{"id":178,"date":"2020-05-11T08:18:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/?p=178"},"modified":"2020-05-11T08:18:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:18:21","slug":"planting-with-veggie-scraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/2020\/05\/11\/planting-with-veggie-scraps\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting with Veggie Scraps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Save all those vegetable scraps that would normally go into the compost bin.\u00a0 This is a science experiment to see what will grow and what will not.\u00a0 Let’s do this together and keep track of the process.<\/p>\n

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I have the ends of green onions, part of a potato, carrot tops, seeds from a butternut squash, garlic segments, romain lettuce end cut and a red onion!<\/p>\n

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I placed them all in their own containers with about a 1\/2″ of water.<\/p>\n

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Change the water every two days and place them by a window where they’ll get some sunlight.\u00a0 Now all you have to do is sit back and keep an eye on them for any changes.\u00a0 Other veggies to try are:\u00a0 the base of a celery stalk, basil, cilantro stem, beet root top, leeks and a pineapple top.\u00a0 I am sure there are more things to try.\u00a0 Experiment!<\/p>\n

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After only 5 days, I have noticed some big and small changes with the veggie scraps.<\/p>\n

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If you look closely, there are a few buds appearing on the potato.\u00a0 Nothing is happening with the squash seeds and the red onion roots have gotten longer.\u00a0 On the right, two new lettuce leaves have started sprouting out of the Romain stalk.\u00a0 The green onions have started growing with darker green stems shooting out from the middle.\u00a0 The garlic bulbs were the fastest to grow.\u00a0 The growth is over 4 inches tall after 5 days.\u00a0 Remember to change the water regularly!<\/p>\n

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If you are trying out this or any<\/strong> of the past activities, please take photos and share them with me via email.\u00a0 I would love to see them!<\/p>\n

Have fun and happy planting!<\/p>\n

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Save all those vegetable scraps that would normally go into the compost bin.\u00a0 This is a science experiment to see what will grow and what will not.\u00a0 Let’s do this together and keep track of the process. I have the ends of green onions, part of a potato, carrot tops, seeds from a butternut squash, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/cascade-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}