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5 easy ways to grow plants from food scraps (including the kind you can eat) - Well and Good
Everyone on Twitter has started regrowing scallions scraps. It’s relatively easy, and gives you the satisfaction of growing your own food. Though you can’t grow your entire produce supply on your window sill, scallions aren’t the only produce you can use to grow plants from food scraps. There are some vegetable cuttings that you can grow into food, and others that grow into pretty houseplants.
“Growing plants from food scraps is certainly possible, but in most cases it should be treated more as a fun science project rather than a viable way to produce an abundance of food,” says Josh Kirschenbaum, sales manager for HandPicked Vegetables Collection.
To be most successful at growing vegetables and herbs, Kirschenbaum says you’re better off using fresh seeds or plants. But, if you want to have fun with some food scraps, he says there are a few you can grow into viable plants.
Everyone on Twitter has started regrowing scallions scraps. It’s relatively easy, and gives you the satisfaction of growing your own food. Though you can’t grow your entire produce supply on your window sill, scallions aren’t the only produce you can use to grow plants from food scraps. There are some vegetable cuttings that you can grow into food, and others that grow into pretty houseplants.
“Growing plants from food scraps is certainly possible, but in most cases it should be treated more as a fun science project rather than a viable way to produce an abundance of food,” says Josh Kirschenbaum, sales manager for HandPicked Vegetables Collection.
To be most successful at growing vegetables and herbs, Kirschenbaum says you’re better off using fresh seeds or plants. But, if you want to have fun with some food scraps, he says there are a few you can grow into viable plants.