What Happens When You REGROW Vegetables From Kitchen Scraps In The Garden?

ive done several on that list myself so i know it works..

right now i have the bottom section of the celery i stuck in the catnip pot, in my kitchen window which gets direct sun all day.

the cut stalks are wilting away but the center has grown nice green leaves.
i sprinkle water on it every day.

even if it doesnt make more stalks the leaves taste just like celery and i love them in my salads.

Lemongrass tea is so delicious!

We do have well water, too. I’m gonna try it!

I keep my lemongrass and purple potatoes in my kitchen window, too...

i plant all of the garlic cloves which have sprouted, i dont eat them.
they want so badly to grow, so i shove them down in the dirt and they have been growing nicely.
if i can get them to flower and seed then i will be so happy!

I watched a video of a guy that plants them in big plastic planters... I think it’s a good idea cuz you don’t lose any.

Thank you my sweet love!

I'm scared of spiders. Can you regrow without crawly things?

i bought some lemongrass from the local grocery store, they had a selection of potted herbs in their fruit section at one time, and i LOVED that plant!
it grew to about three foot high and smelled like FRUIT LOOPS cereal.
it grew outside in the full sun and i even separated it when it got about three foot high.
gave one chunk to a friend where it grew into a GIANT size, like a full sized pampas grass bush would.
it even made flowers! i wished my chunk had grown that large but the dog
loved it so much, he ate it all.

Last Edited by rob2 on 03/28/2021 11:25 PM

Oh my gosh... every 2 weeks!!!!

My sons’s chore is to take the garbage to the town dumpster. I don’t touch the garbage.

Nice, I am going to sprout some garlic soon too! Some people grow them for the garlic chives. I would love that.

A friend of mine made garlic scape pesto she called it and it was outrageously good. You'd need a decent amount of chives for that though.

We have the town dumpster thing too and that is the one chore I won't do! I will get it all ready and bag the recyclables but I hate going to the dump. Yuck! That's on my man's to-do list. :)

i threw a bunch of potatoes that had started sprouting out in the compost bin.i have no idea if they will grow or rot.

These ones are ready to be planted...

https://imgur.com/a/TO8t3Yu

It isn't a huge greenhouse. It is 8 x 12 lol.

I don't know what the potatoes are. They were some budding scraps from my compost several years ago that I threw into a bed. They come back every year.

I've grown many pounds of potatoes just from the skins. You have to let them dry first. Red potatoes work best with this technique. Russets not so much. Reds are better anyway.

There is one thing else you can bury in this fashion that will help things grow, fish. Just bury them under dirt, cut them up if you want, that way they feed the vegetables, squash love that grown, my sister grew some she forgot she buried some not so good fish there, the squash leaf was over 7 foot and the squash made a huge amount of produce. There was one thing they did different, none running squash was all over the place, everywhere it ran it made more squash this was hook neck yellow summer squash. Fish is what American Indians fertilized with, one small fish with every seed planted. It works with most if not all plants.

Any sea critter like shrimp or the shells and fish. It can be fresh water also. Dried eggshells are good in the garden, some people kind of cooked them a bit before using them in the garden, plants do well with them. Just some natural thing to boost the garden plants or soil for the plants.

If you have a compost container, you can toss left over tomatoes into it, just stir the soil, I used to grow tomatoes from the ones that grew from mine, large amount of plants for sure, I had to give some plants away. One year I planted a lot of them, they came from the grocery store, if you have anything that has seeds in it, good chance the compost will sprout it. If you have cabbage in the garden leave part of the cabbage in the ground, just cut the cabbage above instead of at the root area. Just leave it in the soil, it usually makes a small cabbage head if early enough for it to grow back.

Much as any greens you have in the garden lettuce, spinach, any kind of plant like this, just pinch off some leafs to harvest, don't take it all, it will grow back. Don't try to grow a full onion in the soil, it will make small divided onions, it is best to harvest those to eat while the greens blades are still tender if you do. If they are divide in the onion, you open the onion and this makes more onions, that what you can plant, the best shot at growing a full onion from that type of planting.

Garlic is easy to grow, and it grows back year after year, you get two things from garlic, cook to eat, and keeping some insects out of your garden. Garlic multiples so you have to divide it and place it in other areas. The blades of garlic are eatable.

Oh, my... I saw chives seeds and didn’t get them... would love to have those blue flowers in my kitchen.

Thank you for mentioning this...

Potatoes from skins, I will have to try that one!

That’s big for me ...

Volunteers! Look for them. Just moved two states away and have been informed we have a small rhubarb patch. Now I know what that looks like. Rhubarb Strawberry Pies are a thing in these parts. Finding worms for the vermiculture attempt, too. Yard clean-up yields.

:five stars:

Thank you for posting this... I’m gonna copy and paste it on my personal notes...

Yeah, I have heard about burying fish.

I do save all the egg shells and put them in my indoor plants.

you must be very young

Every year my kids think I'm the weirdest person on the planet when they watch me replant what to them is garbage. They roll their eyes and laugh at me, call me a insane hoarder/prepped then immediately forget about it. I get the last laugh knowing those fresh veggies were from the garbage they turned their noses up at once.

Volunteers!! That’s a good idea... but my grumpy husband doesn’t like people coming to our house.

For some things I’m pretty slow...

Thank you!

I'm moving to a new apartment that will have a balcony and my apartment faces south.

I have been so wanting to plant a container garden on my little balcony and you have given me ideas.

So it sounds like the garden will have not much effort and you get some good food. This seems too good to be true.

My question is - if you plant something like the bottom of the celery in the dirt or water, or potatos and then they grow, is there any chance they will end up toxic and you cant eat them? or that they would rot if you dont know how to take care of them?

I wish I could grow celery but I live in such a warm climate they don't develop nice heads. They look like giant dandelions and bloom way too soon. Same thing with lettuce. Cabbage, collards and turnips do well here as winter crops.