What Happens When You REGROW Vegetables From Kitchen SCRAPS in the Garden?

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Published 2020-10-17
In this video, I show you what happens when you regrow vegetables from kitchen scraps in the garden. I plant out scrap onion, lettuce, potato, celery, cabbage, tomato, and carrots and we see how they grow over 3 months.

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All Comments (21)
  • @putiyip6649
    I just re-planted my wine bottle, wish me luck!!
  • 10 years ago I took one bulb of garlic, with about a dozen cloves, and planted it. By the 2 year mark, I had more garlic than anyone would need in a lifetime. It still grows to this day.
  • I remember being so depressed and anxious when the pandemic started. Also, lots of personal problems were just snowballing. I started watching this man's videos thank God, and they just brought a smile to my face. He is just heart-warming.
  • Finally! A gardening channel that helps people start from zero and you dig with your bare hands, I just I love it! You got me, I'm hooked.
  • @wtfnessi
    It's 4 am, perfect time to improve my gardening skills.
  • I tossed an old rotting onion in the garden, realized it was sprouting and covered it more. Ended up with two massive onions as big as a large hand. Enough for a French onion soup.
  • @lisanjohnny1
    I live in Hawaii and fruits and vegetables are just so expensive these days. I had bought containers and soil so I could start planting my own garden and I wanted some tips and tricks on how to start my garden and you’ve given me some good ideas. Love your teaching techniques.
  • When you plant a slice of tomato, make sure it has seeds in it! I planted a slice out of the middle of a tomato - it grew about 6 plants!
  • @skd
    Watching your videos makes me realize that, if any catastrophic event happens and we are back to hunter-gatherers, I will probably die first.
  • @roses1162
    "its not just the money, its the health, the regrowth, the less waste, its the rejuvenation..." This is exactly why my family has been forgoing grocery shopping for seed shopping more and more these days. Its hard to put into words how rewarding working with the land and time to help make something wonderful grow.
  • I have put carrot tops in a shallow dish of water for years just to enjoy the lovely greenery in the windowsill area during the cold dark winter months. Twice now a carrot has actually shot up and given me a lovely flower!! Just from a half inch of rotting root!! What a gift.
  • @SusanAlexy
    I just planted 3 celery bases and my friend, a lettuce base. I remarked yesterday, "Hmm...wouldn't it be a great video to demonstrate what you could grow from Kitchen Scraps?" and here, today, I see this episode! Great job!!! and I'm really looking forward to my Scrap Garden! Thank you for all you do. You're really an inspiration!
  • My grandmother told me how the minute WWII was declared in England, the following week my grandfather turned all his flower beds into a vegetable garden, then as the war went on, the small amount of lawn got turned as well. In these Covid times, we may as well busy ourselves, be organic and have some produce to show for it. Good on you, love and appreciate your easy down to earth manner 👍👍😁
  • Just out of curiosity I started planting odd food scraps here and there rather than throw everything in the compost. Leeks blew my mind; they're freaking huge. I didn't think any of the carrots or radishes did much, but apparently they seeded the whole immediate area and now I even have a carrot growing up through a crack in the sidewalk. >.< These things are growing better than the plants I deliberately started! I'm a terrible gardener for the same reason I'm terrible at a lot of things, moody procrastination. Working on it, though. Getting better each year. :)
  • @madams.5976
    My dad was a farmer so when he came to the U.S., he always had a garden. Potatoes were always a veggie that he had a separate space for because they take up a lot of room. Tomatoes he grew from seeds and they need sun and also need their own bed. Those round cylinders maybe should be dedicated to one crop if you don’t have a large bed. Great work though!
  • @RamDragon32
    I loved watching your potato hunt. I did that with a 2-inch cut-off of a purple sweet potato about 7 years ago and that thing took over the 4x8 foot growing bed choking out everything else I planted. It also came back every year because I can never find all the potatos! (It's a good thing they are my new favorite food!)
  • @joelitakala5552
    This COVID 19 pandemic just made me remember that I can be out of a job anytime and that knowing how to farm is important and is the way to go to be self sufficient.
  • @91splamy
    It’s actually nice to see you not successful with some of the plants, because it shows that things don’t always work out even for a seasoned gardener. I have struggled with thinking I just suck at gardening because my plants died in the past. It’s good to know that it’s not necessarily the case.
  • @highspeedboom
    Watching him eat fresh vegetables on camera is like watching a kid in a candy store for the first time!, really in joy your videos!, keep up the good work! I now feel excited to grow more in my own garden now..
  • Thanks, you just opened up a whole new gardening dimension to me.