5x grow your own vegetables

Do you usually throw away your leftover vegetables? What a waste! Because you can often easily grow new vegetables from them yourself. And no, you really don’t need a (large) garden for that.

Romaine lettuce

Love a good Caesar salad? Then a few sturdy, fresh leaves of romaine lettuce are an absolute must. Growing it yourself is super simple: save the bottom of the head and place it in a layer of water, which you refresh every week. After a few weeks, you’ll have a full head again.

Looking for a delicious vegetable dish? Check this out.

Spring onions

Delicious in a salad (your home-grown romaine, for example), on this pancake with hoisin duck, in your omelet, or well… what don’t they go with? Spring onions are just as easy to grow as romaine lettuce, and even much faster: place the ends in a jar with a layer of water and put it in the sun. Within a few days, you’ll already have a new onion.

(Sweet) potatoes

You can give a potato a new lease on life by first letting it sprout, then cutting it in half and placing it halfway under water in a glass or jar (tip: use cocktail sticks to keep it in place). Then put it somewhere warm and humid. Within a few weeks, small plants will grow from the potato; remove them and plant them in a pot with soil. Water them every day during the first week, and then one day less each week.

Mushrooms

We previously wrote about the grow kits you can use to grow fresh mushrooms at home, but you can also get a long way with just one mushroom. Cut off the stem and plant it in a pot under 2 centimetres of moist, cool soil. Put it somewhere dark and cool, and within a few weeks you’ll have your own mushroom family.

Celery

Making your own stock is so much tastier than using a stock cube, and hey… if you’re doing it anyway, you might as well grow that celery yourself too. It’s almost just as simple. Place the stalks in a layer of water, wait until roots grow, and then put them in a layer of potting soil. Wait a little and voilà; time to harvest!
Exactly the same principle applies to lemongrass, by the way.