Did you know you can regrow fruits & veggies from scraps & seeds???
First, let me suggest purchasing heirloom, pesticide free veggies to regrow.. They may be a tad bit more expensive. If you are looking for non-GMO veggies, that is the way to go.
This list was interesting to me. Most of us eat most everything on this list or have at one point or another. If you are health conscious this is great.
Not only are you getting good food you can trust, cuts down on expense of purchasing these items at your local farmers markets and organic based stores. You also practice pre-planning which I believe is the one main reason it is hard for some to stick to clean eating etc...
Here are a few that are easy to grow and how you grow them.
*Lettuce/Bak choy - I am a fan of dark green leafy greens so cut the base off, put the leaves in water and sunlight for 3 to 4 days and you should start to see the roots shoot out after that go ahead and put them in gardening soil.
*Bean sprouts - Yes, any kind of bean you like. I love adzuki and anasari, black, garbanzo etc.... Take your favorite dried beans, soak beans in water overnight then put them in a jar covered with cheese cloth so that they can breathe. Rince beans in the morning and do this over and over daily until you see the sprouts grow and from there you can pull off the sprouts based on whatever desired length you want.
*Lemongrass- Isn't Lemongrass one of the vegetables that is always so hard to find in the store? Well buy it once and regrow yourself. Place the base shoots in a bowl with water, place in the sunlight. After about one week you to start seeing the roots grow and then you can plant that in garden soil.
*Avocados -This one is a super food so it would be great if you could grow them yourself, right? Note- these take a little bit longer so you're going to want to prepare for this process. It takes about 6 weeks for sprouting to begin. So this one requires patience. You take the seed and suspend the seed over water and allow half of the seed to sit in the water and as that begins to sprout then you take that and plant that into garden soil.
*Potatoes - What kind of potatoes do you like? I love a Black/purple or red potato and then the sweet potato of course. (note sweet potatoes are slightly different because they do not have eyes so to speak. ) For all potatoes with exception of Sweet potatoes, take peelings with the eyes and allow those to dry and then place those into the soil with the eyes facing up.
(who would have thought it was that easy to grow potatoes)
*Onions/ garlic - Plant the garlic and end of onions directly in garden soil. This goes for green onions too. Take the bulb and replant. Cut off stalks as they grow. Takes 1 week to start seeing shuts.
*Peppers - Take the seeds from the peppers; left those dry and then plant the seeds in garden soil. Keep them in sunlight. Peppers grow pretty easily. I love all kinds of peppers. I would keep hot separate from mild when planting seeds to avoid mixing. ALTHOUGH, that would be a cool experiment... Create your own variation buy mixing the seeds in one area and see what you grow.
*Tomatoes - Nothing tastier than an heirloom tomato. I eat them like apples. Take the seeds from tomatoes. let those dry and then plant them in garden soil.
*Basil and cilantro - use a stem of the cilantro and/or basil and place it in water.Once it starts to root plant in garden soil.
There are also some fruits you can regrow. These take more time to grow so you want to allow time and some patience. This list includes Apple, cherries, lemons, pineapples and peaches. They do again take a lot of time to gross. You have to nurture them and wait but they all do grow with a little patience
Hopefully you really enjoyed this list.
You can reference thses types of vegetables on lots of different lists. Google "how to regrow food from scraps"
have fun
Happy Growing
