growing food (the lazy way)

the idea of having one of those "recycled gardens" has been intruiging me recently, where you only regrow food scraps instead of buying seeds. it sounds very hashtag hipster and sustainable, although the problem is that i don't have much soil real estate - and the little that i do have is squirrel city. i also don't have a lot of patience. but i found out from a friend the other week that there's some veggies that require neither!

things to regrow without soil

i'm starting with green onions because they're pretty small physically and will grow fast, plus i ALWAYS need more green onions right now. i could have done celery or lettuce or potatoes, but i don't have any emotional attachment to those veggies. i put green onions on everything. to get going, you can use your green onions as you normally would but leave about an inch of the white part and roots intact. stand that bit up in a shot glass with a little water, and then put in a windowsill and wait! change the water once every few days, and in a few more the green part will have grown back! wahoo!

unfortunately you can't use the same scrap to regrow your green onion again unless you plant it in soil. or at least that's what i had been told, and i was so high on the excitement of having green onions to put in my quesadilla that i actually did try using soil. but alas, squirrel city struck again. or some other animal i suppose, but i came out a day later to check on it and found it mangled beyond repair. a sad day.

i'm going to continue to regrow them in water though, and maybe try some of the other veggies next. i think there's also the opportunity for me to write a metaphor about growth and self-improvement "from scraps" here, but i have more important things to do. like make jam in my slow cooker.

-atyrfingerprints

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