30 Insanely Clever Gardening Tricks. 15 Foods That Can Be Regrown From Scraps. I love gardening.
Well, not actually the work behind the gardening so much – it’s the harvesting that I really look forward to. There is nothing like fresh veggies from your own personal garden! I actually just planted a bunch of things in my vegetable garden, and may have gone a little plant happy at the feed & seed store. Oops. Obviously, we all know about the normal ways to grow plants – from seeds. Let’s count them out – from 1 to 15… 1, 2, 3, & 4. These are the ones I regrow the very most, I always have a mason jar of green onions regrowing above my kitchen sink. 5. You can regrow lemongrass the same way you regrow the green onions. 6. Plant a small chunk off of your piece of ginger in potting soil with the newest buds facing up. 7. Pick a potato that has a lot of good formed eyes, and cut it into 2-3 inch pieces, taking care to be sure that each piece has at least 1-2 eyes on it. 8. You will need sweet potatoes with good formed eyes, just as you would want with a regular potato.
February Garden Calendar. How to Set Multiple Traps to Catch the Spotted Drosophila Fly Soaker hoses for everything Produced by OSU Extension, each month provides reminders of key garden chores, such as fertilizing, pest control, planting, and maintenance.
Recommendations in this calendar are not necessarily applicable to all areas of Oregon. For more information, contact your local Extension office. Sustainable gardening The Oregon State University Extension Service encourages sustainable gardening practices. Preventative pest management is emphasized over reactive pest control. Use chemical controls only when necessary and only after thoroughly reading the pesticide label. Planning Write in your garden journal throughout the growing season. Maintenance and Clean Up Allow foliage of spring-flowering bulbs to brown and die down before removing. Planting/Propagation Plant gladioli, hardy transplants of alyssum, phlox, and marigolds, if weather and soil conditions permit. Pest Monitoring and Management. 17 Apart: Growing Celery Indoors: Never Buy Celery Again. Remember when we tested and shared how to grow onions indefinitely last week?
Well, at the same time, we've been testing out another little indoor gardening project first gleaned from Pinterest that we're excited to share the successes of today — regrowing celery from it's base. We've figured out how to literally re-grow organic celery from the base of the bunch we bought from the store a couple weeks ago.
I swear, we must have been living under a rock all these years or just not be that resourceful when it comes to food, but we're having more fun learning all these new little tips and tricks as we dive deeper into trying to grow more of our own food. This project is almost as simple as the onion growing project — simply chop the celery stalks from the base of the celery you bought from the store and use as you normally would. In our case, we had a particular homemade bean dip that needed sampling! Update 2: Here's how we are looking at almost 3-4 weeks of growth: Discover More: Build a Garden in One Day - How to Get Started. How To Grow Ginger? Growing Ginger Root Is Not That Hard... Learn How To Grow Ginger At Home When I started growing ginger root I expected it to be difficult.
It's not. I've been growing ginger at home for years, and ginger would have to be a serious contender for the title "most neglected plant" in my garden. (Which is a shame. Ginger is a beautiful and beautifully scented plant. I look at my ginger plants exactly once a year, at harvest time. I easily grow a year's supply of ginger root from them. You can get started using store bought ginger root.
On this page I tell you everything you need to know about growing ginger, so you can grow your own fresh ginger, too. Growing Ginger Root Is Not That Hard... ...provided you get a few basics right. The picture on the left shows the foliage of ginger plants. To talk about ginger root when talking about the edible part of the ginger plant is actually incorrect. But I'll keep talking about ginger root anyway, that's what everybody does and you know what I mean. What ginger plants like and dislike: RHS Plant Selector. Growing-vegetables-chart.jpg (1000×2300)