Growing your own garden is definitely amazing and you can do it both indoors and outdoors. Indoor ones are also a beautiful décor for the space. For example, a cute rosemary pot is ideal for window shutters or near your working desk, don’t you agree?
Some of these herbs can be grown from seeds and seedlings and others from herb trimmings and kitchen scraps. You’ll have fresh produce and a greener house? Amazing, isn’t it?
Believe it or not, there are actually 10 wonderful plants you can grow from kitchen scraps, including lettuce, green onions, etc.
This will ensure you always have delicious ingredients for your meals. This can be an awesome project for the whole family-you can have a lot of fun together, which can be really beneficial in these times of pandemic and lockdowns we’re living in.
10 Wonderful Plants to Grow from Scraps in the Kitchen
- Beets
Cut the top of the beet and put it in a tray with water. For a longer harvest, grow it in soil!
- Garlic
Find the biggest several cloves from the bulb and pot them in soil. You can grow garlic like this for years. In addition to always having fresh garlic, it’s also a natural mosquito repellent.
- Scallions
This plant is easy to grow from scraps- it grows fast and easy. Cut off the roots and leave a 1 to 2-inch stem. Put it in a glass or a jar of water. If you want a longer harvest, plant them in soil.
- Celery
Cut off the bottom of the celery with a bit of the root and put it in a shallow tray with water. Don’t submerge the root in water. For longer harvest, pot it in soil.
- Carrots
Cut off the tops of several carrots and put them in a shallow bowl of water-the greens growing on the top are highly nutritious and taste like parsley, so don’t throw them away!
- Basil
Pick off most of the leaves of fresh basil and leave a couple at the top on each of the stems. Put them in a jar of water. You can also replant it in soil.
- Lettuce
Cut off the head of lettuce and put it in a wide jar of water. When it releases roots, replant it in soil.
- Rosemary
Cut off the tips of rosemary plants and put them in a glass of water and in a warm area. When it begins to root, replant it in soil.
- Potatoes
This is an easy veggie to regrow- you can use cuts around tiny sprouts growing from the potatoes to do this.
- Sweet potatoes
These potatoes are very simple to sprout in water-then, replant them in water for a long crop.