Regrow These 7 Veggies & Herbs at Home

Imagine having an unlimited supply of your favorite produce. Did you know you can regrow many popular vegetables and herbs food from scraps you might have thrown away? Whether they come from your backyard organic garden or your local grocery store, here are just seven veggies and herbs you can regrow, step by step:

Ginger

• Step 1: Get a fat piece of ginger at least 2 inches long and two inches wide.
• Step 2: Break the ginger apart into two pieces.
• Step 3: Plant a piece one inch deep into a pot containing loads of compost and water after planting.
• Step 4: Wait. After about one-month little ginger shoots will be visible, eventually producing more ginger.

Green Onions

• Step 1: Cut the bottom part of the onions so there’s at least ½ an inch of the white end of the onion with roots.
• Step 2: Plant the pieces with the roots downward, completely covered in soil.
• Step 3: Wait. In no time, you’ll have shoots ready to harvest.

Garlic

• Step 1: Break a big piece of the garlic bulb and break it into cloves. Make sure to use only the big cloves for better results.
• Step 2: Poke holes in the soil about two inches deep and six inches apart.
• Step 3: Plant the clove flat end down and pointy end up.
• Step 4: Plant the garlic in your garden bed with loose soil and the plants will produce big garlic bulbs in about eight to nine months.

Garden Hack: To figure out depth and spacing all you need is a thumb and a hand: The garlic should be planted a thumbs length deep and a hands-length part.

Potatoes

• Step 1: When potatoes develop little eyes, you can plant the full potato in the ground.
• Step 2: Dig a hole in your garden bed.
• Step 3: Place the potato with eyes facing up and cover it with soil.

Carrots

• Step 1: Cut one inch off the top of the carrots.
• Step 2: Plant the carrots facing down and the stem side up.
• Step 3. Wait. You’ll see leaves start to grow after one week. In about a month, you’ll have large leaves. Although the plant won’t produce more carrots the leaves are edible and can be added to food or mixed into a salad.

Lettuce

• Step 1: Cut the bottom part off the lettuce.
• Step 2: Plant the pieces flat end down and leaf side up, and completely cover the bottom part of the lettuce with soil.
• Step 3: Wait. After two weeks, the lettuce will start to regrow. Some plants might not make it. However, at least half of the plants will regrow.

*Gardener’s Fun Fact: You can plant leeks and celery in the same way.

Herbs

You can regrow many herbs from a cutting such as Basil, Oregano, Mint, Sage, and Thyme.

• Step 1: Remove all the lower leaves
• Step 2: Place the cutting in a water bottle next to a window that receives sun. If your water is heavily chlorinated, use filtered water for the cuttings.
• Step 3: After two weeks, the basil cutting will develop roots.
• Step 4: Transport the newly rooted cutting into a pot or plant in your garden.

You can regrow mint the same way but make sure the cutting you use doesn’t have flowers or seeds. Only plant mint in a confined area such as a raised bed because it grows like a weed.

Rosemary can also be regrown the same way, but you should make sure your cutting doesn’t have a woody stem. It should be green in color.

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