Vegetable scrap gardening is a thing! With little effort and a dose of creativity, you can build a windowsill garden using all kinds of vegetable odds and ends that would otherwise end up on the compost heap.
Bulb and root vegetables
Once you have the hang of leafy greens, try your hand at regrowing onion, fennel, lemongrass, beetroot and carrot. When it comes to beetroot scraps, the dark, leafy greens that shoot out of the top make a lovely addition to salads, as do the parsley-like greens that grow from carrots. Slice off the ends, leaving about 2 to 3 cm of the tip with the roots attached. Follow the same steps as the leafy greens, immersing the roots in shallow water until the shoots grow. Ensure you refresh the water every few days. Once the roots or shoots look impressive, you can replant them in soil if you wish.
Lettuce
This story is from the April 01, 2024 edition of New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
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