Any enthusiastic gardener will tell you that gardening is food for the soul. Gardening stirs your imagination to be creative. It provides some fun along with physical exercise, fresh air, and sunlight. In addition, there is the delight of seeing the seedlings sprout, flowers bloom, picking fresh fruit, harvesting vegetables and having fresh herbs at your disposal.
An added bonus is seeing a variety of butterflies, birds, and frogs you attract to your garden. These are just some of the joys of gardening and creating a well-balanced ecosystem around you. So today we will discuss the importance of keeping your garden pest free and how to attract butterflies as well as providing a well-balanced eco-system for them.
“Every garden is an individual expression of creativity. So! You think you‘re not creative. Well, plant a garden and you may find out that you are far more creative than you thought.”
REGROWING YOUR OWN HERBS AND VEGETABLES:
This is Part 3 of a list of veggies you can regrow and how to do it.
Part 1 can be found here
Part 2 can be found here
1. POTATOES
Leave the cut pieces to air dry for a day or two, which allows the cut areas to callous over. This prevents it from rotting after you plant it, helping the new shoots get the maximum nutrition from each potato piece. Potato plants enjoy a high-nutrient environment, so it is best to mix compost with your soil before you plant them. Plant them about 10cm deep with the eye facing upward, and cover it with soil. As your plant begins to grow, add more soil. When your plant really takes off,
mound more soil around the base of the plant to help support its growth.
2. ROMAINE LETTUCE
If you have a stem from a head of romaine lettuce, place the stump in a bowl in about 2cm of water and put it on a windowsill. You'll start to see new leaves in about 2 weeks, and it will be full grown in 3 to 4 weeks.
3. SCALLIONS
In as little as 5 days you can completely regrow a full scallion (green onion). Leave about an inch attached to the roots and place them in a small glass with a little water. In a few days, you'll have all new scallions.
4. SWEET POTATOES
Slice your sweet potato in half, across the middle. Next, place each section of sweet potato into a container with a little water, so the cut edge of the potato is submerged. Set the container near a window. Over the next few weeks, the sweet potatoes will start sprouting little plants as well as roots.
Make sure you keep the water level constant. After four to six weeks, you should have a nice growth of small sweet Potato plants. You can now remove the sprouts by snapping them off at the point where they emerge from the sweet potato tuber and plant them, or you can plant the entire tuber with the new growth still attached.
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I love doing regrowing, feel so productive and satisfying!
and its fun as well @joelai
That's true too!
Potatoes are so easy! I used a bit of potato to get rid of the gnats that were plaguing my plants - left a bit of skin on there and before you knew it, there was a small potato plant growing in there!!!
BTW, I'm pretty sure that beautiful white mushroom is the deadly "Destroying Angel" - not your friendly edible, lol. (There is an edible that mimics it, but I'm not going to try it!)
yes dont try it these are just photos I used, but with muchrooms one has to be careful @viking-ventures
I love that you can grow veggies from scraps! I do it all the time with my green onions and celery and of course potatoes!
Thanks for sharing!
you are most welcome, and nice see that people already do this @porters
I've managed to get capsicum seeds to flourish in a very healthy manner, can't wait for them to start producing, so I can make more hot sauce! :)
I didn't know the trick about the lettuce. I'd try that, but I think my cat would drink all the water!
glad I could give you another new idea @holoz0r, besides being rewarding its also fun
thanks as always @phototalent
Now Im trying to grow potatoes and lettuce. :)
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I wish you much success with that @anggreklestari
It's incredible to see how much you can regrow over and over again, isn't it? Nature is amazing.
indeed she is @simplymike, nature does not need us in order to survive, but we sure do need her!
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Nothing better then fresh veggies from the garden awesome photos making me hungry for a stirfry with veggies :)
as long as you dont use the mushrooms I posted, because they are not edible (just nice photos I took), hahaha. I noticed that you are not a member of my new photography discord group? you may want to join us and get regular upvotes on your daily posts, we support steemit, weku, whaleshares, bearshares as well as hyperspace, so you can share away and get some additional support as well as contests to take part in . I will attach a link you can use if you so choose - @hangin - https://discord.gg/hZU9KZC
Haha..yeah you never know with these mushrooms they all look so yummy and edible and thanks for the invite on discord i will definitely be interested in that i will take a look real soon...Cheers :)
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Great tips. I already tried the potato and onion, but I didn't know about lettuce.
glad I could give you a new idea @abitcoinskeptic, if you read my previous 2 post which are linked above you can find a lot more than can be replanted
I'm going to try a grow scallions this way, it seems very easy for sure @claudiaz 👍👍
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it is easy @wonderwop
All great tips!! Just an FYI- I started a Weekly Garden Corner on my podcast account @sustainablelivin You are welcome to drop a link to any Garden related post there for a chance to win SBI 👍
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thanks so much @mariannewest I will certainly do that!
This is so awesome!! Thanks for providing the list of foods we can regrow! It’s so amazing how nature works! I love that we can be frugal in this way. Resteeming for reference! Thank you!
thanks for visiting @crosheille it is awesome and so much cheaper indeed!
You’re welcome! 😊
This is beautiful, I think for a moment you became a Smurf.
:) thanks for stopping by @marpa