Discover how to easily regrow vegetable discards and scraps and turn them into harvestable, edible plantseven if you have no gardening experience. Stop tossing your carrot tops, leafless herb sprigs, lettuce and celery stumps, and beet greens in the trash! Cut back on your food waste and cultivate your own homegrown veggies easily with advice from Kitchen Gardening for Beginners, a beginner-friendly edition of No-Waste Kitchen Gardening. Learn how to grow indoors and maintain your regrown plants until they are ready for harvest. The accompanying photos highlight each step of the process, showing you what the root section, seed, leaf, stem, or other plant part should look like when you replant it and then what it should look like when its ready for harvest. Many of the featured vegetables can be regrown in water or in soil. Full instructions are supplied. A diverse selection of large and small ediblessome that are quick to regrow and others that take a bit longerare included, so you can decide what regrown foods are the best fit for your family.
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