Did you realize that you can grow a whole garden full of food from parts of veggies that you would normally chuck down the garbage disposal?
Or compost heap, depending on how you normally deal with scraps of food you don’t actually want to eat.
But these little gems can be planted and you will soon have your own crop to harvest – just ask Lisa Keating, author of the EncinoMom.com blog.
You may already know that you can plant a potato with eyes into the ground to grow more potatoes, but you may not realize what other opportunities there are.
Here are a few of the items she recommends using to create your own garden:
1. Celery – if you cut the celery off 2 inches from the bottom, you can plant that whole base and grow your own celery.
2. Carrots – cut the tops off and place them in shallow water. After a while, little roots will begin to grow. At that point you can place them in the ground.
3. Garlic – keep a few cloves from the bulb, and plant them a few inches into the ground. with the pointy end up.
Lisa has some other vegetables that she likes to grow, you can find them along with instrutions on her website at https://encinomom.com/sprouts-growing-organic-produce/
