From Scraps to Seeds: A Sustainable Kitchen Revolution

 

We’ve talked a lot about seeds and seed germination and now I want to share with you my favorite way to reduce, reuse and recycle from my kitchen to my garden, Kitchen Scrap Gardening! Exactly as it sounds, kitchen scrap gardening is taking food scraps and regrowing plants and food from them. 

One of my favorite gardeners who utilizes this fun and sustainable gardening tool is Misilla. A Pacific Northwest mom who shares her passion of sustainability gardening on a variety of platforms, I primarily follow her YouTube as her videos are very well explained with clear images and language. She even has a video where she discusses how she uses kitchen scrap gardening to grow carrots, celery, and onions! I have had luck with celery and lettuce through methods that are described in the blog Crafty Little Secret. In the blog post, Re-Grow Your Celery and Lettuce!

celery roots by Crafty Little Secrets

The author discusses how you can take the end of a celery bundle or lettuce, place it in a small shallow bowl of water, and over time roots will grow. Once those roots are long and strong you can transfer the plant to soil and watch it grow!

My absolute favorite vegetable to grow from kitchen scraps though is potatoes! I found out how truly easy it is to grow and maintain a potato bed from one bag of store bought potatoes through, Daddykirbs Farm, a suberinite turned homesteader who shares his and his family homesteading life on different platforms, again I follow his YouTube primarily for the more in-depth videos. In his video GROW POTATOES he shares how once a potato develops ‘eyes’ which are the start of roots you can place it in a dark place for a few week and then once the eyes have reached a good length, I like 1-4 inches depending on the potatoes type, you can transfer them This works well but I find it easier to just leave them whole and let the eyes sprout. I did this when I first started my garden and have had a lovely rotation of potatoes for a solid year now. It did take time but it’s such an accomplishing feeling now. 

Kitsch scrap gardening isn't just for root vegetables like mentioned above.

garlic sprouts 

The Farmer's Almanac shares a great list of things you can regrow from your kitchen. I would recommend trying garlic and pineapple from their list! Food is found all around you even in what is considered scraps, give these methods a try and grow something new from last night's dinner!