The professional gardener shared how to grow vegetables and greens using vegetable scraps bought from the supermarket, and the result is impressive.
Social media is flooded with tutorials teaching how to have a small garden at home, and a professional gardener decided to test whether it’s really possible to grow vegetables and greens using scraps of vegetables bought at the supermarket.
In a video posted on his YouTube gardening channel, James Prigioni shows what happened during the 135 days he grew scraps of vegetables bought from markets and supermarkets.
In the video, which has been watched almost 5 million times, Prigioni shares how the whole process went. He starts by placing scraps of cabbage, ginger, carrots, beets, onions, and lettuce into a jar with water.
He also explains that he will test growing a tomato, an onion, garlic, and potatoes in his garden, but in a different way. Everything was then planted in a bed protected from very strong light, and after two weeks, the sprouts started to appear.
The results were truly surprising; the whole onion planted turned into five onions. The top of the beet grew and became a beet with a peculiar shape, and the tops of the carrots gave rise to long, thin carrots.
The potato he planted whole in the ground produced more than a dozen small potatoes, and the top of the tomato, which contained a few seeds, grew into a large plant, just like the ginger.
Although not all the vegetables developed, Prigioni’s experience shows that it is indeed possible to “regrow” some vegetables we buy from supermarkets. The only thing the gardener recommends is that if you’re going to try planting scraps, it’s best to buy organic vegetables.
In the comments on the post, many internet users shared their own experiences of replanting vegetables and greens.
“As the son of a potato farmer, if you cut a potato into 3 parts so each part has a sprout, you’ll have 3 plants,” taught one person.
“When I clean out the fridge… everything that looks like it could grow again goes into the raised bed. It’s fun,” said another.
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