October 30, 2012

Kitchen Scrap Garden

Carrot Top Garden
Cut tops off some carrots.
Place them in a shallow dish and water them daily.
The carrot tops should be sitting in about a 1/2 inch water all the time.
Watch as delicate green foliage grows quickly.

Sprouting Avocados
Remove seed from the avocado.
Insert toothpicks in a spoke fashion around the middle of the seed.
Fill a jar with water.
Rest the toothpicks on top of a jar, with bottom (round end) half of the seed resting in water in the jar.
Place in lighted area and watch it sprout.

Sweet Potato Vines
Insert toothpicks in a spoke fashion around the middle of the potato.
Fill a jar with water.
Rest the toothpicks on top of a jar, with bottom half of the potato resting in water in the jar.
Place in lighted area and watch the vine and roots grow.