#club5050 Mini Veg Garden (Power Up 15 Steem)

What a relaxing Saturday it was, perfumed with the smells of flowering things like this gorgeous lilac in our garden. I attended a live pop-up podcast about growing vegetables earlier today. Last night I also read @ultravioletmag’s post about giving food a second chance.

I personally believe that everything, maybe even everybody, deserve a second chance. So I thought there can’t be a better time to post here about my own vegetable plantation.

A perfect way to grow yourself some vegetables, even when you don’t have much space is to regrow the off cuts from your weekly shop.

When preparing vegetables such as spring onions, leeks, celery or even lettuce, rather than discard the lower white part of the vegetable simply place this in a small dish of shallow water for a few days and it will start to root and regrow.

You can either leave it in the water or replant into a small pot outside or inside by a window. Then in a couple of weeks you will have a new plant regrown and ready for harvesting which tastes so much better than the original you bought from your local store.

Based on my own experience, leeks turned out to be the tastiest and therefore my favourite vegetable which I managed to regrow so far. They simply have triple the flavour regardless of being smaller in size. Last night I cooked a few just with some butter in a pan and they perfectly accompanied a steak and chips, which we had for tea.

Lettuce has proven to be the most difficult to regrow as it doesn’t seem to like being left in water for too long. I am now really excited about regrowing ginger so wish me luck and if it is a success I promise to keep you posted.

It does help if you don’t have a naughty squirrel which loves to bury monkey nuts in your garden, which activity unfortunately involves digging out what you have planted. I assume that one of my neighbours started feeding it with the sole intention of entertaining the children. Why doesn’t it store the nuts in the garden of the family who feeds it? Shall I start feeding the squirrel too hoping it will then take the monkey nut and run away to bury it elsewhere? Decisions, decisions..

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I also powered up 15 Steem and here is a screenshot of this transaction.

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