The TRUTH About Regrowing Veggies From Kitchen Scraps

If you've been on the internet in the last couple of years, you've probably seen all these how to regenerate

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waste flourish tricks, honey, you're going to love them. It turns out that most of them don't give you what you want or even if they do. it doesn't become something you can realistically use, so we'll reach out to Chris in Vancouver BC who has been growing all the popular

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waste hacks you see to see how many work and how many are garbage if you're looking to grow. more food from your kitchen

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, there are some important things you need to know to see a higher level of success now with those viral regeneration trick videos, many times they are not that useful because they are very unrealistic about how plants actually grow and a lot of times they show these really strange and inaccurate time frames where one thing turns into something completely different, so in today's video we're going to help you understand which

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are most likely to give you more food and which ones are best left alone. experiments to do. delve into the morphology of plants or the physical parts of plants to get a better idea of ​​why certain plants or parts will or will not push out more parts for us to eat and knowing this information will help us set more realistic expectations of these little remains and hopefully that will help us determine whether a certain slice is worth it or not, probably the most captivating regeneration hack videos are the ones about growing fruits like citrus apples, cucumbers, mangoes, and kiwis.

Now the thing about these fruits is that although you can harvest these seeds and grow something, it will probably take you years before you can grow the plant to a decent size to actually harvest fruit. This is especially true with citrus and apples, so commercially they are grafted plants, meaning they are not grown from seed. when grown from seed they generally do not exhibit the same characteristics as the fruit from which the seeds were harvested and furthermore when grafting commercial growers skip the seedling process because if grown from seed they will go through many years before they can actually grow that seedling into a tree from which you can harvest these beautiful fruits.

Sometimes it's not about the weight, it's about whether the seeds are bad or not, so if you are a fan of English cucumbers, they have no seeds or almost no seeds, so if you look at the seeds, they are transparent, they have nothing inside, so if you try to grow them from seeds, nothing will happen because there is nothing. The same goes for many pumpkins, melons, and basically any fruit that is harvested. underripe or bred to be seedless, so you're really out of luck trying to grow them from seed with mangoes and the classic avocado. If you live in a warmer climate and are fine with waiting many years, I say go for it. . but if you are in a cooler climate be prepared to keep these plants as beautiful indoor foliage plants because if they are grown outdoors without the protection of a greenhouse or conservatory they will not be happy and will not bear fruit, although kiwi seeds they are not.

Technically scraps, since you can eat all of this, let me save you half a decade of waiting if you are considering growing kiwi plants from seeds, this is because kiwi vines can grow very vigorously, so if you can get a small cutting and root it and in the soil you will see kiwis in a short period of time, so now let's change it and talk about the vegetative parts of the plants, which are the leaves, stems and roots, instead of the reproductive parts, which are the flowers and fruits. and seeds now normally the vegetative parts grow much faster and more abundantly compared to, say, fruit and luckily many of the kitchen scraps we end up with will expel some sort of vegetative part for us to eat if given the right conditions, like putting them in water or some moist soil and giving them some light, and I actually started some of these scraps a few weeks ago knowing that I would see some level of success with things like lettuce, celery, onions greens, carrots and also beet greens.

Like some other fun ones, basically what I did was cut the parts out similar to what you would see in those trick videos. I placed them in water and kept refreshing it and also placed them in a light and heavy place, so it's been about a week. since I took my kitchen scraps and put them in containers with a little water and they've been in the greenhouse in a well lit but not too hot place and I see some development so let's take a look well let's look at the celery , so we see some new leaves emerging, which is good, but at the bottom there's no sign of any roots coming out of this area of ​​basil.

The same goes for carrots, nothing happens. I'm not expecting anything right now, it's only been a week. but there is a bit of new growth where the leaves are so maybe it's something promising here, this looks good, this is the base of the leek so it has a nice healthy intact stem area where the roots come out . very good, I'll keep it in the water and then here we have very familiar green onions, the roots look good, I mean they were there to begin with, but this top also looks nice and healthy and they're probably ready. to go into a container or into the ground, okay, the beet root won't sprout a new taproot, but we see these beautiful greens here, they feel good and in the shoulder area we see new little leaves emerging, so it's a good sign.

We have lettuce here, we have two types of romaine lettuce, which is very common. We see new leaves coming out, but the basal area doesn't have anything on it yet, but that's okay. I'll keep it in water and thought I'd make a red one. leaf lettuce also just to show that it works as long as you keep this base intact and in fact here we see new growth which is good and the leaves of course everything looks nice and healthy so if we look at this And wow , look at those roots, this was actually taken from one of those live clamshell or bagged lettuces, so what I did was I just trimmed off the outer leaves and left this center area intact and they're pretty much ready to go in. soil or in a pot as a new baby plant, so it's been about a week since our first check-in when we were in the greenhouse and I'm happy to report that those live lettuces that we planted in the ground directly from one of these Hydroponically Grown Live Lettuces, They seem to be doing quite well, the leaves feel quite plump like they are full of water and I see new growth coming out of the center, overall they look very happy so I am happy because with one of these things.

I mean, it depends on where you buy them, but I bought them for about three dollars each and if I can get three to four plants, it's a good deal considering I get the plant that I can continually harvest for the rest of the season. Also, I took out the salad, so what I did was obviously I separated the plants and planted them, but I kept them in the shade just to acclimate them to the outdoors because let's remember they weren't really meant to be plants that you plant. in the garden, as you can see, we're inside now just because the greenhouse is getting too hot and I don't want the heat to ruin our experiment, so this is like the leftovers from the first round of live lettuce.

I'm not trying to grow it hydroponically in this cup because to do it properly you have to feed it nutrients and I'm not really prepared to do that right now so these guys are going to go into the ground and I think they'll do fine so moving on with the lettuce , I added this new larger romaine lettuce in some water today because I want to see if the size of this base makes a difference, so this was the first round, this was done in two weeks. ago and this romaine lettuce is only coming out a little so it's a little disappointing now I'm going to see if the size of romaine lettuce you start with makes a big difference, everything else seems to be hanging around putting out leaves So the beet , the carrot, celery and lemongrass are starting to show a little bit of something growing at the base and then the green onions and leek are showing roots, so they can probably go straight into the ground very soon.

Here we are. today with the same kitchen scraps it's not that surprising, so before we talk about this amazing lettuce and the other plants, there are some other plants that are commonly thrown away because they seem to be past their prime, but they are definitely worth growing again . In the garden you probably have some sprouted potatoes or some crunchy old ginger lying around, if they're not too crunchy and mushy you can probably keep them in a container and let them sprout leaves and keep growing, so hopefully with the time will produce these delicious underground parts. so potatoes would be this part of the stem and tuber and then for ginger it would be these delicious underground rhizomes.

The same goes for onion, garlic and shallots that have started to sprout the green on the top or if you are cooking and have used the top and are wondering what to do with this base if this dish of basil or this short area of ​​compressed stem right above where the roots come out, if that thing is still intact, you can just stick that base into a shallow dish of soil. With a little water, more green parts will sprout that you can harvest throughout the season, so with the lettuce leaves from that living package here they are amazing, so after about three and a half weeks living outdoors, They are practically new full size plants that you can definitely harvest, so if I am going to buy those bunches of live lettuces again, I will do this setup by putting them in a container and with the other lettuces I did romaine, so this was the original, very small. too little leaves nothing in terms of roots, but here's the youngest one where I chose a larger romaine lettuce.

Big difference: It has larger leaves and roots, so this tells me to start with larger, better quality scraps if you want to see some results as well. the celery is putting out leaves and roots as well as the lemongrass so I would say all of these can go into containers now so with the tap root remains I have the beet and carrot and although we know it's not going to generate a The big, bulky tap root so we can eat the leaves is where it is and I would personally choose to use the counter space for the beets because the greens are so delicious and are also more filling, while the carrot, although it is taking out something. fine roots, which it will do even when we put it in a container or in the ground, it will simply put out more leaves and although you can eat the leaves when the temperatures increase, this little plant will start to produce flowers and the leaves will no longer be tasty, but That's not all bad if you let the carrot flower.

Many beneficial insects, such as hoverflies and lacewings, love flowers, so it's really worth keeping this in your garden, speaking of flowers. They are beautiful white flowers that belong to the Chinese or Gailan broccoli, so I thought I would have fun because I had never heard of people taking cuttings from this plant, so I followed propagation techniques and found a node, made a cut underneath to see if roots were formed. and here we have it, we have roots, but Chinese broccoli and other brassicas such as kale and broccoli are biennial, which means that the plants conclude their life cycle after a cycle of approximately two years and with the appearance of flowers which signals the end of its life and what that means for us hungry humans is that if we turn this into a plant, it's not actually going to produce any more leaves or stems for us to eat, so that's why I'm not going to bother putting this in a container. knowing that it is in its last stages and this applies to celery and carrots, plus they are biennials, but celery should be able to harvest the leaves until the flower begins to emerge and we really have to take into account the life cycle of a plant, especially when We are growing these fast growing plants like lettuce, so lettuce are annual plants, which means they have an even shorter life cycle than the plants we talked about before, so I will try to prolong the life of these plants as long as possible. the best I can keeping them fresh, hydrated and happy but it will be inevitable as we enter the hot summer months that these are going to go bad, they won't taste good but that's okay I'm just going to remove them and replace them with kitchen scraps with more leaves, so the main thing here is that if your goal is to see a faster turnaround time for parts to eat, go for plants that send out leaves and stems, these vegetative parts grow faster and more reliably and are the practical option for many of our gardens, but if you are adventurous and want to experiment, you can go ahead and grow that qb from seed,Just remember to have fun with it as you can see that there is more than meets the eye with these packages of kitchen waste regrowth, not all of them. it doesn't work but you just have to know what you are growing and what you get in return so I hope you learned something from us at Epic Gardening until next time good luck in the garden keep growing but don't let it be worthless. kitchen scraps