No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More (No-Waste Gardening) by Katie Elzer-Peters

The debut book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants. Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks you’ll need to grow and re-propagate produce from food waste. You’ll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow. You’ll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors and maintaining your re-grown plants. Two-part photo instructions show first what the root, chunk seed, or leaf should look like when you re-plant it, and second, when to harvest or re-plant it in soil to continue growing. Edibles big and small, quick to grow and those that take a big longer, are included, so you can pick and choose which projects to take on. A few of the many plants profiled include: Read more

From the Publisher Contents of No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More Introduction: How to Use This Book No-Waste Kitchen Gardening opens with a chapter on the basic science and practice of regrowing kitchen scraps. Here, you’ll learn to understand plant parts, the growing cycle of edible herbs, vegetables, and fruits, and how to make use of this cycle when regrowing kitchen leftovers. Then you’ll get to the good stuff: a series of chapters detailing how to regrow edibles according to different forms of propagation— from rooting vegetables in water to collecting seeds and planting them to produce your own seedlings for garden transplant. Your kitchen will never be the same. 1. No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: How It Works and How to Do It Plants are pretty incredible living things. e tiniest of seeds contains everything needed to grow tall oak trees and long squash vines. You can cut pieces off of some plants, stick the pieces in water, and watch them grow roots. Some plants grow, flower, produce seeds, and then die back, only to emerge again the following year from their roots. Some of these perennial plants may last for many decades; other short-lived annuals live their lives in a flash, barely lasting a single growing season before fading and wilting. 2. Regrow Roots and Underground Stems in Soil You know those old potatoes sprouting at the bottom of the kitchen drawer? You don’t have to throw them on the compost pile. You can actually cut them up and grow an entire new harvest of potatoes. How about those slightly shriveled carrots in the drawer with the potatoes—did you know you can regrow those too? You won’t get another carrot, but you will get some leafy tops that are great additions to soups and salads. Plus, it is really fun to watch the carrot tops grow. See More