What Happens When You REGROW Vegetables From Kitchen SCRAPS in the Garden?

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I love this dude’s energy! πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ I’m surprised everything worked out as well as it did, especially the lettuce.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 13 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/crafty_a πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Oct 18 2020 πŸ—«︎ replies

I've been cultivating soil in a few garden beds with vegetable scraps straight mixed in due to a lack of a proper compost bin. I've ended up with a few surprise pumpkin, potato and celery plants so far.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 12 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/50lattes πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Oct 18 2020 πŸ—«︎ replies

Veggie scraps are the best!

Save your seeds, folks. And root veggies too.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 6 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/davediggity πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Oct 18 2020 πŸ—«︎ replies

the folks over at r/gardening might like this

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 5 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/V1KRAMM πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Oct 18 2020 πŸ—«︎ replies

Isn't this actually really bad for crops?

I remember seeing somewhere that planting plants from plants sold as food had a tendency to start plant viruses and blights.

I might be wrong, but make sure to research it before planting food scraps. This might be against the spirit of the subreddit (I'm not subscribed and just randomly found this post) but seed potatoes are cheap and don't really create any waste that a normal potato wouldn't; once you have a crop you can make more seed potatoes.

πŸ‘οΈŽ︎ 1 πŸ‘€οΈŽ︎ u/Vladamir_Putin_007 πŸ“…οΈŽ︎ Oct 19 2020 πŸ—«︎ replies
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- Good day, I'm Mark from Self Sufficient Me and three months ago, I planted a bunch of different kitchen scraps that I salvaged from the kitchen. Instead of throwing them in the compost, I thought, let's plant them out and see if we can grow anything. And in this video, I'm gonna show you the results. Let's get into it. (gentle music) Now, before I'll get into what I planted, let's just do a bit of background. You might've seen on YouTube, there's plenty of viral videos going around on growing things like garlic, onions, celery, lettuce, putting two glasses and left to shoot. People think that, wow, that's just amazing. A lot of the time though, it's gimmicky. The simple fact is you just can't sustain a plant with water only in a glass, in the kitchen or on a kitchen bench in doors. It will grow for a little while, but then it will pitter out. Honestly, if you're serious about regrowing any type of vegetable from kitchen scraps, whether it be something you've salvaged from supermarket produce that you've brought, or even from your own garden, you really should be planting it back out in an environment where it could get the best chance of regrowing, somewhere liking a garden bed or hydroponically, if you've got a good hydroponic setup that you can deliver nutrients to that plant. So what kitchen scraps did I end up planting here in the garden? Well, I selected ones that were fairly common. I planted a cabbage with the base cutoff it obviously because we ate the top, a lettuce base, a celery base, an onion that had sprouted and also an onion base and several carrot bases. Plus I cut the base off a tomato and buried that into the garden as well as a potato that had gone green. And I buried that, wrist deep in the bed right here. So what we're going to do is go through and see how they all went. At the six week mark, I revisited this bed and I have to admit to a problem I had was I underestimated the space that would be needed. I didn't realize the potato plant here would grow so big and shade out so many things. And I didn't wanna waste that half of the bed, so I planted potatoes in on that side that was separate to this experiment and they started to encroach over. And I had to fix that up and try to pull these potato plants away, they grew so well, that was just about taking over the whole bed. So that did impact on the experiment somewhat. So keep that in mind as we go through this, okay. It's been seven weeks since I planted these kitchen scraps to see how they would grow. And as you can see, it's hard to see, this potato that I planted has absolutely taken over a quarter at least of this round rose garden bed. We all say planted a lettuce and have a I look at it. It's massive, it's got a couple of couple of heads. So it hasn't just grown back one head, it's grown several kind of heads, one, two, about three, four. Which is interesting in itself. And the celery it's not growing back nice and big with big stalks, but it's small stalks nevertheless, and the onion, that has grown several healthy looking stalks out the top and the half an onion that I've just cut the base off and planted is starting to sprout as well. That carrots, they've sprouted. They're not doing as good as I expected. It's probably because they've been shaded out. The tomato hasn't sprouted at all. I've got a suspicion that that tomato is sterile, but anyway, let's have a taste of some of these, especially the lettuce and the celery and see if they taste okay. 'Cause it's one thing to grow really well, it's another thing to be edible. Check it out, let's try a tender young one first, Pretty good that's nice, nice and sweet, that's a cos that I know. Let's try some of the older leaves. Not as tender, I think better, almost sweeter. Let's try the celery, let's just break off a little piece. Just taste the stem first. Yeah, tastes like celery to me. It's the stems that I like to cut up, have in soups and that type of thing, leaves are a bit bitter, but nevertheless, it is growing back. We'll keep this experiment going and see how it turns out. The onions, I don't know if we'll get much out of that base of the onion, but the old onion here that was already sprouting. It's probably got a way to go. But if I was just harvesting it for the tops, which you could do, let's just break one off and have a taste. It's a very strong, oniony smell. About a nice, sweet, strong onion smell. So you imagine that chopped up, sprinkled on some roasted potatoes or something like that. Well that's nice, it's not spring onion. Nevertheless, I like it, really nice. So have you ever growing it just for the tops, it's worth it. I am gonna harvest more of this cos, just 'cause just because, why not? (crunching) we'll have that for din dins. So that was after seven weeks of planting and you could see that it's changed considerably since then, several weeks on from that now. The potato plant has died back. The lettuce has gone to seed. The celery has gone considerably bigger and the onions are starting to probably go to seed too. I might as well start now from the front of the bed and work backwards. You can see the end of this potato crop here. There's several on top of the surface. There's a whole heap of beetles in here as well. I wonder if they're feeding on the potatoes, see all the beetles. It's almost like compost beetles. Little, rolly, polly things. Anyway, this is a nice size one. There you go, the beetles are starting to eat the potato, I'm leaving in there a bit too long. Anyway, that's not the regrowing fault. That's my fault of leaving it out too long and not harvesting. Let's give this a bit of a dig out. Cool, that's good. Another big one, one potato is all that I've planted and we're getting quite, there's another nice sized one. We're getting quite a good harvest here. There's some more smaller ones. So there you go, from that one potato, we got seven good sized potatoes back, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. You know, seven or eight if you count all these little ones together. And we would've had more if it wasn't for me leaving it into long and letting the bugs start to get at the ice potatoes there. So we lost two out of that. I think that's a really good result. You know, remember, this is turning a supermarket potato that had gone green, into an organically grown, pesticide-free bunch of potatoes, probably worth about five or so dollars, but it's not the money, it's not just the money. It's the health, it's the regrowing. It's the less waste, it's the rejuvenation. It's all those things put together. It's the exercise, it's being out into the garden. It's experimentation, it's fun. So there's a lot of things grouped together. And it's a talking point at the kitchen table when you're cooking these fellows up and you're having something to eat, whether it be friends that would just family, you know what I mean? This lettuce here has done its job. Yes, there are flowers here that I could keep, but I've got plenty of other lettuce in our garden flowering now at the moment. And I've got plenty of lettuce seed. This is a great demonstration of what you can do though. And because lettuce is true to type, you can keep the seeds and you can have lettuce year after year or sometimes all year, depending on where you live. So let's get rid of this latest plant though, 'cause I want you to look at the rest of this bed. What I forgot to mention in a row here is the cabbage that I planted. This is something that didn't work. I'm a bit perplexed. It seemed to have rotted out pretty quickly. And I can't find a sign of that head of cabbage. I don't know, maybe a possum or cockatoo came and stole it on me or something, but it just kind of disappeared. It probably just rotted out, but I've got a backup plan of a cabbage that I just knocked the head off. And it's not the same. It's not a kitchen scrap that I've planted back out, I know, but it does give you an indication of if you can get that base of the cabbage growing, you can have a secondary crop out of it. To give you an idea, let's have a look over here in the other garden bed. About eight weeks ago, I harvested one cabbage from this plant here and now we have three. These won't get any bigger. So I'm gonna harvest them now anyway, and we'll see what's underneath. That's a good head of cabbage. That's the first one, second one. Something's very interesting here. And the third one, which is pretty small, but still, I mean, it looks like a brussel sprout, a big one. Underneath here, you can see how it's regenerated. In fact, there's two more heads that probably won't develop. These are mini cabbages anyway, they're not full-sized cabbages. So if you're thinking, they're not very big, they're meant to be small. There are mini variety of cabbage, but yeah, in this case, it didn't work out for me, but it can work. So trust me when I say that. So let's talk about the carrots that I had planted here. The carrots grew out okay for a little while. And again, it's one of these things where I never expected those carrots to grow new bases. That just won't happen. That's a myth, and if people tell you that on the interwebs that you can grow a new carrot root out of a scrap of carrot, well, that's just not true. But what you can grow is the tops and those tops can turn into seeds and then you can sew and get carrots. So that's what I was trying to do there, but because of those crops growing so well, they smothered that the carrots and the carrots lost energy and eventually they died back, but you get the gist. If you were going to plant them for the seeds. Well, that could work quite well. Let's move across now to the onion. I planted one full onion that had sprouted. That's a common thing in the kitchen. You have an onion that gets old and it sprouts. What can you do with it? Well, you can plant them out. Now again, I haven't had a heck of a lot of success with this one here. Earlier on, it grew quite well, but now let's just pull it out, have a look at that. See how that's all separated. See that like almost like a garlic clove, those bulbs can get a lot bigger, when you plant one of those, especially those brown onion varieties that have sprouted, what can often happen is they grow like a shallot. This could expand out eight inches or so more. And by the end, I planted this a bit late in the season and that's probably why, and it's just getting too hot now. But if I would have planted them earlier, well then I think I would've got a much better result out of it. Now, the celery. Here's another one that actually surprised me a bit. It grew very well. (crunching) Not bad, the stalks aren't as huge as what they were from the supermarket, but it still grew back good enough. This is totally edible. Totally good for cooking soups or whatever, you know, celery sticks and it's worked, it's actually worked. Look at the root ball. Hikey, crikey. I mean, it must be as hardy as anything growing this stuff. Again, this is another keeper and it will continue to grow. Or it would have if I didn't pull it out for scientific purposes, of course, I'm gonna cut this off and we'll take it inside and we'll eat it. But yeah, fantastic. There's so many things you can do with this that was once I small kitchen scrap, that was gonna go to the chickens or the compost, but instead now is a fully ground plant again that's totally used back into the kitchen. And the last thing I wanted to talk about is this tomato here, planted it right there. So it should be here somewhere. It's probably completely composted down now and eaten by worms. No, I didn't bury it that deep. Yeah, it's gone, absolutely gone. Well it either just never made it, this tomato, because it might've been just rotted down and the seeds didn't make it. Or the tomato was sterile because often, the ones that they get at the store are sterile. Or if you do get to grow them, they're not true to type anyway. And there are crossbred and the plant that you get might be pretty ordinary and not very good for disease. And it's probably just rotted away or any little seedlings that sprouted probably couldn't make their way through for some reason. But sometimes you do get some great successes from supermarket tomatoes in the garden. And obviously, if they are heirloom tomatoes from the supermarket, you usually can grow them quite well into the garden and they're true to type. Overall, I'm pretty happy with these results. And I'm glad that I was able to show you what can happen when you plant kitchen scraps into the garden like this. I thought it was an interesting experiment to try and I hope you found it interesting. If you did make sure you give it a big regrow thumbs up, regrow that thumb. It was half a thumb, it was the base of the thumb. And then you regrew it to a big thumbs up, and share the video around. Sharing this video around would help me out heaps, sharing and thumbs upping really helps the channel out. So it's very important as too, is subscribing. I'm nearly up to my mil for subscribers. It'd be great to punch over that soon. Well, thank you so much for watching, bye for now. Yeah, no, happy with it. Happy with it, would I like the tomatoes to grow? That was the vision, would I have liked the carrots to get to seed? That was the vision, but it gives you an idea anyway. Yeah, yeah worth an experiment, but that's gardening. Like I said, it doesn't always go to plan, but you gotta show the good and the bad, cheers.
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Length: 15min 33sec (933 seconds)
Published: Sat Oct 17 2020
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