There are many vegetables (and fruit) that can be grown with little cost.
When preparing your meals, seeds for example can be saved and planted in re-usable containers (from unwanted store packaging).
The area outside the back door, (if it gets any sun) makes a useful plant nursery for seedlings and cuttings. This way you get to easily check on them on a daily basis for progress. The heat of sun, required for germination can easily be achieved on a sunny kitchen window sill and you will find that in very little time you will run out of space, all from thing that usually go straight in the bin or hopefully rather to the compost heap.
Root plants like onions, celery, carrots, beetroot, radishes etc can be 'regrown' and allowed to go to seed.
We keep a regular supply of growing onions just from regrowing the root stub! For all those of you who know how long onions take to grow and mature, this is a useful time saving way of keeping onions growing on a much shorter time scale.
Although many do not know how easy it is to do this, all you need to do is cut the root stub thick enough to allow it to regrow. Leave it to dry out for a couple of days in an out of the way place and once it shrivels up a bit you will see the individual leave bases drawing together in preparation for survival. At this time you easily pop them into the soil of a re-used container or let them sand for a day or two in a clean saucer of fresh water to promote root growth.
Before you know it there will be several long healthy, green leaves and the multi-base will swell and expand as it grows.
Carrot tops unlike the onion need the top bit (where the leaves start) cut off a bit thicker and placed in a clean saucer of fresh water (change daily) and within a short time (few days) you will see it swelling. It does take longer but soon the leaves start to shoot and it will be easy to see when it is ready for planting. The same is true for radish, beetroot etc.
With celery if you cut off all the stalks about 15cm form the root stock and plant it it will soon send up new leaves and dig new roots.
What can be acheived and saved for another day, through not wasting, is truely amazing.
When preparing your meals, seeds for example can be saved and planted in re-usable containers (from unwanted store packaging).
The area outside the back door, (if it gets any sun) makes a useful plant nursery for seedlings and cuttings. This way you get to easily check on them on a daily basis for progress. The heat of sun, required for germination can easily be achieved on a sunny kitchen window sill and you will find that in very little time you will run out of space, all from thing that usually go straight in the bin or hopefully rather to the compost heap.
Root plants like onions, celery, carrots, beetroot, radishes etc can be 'regrown' and allowed to go to seed.
We keep a regular supply of growing onions just from regrowing the root stub! For all those of you who know how long onions take to grow and mature, this is a useful time saving way of keeping onions growing on a much shorter time scale.
Although many do not know how easy it is to do this, all you need to do is cut the root stub thick enough to allow it to regrow. Leave it to dry out for a couple of days in an out of the way place and once it shrivels up a bit you will see the individual leave bases drawing together in preparation for survival. At this time you easily pop them into the soil of a re-used container or let them sand for a day or two in a clean saucer of fresh water to promote root growth.
Before you know it there will be several long healthy, green leaves and the multi-base will swell and expand as it grows.
Carrot tops unlike the onion need the top bit (where the leaves start) cut off a bit thicker and placed in a clean saucer of fresh water (change daily) and within a short time (few days) you will see it swelling. It does take longer but soon the leaves start to shoot and it will be easy to see when it is ready for planting. The same is true for radish, beetroot etc.
With celery if you cut off all the stalks about 15cm form the root stock and plant it it will soon send up new leaves and dig new roots.
What can be acheived and saved for another day, through not wasting, is truely amazing.
No comments:
Post a Comment