How to regrow green onions from scraps in water vs. soil

Green onions are one of the many vegetables that you can easily regrow at home. Imagine, never having to buy green onions again!


To regrow the green onions you simple place the white root end into water. I decided to do an experiment to see if green onions would grow better when placed in water (which seems to be more common) or soil. Over the week I watched as the green onions grew.

The green onions that were placed in water also started to regrow their roots and got bigger daily. When placed side by side it looks like the green onions grew larger and healthier.

Regrowing green onions from scraps that you would have otherwise thrown away is a fun easy home garden project. Place the green onions in a window seal and grow. Use when your culinary cravings see fit. When done just place the green onions back in the water and remember to change the water every few days.

Happy Gardening!

How to Plant a Strawberry Patch: Designing and building my first Garden: Part 2

How to Plant Strawberries

This video shows my strawberry gardening and planting experience while I explain what I learned about growing and planting strawberries

Starting Fresh: Summer Gardening

The land has been cleared. Now it is time to plant fruits and vegetables in the garden. The first eatable plant I planted was strawberries. Strawberry plants will start producing fruit quickly and the fruit is extremely healthy. I've always been aware of how important it is to eat a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables. Lately natural non processed food is all I want to eat. Yet, I may be going over board, but non organic produce kind of scares me. My organic strawberry habit is getting expensive, so you have no idea what excitement the idea of home grown organic strawberries gives me.

This is the first video in my Summer Gardening Series:

Watch as I weed my garden and mix lot of Organic compost into the soil, so the soil is nutrient rich and fluffy.

Starting a Garden for the First Time?

How to Start a Summer Garden

Part One: Clearing the Land

Organic Gardening Video Series

Hello! You have found this post because you are interested in starting a garden. I want to start by saying gardening is a very rewarding hobby. Growing your own food is so satisfying. Starting a project and working through it will add another dimension to your life. It can also give you the confidence to tackle other projects you have been dreaming about doing. Starting from scratch is sometimes the most fun. Whether you have grown your own vegetables in the past or this is your first time. I want to help encourage you to get out in the garden and start working. It can be a scary task and easy to put off, but once you dive in, you will feel so much better. Plus, remember, we are in this together. So that means post video responses of where you are in the process. I would love see other peoples gardening space and watch them develop.

Step One: Clear a plot of land

In this video I show my techniques for clearing a plot of land. At first clearing out weeds and shrubs from your garden may seem tedious, but take it slow, area by area, and before you know it you will have a clear piece of land.

Sweet Potato Slips: How to make Sweet Potato Slips at Home in Water

Sweet potato slips are expensive. Why not plan ahead and start growing your own slips? Start about 2 months before the sweet potato planting season, which is after the last frost once the soil warms up. You will need an organic locally grown sweet potato. Do not buy the sweet potato from a big box store, instead seek out a small local co-op or organic food market. Often corporate sweet potatoes are treated with some sort of "no sprout" serum. Gross. Weird things put on/into veggies: another reason to grow your own food or shop locally.

Materials

-Organic Sweet Potato
-Jar or Glass
-Water
-Toothpicks

Instructions

1. Fill the glass with water
2. Place the toothpicks around the center of the tuber. The toothpicks are there to elevate the sweet potato, so the roots do not grow against the bottom of the glass.
3. Set the glass in an eastern facing window to receive beneficial morning sun. Yet, protecting it from the hot relentless afternoon sun.
4. Be patient, watch, and wait as the sprouts emerge and the shoots come forth.

Sweet Potato in Water waiting to root and produce shoots:

Fast Forward

Sweet Potato with roots, shoots, and slips:

Once the Potato has Produced Slips

1. Carefully twist the slip(s) off of the sweet potato.
2. Place the slip in water.
3. Wait for the individual slips to grow roots.
4. Once the roots seem stable place in a small pot with soil.
5. Let the slip get use to the soil for a few days, then transfer into garden.

Sweet potato slips placed in water to grow roots:



Slips with small roots:


The stages involved in producing sweet potato slips: