Hold the phone. I just found out you can regrow food in water without dirt. Could gardening get any better when you have two black thumbs?
I think not. And my black thumbs aren’t the only reason I’ve been hesitant to garden. It can be costly too, but ever since I found ways to water my garden for free, I’m all over it.
Then my step-mom showed me how to regrow food in water – she had a couple heads of lettuce in a bowl in her kitchen. But as it turns out, it’s just one of several veggies that can grow without dirt, and without much effort too.
It’s great news for those buying organic vegetables, but even if you aren’t, it’s a simple way to stretch those grocery dollars just a teeny bit further is to regrow food in water!
Why Should You Regrow Food in Water?
There are plenty of reasons to regrow food, but the most important ones to me are:
(1) It’s absolutely free.
You already bought the vegetable. All it costs is a few tablespoons of water – but if you’re smart about it, you can re-use water you’ve already used elsewhere, like from boiling pasta or water that you collected while waiting for the shower to get hot. Then it wouldn’t cost you a dime!
(2) It’ll trim your grocery budget.
Little ways to save money really do add up to bigger savings, as long as you’re diligent about using them.
Now, you won’t get a huge harvest out of any of these items, but it is still food and every little bit helps. Even if it’s a few leaves of lettuce to scoop your tuna salad with, you can regrow food you didn’t have before and won’t have to buy.
(3) It makes organics more affordable.
Affording organic food just got easier! If you start with organic food, you’ll regrow food that’s organic… so you’ll reap the benefits of organic greens without actually paying for them!
(4) It’s easy.
Do I have to explain further? I mean, stick the plant in water and watch it grow. Really – it’s that easy!
I’ve listed below all the vegetables that can legitimately grow in water and water alone.
Sure, there are plenty more that can START in water and then be transplanted to soil. And yes, beans will sprout in water too – but unless the vegetable will grow into more vegetable that can be eaten as-is with only a cup of water, I kept it off this list.
General Guidelines to Regrow Food in Water
- You don’t need a lot of water – just enough to cover the roots. About 1/2″ of water seems to be sufficient otherwise the food can get moldy and slimy.
- Be sure to check the water every 2-3 days to ensure that A) there’s enough water, and B) no rogue lettuce pieces fall off and slime up your bowl.
- The size of container should be relative to the size of the food you’re growing. Lettuce and celery grows best in shallow bowls like these. Green onion and lemongrass can be in taller, skinny glasses like these.
- You can regrow multiples of the same plant as long as you’re not overcrowding the area.
- I haven’t tried this myself, but using a fertilizer could help with the yield when you regrow food – especially if this is more than a fun side project. I would recommend this Dr. Earth organic liquid fertilizer or a hydroponic fertilizer.
10 Ways to Regrow Food in Water
Bok Choy
Cut off the bottom of the stalk and place in a small bowl of water. New growth begins from the center in 1-2 days with significant growth in less than a week!
Cabbage
Place the root end in a shallow bowl of water and watch it regrow from the center. Be sure to harvest on the smaller side to get the best flavor.
Carrot Greens
You can’t regrow an actual carrot, but you can regrow the carrot tops! Place the cut-off end of a carrot in a shallow bowl of water. Harvest the greens as they grow and add to salads. Better yet, make this amazing carrot top pesto and stop spending money on store-bought!
Celery
Cut off the bottom 2″ of the stalk and place in a small bowl of water. New growth begins from the center in 3-4 days. It might take awhile for a full stalk of celery to grow, but you’ll get great growth in the center for flavoring dishes. If you don’t know what to do with the leaves, dehydrate them, and make your own dried celery powder.
Fennel
Cut off the bottom 1″ of the base so that the roots are intact and place in a small bowl of water.
Garlic Chives
Garlic chives are the green that grows from a clove of garlic and can be added to dishes that traditionally call for green onion chives like salads and baked potatoes. Place a garlic clove in a small cup and add water to the bottom without submerging. Roots will grow in a few days and shoots will grow shortly after!
Tip: Garlic starts to lose it pungent flavor when the shoots grow, so if you find a rogue clove in your fridge or pantry starting to shoot, place it in a cup of water to grow chives instead of throwing the clove away!
Green Onion
Keep the white part of the onion with any roots that are in still intact. Place in a glass with water and you’ll have a never-ending supply of fresh green onion!
Leeks
Cut off the bottom 2-3″ of the stalk and place in a cup of water. New growth will come from the center of the plant. Usually only the green part of the leek is used in cooking, but it can be used interchangeably with onions for a delicious, mellow flavor.
Lemongrass
Cut off 2-3″ from the bottom and place in a tall container with 1/2″ or so of water. New lemongrass shoots will grow from the center.
Lettuce
Cut off the bottom of the head of lettuce and place it in a small bowl of water. New growth begins from the center of the in as little as 3 days and you’ll have a new half-head of lettuce in about 2 weeks. I’ve heard romaine re-grows best, but I’ve had success with green leaf and red leaf lettuce too.
Got more scraps to regrow food?
There are plenty more vegetables that will regrow using just a small scrap of the original food. These listed below can be started in water, but should be transplanted to dirt for full growth and harvest.
- avocado
- basil
- beets
- cilantro
- ginger
- lemon balm
- mint
- mushrooms
- onions (white/yellow/red)
- parsnips
- pineapple
- potatoes
- rosemary
- sweet potatoes
- turnips
And of course, you can save the seeds/pits from apples, cherries, lemons, nectarines, peaches, peppers (sweet and hot), plums, pumpkins and tomatoes to grow your own new vegetables!
We have several heads of lettuce regrowing on our kitchen table, which makes for a pretty and practical centerpiece! If you had a shelf near a window, you could keep all your plants there and just harvest when they’re big!
Just think – if we did all of the above ways to regrow food, we might not ever have to shop at the grocery store again!
It’s so easy to regrow food in water!
- You’ve worked hard to grow your garden or pinch pennies to afford organics or are doing the best you can with your budget — now it’s time to stretch those dollars even further and grow food in water!
- Start with one of these shallow dishes or these taller dishes. Add in the food stumps (see above for details!). And keep the water fresh.
- Fertilizer could help if you really want to work this system. This Dr. Earth organic liquid fertilizer or a hydroponic fertilizer would work well.
- If regrowing your food in water isn’t your skill set, use those kitchen scraps to make chicken stock!
Need ideas on how to preserve those extra vegetables?
How to Blanch Greens // DIY Celery Powder // How to Keep Fruit (and Vegetables) Fresh Longer
Brittney
I had no idea this many veggies could be grown in water. I’ve only tried the green onion:). My wondering is this… Can they be as nutritious as they were in their “first life”? Where would they get their nutrition from if they’re only pulling from water?
Sinea Pies
Wow Tiffany this is fabulous! Pinned, tweeting and sharing. …and GROWING LETTUCE now, too ! 🙂
Tiffany
Thank you!!!
Don Davis
I have started an avocado seed in 6.0 PH water from my Kangen water machine, it has a 1-1/2 inch root. The I started Ginger root and has a little more than 1 foot sprouts on four small cuttings in dirt and watered by the same water, both about a month ago. This is the first time I’ve ever tried to grow anything.
Tiffany
Way to go Don!!
Leni
I’m going to try some of these out. I’m thinking that if nothing else, this would be a great way to bulk up the veggies for soup stock. With only two of us home now, I don’t need the volume of food I did when the kids were here, but I toss veggie scraps in the freezer for stock.
Tiffany
Yes, what a great idea Leni!
Tiffany
I do this with green onion, and I love it! I’ve never tried any of the others though, but once my family grows I would definitely be up for saving money this way!
Tiffany
I love having green onions ready for meals. They make it look so pretty!
Suze
I’m a Canadian living in Belize (Central America). Oh Yeah!! I’m going to try growing the romaine, green onions, tomatoes… & more in water in my sunny kitchen. I Love the idea of lettuce on the table. So here’s a new idea… Not a water plant, but I know you all get pineapple in the grocery stores up there. I have it in abundance here. After I lop off the top, I plop those in the garden. I may be wrong, but seems a pineapple will pop up every other year from each plant. Long wait, I know… but I have about five juicy pineapples almost ready to eat… soon. And to think of the dozens & dozens of tops I’ve tossed out. Wonder if this can be done indoors? I think if you find a really juicy sweet pineapple at your store, take a chance.
Tiffany
Hi Suze! Yes, you can start a pineapple indoors. Whether or not it survives outside will depend on where you live (in the States), but I’ve heard that some warm climates have success.
PS – I’m slightly jealous that you’re in Belize. We LOVED Central America when we visited – it’s so beautiful!
Helen
Suggest getting a full spectrum light if sunlight is minimal. I try to keep my kitchen table clear but a planter in the center is a good plan (it’s NOT clutter so a good idea). We have a ceiling fan with 5 bulbs in the light fixture. One grow bulb would probably do it.
Helen
I am about to harvest my first trans-state pineapple. It’s SO nice to leave it in the ground until it’s ripe. It’s not real big but it may be stunted cuz the pot I grew it in probably isn’t big enough. It took 4 years (I have heard it should have been 2 but I never fertilized it until last year). I started feeding it an organic granular fertilizer and bingo, a tiny fruit appeared. It did great in the south and slowed down a lot when it came back north (summers are not consistently hot enuf is my guess). I may harvest it this week.
polly
Helen, How did you start? In water? and how much of the top leafy part did you use?
Ashleigh
Polly: I twisted the crown/leaves off the top. Some people cut off the bottom and let it dry out slightly. Grower’s choice. Stripped off the lower leaves. Let the crown dry out for a day or two. Stuck it in dirt. Kept it outside (CA) in a sunny location. Watered consistently.
At one point, I thought the plant was dead. NOT. Just thinking about producing a pineapple.
About 18-24 months later, saw the start of a tiny fruit. Six months later, a small, very juicy pineapple! The sight of a growing pineapple, as well as the taste, were worth the time and effort. Try it and be patient.
Michele
I was curious, how long can you keep harvesting from one root end before you should start with a new root end? Will the new growth start a brand new root end you can put in water (doubling what you can plant in water)?
Tiffany
Michele – no, the root end doesn’t duplicate, it just continues growing on the same plant. I regrow usually once, twice at max for lettuce and celery and green onions for 3-4 times.
Okayest Mom
Thanks for sharing! With three toddlers in the house, the amount of effort it takes to grow something in soil is just too much right now! Thanks for the inspiration to try something simpler.
polly
I think I’ll Google ‘hydroponic gardens’ and see if there’s info that’s easy to find. Do any of you know of a good site?
Tiffany
Hi Jebbica, absolutely! Change out the water every 2-3 days, or when it starts to look cloudy. I keep mine inside on the either the kitchen table or kitchen, and both have partial indirect light. My herbs die too, but I’ve got the growing in water thing down pretty good – there’s hope for us yet!
Gen
how long does it take to have a full romaine grow cuz ive been growing romaine in water for almost 3 weeks now and its been a week that nothing seem to grow no more ( and its really tinny still
Tiffany
Gen – you’ll get a half head of romaine in about a few weeks. I documented the growth via Instagram – http://instagram.com/tiffanycrumbs!
Kathrine
Hi. I have a head of romaine lettuce just transplanted to soil this weekend. It’s been in water for 2-3 weeks and has a single huge leaf. Looks nothing like romaine lettuce. Have to hold it up with a stick. Any advice?
Bonnie Mantel
Without nutrients in the water for the plants to absorb, do they lose their health benefits over time. Would adding some liquid fertilizer to the water help to prevent this?
Cha
My husband had the same question but I figure the nutrients from the head are depleted to continue the new growth. If you look at the heart of the lettuce/celery there are always “baby” leaves growing and this process is just continued when you cut off the outer leaves and aid the growth with water. With that said, it makes sense that the new growth would have less nutrients than the original plant that derived it’s nutrition from the soil. Tiffany, do you know how liquid fertilizers (ie Miracle Grow) hold up in terms of organically grown vs chemically treated food? I know organic would ideally be natural fertilized (ie compost) and pesticide free but are liquid fertilizers as bad as pesticides?
Tiffany
Cha – I don’t know if it’s fair to compare fertilizers to pesticides, but a gentlemen at a local nursery (that specializes in organic plants) pretty much told me to stay as far away from miracle grow as possible, that’s there’s nothing “organic” in it. There are organic liquid fertilizers (Dr. Earth seems to be a respectable brand: http://amzn.to/1T5ppUB) I just haven’t read too much about them and I’m still new to gardening, so I don’t know the appropriate ratio of nutrients for the plants in water.
Char
Sorry I was supposed to write Char not Cha… Yeah well Miracle a Grow lists the amount of mineral percentages guaranteed but doesn’t list the other ingredients which is a little fishy. Of course minerals plants need are inorganic by definition but how and where the minerals are derived from I guess is the question.
Brooke
I wonder if we could mimic what people use in a hydroponic growing situation for infusing nutrients into water. It would seem that something along those lines could be applied here. Just a thought.
Tiffany
I bet we could Brooke! I’m not proficient with the additives in a hydroponic situation, but would love to read more if you have any articles to share!
Stugots
Azomite for minerals
Janet Warner
I have done celery last year! It was great because I could go out and just pick one stalk, for cooking, rather then a whole celery root! I already have another one growing nicely in my garden for this year. I have harvested Leek and took the ends and re-planted. We’ll see how that grows! Lettuce seems to much work….it grows quickly and easily from seed, as well as chives and green onions.
Tiffany
Great news Janet! Thanks for sharing!
Tricia
I have romaine and celery started now. I’ll definitely try the others on your list. I had no idea that you could ‘re-grow’ so many different foods!
Tiffany
The green onions grow like CRAZY Tricia. Definitely try that one if you can!
Helen
I started green onion in a former porch railing box. Super easy and you never have to replant IF you allow at least one onion to remain unharvested. Left to grow, the onion should form a big flower head, let that head complete it’s cycle and harvest the seeds. I haven’t had to replant onions for 2-3 years.
Also with green onions, don’t pull the onion, roots and all, when you harvest. Pull the onion up to where you can see the root base and slice just above the root (leaving a tiny bit of the onion bulb. Push that remainder and roots back into the soil and you find 2 new onions start sprouting very quickly.
I have noticed that the onions don’t mind being crowded together (especially when they replant themselves from a flower head) so I don’t fuss with thinning them.
I use a lot of green onion in cooking, salads and my fave, home made guacamole.
I accidently let my supply dwindle too much one time and had to purchase some. Instead if putting them in them in the frig, I planted them in my “onion box” and they rerooted and grew a little bigger…Eureka! More onions!
linda
I have recently tried the green oinion i love it and my daughter loves watching them grow can’t wait to try the lettuce
Josephine
These are great ideas – I’ve been sharing your post with all my friends! My house has a farm share starting next month, and you’ve inspired me to try growing from the leftover bits by putting them in hanging baskets in the windows of our sunny laundry room. Need to ask around and see if any friends have spare hanging baskets we can use.
Tiffany
Hanging baskets are great for freeing up surface space – great idea Josephine!
Char
I am SO going to do this. Lately I’ve been cutting up and soaking lettuce so it absorbs lots of water and stays crispy and ready to use in the fridge so this will be an easy next step. Nobody likes the hard white parts of the lettuce anyways! I don’t have a lot of room but I like the centerpiece idea.
Tiffany
The center of the table is also a great spot in you tend to forget to water… like me. 😉
Diane
Tiffany, you are so inspiring I love all of your suggestions. The other day I cooked a butternut squash for dinner. I scraped out the seeds before cooking and dried the seeds on a paper towel (I don’t use these for much ,but do have them on hand)for a couple of days. I planted several seeds in dirt and WOW they have sprouted so beautifully. I will be able to plant them outside in the next week or two because we live in Canada and our growing season is quite short. I can hardly wait for a fall meal grown from FREE seeds.
Tiffany
Thanks Diane! Great idea on planting the seeds from your squash – I hope they grow to be HUGE for you!!
Colleen
Am age 75…having hard time keeping my gardening up (been doing it for 40 yrs). Really sad about not being able to do it much anymore. This water thing excites me tremendously. Can’t wait to try it. Wait till my daughter visits & finds vegetables in water growing on my kitchen table instead of a small vase of flowers, or maybe both!
Tiffany
LOL – my dad thought it was pretty neat to see ours on our table too. It makes for a great centerpiece, and conversation starter!
Carol
Other water gardening starts: when succoring tomato plants, take the cut-off stems, remove some lower leaves, stick in water, and you can root a whole new tomato plant. I also took moldy organic strawberries out of my fridg, smeared them around on top of pots of soil, sprinkled a bit of soil over them, watered them, and grew new baby plants! The pots survived outdoors on south side of foundation of house in cold W. Mass.’s long severe winter. Just planted them out in garden and are doing fine.
I too have aged and find gardening harder. Some ideas: Bring the garden up to you! Hire someone to build you raised beds–as high as needed for you and not too wide for easy reaching. Try large pots on wheeled carts, trollies or in wagons you can move around to best yard spots. Plant in a wheelbarrow, half barrels, animal troughs, anything that raises plants to comfort level for you and fits your budget. Let everyone know what you’re looking for–try tag sales, recycling centers and charitable type stores. Use your imagination. Place pots on outdoor picnic tables or raised wide boards over work horses (carpenter’s benches, or other benches) or boards across 2 chairs or single chairs. I have some special planters you can buy that fit over rails of my deck and grow green beans, herbs and flowers in them. Love that I don’t have to bend down w/bad back & knees. Want to get more of these! Be sure your deck has sturdy rails–they get heavy when filled w/soil. Might need to recruit someone w/muscle power to place these or to fill w/soil, but love gardening this way. My deck is right off my kitchen–so handy when cooking w/my herbs. Enjoy, and don’t give up, if you love gardening, like me.
jean
just saying using old gutters for small plants help me not to get down on knees. i screw them to my backyard rails on porch.
Michelle
We made a hydroponic garden on the front porch using extra gutter pieces. In the end we could only grow herbs or root cuttings for new plants.
Jamela Reifsnyder
ms. colleen, you might look into trying out these garden patch boxes on your patio/deck… http://www.agardenpatch.com/?gclid=CjwKEAjw2ImsBRCnjq70n_amv14SJAChXijNrEbBquNV9mHDHhlSD9XPOb2w_5sbxqNTiJ1WpdhB0RoC3B7w_wcB
people who were older; had little space; limited mobility, etc… have had great success with them…
i’ve used them with my inlaws and homeschooled kids for the last couple years and we love them :0)
Gerrii
I have used these earth boxes and I love them. They are fantastic.
Helen
I just acquired 5 Earth Boxes from a neighbor and wondered… at the end of the season, do you find the roots have grown thru the screen into the water source at the bottom?
I haven’t planted in mine yet cuz I snowbird and fill the back if my Odyssey with plants and continue my growing season in the deep south all winter. In order to save space, I had been carefully uprooting all my plants, placing them in plastic bags (so I could replant them at my winter destination) and stack the plant containers to save space. I am wondering if that will be more difficult with that screen between the soil and water?
I’ve also tried the lettuce in water several times and once the greens appear, the lettuce suddenly rots and I have to throw the new start away. Any ideas about this?
Charlotte Holt
Where do you go in the winter. I lived for 9 years in Corpus Christi, Texas. I always wanted to spend the winter, some place around McAllan in a rented R.V or small mobile home to see if I would like it enough to do it every winter. I am 75, a widow but quite active and love adventures. What type of experiences have you encountered? I, too, like to garden. I’m really good with tomatoes, especially. I have trouble getting down on the ground and moving around. My mother, now passed away, was in a nursing home which had raised gardens. They were used a lot. Sounds like a good way to go. I’m in Kansas City. Warm weather sounds especially nice now that we’re experiencing the single to low teens overnight and daytime, Thanks for any info you have time to provide. Charlotte Holt. 1/18 /16
Marilyn
Where are you? I’d be happy to help you with your garden if you’re close. Probably too late this year but we could plan for next.
Tiffany
Thanks for the correction Amber – it’ll take me YEARS to figure out this gardening stuff, lol. If you stick a bulb in the ground, update us with out it’s going!!
Nathalie
The tops are scapes! You can make a delicious pesto from them. VERY strong garlic flavor. Your planted garlic will grow bigger if you cut the scapes when they start to curl. The the plants full efforts are going into growing the bulb. 🙂
Christa
You can also pickle them!
Lillian
Boy are those greens strong…my mother the first year I moved back to Michigan had a “herb garden” and she thought she pulled up green onions and gave them to me…took them home and sliced them up for salad….ruined the salad since it was actually the sprout for garlic that hadn’t come to a head yet…woah were they strong.
Aimee
This is great! One question though, when I see some of your plants growing there, I notice that you tend to leave a really large end piece of the vegetable–I never end up leaving that much, am always cutting as close to the root as possible. Must one leave as much as is shown in the photos, or can the plants grow from less “plant” than what is shown? Thanks!
Tiffany
Hi Aimee! The picture might show more of the end that’s really there – it’s 2-3″ in length, where the end of the lettuce is more of the tougher center than the fluffy outer leaves. You can certainly try with less though, what do we have to lose?!
polly
I tried this with celery but only got leaves to grow from the center, no ribs of celery. Any advice?
Sylvie Elliott
Same here
DavetteB
If you want your plants bigger they will eventually need to be planted, but for onion family and greens just water is fine.
PS: use filtered or spring water if you can, or at least let the water set out so the chlorine evaporates. Don’t reuse cooking water.
Diane
Fresh chopped celery leaves in potato salad or Mac salad makes the salad amazing. It’s my secret ingredient in my potato salad, which everyone loves and asks me to bring to bbqs. Give it a try!
Mireille
It also works with less but will need a little more tlc
Elder
Amy, what’s working best for you? There are a lot of factors that may affect your growing efforts, like the chemicals in your water supply and so on and so on. Do what works best for you.
SHEILAGH
I’ve successfully grown celery with only a half inch of the bottom cut from stalks. I place that in a shallow dish and add water to about half way up the ‘stump’. When roots are established I plant that just underneath the soul either outdoors in my garden – however since I live in Michigan I currently have my celery growing in a six inch clay pot. If you want to encourage light green stalks, wrap a collar of cardboard or newspaper around the young stalks up to the place where the leaves are growing. As the stalks grow add more height to the collar or replace with a taller one. Delicious and interesting to grow!!
Vikki
I have also tried to grow celery. Once it started sprouting I planted it in my vege patch. It grew well and looked great, but the celery sticks were circular and tough, not the hollowed, semi circle shape of a store bought one. What did I do wrong?
Doris
Fun…I can’t wait to try this!!
Michele
I did this with lettuce last year, I got 1 leaf, but it was so exciting to watch that thing grow!
Diana
Do I cover the whole green with water or part of it? romine lettuce
Tiffany
Just the bottom 1/2 inch or so Diana!
Gary roos
Hi Tiffany, you mentioned that one can regrow pineaple. How do i do that, and will it bare fruit.
Tiffany
Yes! You need to cut off the top and replant it. It takes 2-3 years, but it will bear fruit!
Shea Mclendon
I grow pineapples all the time. Every time I go to the local grocery I ask for the pineapple tops. I get them free as they throw them away. Twist the top off of the core. remove about eight green leaves at base. You will begin to see these little curly roots. Place green stalk in a glass of water only submerging about one inch in water. Change water daily. Roots will appear in about one week Once you get a good root supply you may then plant in pot of soil. I place mine outside In a sunny spot. (after all frost danger is over) Happy Pineappling!
Queen
@Gary roos Adding to what Tiffany and Shea said, If you take care of them long enough they will even multiply. We have pineapples in our garden that have started to grow 2 and 3 pineapples from 1 pineapple top!!
Omra
You re-plant the top. It takes two years… when it makes off shoots, those will take one year🍍
Alyson
I’ve done this with garlic and celery before, works great! I will definitely be expanding my regrow list!
Karen
Did this years ago You won’t get edible fruit but you get a really cool plant Sometimes you will get a little fruited pineapple but I’ve never had one mature. So ok.. cut the top 2” off your pineapple. Scrape out the pulp and lay it on its side to dry out a bit. Maybe 3-4 days then just set it down into soil. It will start to grow from the inside of the exposed leaves
Cinda
My Dad in south florida planted the top. Of the pineapple the sliced a small amount of flesh off with the green leaves intact and burried it leaving the leaves exposed it took a very long time to bear fruit but he did grow one pineapple it was verydelish.hand worth the wait he had fun we ithe projecthe really babyied that plant
Kyare - Team Crumbs
Cinda, this sounds like a fabulous memory!
Vira
How about beets? I have one on water and leaVierves about 5 inch tall, should be planted on soil?
Tiffany
I haven’t experimented with beets Vira, but my best guess would be soil since they’re root vegetables!
lorrie hughes
if you just want greens you can leave the root in the water.
Susan
I have tried this so many times and never works. Few small leaves before turning dark in the middle 🙁
Tiffany
I’m sorry Susan! The environment plays a big role in this experiment.
Anita
I have a pineapple that I rooted 2 or 3 years ago, for a nice plant, did not know or care if it bears fruit & it hasn’t but it does do what I rooted it for & that’s make a pretty plant
Aidan
Hi Tiffany, great article. Regarding growing Bok choy, is that best grown on a taller deeper container or shallow wide one? I’m guessing the former?
patricia chambers
I just discovered doing this! Very excited about it…I cut off bottom of Romaine Lettuce and put it in a “whisky” size glass and it’s already growing …a lot! About 5 shoots or “leaves” only taking 5 days. I also did the same to a Leek, and it is already growing.. Going to do alot more of this since I see that it really works. The way everything in our world is now, this makes me feel independent and not have to stress over what is or is not at the grocery store. I also have tomatoes and squash growing outside. Happy day to all!!
Ofelia
Very good idea. I will try deffinitly some of these maybe lettuce, look the easiest,, I already grow a mango tree,avocado tree,apple tree,hot pepper, habanero pepper, and cherries, I live in texas not sure if they going to work but I am trying,
Kyare - Team Crumbs
Ofelia, I wish you luck in all your gardening!
Brenda Hughes
Romaine works
Mary d
Can I then plant in dirt .I tried the water to little coming up
Rebecca
Crazy!!! I’m so excited to try this.
Sue
How much sun do these need to get?
Beth Lehman
I have only done green onions. I put my in my kitchen window which gets indirect west sun. They are growing, but I believe they would do better with more light
Barb
I’m growing romaine and celery. It amazing!!!
Merles Mommy
I’m so excited and happy to try this. I eat a lot of vegetables and especially salad. There’s nothing like the taste fresh lettuce.