i go shopping, just not sure which window sill will work as the sunniest one is the favorite Kitty nap time window sill.
 

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Get organic Garlic, the supermarket stuff is usually sprayed with a growth inhibitor to prolong shelf life, so won't produce decent sized bulbs.
 
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I have had success with regrowing Romaine lettuce hearts in a small amount of water in a sunny window, as well as celery. Simply adding the celery base or lettuce base to a couple of inches of water in a shallow dish in a sunny window does the trick.

Another frugal way to save on produce is to replant your onions or potatoes from the store if they start to sprout before you have used them. Simply plant them outdoors, caring for them as you would any other potato or onion plants. They will re-grow great!

I have also seen photos of people re-growing an avocado plant from an avocado pit and pinneapple plant from the head of a pineapple, however, only the plants of these are grown, with no produce being able to be recuperated.
 
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You are like my husband who doesn't waste anything when it comes to vegetables. He would plant excess garlic in a pot and serve as decoration for our terrace. He would also plant the rotting onions that would later grow into spring onions that we use for cooking. We are not much with lettuce but we had planted mustard that way, the rooted part was able to grow leaves and had grown into a mustard plant that we harvested for food.
 
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Thanks for sharing these tips as they are the veggies that we use most in our household too! I would love to get an organic head of lettuce and regrow it soon.
 

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