The debut book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants.
Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks you’ll need to grow and re-propagate produce from food waste. You’ll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow.
You’ll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors and maintaining your re-grown plants. Two-part photo instructions show first what the root, chunk seed, or leaf should look like when you re-plant it, and second, when to harvest or re-plant it in soil to continue growing.
Edibles big and small, quick to grow and those that take a big longer, are included, so you can pick and choose which projects to take on. A few of the many plants profiled include:
Green onions Tomatoes Melons Avocadoes Potatoes Carrots
Cut back on your food waste, cultivate your own food easily, and maybe even share gardening with a new generation, all with the advice from No-Waste Kitchen Gardening. For more no-waste gardening advice, explore the second book in the No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Organic Gardening.
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Contents of No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
Introduction: How to Use This Book
No-Waste Kitchen Gardening opens with a chapter on the basic science and practice of regrowing kitchen scraps. Here, you’ll learn to understand plant parts, the growing cycle of edible herbs, vegetables, and fruits, and how to make use of this cycle when regrowing kitchen leftovers. Then you’ll get to the good stuff: a series of chapters detailing how to regrow edibles according to different forms of propagation— from rooting vegetables in water to collecting seeds and planting them to produce your own seedlings for garden transplant. Your kitchen will never be the same.
No-waste kitchen gardening is calling you. Let’s get started, shall we?
1. No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: How It Works and How to Do It
Plants are pretty incredible living things. e tiniest of seeds contains everything needed to grow tall oak trees and long squash vines. You can cut pieces off of some plants, stick the pieces in water, and watch them grow roots. Some plants grow, flower, produce seeds, and then die back, only to emerge again the following year from their roots. Some of these perennial plants may last for many decades; other short-lived annuals live their lives in a flash, barely lasting a single growing season before fading and wilting.
2. Regrow Roots and Underground Stems in Soil
You know those old potatoes sprouting at the bottom of the kitchen drawer? You don’t have to throw them on the compost pile. You can actually cut them up and grow an entire new harvest of potatoes. How about those slightly shriveled carrots in the drawer with the potatoes—did you know you can regrow those too? You won’t get another carrot, but you will get some leafy tops that are great additions to soups and salads. Plus, it is really fun to watch the carrot tops grow.
Contents of No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
3. Regrow Stems and Modified Stems in Soil
When you grow up with green onions and leeks, don’t throw the ends out! You can regrow them. They’re stems, and they’re some of the easiest plants to regrow. Regrowing stems makes sense because when you do, you are starting with everything you need to keep a plant going. You don’t have to guess at whether the stem will grow. You just have to put the stem in an environment where it will thrive.
4. Grow Seeds in Soil and Water
Growing seeds is the most natural of gardening activities, but not necessarily what you might think about when regrowing kitchen scraps. You can save the seeds from kitchen scraps, though, and grow them into either a fruitful harvest or an interesting curiosity. There’s one type of seed you’ll grow primarily in water, or grow in water to get started—the avocado. Everything else you’ll grow in soil.
5. Regrow Whole Plants and Stems in Water
Want to extend the life of that head of romaine lettuce you bought for dinner? Regrow it! You can reroot some types of plants in water just like you can reroot them in soil. Some plants root equally well both ways, while others prefer one of the two methods One advantage to rerooting in water is that it’s easy to check the progress of the roots, either by simply pulling them out of the container for inspection or by using clear glass or plastic containers where the roots are visible. Regrowing in water is less messy than regrowing in soil too.
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
Publication date : December 18, 2018
Language : English
Print length : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 0760361606
ISBN-13 : 978-0760361603
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6.69 x 0.29 x 9.61 inches
Part of series : No-Waste Gardening
Best Sellers Rank: #360,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #172 in House Plant Gardening #386 in Vegetable Gardening #557 in Gardening & Horticulture Techniques (Books)
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