Gardening On A Budget: How To Regrow Vegetables From Kitchen Scraps (FREE SBD GIVEAWAY!)
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Gardening On A Budget
Many people think that setting up your very own vegetable garden is expensive.
Let me tell you something: it doesn't have to be.
Two weeks ago I already showed you how you can save a lot of money by recycling stuff and give it a new life in your garden. I also showed you a couple of DIY tips for which you don't have to be a handyman.
If you missed that post, you can read it here:
How To Grow Your Own Veggies On A Budget
Let Vegetables Regrow Themselves
Did you ever hear about veggies that can magically regrow themselves? Well, it’s true.
You can actually start your vegetable garden using leftovers you normally throw away. How about that for gardening on a budget...?! ;0)
Instead of throwing them away, you can use the leftovers to regrow the vegetables.
Some examples of veggies that can be regrown are garlic, onions, (sweet) potatoes and even pineapples.
How To Regrow From Leftovers?
The infographic below lists which veggies can be regrown, and the steps you need to take to make it a success.
Right-click the infographic to save it to your drive or bookmark this page and get to it. Growing your own vegetables doesn’t have to cost you any extra money, as you will see.
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Did you ever try to regrow your own vegetables? Did you succeed or not? What happened? (Forgive me for being this curious.)
Tell me about your regrown veggies-adventures.
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Let me know about your experiences with regrowing vegetable from leftovers.
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Yes, and if buying herbs and veg from a market, the roots are often still there, so can easily be replanted. My daughter recently planted orange seeds - she will have to be patient, but they have sprouted!
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I have a 2 year omd lemon tree not really a tree yet, about 30cm high) which grew from a seed from a purchased lemon. I did some research, and it might take 12 to 15 years before it will grow fruit...
an experiment for patient people :0)
Love this @simplymike! My momma has been doing this for a few years now. Green onions are definitely the best growers. We havent bought any in months. Just chop off what you need and it continues to grow, like magic! Another GREAT one is tomatoes, tomatillos especially! You can slice the tomato sideways and plant. It will start a brand new plant! Have you ever been able to find tomatillo seeds in the stores? Mom never could so she took the regeneration route and it freakin worked! She had a whole plant full of little tomatillos! Also a little fyi, tomatillos grow into their "skin". Very cool stuff! If you feel like it, go have @mamajeani post from awhile back a look, she wrote quite a bit on regeneration planting. Heres one of the posts (its from two months ago, so dont waste a vote for it) that has some good info!
https://steemit.com/newbieresteemday/@mamajeani/it-s-been-a-planting-day-slice-planting
Also check out some of her other planting posts, she has lots of info on her page for sure! I know you have quite the green thumb yourself so Im sure you would enjoy her writings!
Hope youve been able to get out and enjoy some gardening lately! Have a great day :)
I’ve heard about the tomatoes, but never tried it. Most of my experiences with the veggies listed above weren’t very succesful...
Except for the garlic. During the entire gardening season I put pieces of garlic everywhere. In all my beds and pots, harlic is growing , because it helps to save my veggies from getting eaten by slugs.
For sure! We are doing the potatoes this year. We planted all kinds of dried cut up potatoes and they have lots of green growing. Havent opened up the bottom to see if we have any actual potatoes yet but its hopeful! And the pineapple, we tried. It grows and grows and ultimately dies during Winter, EVERY damn year! I want to see a mini pineapple grow from the top soo bad!
Do you take it inside during winter?
lol... that would be too easy! ;)
Texas's winter is kinda funny. Itll be warm and sunny one day and freezing through the night, just to turn around and be warm again the next day. I suppose we could just keep it inside! We will try that this year.
Thanks for this I just brought tomato seeds but they were really expensive. Was wondering if there was some way to grow from Existing tomato or collect its seed. I live in Spain so It should grow hopefully
I simply love this. We are trying to grow our own pineapple. And so far, so good. It's a nice plant by now and we've read that it may take several years to grow one pineapple ... but we keep talking to our belove pineapple plant (tree?) and hope the best.
I think it’s the most difficult one on the list, because I’m not sure our climate is right for gowing pineapples. Good to hear it’s working out so far.
A friend gave me a small lemon tree she had grown out of seed of a lemon. The plant is growing, but after doing some research, it appears it will become a really big tree and it can take up to 12 to 15 years before it’ll grow fruits - but there’s a big chance he won’t. So it’ll be a long-term experiment :0)
Unfortunately, the only vegetable I have in my little garden is a bitter leaf tree. Also, there's no need to try and regrow it, it's a tree. I just get whatever I need from it and it regrows itself.
I’ll need to look up what a bitter leaf tree is - lol
So cool! This is something I haven't thought about since my days growing up on a farm. Potatoes were big for us using this method. I think I'm going to try some different things on the balcony here and see how it works. Stay tuned... ;)
I’m going to try some too. Aybe we can
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I've been driving myself crazy trying to remember something I read recently here about starting a specific vegetable...or maybe a fruit. I remember thinking how cool it was, but see? I can't remember even recall what family it belonged to :)
I'm getting visions of a community garden on my roof...that's what Vancouver is all about. I don't think my landlord will go for it, but maybe I'll start a pineapple and see if I can present her with something awesome to put up there ;)
fyi, my visions are often much grander than my reality ;)
You can
Kndeed brine her with the pineapple and a part of the veggies you’ll be able to grow on your roof garden...
I did iiit!! :) 3 Years ago I have regrown potatoes in a box I built from wood that was a fence before :).
I didn't cut the potatoes but used them whole as you can see here :
Here is a better pic of the box 😉
I don't know the weight of the used potatoes but the outcome was about 13 kg ...way more then used. And I guess it would have been more if this storm had not found his way into my garden. The plants were all bent over and no longer able to do photosynthesis. So I did harvest a bit too early. It was like searching for easter eggs - I loved it. They tasted sooo yummie.
Short time after that I moved out of this house and garden and when I showed the garden to people who were interested in the house I wanted to ask them if they want to have the box so lazy me can just leave it. BUT what I actually asked (as a german living in the netherlands and on that time with poor dutch speaking) - I asked if they want the box where I had grown french fries in it🤣. ..lol. The Dutch word for french fries is Patat ..so it'similar to potatoes. I will never forget the look they gave me after I said this. :))
So they are probably still waiting for the patat to grow - lmao
Here in Belgium ‘patat’ means potato, so the problem wouldn’t occur.
But if I understand correctly, your potato experiment worked?
This is the first year I’m trying to grow them in my garden. So far, so good. The plants are growing very quickly. I’m really curious how it will turn out..
Yes it worked perfectly. I did plant them in a box because this way it was easier to replenish the soil always when the plants have grown a bit. That's how the patatjes ;) grow everywhere from the bottom to the top inside the box. I wish you good luck with your potatoes!
Thanks!
I've got garlic and tumeric growing from scraps atm. Ginger has kinda failed so far. Will try sweet potatoes next season and well pineapple would be so cool but is it feezable if ur not in tropical climate?
I'm going to have to try more things, I can tell...
Meanwhile, I can share with you what I have done...
Last year, I planted a piece of sprouting ginger in with my christmas cactus - this poor thing had been barely saved from that gnat that likes to attack and drain all the life out of the poor thing. I put the ginger there because I didn't have another pot at the time, and I figured that they're both tropical and probably would appreciate the same growing conditions.
Not only is the ginger growing really well, but I have not had a repeat attack of that gnat in all that time, I think the two things are related. :-)
I also have put the pits of some champagne mango pits into a pot this week, I'm eager to see how they do.
I'm aware that sweet potatoes can be a fickle thing because the distributors often treat even the organic ones with something to prevent them from sprouting. Well, this year, we got a couple from a food bank and they started sprouting, so I quickly threw them into a bucket where they are very happily growing. I promise to grab some pictures very soon.
Cool. I read about that too, how stuff is treated so it won’t regrow.
And it’s true that some plants protect each other against bugs and plagued. Gonna do a post on that soon, because I find it very interesting...
Looking forward to it.
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Garlic and onions is something we often use daily. Let me tell you about the story when I tried re planting a potato. I saw a potato which is starting to grow in our refrigerator. I could see the stem like stuff growing out of it. I figured to give it a chance at life to propagate. My aunt had a bitter gourd plant growing in front of our house which is thriving. I thought it would be best to plant the potato near the plant as the soil is good. Left it there for a couple of weeks and the leaves from the potato was thriving. Now how do I know if the potato is ready to harvest. I checked the net to find out. I read that the leaves would start dying once it is ready for harvest. After days the leaves died out and I was excited to check if there are any potatoes. I uprooted the dead plant and found nothing. I was disappointing but not as disappointed as my aunt. Her bitter gourd started to die out and there were a lot of small vegetables already. It seems I have damaged the roots of her plant when I planted the potato near it. Maybe when I uprooted the potato it did more damage. She was puzzled and I could not tell her that I accidentally killed her plant. Shhhhh. I'll plant her a new bitter gourd instead.
Lol. I won’t tell. ;0)
I think it’s weird that the leaves flourished, but that there were no potatoes..
It was weird I dug it up and no potatoes which was disappointing. I will try again though away from my aunt's plants.