Discover how to easily regrow vegetable discards and scraps and turn them into harvestable, edible plants—even if you have no gardening experience.
Stop tossing your carrot tops, leafless herb sprigs, lettuce and celery stumps, and beet greens in the trash!
Cut back on your food waste and
cultivate your own homegrown veggies easily with advice from
Kitchen Gardening for Beginners, a beginner-friendly edition of
No-Waste Kitchen Gardening.
Learn how to grow indoors and maintain your regrown plants until they are ready for harvest. The accompanying photos highlight each step of the process, showing you what the root section, seed, leaf, stem, or other plant part should look like when you replant it and then what it should look like when it’s ready for harvest. Many of the featured vegetables can be regrown in water or in soil. Full instructions are supplied.
A diverse selection of large and small edibles—some that are quick to regrow and others that take a bit longer—are included, so you can decide what regrown foods are the best fit for your family.
A few of the many plants featured include:
- Green onions
- Ginger
- Celery
- Tomatoes
- Melons
- Herbs
- Avocados
- Potatoes
- Carrots
The expert advice in
Kitchen Gardening for Beginners gives you all the instruction and tricks you’ll need to
regrow produce from food waste to provide your family with fresh, homegrown goodness from your own windowsill.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: How It Works and How to Do It
CHAPTER 2. Regrow Roots and Underground Stems in Soil
CHAPTER 3. Regrow Stems and Modified Stems in Soil
CHAPTER 4. Grow Seeds in Soil and Water
CHAPTER 5. Regrow Whole Plants and Stems in Water
Resources
Index
Photo Credits
About the Author
Sobre o autor
Katie Elzer-Peters is a horticulturist who has written several gardening books with Cool Springs Press. She has a master of science in public garden management and now operates a garden industry digital marketing agency, The Garden of Words. A resident of Wilmington, North Carolina, she enjoys tending her garden and drawing and painting pictures of it. Follow her on instagram: @katie_gardenofwords.
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