Home Help: Grow your own produce using leftover groceries

Home Help: Grow your own produce using leftover groceries

An easy and satisfying way to avoid making constant trips to the grocery store is to grow your own food. Fortunately, you won’t even need to buy seeds to start growing these plants, just use your leftover food! Here are the examples :

1. Potatoes. Cut a potato into about 2-inch chunks. Make sure each segment has at least one eye. Leave the sections out overnight to let them dry, this will keep them from rotting. In early spring, plant them about 8 inches deep in rich soil or compost. The sprouts will soon appear above the surface. Then, add another four inches of soil. Expect your first yield of potatoes by midsummer.

2. Basil. “Use kitchen scissors or a sharp knife to clip a 2- to 3-inch sprig just below a leaf node (where new leaves are starting to grow). Pull off any larger leaves next to these new ones, and submerge the node in a jar of water. Place the jar in a sunny windowsill and change the water every other day. Within a week, you’ll see roots emerge. Once those roots have grown about two inches, the herb is ready to plant outside or in a pot.”

3. Green onions. This one’s easy. Simply place the roots (the bottom, white part) of your green onions in a jar of water and make sure it gets sun. Be sure to change the water every couple of days. Soon, shoots will start to emerge again. Cut what you need, as you need it, and let it regenerate.

4. Tomatoes. Save a few of the seeds from a good, juicy tomato by squeezing some pulp onto a paper towel. Leave the seeds to dry out for a week. Store them in an envelope until January, when you’ll plant them in light potting soil and keep them moist in a sunny window. Move the plant out to the garden in spring and expect to harvest all summer.

5. Chili : This one is quiet easy. Best quality chili seeds is a vital for plants chili at your home. Enough to peel the fresh chili and took out the seeds. After that, stre the seed under the sun till dry. Prepare some polybag and fill in the soil and fertilizer with comparison 3:1. Protect the polybag from rainfalls and sun light for 1 week. Before plant the seeds into the soil and fertilizer, soak the seeds for 3 hours. Put in the seeds into the polybag and cover up this with soild with around 1 cm depth. After the seeds germinating, you could put the chili polybag under the sunlight directly. Wait for 4 weeks, the chili will grow and ready to move into the ground or bigger pot

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