Re-grow Your Veggies

15 Days of Green Tips for 15 years of Keep Carroll Beautiful

Day 5 – Re-grow your vegetables with Nicole Smith

This post is a part of the “15 Days of Green Tips for 15 years of Keep Carroll Beautiful” Virtual Birthday Celebration. Every day between April 8 and April 22, a member of KCB Board, Staff, or the public, will share their favorite tips on how to Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle!

Nicole Smith is a Carroll County native. She works at Walker Meats, a company her father started, and is a Board Secretary for Keep Carroll Beautiful. Living off of the Carrollton Square, Nicole and her family enjoy being able to walk everywhere, be it dinner, the book store, or a park or the Carrollton Greenbelt!

Nicole is sharing one of her favorite tips on easy and free gardening – grow your trash!

Do not miss DAY 5 of 15 days of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Tips for Keep Carroll Beautiful 15th Birthday!https://www.keepcarrollbeautiful.org/re-grow-your-veggies/KCB Board Secretary – Nicole Smith, is turning scraps into second-helpings of vegetables and herbs!Virtual Birthday Party – Keep Carroll Beautiful is turning 15!All tips: https://www.keepcarrollbeautiful.org/15th-birthday/

Posted by Keep Carroll Beautiful on Sunday, April 12, 2020

There are many vegetables that will “regrow” from discarded parts:

  • Celery (root)
  • Scallions (root or whole bottom)
  • Onions (root)
  • Ginger (root)
  • Potatoes and Sweet potatoes (cut off a piece with a spud)
  • Pineapple (from top)
  • Bok Choi and other Asian greens (root)
  • Lettuces, cabbage, and collards (root)
  • Basil, parsley, dill (by rooting stems)
  • Peppers, tomatoes, winter squash (from seeds)
  • Avocadoes (pit)

A little patience will take you a long way:

Regrowing romaine lettuce is a shallow dish.

How to make a painted leaf mobile:

  • Step 1: go on a nature walk and collect leaves of different sizes. Find a stick to tie them all to.
  • Step 2: paint the leaves! Be sure to paint the fronts and backs.
  • Step 3: allow time for the paint to dry. Cut strings of different lengths.
  • Step 4: tie one end of the strings to each leaf, tie the other end to the stick.
  • Step 5: cut a long string, tie one end to each side of the stick so that you can hang up your work of art!
Celery and swiss chard growing new leaves.

Check how and what to regrow from scraps:

🌱 Regrowing different types of vegetable and fruit: https://foodrevolution.org/blog/reduce-food-waste-regrow-from-scraps/
🌱 How hard is it to regrow your food? https://www.buzzfeed.com/arielknutson/vegetables-that-magically-regrow-themselves