Kitchen Hydroponics - Part 1

Celery Recycling in my own personal dining room window.

Welcome, class, to what I'd like to call Kitchen Hydroponics! 

It's "kitchen" because that's where I'm doing it and "hydroponics" because we're growing plants (so far) without soil. I love it when things make sense, don't you? 

Behold, my celery. 

I'll give you some time to ooh and aah over my 3 days worth of growth from my would-be trashed celery stump. I had also discussed it with my Dad, the farmer man, whether or not the product from a secondary growth would be considered organic since it wouldn't receive pesticides directly TO the new growth. He said the secondary growth plant would be "Clean". I have to do some more research on that... (Hello, additional science lesson!) Makes me wonder if the "mother" plant was sprayed with pesticides would taint the new plant keeping it from being technically considered organic....

Sorry, rabbit trail popped up.... Anyway....

I was quite impressed! That would have been tossed in the trash, but now we're re-growing it and we can eat it. That saves time, money, and is a nice school lesson, all in one. 

I've done the same to pineapples, but as soon as it rooted in the water and I potted it outside in the summer sun last year, a stupid COW broke into my yard. Well, she must have had a taste for tropical because the first thing she ate was my pineapple. Evil cow. (Btw... that is not our family in the pineapple link, that's just the video I used when we did ours last year.)

You should try green onions or scallions. They grow like CRAZY!!! Fast and furious. And you can trim the tops, freeze it, and re-grow.

My next step is romaine lettuce. I love a good salad. And a home-grown one for FREE? Yeah... can't beat that.

Where did this super-amazing idea..... sprout? 

(Ha! Yes, bad jokes. FOR SHAME, Alisha!!!) 

PINTEREST, of course! 

Here and here are a couple of sites that will show you what else you can grow from your own kitchen scraps.

I like to think of it as winter child entertainment, early garden prep, getting your green on, or being a thriftinista grocery shopper.

This is part 1 because I thought I'd update you with the riveting news of my awesome celery and hopefully, some other scrap mates that I'm hoping to be successful with.