Regrowing store lettuce, celery, onions, etc.

[catjac1975]

Don't know if any of you are doing this or if there is already a thread on it, but I just started this lately to see how it all goes. First I tried just putting the butts of these things out in the garden and tucking the hay around them...we've had so much rain I figured they'd either do very well or very badly.

Well, some have fared well, some rotted. Right now I've got several butts of romaine and one of celery sitting in bowls of water on the table. It's astounding how soon they start to regrow...I put the celery in the water just 6 hrs ago and it already shows some growth on two of the stalks.

Here's a pic of some of the romaine in a bowl....we eat about 4 heads of romaine lettuce every 4-5 days or so, and a bunch of celery every week or so. An onion every 4-5 days for salads, more if Eli makes sandwiches.

The onion pictured here didn't make it, but one out in the garden has 4 in of growth on it, so does the celery I just stuck on the soil out there. A romaine is also doing well out there. I'm going to give these time to get going, then tuck them under my low tunnel.

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A fun experiment. However, lettuce seed is cheap and easy to grow. I would also consider that they are likely laden with chemicals.

 

[Beekissed]

A fun experiment. However, lettuce seed is cheap and easy to grow. I would also consider that they are likely laden with chemicals.

True, but these would otherwise get dumped in the garbage, so why not let them grow into lettuce? Since I'm already eating the laden with chemicals lettuce in the first place, I'd venture to say they won't hurt me much more from having regrown in cleaner soils.