Cultivate starting from waste. Here is a great idea to have available new vegetables practically zero cost. Just keep the parts of suitable waste of lettuce, onions and leeks, or some basil leaves, or the base of a celery stem to start your vegetable garden, even in pots, in a simple and convenient way, as permaculture teaches.
Here are some experiments to try immediately.
Lettuce
After purchasing a head of lettuceyou can try to cultivate it starting from the waste. You will have to keep the bottom of the head aside, place it in a bowl with water near the window for 15 days. After the start of the development of the head, you can transfer the new lettuce to the pot or in the garden, where its growth will continue.
Onion
Here is a fantastic idea to cultivate spring onions in a jar, starting from the waste. Everything is very simple. It is sufficient Keep the onion stemsplace them in a vase with water and wait for them to grow back. So you will have always new onions available at zero cost.
Celery
Another vegetable widely used in the kitchen that can be cultivated starting from waste is celery. The celery is able to regress easily from your stem. Just keep the base of a celery stem instead of discarding it. So you will have to place it in a saucer with water and wait for the beginning of the development of the new vegetable before transferring it to the garden.
Onion
The onions are also very simple to grow starting from the waste. Just keep the base from the onionor the central heart of the vegetable, when it begins to sprout and take a green color. As in previous cases, you can store the waste parts first in a saucer with water, and then directly in the ground.
Garlic
Even more intuitive is the gripping of garlic. Just keep aside some of the wedges of a normal garlic head, depending on the number of seedlings that you want to obtain and stop in pot or in the garden. The new garlic bulbs will develop in the ground and in a short time you can collect new ones. The advice is of plant the cloves of garlic in the gardennext to the most delicate plants, to protect them from parasites.
Ginger
Cultivate ginger in pots, maybe right on the balcony. It is very simple. If you have purchased ginger, which over time started sproutingjust stop it in the pot, with the buddled part facing upwards. Gradually you will see a seedling born, which will develop its leaves outwards and the new underground ginger. You can collect it when the seedling has dried, as in the case of potatoes.
Potatoes
Here is an experiment that reminds us that grow potatoes in the garden or pot It is very simple. If from the potatoes you have purchased or collected, they have sprung up the sprouts, you just have to divide them into various parts and stop them in the vegetable garden or pot. In a few weeks new plants will begin to appear. When the leaves are dried, you can collect the potatoes.
Basil
Here is a fantastic idea for cultivate basil Starting from the leaves and not from the twigs, as it would happen in the case of the actual cutting. Simply place some basil leaves in a glass of water and wait a week. Some will take root and will be ready to create a new seedling.
Leeks
Another idea to cultivate Starting from the waste. You can also do it with leeks, placing their bases in a jar or a glass of water. It is a important teaching For the youngest of the family, who will learn that the parts of waste of the vegetables are actually the starting point for the birth of new seedlings and vegetables.
Avocado
Have you purchased and enjoyed an excellent avocado? Don’t forget to keep the seed and to start cultivating your sapling of vase avocado. This variety adapts above all to the hottest regions. In Italy, the cultivation of avocado takes place mainly in Sicily. The home cultivation of the avocado allows not to contribute to the work of the Crime in Mexico plantations.
