Grow Your Own…plants from scraps!

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Well, I LOVE Pinterest and usually pin lots of crafty projects I plan to try “someday”. This week I decided to start thinking about growing some veggies for the summer.
My almost 10 year old son, Lorne, wants to grow a garden. Myself, I want to try container gardening first to get a better idea of what we will grow next year, and also decide how much of my yard will be converted into a garden. The kids still love to run through the yard and raid my Hostas to use as “plates and produce” they sell in their make believe stores and workshops!!! Imagine what they will do with a vegetable garden, yikes!

While on my quest to find pretty and effective container options on Pinterest, I came across a few posts on growing some veggies from scraps. Well, I started really doing some research online and found several references to growing celery, green onions, lemongrass, cabbage, potatoes, garlic, etc. This all sounded intriguing, somewhat mommy cool, and child friendly, so I looked in my fridge. I had a bunch of Celery…perfect.

Here is what I did:

I cut the celery at the bottom, about 1 1/2 inches up (root end, where all the celery are joined) .

Then placed them in a clear glass container with a bit of water…and waited. Yup, that’s it.

Now, a week later this is what I have.

 

From everything I read, I just wait for the roots to appear a little more, and transplant to a pot in a sunny window! Hope this works. If not, it’s a fun thing to watch sprout new shoots and it’s really fast, so kids love it.
 
There are many other plants you can do this with. Bok Choy, Cabbage, Lemongrass, Grean Onion, Romaine Lettuce, Potato, Sweet Potato, Garlic, etc….

Have you ever tried this or have any tips to share? Be sure to comment below, and in case you are wondering, I did get sidetracked from finding the ideas for a container garden. That will be a task for this week. Being distracted by ideas like this is fun, but I had no intention a week ago to be growing Celery on my window sill. Back to the search for frugal, pretty container ideas!

Happy planning, and maybe next week it will warm up and have us feeling like it is spring.

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2017 – Update, I currently have Celery, Green Onions and an Avocado Tree (sprout) growing. This summer I will be growing tomatoes from a tomato slice, and potatoes that I started….will keep you posted.

 

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5 thoughts on “Grow Your Own…plants from scraps!”

  1. I've done this with both green onions and celery. It worked better for green onions and allowed me to get quite a few more uses out of it, but eventually the plant was exhausted. The celery grew quite well for a while, and then it died for no apparent reason. Definitely going to give it another try this summer however.

  2. I will keep you posted on the celery…Will be trying some others. We use alot of Ginger and I read you can grow it too. We will see!<br />thanks for sharing.

  3. I saw an article on this same thing. They mentioned that they changed the water daily. Just wondering if you really have to change the water daily? Did you?

  5. I&#39;ve had a lot of success with green onions but I find they can really only grow back about 3 times before the onions get too thin. I&#39;ve also done this with celery, carrot tops, onions, garlic and pineapple tops. You can also take the seeds/pits out of fruits to grow them from seed (check out you tube! I&#39;ve had success with everything from lemons and pomegranates to avocados and

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