Last year, I bought a 1.5 lbs bag of purple baby potatoes in my local ShopRite. I couldn’t find purple potato seeds, so I decided to take a chance. There were 22 baby potatoes and all of them had eyes with some growth protruding, so I knew they would take off. Sure enough, I got an excellent crop out of those 22 baby potatoes. We enjoyed them until the end of year and then somehow forgot about them. When in March I realized we had still about ten pounds of potatoes, they had already started to sprout. In April, I planted some and the rest donated to the community garden. Both - us and the community gardeners - enjoyed huge crop of delicious purple potatoes. In the past, I occasionally planted store-bought potatoes when they were sprouting, but this was the first time I deliberately purchased a bag of potatoes just for planting. I am glad I did.
Be careful…they are probably in their 6 or 7th generation at the store. Replanting them for future generations could introduce potato blight that is in the soil for 2-3 years! Seed potatoes are 3rd or 4th generation. They are more expensive but you can replant for 4 or 5 years. I learned the hard way.😕
Hi there, thanks for sharing. I will definitely try this. I wanted to ask you about the soil I see you throwing in the bin. Where did you get it? It looks so healthy. I always buy the worse soil and then have lots ID problems with my potted plant. The soil never holds any water. It runs right out. Eventually, I started to soak it for a few days. Thank you.
My Mom was a farmer's daughter from the Depression Era and taught me to grow potatoes from the eyes or sprouts. You simply cut them, making sure each cut has an eye, and plant them into the soil. I did this and ended up with more than I needed. My mom and I canned potatoes for days. 😊 One of my best memories
My parents did the same thing in the 1980's. We grew all of our own corn, potatoes, green beans(I still hate green beans), carrots, tomatoes, and beats. We canned everything but the potatoes. We kept them in the crawl space under the house.
I do that too, and am always surprised when he plants the whole potato. I'd would think you'd get more potatoes by separating the individual sprouts. Can't argue with his success though.
I love how easy tomatoes are to grow. We planted some tomatoes and when they grew our dog started going over, picking one off, walking a few steps and eating it. After she passed, tomato plants started growing all over the yard. It was like a little gift from her. 🍅=❤️
@@kellymcguire8888 I Googled it and it said Dogs will eat tomatoes but only give them ripe ones and very little. I was surprised because I've had dogs all my life and they never showed interest in tomatoes. Guess I spoiled them with meat. I learned something. Thank you
@ It was a ground level planter and she had full access to them 24/7. I’ve also seen pet friendly planters made with plants that are good for dogs, but they never included tomatoes so I didn’t even know that tomatoes were OK for dogs to eat. But she seemed to love them, and nothing bad ever happened when she ate them so I figured it was OK. 🤷🏻♀️
Reminds me of the time I tossed potato peels and an onion bottom in the compost bin (when I was still getting into gardening). I got evacuated for a wildfire in the area and was gone for 2 weeks, but when I came back I had 22 potato sprouts and a monster onion.
Isn't that funny. If you would have planted them, fertilized,watered, and sang to them they probably wouldn't do as well as compost potatoes (and onion)😅😅😂
I'm living in south of Portugal and I do that and have o lot of potatos and swett potato, just through in the garden and everithing start to grow@@IDontModWTFz
So nice to have people like you helping old, clueless people like me (I'm 80) teaching us new techniques to grow veggies. Wish I had known this before my husband died & I Had to sell the house we built on 2 & 1/2 acres only 3 miles from town on a side road among large farms. I love reading & learning new things.
I am so sorry you lost your husband and home. I hope you still have somewhere to live and start growing things again- even on a tiny patch of ground or on a balcony in pots, or even inside,in a window. You still have a purpose and even if you grow one tomato plant you may want too give a couple of its tomatoes to a friend, or even a stranger. Many Blessings.❤❤
I am from Jamaica and I watch you all the time, I was inspired to start my own backyard gardening. I must say I feel a sense of purpose going into my backyard to plant and reap, THANK YOU !!!!
I do this with green onions…I buy a small bunch from the grocery store, cut them about 2” tall, plant the bottoms in a small pot and cook with the tops. Typically get my first harvest in a few weeks, sometimes I can get a second or even third harvest from them. I know they’re not an expensive item, but every few dollars we save adds up, plus it’s fun!!
I plant the roots of scallions after I use the tops. You can even get fresh greens by just putting them in water. I have a farm share-once you get used to farm fresh food the stuff from the grocery store disappoints.
I'm 69, when I was a little kid, my elderly neighbors, threw all their scraps, from veggies in a certain spot of the garden, they would get food from there, it amazed me, i thought that was so cool!
That's so interesting, how big was the pot & was it full of dirt when the started? Did the just haphazardly toss the scraps anywhere & everywhere. I wonder if I could get stuff to grow that way.
My brother has a farm. Discarded vegetables grow al around. But it's a hit and miss affair. You're better off ensuring thst conditions are closer to optimal, by following instructions from farming manuals or videos@@dianadaelen6323
You don't cut the eyes off the potatoes to grow them. They need a 2 or 3 inch section of the potato for each eye. You cut the potatoes into chunks with at least 1 eye each, plant the chunks, and be sure to mulch or hill each potato plant.
I love this! I grow potatoes, celery, garlic, tomatoes, cucumbers , green onions, ginger, and romaine lettuce this way! Start my bell peppers , watermelon, avocado, and so much more from the seeds of store bought items. I also have beautiful lemon trees from the lemon seeds I save. I had a great harvest this year from sweet potato slips from store bought sweet potatoes. Five slips gave us a five gallon bucket of potatoes. I will certainly do that again next year! Tuck these are for you!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have had poor luck with my celery scrap plants. They always start strong, grow beautiful green leaves and thin stalks for a month and overnight they wilt,turn yellow and die. Everytime this has happened with mine. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I always plant potatoes from the grocery store. I never waste money on buying seed potatoes. 5 years ago, in the Summer, I bought locally grown hard neck garlic in the grocery store and planted the biggest cloves in the Fall. Ever since then, I save some cloves and plant them each Fall. My harvested garlic heads last me for the rest the year. I have not bought any more garlic in the store.
@@theplantslover51 If you're asking about the store bought potatoes, I buy them at the end of February - March and keep them indoors, at a sunny window, sitting in empty egg cartons. When they are exposed to light, the eyes/sprouts turn dark green & purple color and they stay short and chubby. I plant them outdoors, about 1 week before the last frost, in large plastic pots, that I saved when my daughter bought young trees and shrubs from the nursery. I keep the pots in partly sunny area on my concrete patio. I have each pot sitting on top of 4 bricks to keep the pot off the ground and allow easy drainage. I cover the pots with chicken wire to keep the squirrels out. They love to dig in fresh/soft soil. If you're asking about the hard neck garlic, I plant the cloves directly in the ground, in full sun. I add about 3" layer of compost and till in into the soil. I add about a tablespoon of bone meal in each planting hole. I space the holes about 5" apart. I am in zone 5, so I plant them at least 3" deep, measured from the top pointy tip of the clove. Hard neck garlic cloves are BIG. So, I make the planting hole about 4 1/2'" deep. As soon as I plant them, I water them. Each year, I plant them in the middle of October, before the first frost. First few years, I did not mulch them. But last year, I covered them with about 3" layer of straw to see if it would make any difference. I could not see any difference. I always cover the garlic bed with chicken wire to make sure that the rodents don't dig them out. So far, every single garlic clove that I planted has produced a garlic head. Garlic is about the easiest thing to grow.
James! I had to pause your video to tell you that this video was one of the most exciting ones I've seen in a very long time! I don't get out much obviously... But, you really hit the nail on the head with thisk one -- so appreciate you sharing this with us!
12:49 Awesome Video! Just an opinion from my own experience... When growing carrots from carrot tops it is actually good idea to let the flowers of those plants go to seed, then harvest the seeds for a next crop, as you will never get a good harvest from just the carrot tops.
Hey James. I live in the 39th floor of a Miami condo, zone 11A and I grow cabbage from scraps, in my balcony, year-round (potting soil, small containers, no direct sunlight because I live in Miami). Here's the secret: You need a much more substantial stem. Look for a cabbage head with the longest stem possible and leave a fair amount of the cabbage head intact when cutting. I take the cabbage head's outer leaves and leave the stem intact (at least 3 or 4 inches long). That's essential for regrowing purposes. Settle your scrap into the soil, burying only 1/3 of an inch of the cabbage stem, and water it in well. Plant must be watered moderately but shouldn’t be soggy. It will grow a root system. New beautiful cabbage leaves will grow around the central stem. Harvest the leaves as they grow. They will regrow again and again.
@DianaGascon, what kind of soil do you use. I normally use coconut coir as well as my compost, not getting as much supply as I feel I should. My cherry tomatoes do amazing in it but my other crops not so much. All raised beds btw
The good thing with ginger is that you can do a lot of the prep work indoors at the end of winter. Put the root in a container with a moist paper towel and after a week or two, you can cut the ginger up to separate the sprouts which you can leave in the container to get more established and establish roots before planting in the garden to get a month's head start on the season. Note that ginger usually has a growth inhibitor on it that can be removed by soaking in water overnight then scrubbing with a brush. This will more than halve the time required to get it to sprout.
Another thing I do with veggie scraps is add them to a bag I have in the freezer and when it’s full, I simmer them on the stove in some water for a few hours to make a nice broth. Then either can freeze that so that I always have broth on hand to use instead of water for making soups, stews, casseroles and such.
3 and 5 gallon buckets also make excellent homes for growing spuds. The 5 gallon size are large enough to grow them on two levels. Cut a "window" near the bottom and fashion it back in place with gorilla tape for a hinge. Use a small length of coat hanger for the latch. Drill some drain holes in the bottom. Don't fill the bucket to the top with growing soil. Just barely over half way. When the first leaves peek up and a stem starts, most folks want to snap off those lower leaves . . . Dont! That is going to be the second layer of spuds. The low level spuds can be accessed thru that nifty door you cut. Feel around and grab a few then shut the door and toss the soil that spilled right back in.
@@clintongross6984 people are told to break off those lower leaves when the plant gets about 2 feet tall. - don't. But do not fill the bucket full of potting soil. - those bottom leaves will later be covered with soil. Then those leaves become the second round of tubers. That will be the second round of spuds BTW if you are a fan of loaded baked potatoes, did you know that Kraft has powered cheddar cheese. Have only ever seen it in grocery stores in Minnesota and Wisconsin. But it is available online as well. I like getting the empty shaker bottles of parmesan at the gas station in town that has pizza by the slice. I fill them up with powered cheddar and bequeath them to people. Makes great topper for baked potatoes. Also makes really inexpensive Mac & Cheese for the kiddos
My parents always grew potatoes from the eyes that would sprout attached to a 1/4 slice of the potato. It was free food! Great experiment. Thank you for all of your videos. ❤
I have done this for fifty years, also if you dig up the tomato and pepper plants and put them inside the cellar by a window, you can replant in spring, get BIGGER produce, can do it 2-3 years running
My peppers have produced heavily last year but their leaves are yellow now in January (Greece / Med zone) and do not produce much. Plus, fruits are very small. Should I take them out from their pots ?? Put them somewhere aside ??? They will not die if left in a cellar (lack of sun) and unwatered ??? Thanks for you advice !!
re: rooting and growing stuff like celery, cabbage, lettuce, etc - you peel all the leaves off the outside. all of that's going to rot on you, you have to remove them and you MUST have some of the root cells on the bottom or it won't root. always plant the bottom of your onions and then just snip the green tops and chop those up to eat. they'll grow all year round - heat and cold and snow don't bother them
@@rayofsunshine107h i had replanted a cut+sprouting onion from the store, and when they get closer to harvest time, the plant itself did start to give off a very strong onion smell when walking past it 😅
@@MichaelWillbywhen onions are ready to be harvested they have a smell that can't be ignored. Plug your ears. Plug your nose. The smell is still there. So yeah. It's loud.
Garlic is grown from individual cloves, just like you planted. But you are right that in most zones it’s best planted in the late fall and harvested in summer. Garlic in my Zone 5B takes 9-10 months to grow. But it’s worth the wait! And it takes very little work.
We planted a slice of a Roma tomato in 3 different places in our raised garden and got a yield of hundreds of tomatoes, we never trimmed the plants we just let them go wild and they took over everything. The main trunk of the plants were over an inch in diameter. We ended up stewing them and canning them for tomato sauce. Our neighbor must have planted a cherry tomato plant and a squirrel relocated some of the seeds at our fence line and we got a few hundred from it as well. Tomatoes are probably the easiest things to grow.
Tomatoes aren't that easy to grow outside in N E England it's too windy ( straight down from Iceland so it's very cold too ) an unheated greenhouse is a necessity.
@@MichaelWillby I guess I should have specified my location, I live in Southern Ontario Canada where our summers are very humid because we are surrounded by water. Everything grows really well here in the summer but the flip side is our winters are so bad that nothing survives. Some places get a very mild winter or none at all and can just keep growing.
Nyc experiment 👍.... although for those carrot plant u could have let its flowers grow and then see them convert into seeds which you can easily use to grow much more carrot next season🙂
I love this, I did an experiment one time with scallions, and celery. I also take all my tomatoes that are not looking good at the end of season and just let them compost in my beds and I get lots of free tomatoes (large and cherry) every year. It definitely is a great experiment and they all taste as fresh as their original veggies. Thank you and God bless 🙏
During the pandemic, I tried growing a grocery store celery bottom in a pot. I can't recall if I first soaked or even rooted it in water, but I probably did. To my happy surprise, once potted in soil, it started sending up stalks which, in turn, made lots of leaves. I harvested greens and slender stems/stalks on a regular basis, never once giving the plant a chance to form a full on stalk.
@jackrodgersjr Ooooooh! Yes! Wouldn't that be nice! I'd cultivate those trees with grow lights and fertilizer. I'd spread repellent around so squirrels couldn't steal it, calling it taxes. Happy Thanksgiving!! 😊
Great expirament! There are so many crops we can grow from store bought produce! Back in 2013, I planted potatoes along my driveway. Despite harvesting potatoes each year, there are still plants growing from that original grocery store set that had sprouted!
I’m most surprised with the onion! I figured it would grow leaves but was sure it would not grow a bulb, so to see it grew multiple bulbs is just so awesome.
I grew beautiful lemon grass plants from a bunch I bought in the grocery store. Put them in a glass of water until you see roots, then plant in pots and watch them grow. They are still growing and they have been completely trouble free plants. I moved them to the sunroom when fall came and its January 2 today, they are looking great. The lemon grass tastes really good too.
I have a large compost frame (nearly 1 metre high) where are all my kitchen scraps and garden rubbish goes in. Every year in the late summer I harvest huge amounts of my favourite potatoes out of it because the potato peels with the “eyes” just go like mad and I let the plant simply do its thing. I buy from the store the waxy baby potatoes and usually I eat them with the skin, but sometimes there’s a bad bit which I cut off. This year I harvest it nearly 18 kg of beautiful potatoes 🥰 Thank you for this video, it’s amazing how things grow if we let them. 😇
I love watching Tuck supervising and eating as well. One of my two dogs eats Tiny Tim tomatoes (all courtesy of the birds in the garden), and raspberries as they are so sweet. You are inspiring me to try to do more.like most people I am feeling the pinch of raised prices so every bit of free food helps.
That sounds really nice. Just be sure that there isn't lead paint in ur window area. Someone who does lead testing of homes said that edibles grown on window sills get contaminated with lead dust & ppl don't realize the harm. Wishing you and everyone the best & a wonderful harvest.
@@--AC Our house is a new build so it is safe in that regard, but I totally understand how that can be an issue in older homes (along with others like asbestos). I appreciate you pointing it out !
I bought a red dragon fruit from the store, soaked the seeds for three weeks till they sprouted and grew tons of babies!!!! So far I’ve got 8 in my indoor veggie planter! Ty for sharing ❤
I live in zone 6 in Mass. I throw a few of my sweet 100's cherry tomatoes on the soil of the raised bed gardens at the end of the season. In the spring when the soil hits temperature the seeds sprout and i get plants. They get loaded with cherry tomatoes. I also do the same with my bigger tomatoes like Early girl and have had the same results. I also save a handful of lil red and lil yellow potatoes, full size Yukon gold potato and a sweet potato that i leave sprout thru the winter in my house. i then plant them in the soil in a sunny place mid to late march depending if there is snow on the ground may be later. I get a good-sized harvest from them every year. i actually get to put a second batch down, but it yields half of what i get from the first. i have been doing this for over 30 years with no fail. i also plant the garlic from the grocery store in pieces like you did. but it takes 2 maybe 3 years before it amounts to anything. Experimenting is fun in the garden.
@wendyhenschel. Yup, it just digs them up and leaves them on top of the dirt. I tried repelling it with moth balls down its hole. The chipmunk picks them up and leaves them on the grass. I think I have the only chipmunk with a poor sense of smell 😅 Groundhogs are seriously annoying!
I definitely share your enthusiasm for Gardening and have also tried growing vegetables from discards and have been relatively successful. I encourage the practice. PS I loved it when you said that you 'harvest' the greens of the beets, I do also, adding them to my green juice that has saved my life
Man it’s crazy how we all have different luck with different plants. I had no problem growing tumeric, but struggled with carrots. But that dirt, wow we need some background on where that came from because that definitely wasn’t big box store potting mix!
I started a compost bin during Covid. I only have a very small garden, and I ended up with plenty of healthy soil I put some of the soil in a hanging basket, I now have a tomatoes plants growing in my hanging basket. It’s going to be over crowded so I’ll try and transplant them into a larger garden pot. All those potatoes out of one potato, was fantastic 😉 Thank you James, I’ve really enjoyed this video.
I'm sure you have already thought of this, but I'll share my thought anyway. You did stress the idea of using organic produce because of the growth inhibitors commercial growers use to prolong shelf life of the produce. I would also suggest buying heirloom tomatoes at the store if you plan to grow them from the cut off tops. They should breed true to type. I plan to try that in the spring garden. I love your channel and and am always inspired by your enthusiasm for gardening. I love seeing Tuck follow you around and eating carrots. Rich Moore in Baltimore,MD
I bought a beautiful heirloom tomato from the store last year.. sprouted the seeds and had a harvest of hundreds of tomatoes!! It was interesting how all the plants produced similar tomatoes except one that had bright almost magenta colored tomatoes! I’ve collected seeds from most of those tomatoes and next year will be very interesting to see how it goes!!
As a lazy gardener ...what grows out of the compost heap or scraps I have shoved into the earth here & there has fed me well Corn & sunflowers & grains grown from chicken feed forgotten by them. Trees grown through their pots or from bird droppings & suckers ..have provided plenty. Wild blackberry hedges & herbs... The sun shines & the rain pours down to water them & I am ready to eat 😋 Thank you, great video. It's lots of fun to experiment.👍🌱
Great experiment James, I will recreate it. One thing about the beet - you can eat and enjoy just the greens from the top. Young leaves are great in salad, larger ones are wonderful sauted in olive and garlic, mix with some orrechetti pasta- yum. The green tops of beets have the most amount of potassium than any food!
We planted a couple green onion sprouted ends and they turned into amazing large scallions! Like 4-5 feet tall and a couple inches in diameter! Delicious!
That's amazing! Thanks for doing this I always learn a lot from you! My fav part of beets are the tops / greens! I always cook radish tops, beet tops, turnip tops. A little EVOO, salt, red pepper flakes, garlic and sautee for 2 minutes. Can add wine or lemon juice or stock or water to make a lil steam. Super fast and easy! Please don't throw away your tops! I have chitted and planted organic potatoes. Super easy!
I cut off the end of celery and put it in a plastic container with water about a third of it in the water and put it on the windowsill and it will sprout. I love putting the sprouted celery in soups with the leaves as it is a very good flavor. My Uncle Ed always told me to plant potatoes eyes up and plant them on a full moon!! I always had an abundance of potatoes. Happy Gardening!!
This is very effective for me because I love to plant vegetables I bought from the shop I planted a lot of ginger turmeric tomatoes scallions celery etc only the beets and carrots and some other stuff didn't make it I appreciate what you are doing you make it easy for us ladies who love gardening wow yours comes out very good especially the potatoes we can save a lot of money for other stuff thanks so much I am happy for you God bless you ❤
The first summer of the pandemic out daughter watched us plan out 3 additional 10x10 garden areas. It was because we knew we knew we would be home all summer. Daughter decided we were trying to not starve to death. She created her own garden using a lot of the same things you did. She learned a lot about tap roots. We gave her quality tools and seeds for Christmas that year and she still keeps her own garden beds.
65 yrs doing this, n learning from you n Tucks🐾🐾🐾🐾 for last 5r so years albeit when I planted the carrots, no new root yet grew n went to flower for the seeds 🤸🙏🐾
I do it all the time!! Grew ginger 🫚 turmeric, potato, onions, celery and green onions from scraps! But I do have seeds and I am setting up my garden for the spring 😊
I would also like to comment about the beet tops. I have difficulty growing beets in the past but love the greens. Planting beet tops from the store ,just for greens seems like a winning idea..
So far, the potatoes are the best of all thing. Onion is good., ginger is great. Beautiful tomatoes, Thank you for all of these tips. I will try it out soon
I'm glad I found your page. I started growing food this year since becoming sick which started out very well but when hurricane beryl hit 95% of the new growth died and the rest has been growing very slowly. Watching your video has reinspired me to try again, being more aware of the seasons, while keeping in mind to use organic waste to minimize the growth inhibitors you spoke on. Many blessings! ❤
In MN there is wild ginger growing in forests. Huge amounts that just keep growing every year in the wild. Keep it in the ground and pick out some individual roots as needed and you can keep them forever.
I have had success with even small pieces of cabbage core. I put them in a shallow pool of water in a covered dish. Then I put that in the refrigerator to prevent it rotting. After a few weeks, the piece of core will sprout leaves, and then roots, in that order. Then I keep it for a few days on a window sill, still in a pool of water, before planting it in a medium-sized pot. When it looks strong, I move it outside and keep it shaded for a few more days. It does not re-grow cabbage heads, but grows several seed stalks instead. A few cabbage leaves can be taken occasionally, without harming the 'seed factory'.
Hint and it works, after the growing season if you still have green tomatoes on the plant, pull the whole plant roots and all shake off the dirt and hang the plant in a cool dark room over winter, i did this one year in my garage the temp stays at about 45f all winter i was eating Fresh red rip tomatoes in February When we had snow on the ground. You do not have to eat fried green tomatoes.
Great idea from this video. If u ever get a really good carrot. Or a black or a purple.. regrow the top and massive seeds. Carrots are great for seeds. Thx james.
I've got self-sown parsley over a fairly wide area in my garden. Most of it is descended from a plant bought when I was a kid over 30 years ago and has ventured a good five metres from where the original plant went in. Some seeds made it round to the other side of the property somehow. It's since been joined by the descendants of a supermarket-bought bunch.
Yes. Throw scraps into garden. Make sure you want those scraps to grow there if they sprout or regrow. I had volunteer tomatoes from my scraps. I live my volunteers❤❤❤❤
Love this philosophy, I plant all of my scraps and seeds from store. Have been eating buttercup squash and purple sweet potatoes for years that started from a single store bought item😊
I have been re-growing green onions for years! When I lived in Georgia and had a huge vegetable garden, I planted the root ends of some green onions and the following beginning of summer I had onion plants that were as tall as I am (5'2")! And the onion bulbs were HUGE! (They were delicious, too!) Who would have thought?
Thank you for showing what they turn into while they’re buried. I’ve tried carrots and potatoes which blew me away when I pulled up the green tops, as I had no idea they’d regrow into a bunch. I was as excited as a little kid. Tomatoes will be my next try. 👵❤️
Love your energy and approach. I have to say that after watching about 5 of your videos I wondered why you kept saying ‘mean talk’. It was only after I started wondering what ‘mean talk’ means that I realised you were actually saying ‘me & Tok’ being you and your cool little doggy lol. Anyway Australia here , down south, keep up the good work, some of your info doesn’t apply down here such as some of the garden pests don’t exist here, but we have other pests to take their place believe me. Looking forward to watching more of your videos 🤙
I planted spring onions in early March last year and by May 4th they had grown significantly taller and tastier. They were so potent they made me cry cutting them. And these were SPRING ONIONS. The only problem I had was managing the pests, so I'm hoping this year I'll be better able to fend off slugs and the like.
I watched your show on Thanksgiving 2024 and got inspired. I planted a lemon seed in with another house plant. Guess what.? I now have a lemon tree. Very exciting. IAm hooked. Thank you.
I did this as a child with my brother and mother. When we harvested I remember my little brother said: «Mom, what we put in was more than we are getting now»😂. So your try is so much better👍
Sweet potatoes are fun to grow! Just plant the eyes like regular potatoes & when they start to sprout, be sure they have LOTS OF SPACE because at every point where a stem touches the ground, it will root & grow several sweet potatoes!!!😊😋😋😋
Am I the only one who is saying, "What??? where's the "Let's go!!" ???? I always say that when I watch James' videos. That's part of the intro😭 Interesting video :) I have been trying all year to grow ginger, FINALLY, i have four small sprouts, hope they hang on.
I am in NW MO and hire year on my tubers. Last year didn't grow a whole lot. I put he pot in same place this year, funny spot and it really didn't thrive. I relocated it to a shaded spot,getting only late afternoon sun and I had 7 shoots instead of the 2-3. It stands much taller too. I will harvest soon and next year plant a tuber and set in the shaded spot. Hopefully it helps💕
Thank you for the video. I literally just saved some beets, carrots and ginger from store bought. I have grown store bought before but with seeds. I saved the tops and meant to look up a "how to", and your video just popped up today. 😮 It's super cold where I live, so I threw my scraps away. However, Most everything you have grows here, even in the snow.However, you must plant earlier or transplant from indoors.
I have forgotten tomatoes until they got too old to eat. I hate to throw food away so I threw it at the base of a flowering tree as sort of fertilizer. Way later when I was taking out more food to dispose of, I found a couple of plants. I replanted them and ate fruit off them that year! That will work! Glad I didn't throw the fruit in the trash. I was so surprised when I found the plants!
Turmeric take a while to root. When you buy turmeric from the store, check if the eyes are intact and healthy. Most of the store bought turmeric the eyes are scraped off.
Thank you for your honesty about the taste of the tomatoes. I like to leave them on the vine until they’re almost red. That’s how they get all their sweetness. I’m sure you knew that, but were too excited to harvest. Great reminder about planting organic produce.
This is the first time I have ever seen your channel and I am so blessed to come across it. God bless you, brother. This is amazing. You definitely sold me with the harvest of potatoes. I will plant something today January 4, 2025. I will thrive in gardening.❤ I’m also a new subscriber.🎉💚🌱
I had my first container vegetable garden last year but it didn't do very well. I didn't notice if you mentioned the proper soil in the video. Can you suggest please? I'd like to try again after watching your video.
Takes a bit and you have to keep everything moist because the roots are growing at same time plant is trying to grow ..but once roots get established you'll have explosive growth
Thank you, James, for doing this experiment bc I have been wondering how cutting off the root part and replanting would come up. I'm impressed. I will try next spring.
Last year, I bought a 1.5 lbs bag of purple baby potatoes in my local ShopRite. I couldn’t find purple potato seeds, so I decided to take a chance. There were 22 baby potatoes and all of them had eyes with some growth protruding, so I knew they would take off. Sure enough, I got an excellent crop out of those 22 baby potatoes. We enjoyed them until the end of year and then somehow forgot about them. When in March I realized we had still about ten pounds of potatoes, they had already started to sprout. In April, I planted some and the rest donated to the community garden. Both - us and the community gardeners - enjoyed huge crop of delicious purple potatoes. In the past, I occasionally planted store-bought potatoes when they were sprouting, but this was the first time I deliberately purchased a bag of potatoes just for planting. I am glad I did.
Are you in zone 7a, like James, ( I ask because I’m in 7a)
@@michaelsherron5750 6b
Be careful…they are probably in their 6 or 7th generation at the store. Replanting them for future generations could introduce potato blight that is in the soil for 2-3 years! Seed potatoes are 3rd or 4th generation. They are more expensive but you can replant for 4 or 5 years. I learned the hard way.😕
Hi there, thanks for sharing. I will definitely try this. I wanted to ask you about the soil I see you throwing in the bin. Where did you get it? It looks so healthy. I always buy the worse soil and then have lots ID problems with my potted plant. The soil never holds any water. It runs right out. Eventually, I started to soak it for a few days.
Thank you.
Inspirational! 👍👍🥰✌️🇨🇦
My Mom was a farmer's daughter from the Depression Era and taught me to grow potatoes from the eyes or sprouts. You simply cut them, making sure each cut has an eye, and plant them into the soil. I did this and ended up with more than I needed. My mom and I canned potatoes for days. 😊 One of my best memories
That's how my late grandmother, who also grew up during the depression era, taught me.
My parents did the same thing in the 1980's. We grew all of our own corn, potatoes, green beans(I still hate green beans), carrots, tomatoes, and beats. We canned everything but the potatoes. We kept them in the crawl space under the house.
canning potatoes especially always scares me (though I make tons of jams).
I do that too, and am always surprised when he plants the whole potato. I'd would think you'd get more potatoes by separating the individual sprouts. Can't argue with his success though.
That's how it's done. I am shocked to see videos where folks grow only one plant when they might have had half a dozen!
I love how easy tomatoes are to grow. We planted some tomatoes and when they grew our dog started going over, picking one off, walking a few steps and eating it. After she passed, tomato plants started growing all over the yard. It was like a little gift from her.
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❤that's a lovely and sad story all at the same time. I'm sorry for your loss xxx
I didn't know dogs eat tomatoes
@ She seemed to love them.
@@kellymcguire8888 I Googled it and it said Dogs will eat tomatoes but only give them ripe ones and very little. I was surprised because I've had dogs all my life and they never showed interest in tomatoes. Guess I spoiled them with meat. I learned something. Thank you
@ It was a ground level planter and she had full access to them 24/7. I’ve also seen pet friendly planters made with plants that are good for dogs, but they never included tomatoes so I didn’t even know that tomatoes were OK for dogs to eat. But she seemed to love them, and nothing bad ever happened when she ate them so I figured it was OK. 🤷🏻♀️
Reminds me of the time I tossed potato peels and an onion bottom in the compost bin (when I was still getting into gardening). I got evacuated for a wildfire in the area and was gone for 2 weeks, but when I came back I had 22 potato sprouts and a monster onion.
It is so surprising how simple it really is I loved being in my garden
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Isn't that funny. If you would have planted them, fertilized,watered, and sang to them they probably wouldn't do as well as compost potatoes (and onion)😅😅😂
As a child of a potato farmer, if you cut that potato in 3rds so that each had a sprout, you end up with 3 plants.
Infinite potato glitch
Brother you can grow potatoes from the skin peel. My nan had a infestation of potatoes cause she always threw the skin in her garden.
Haha wow!@@IDontModWTFz
@@IDontModWTFz Oh damn lol.
I'm living in south of Portugal and I do that and have o lot of potatos and swett potato, just through in the garden and everithing start to grow@@IDontModWTFz
So nice to have people like you helping old, clueless people like me (I'm 80) teaching us new techniques to grow veggies. Wish I had known this before my husband died & I Had to sell the house we built on 2 & 1/2 acres only 3 miles from town on a side road among large farms. I love reading & learning new things.
I am so sorry you lost your husband and home. I hope you still have somewhere to live and start growing things again- even on a tiny patch of ground or on a balcony in pots, or even inside,in a window. You still have a purpose and even if you grow one tomato plant you may want too give a couple of its tomatoes to a friend, or even a stranger. Many Blessings.❤❤
I am from Jamaica and I watch you all the time, I was inspired to start my own backyard gardening. I must say I feel a sense of purpose going into my backyard to plant and reap, THANK YOU !!!!
u are very blessed with jamaican weather its a dream
It is very rewarding!❤😊
Have you done videos of your work? I would love to see
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Jamaica mahn , put another shrimp on the bahbe
I do this with green onions…I buy a small bunch from the grocery store, cut them about 2” tall, plant the bottoms in a small pot and cook with the tops. Typically get my first harvest in a few weeks, sometimes I can get a second or even third harvest from them. I know they’re not an expensive item, but every few dollars we save adds up, plus it’s fun!!
I plant the roots of scallions after I use the tops. You can even get fresh greens by just putting them in water. I have a farm share-once you get used to farm fresh food the stuff from the grocery store disappoints.
I'm 69, when I was a little kid, my elderly neighbors, threw all their scraps, from veggies in a certain spot of the garden, they would get food from there, it amazed me, i thought that was so cool!
That's so interesting, how big was the pot & was it full of dirt when the started? Did the just haphazardly toss the scraps anywhere & everywhere. I wonder if I could get stuff to grow that way.
I cut the eyes off & planted about 10. I only got about 7 tiny potatoes😢
My brother has a farm. Discarded vegetables grow al around. But it's a hit and miss affair. You're better off ensuring thst conditions are closer to optimal, by following instructions from farming manuals or videos@@dianadaelen6323
Did you leave a good chunk of potato with the eye? p@@dianadaelen6323
You don't cut the eyes off the potatoes to grow them. They need a 2 or 3 inch section of the potato for each eye. You cut the potatoes into chunks with at least 1 eye each, plant the chunks, and be sure to mulch or hill each potato plant.
Finally! A REAL demonstration of regrowing food scraps! You and Tuck are amazing!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I love this! I grow potatoes, celery, garlic, tomatoes, cucumbers , green onions, ginger, and romaine lettuce this way! Start my bell peppers , watermelon, avocado, and so much more from the seeds of store bought items. I also have beautiful lemon trees from the lemon seeds I save. I had a great harvest this year from sweet potato slips from store bought sweet potatoes. Five slips gave us a five gallon bucket of potatoes. I will certainly do that again next year! Tuck these are for you!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have had poor luck with my celery scrap plants. They always start strong, grow beautiful green leaves and thin stalks for a month and overnight they wilt,turn yellow and die. Everytime this has happened with mine. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I always plant potatoes from the grocery store. I never waste money on buying seed potatoes. 5 years ago, in the Summer, I bought locally grown hard neck garlic in the grocery store and planted the biggest cloves in the Fall. Ever since then, I save some cloves and plant them each Fall. My harvested garlic heads last me for the rest the year. I have not bought any more garlic in the store.
May i ask, do you plant them in a pot or directly in the soil ? Do they need full exposion to the sun ?
@@theplantslover51 If you're asking about the store bought potatoes, I buy them at the end of February - March and keep them indoors, at a sunny window, sitting in empty egg cartons. When they are exposed to light, the eyes/sprouts turn dark green & purple color and they stay short and chubby. I plant them outdoors, about 1 week before the last frost, in large plastic pots, that I saved when my daughter bought young trees and shrubs from the nursery. I keep the pots in partly sunny area on my concrete patio. I have each pot sitting on top of 4 bricks to keep the pot off the ground and allow easy drainage. I cover the pots with chicken wire to keep the squirrels out. They love to dig in fresh/soft soil. If you're asking about the hard neck garlic, I plant the cloves directly in the ground, in full sun. I add about 3" layer of compost and till in into the soil. I add about a tablespoon of bone meal in each planting hole. I space the holes about 5" apart. I am in zone 5, so I plant them at least 3" deep, measured from the top pointy tip of the clove. Hard neck garlic cloves are BIG. So, I make the planting hole about 4 1/2'" deep. As soon as I plant them, I water them. Each year, I plant them in the middle of October, before the first frost. First few years, I did not mulch them. But last year, I covered them with about 3" layer of straw to see if it would make any difference. I could not see any difference. I always cover the garlic bed with chicken wire to make sure that the rodents don't dig them out. So far, every single garlic clove that I planted has produced a garlic head. Garlic is about the easiest thing to grow.
I'd be scared of gmo's, I buy organic seeds.
Super!
James! I had to pause your video to tell you that this video was one of the most exciting ones I've seen in a very long time! I don't get out much obviously... But, you really hit the nail on the head with thisk one -- so appreciate you sharing this with us!
He has really inspired me to get back out to my garden!
12:49 Awesome Video! Just an opinion from my own experience... When growing carrots from carrot tops it is actually good idea to let the flowers of those plants go to seed, then harvest the seeds for a next crop, as you will never get a good harvest from just the carrot tops.
I agree. Same thing with the onions. If you allow it to flower, collect the million seeds and plant, you will get the sets for the following year.
Hey James. I live in the 39th floor of a Miami condo, zone 11A and I grow cabbage from scraps, in my balcony, year-round (potting soil, small containers, no direct sunlight because I live in Miami). Here's the secret: You need a much more substantial stem. Look for a cabbage head with the longest stem possible and leave a fair amount of the cabbage head intact when cutting. I take the cabbage head's outer leaves and leave the stem intact (at least 3 or 4 inches long). That's essential for regrowing purposes. Settle your scrap into the soil, burying only 1/3 of an inch of the cabbage stem, and water it in well. Plant must be watered moderately but shouldn’t be soggy. It will grow a root system. New beautiful cabbage leaves will grow around the central stem. Harvest the leaves as they grow. They will regrow again and again.
Great video! Thanks
Thanks Dianna, great advice. I will do this now. How awesome that you can do this on the 39th floor! Kudos to you 👏
@@barbarabruce7648 Thank you for letting me know it was useful 😊
@DianaGascon, what kind of soil do you use. I normally use coconut coir as well as my compost, not getting as much supply as I feel I should. My cherry tomatoes do amazing in it but my other crops not so much. All raised beds btw
@@taniabrown8173 Espoma Organic Potting Soil Mix - All Natural Potting Mix For All Indoor & Outdoor Containers Including Herbs & Vegetables.
The good thing with ginger is that you can do a lot of the prep work indoors at the end of winter.
Put the root in a container with a moist paper towel and after a week or two, you can cut the ginger up to separate the sprouts which you can leave in the container to get more established and establish roots before planting in the garden to get a month's head start on the season.
Note that ginger usually has a growth inhibitor on it that can be removed by soaking in water overnight then scrubbing with a brush. This will more than halve the time required to get it to sprout.
Lovely advice !! Thank you !!
Another thing I do with veggie scraps is add them to a bag I have in the freezer and when it’s full, I simmer them on the stove in some water for a few hours to make a nice broth. Then either can freeze that so that I always have broth on hand to use instead of water for making soups, stews, casseroles and such.
Absolutely!
That’s how I make my homemade veggie broth for about 10 years now. 😊
I do the same, such good broth
Thanks. Smart move.
What happened to turmeric?
I got big harvest of this kind of tomatoes. But they got cracks. What’s the reason?
3 and 5 gallon buckets also make excellent homes for growing spuds. The 5 gallon size are large enough to grow them on two levels. Cut a "window" near the bottom and fashion it back in place with gorilla tape for a hinge. Use a small length of coat hanger for the latch. Drill some drain holes in the bottom. Don't fill the bucket to the top with growing soil. Just barely over half way. When the first leaves peek up and a stem starts, most folks want to snap off those lower leaves . . . Dont! That is going to be the second layer of spuds. The low level spuds can be accessed thru that nifty door you cut. Feel around and grab a few then shut the door and toss the soil that spilled right back in.
Yes!❤
I’ll try this! Thank you!!
@@christinemackenzie3692Yup❤
How exactly do you get the second layer???
@@clintongross6984 people are told to break off those lower leaves when the plant gets about 2 feet tall. - don't.
But do not fill the bucket full of potting soil. - those bottom leaves will later be covered with soil. Then those leaves become the second round of tubers. That will be the second round of spuds
BTW if you are a fan of loaded baked potatoes, did you know that Kraft has powered cheddar cheese. Have only ever seen it in grocery stores in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
But it is available online as well.
I like getting the empty shaker bottles of parmesan at the gas station in town that has pizza by the slice. I fill them up with powered cheddar and bequeath them to people. Makes great topper for baked potatoes. Also makes really inexpensive Mac & Cheese for the kiddos
My parents always grew potatoes from the eyes that would sprout attached to a 1/4 slice of the potato. It was free food! Great experiment. Thank you for all of your videos. ❤
I tried doing that this year with potatoes but couldn't, thanks to sprout inhibitors.
You could have had even more potatoes if you had cut the one potato into chunks with eyes.
I just wonder how it works tho. Like if you plant plants, they suck nutrients out of the soil, so.. eventually the soil is just dead isn't it?
I have done this for fifty years, also if you dig up the tomato and pepper plants and put them inside the cellar by a window, you can replant in spring, get BIGGER produce, can do it 2-3 years running
My peppers have produced heavily last year but their leaves are yellow now in January (Greece / Med zone) and do not produce much. Plus, fruits are very small. Should I take them out from their pots ?? Put them somewhere aside ??? They will not die if left in a cellar (lack of sun) and unwatered ??? Thanks for you advice !!
@@theplantslover51they said in the cellar by a window. It needs some light to survive.
re: rooting and growing stuff like celery, cabbage, lettuce, etc - you peel all the leaves off the outside. all of that's going to rot on you, you have to remove them and you MUST have some of the root cells on the bottom or it won't root. always plant the bottom of your onions and then just snip the green tops and chop those up to eat. they'll grow all year round - heat and cold and snow don't bother them
Does it have a loud smell outside or no smell until cut?
@@rayofsunshine107h i had replanted a cut+sprouting onion from the store, and when they get closer to harvest time, the plant itself did start to give off a very strong onion smell when walking past it 😅
Was it a loud smell though !
@@rayofsunshine107honions get a smell that you cant ignore when they are ready to be harvested
@@MichaelWillbywhen onions are ready to be harvested they have a smell that can't be ignored. Plug your ears. Plug your nose. The smell is still there. So yeah. It's loud.
Garlic is grown from individual cloves, just like you planted. But you are right that in most zones it’s best planted in the late fall and harvested in summer. Garlic in my Zone 5B takes 9-10 months to grow. But it’s worth the wait! And it takes very little work.
We planted a slice of a Roma tomato in 3 different places in our raised garden and got a yield of hundreds of tomatoes, we never trimmed the plants we just let them go wild and they took over everything. The main trunk of the plants were over an inch in diameter. We ended up stewing them and canning them for tomato sauce. Our neighbor must have planted a cherry tomato plant and a squirrel relocated some of the seeds at our fence line and we got a few hundred from it as well. Tomatoes are probably the easiest things to grow.
Thank you for the idea!!
Tomatoes aren't that easy to grow outside in N E England it's too windy ( straight down from Iceland so it's very cold too ) an unheated greenhouse is a necessity.
@@MichaelWillby I guess I should have specified my location, I live in Southern Ontario Canada where our summers are very humid because we are surrounded by water. Everything grows really well here in the summer but the flip side is our winters are so bad that nothing survives. Some places get a very mild winter or none at all and can just keep growing.
Nyc experiment 👍.... although for those carrot plant u could have let its flowers grow and then see them convert into seeds which you can easily use to grow much more carrot next season🙂
I love this, I did an experiment one time with scallions, and celery. I also take all my tomatoes that are not looking good at the end of season and just let them compost in my beds and I get lots of free tomatoes (large and cherry) every year.
It definitely is a great experiment and they all taste as fresh as their original veggies.
Thank you and God bless 🙏
they all original
I bought medjool dates from Safeway...l planted the seeds and now I have date palms growing...quite easy🎉
Zone 10b. I grew a beet for 4 years (for the greens) so good.
During the pandemic, I tried growing a grocery store celery bottom in a pot. I can't recall if I first soaked or even rooted it in water, but I probably did. To my happy surprise, once potted in soil, it started sending up stalks which, in turn, made lots of leaves. I harvested greens and slender stems/stalks on a regular basis, never once giving the plant a chance to form a full on stalk.
James, you have such a green green thumps !
I believe if you plant M&Ms, you would get a chocolate tree.
LOL!!!
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@JenW-l9b isn't that hysterical? I'm going to remember that one.
What about green dollar bills?
@jackrodgersjr Ooooooh! Yes! Wouldn't that be nice! I'd cultivate those trees with grow lights and fertilizer. I'd spread repellent around so squirrels couldn't steal it, calling it taxes. Happy Thanksgiving!! 😊
James & Tuck.... MASTER GARDENERS!!!! Thank you for this great info!!!
Great expirament! There are so many crops we can grow from store bought produce! Back in 2013, I planted potatoes along my driveway. Despite harvesting potatoes each year, there are still plants growing from that original grocery store set that had sprouted!
I’m most surprised with the onion! I figured it would grow leaves but was sure it would not grow a bulb, so to see it grew multiple bulbs is just so awesome.
I cut the bottoms off my Celery and put it in water for a week. It starts regrowing. I plant it in my garden and it regrows new Celery. It's awesome.
I used to do this, but my dog would go straight outside, and I'd hear "chomp chomp chomp" with basically anything I planted, hahaha.
It looks like a great opportunity to grow celery, because buying a whole one usually gets to be wasteful. I never really use it up before it goes bad.
@@kathygarcia2864I do this too. Re p ecually with spring onions
@@kathygarcia2864 I l9ve how deep green it is grown this way.
Do you still get the thickness of the bought celery? Or is it thin and bitter?
I grew beautiful lemon grass plants from a bunch I bought in the grocery store. Put them in a glass of water until you see roots, then plant in pots and watch them grow. They are still growing and they have been completely trouble free plants. I moved them to the sunroom when fall came and its January 2 today, they are looking great. The lemon grass tastes really good too.
I have a large compost frame (nearly 1 metre high) where are all my kitchen scraps and garden rubbish goes in. Every year in the late summer I harvest huge amounts of my favourite potatoes out of it because the potato peels with the “eyes” just go like mad and I let the plant simply do its thing. I buy from the store the waxy baby potatoes and usually I eat them with the skin, but sometimes there’s a bad bit which I cut off. This year I harvest it nearly 18 kg of beautiful potatoes 🥰
Thank you for this video, it’s amazing how things grow if we let them. 😇
Wow! That is inspiring.😊
I love watching Tuck supervising and eating as well. One of my two dogs eats Tiny Tim tomatoes (all courtesy of the birds in the garden), and raspberries as they are so sweet. You are inspiring me to try to do more.like most people I am feeling the pinch of raised prices so every bit of free food helps.
Regrowing green onions and leeks on my window sill right now. They do well in either water or soil. Green onions regrow fairly fast too !
That sounds really nice. Just be sure that there isn't lead paint in ur window area. Someone who does lead testing of homes said that edibles grown on window sills get contaminated with lead dust & ppl don't realize the harm. Wishing you and everyone the best & a wonderful harvest.
@@--AC Our house is a new build so it is safe in that regard, but I totally understand how that can be an issue in older homes (along with others like asbestos). I appreciate you pointing it out !
I bought a red dragon fruit from the store, soaked the seeds for three weeks till they sprouted and grew tons of babies!!!! So far I’ve got 8 in my indoor veggie planter! Ty for sharing ❤
I live in zone 6 in Mass. I throw a few of my sweet 100's cherry tomatoes on the soil of the raised bed gardens at the end of the season. In the spring when the soil hits temperature the seeds sprout and i get plants. They get loaded with cherry tomatoes. I also do the same with my bigger tomatoes like Early girl and have had the same results. I also save a handful of lil red and lil yellow potatoes, full size Yukon gold potato and a sweet potato that i leave sprout thru the winter in my house. i then plant them in the soil in a sunny place mid to late march depending if there is snow on the ground may be later. I get a good-sized harvest from them every year. i actually get to put a second batch down, but it yields half of what i get from the first. i have been doing this for over 30 years with no fail. i also plant the garlic from the grocery store in pieces like you did. but it takes 2 maybe 3 years before it amounts to anything. Experimenting is fun in the garden.
I'm also in MA. I'm trying to plant garlic for the first time this year, but the chipmunk in my yard keeps digging it up.
@@jos2701 That is weird, never had Chipmunks go after my garlic. It must be Italian lol. My issue is groundhogs, grrrrr
@wendyhenschel. Yup, it just digs them up and leaves them on top of the dirt. I tried repelling it with moth balls down its hole. The chipmunk picks them up and leaves them on the grass. I think I have the only chipmunk with a poor sense of smell 😅 Groundhogs are seriously annoying!
@@jos2701 That is funny.
I definitely share your enthusiasm for Gardening and have also tried growing vegetables from discards and have been relatively successful. I encourage the practice. PS I loved it when you said that you 'harvest' the greens of the beets, I do also, adding them to my green juice that has saved my life
Man it’s crazy how we all have different luck with different plants. I had no problem growing tumeric, but struggled with carrots.
But that dirt, wow we need some background on where that came from because that definitely wasn’t big box store potting mix!
I started a compost bin during Covid. I only have a very small garden, and I ended up with plenty of healthy soil
I put some of the soil in a hanging basket, I now have a tomatoes plants growing in my hanging basket. It’s going to be over crowded so I’ll try and transplant them into a larger garden pot. All those potatoes out of one potato, was fantastic 😉 Thank you James, I’ve really enjoyed this video.
I'm sure you have already thought of this, but I'll share my thought anyway. You did stress the idea of using organic produce because of the growth inhibitors commercial growers use to prolong shelf life of the produce. I would also suggest buying heirloom tomatoes at the store if you plan to grow them from the cut off tops. They should breed true to type. I plan to try that in the spring garden.
I love your channel and and am always inspired by your enthusiasm for gardening. I love seeing Tuck follow you around and eating carrots. Rich Moore in Baltimore,MD
Good points!
I bought a beautiful heirloom tomato from the store last year.. sprouted the seeds and had a harvest of hundreds of tomatoes!! It was interesting how all the plants produced similar tomatoes except one that had bright almost magenta colored tomatoes! I’ve collected seeds from most of those tomatoes and next year will be very interesting to see how it goes!!
@ can you please tell me how you gathered/stored the seeds?
As a lazy gardener ...what grows out of the compost heap or scraps I have shoved into the earth here & there has fed me well
Corn & sunflowers & grains grown from chicken feed forgotten by them.
Trees grown through their pots or from bird droppings & suckers ..have provided plenty.
Wild blackberry hedges & herbs...
The sun shines & the rain pours down to water them & I am ready to eat 😋
Thank you, great video. It's lots of fun to experiment.👍🌱
Great experiment James, I will recreate it. One thing about the beet - you can eat and enjoy just the greens from the top. Young leaves are great in salad, larger ones are wonderful sauted in olive and garlic, mix with some orrechetti pasta- yum. The green tops of beets have the most amount of potassium than any food!
We planted a couple green onion sprouted ends and they turned into amazing large scallions! Like 4-5 feet tall and a couple inches in diameter! Delicious!
That's amazing! Thanks for doing this I always learn a lot from you! My fav part of beets are the tops / greens! I always cook radish tops, beet tops, turnip tops. A little EVOO, salt, red pepper flakes, garlic and sautee for 2 minutes. Can add wine or lemon juice or stock or water to make a lil steam. Super fast and easy! Please don't throw away your tops! I have chitted and planted organic potatoes. Super easy!
I cut off the end of celery and put it in a plastic container with water about a third of it in the water and put it on the windowsill and it will sprout.
I love putting the sprouted celery in soups with the leaves as it is a very good flavor.
My Uncle Ed always told me to plant potatoes eyes up and plant them on a full moon!!
I always had an abundance of potatoes.
Happy Gardening!!
This is very effective for me because I love to plant vegetables I bought from the shop I planted a lot of ginger turmeric tomatoes scallions celery etc only the beets and carrots and some other stuff didn't make it I appreciate what you are doing you make it easy for us ladies who love gardening wow yours comes out very good especially the potatoes we can save a lot of money for other stuff thanks so much I am happy for you God bless you ❤
The first summer of the pandemic out daughter watched us plan out 3 additional 10x10 garden areas. It was because we knew we knew we would be home all summer.
Daughter decided we were trying to not starve to death. She created her own garden using a lot of the same things you did. She learned a lot about tap roots.
We gave her quality tools and seeds for Christmas that year and she still keeps her own garden beds.
PLAN DEMIC
65 yrs doing this, n learning from you n Tucks🐾🐾🐾🐾 for last 5r so years albeit when I planted the carrots, no new root yet grew n went to flower for the seeds 🤸🙏🐾
A friend gave me a ginger pot as a gift a few years ago. I love it, it’s been my go to gift to share with friends ever since.
❤❤❤❤❤ All for Tuck! Hes the very best taste tester. Great video.
I do it all the time!! Grew ginger 🫚 turmeric, potato, onions, celery and green onions from scraps! But I do have seeds and I am setting up my garden for the spring 😊
I would also like to comment about the beet tops. I have difficulty growing beets in the past but love the greens. Planting beet tops from the store ,just for greens seems like a winning idea..
So far, the potatoes are the best of all thing. Onion is good., ginger is great. Beautiful tomatoes, Thank you for all of these tips. I will try it out soon
I'm glad I found your page. I started growing food this year since becoming sick which started out very well but when hurricane beryl hit 95% of the new growth died and the rest has been growing very slowly. Watching your video has reinspired me to try again, being more aware of the seasons, while keeping in mind to use organic waste to minimize the growth inhibitors you spoke on. Many blessings! ❤
In MN there is wild ginger growing in forests. Huge amounts that just keep growing every year in the wild. Keep it in the ground and pick out some individual roots as needed and you can keep them forever.
I have had success with even small pieces of cabbage core. I put them in a shallow pool of water in a covered dish. Then I put that in the refrigerator to prevent it rotting. After a few weeks, the piece of core will sprout leaves, and then roots, in that order. Then I keep it for a few days on a window sill, still in a pool of water, before planting it in a medium-sized pot. When it looks strong, I move it outside and keep it shaded for a few more days. It does not re-grow cabbage heads, but grows several seed stalks instead. A few cabbage leaves can be taken occasionally, without harming the 'seed factory'.
We did this with celery! It grew beautifully and the flavor oh my! We even dried the leaves.
I ❤❤❤that he's excited about picking his potatoes. That is one of my favorite things...so fun finding them under the dirt.😊
Thank you, this was an interesting video with a great idea to utilize vegetable waste to regrow food.
Unless you know for a fact, it's not a hybrid. I'd put it in the compost.
Hint and it works, after the growing season if you still have green tomatoes on the plant, pull the whole plant roots and all shake off the dirt and hang the plant in a cool dark room over winter, i did this one year in my garage the temp stays at about 45f all winter i was eating
Fresh red rip tomatoes in February
When we had snow on the ground.
You do not have to eat fried green tomatoes.
Great idea from this video. If u ever get a really good carrot. Or a black or a purple.. regrow the top and massive seeds. Carrots are great for seeds. Thx james.
I've got self-sown parsley over a fairly wide area in my garden. Most of it is descended from a plant bought when I was a kid over 30 years ago and has ventured a good five metres from where the original plant went in. Some seeds made it round to the other side of the property somehow. It's since been joined by the descendants of a supermarket-bought bunch.
Yes. Throw scraps into garden. Make sure you want those scraps to grow there if they sprout or regrow. I had volunteer tomatoes from my scraps. I live my volunteers❤❤❤❤
I love gold potatoes. Thank you for sharing your garden secrets. I must try it.
Love this philosophy, I plant all of my scraps and seeds from store. Have been eating buttercup squash and purple sweet potatoes for years that started from a single store bought item😊
I have been re-growing green onions for years! When I lived in Georgia and had a huge vegetable garden, I planted the root ends of some green onions and the following beginning of summer I had onion plants that were as tall as I am (5'2")! And the onion bulbs were HUGE! (They were delicious, too!) Who would have thought?
Love the idea of growing in a garden, anything that sprouts! Great kids garden idea!
Thank you for showing what they turn into while they’re buried. I’ve tried carrots and potatoes which blew me away when I pulled up the green tops, as I had no idea they’d regrow into a bunch. I was as excited as a little kid. Tomatoes will be my next try. 👵❤️
Love your energy and approach. I have to say that after watching about 5 of your videos I wondered why you kept saying ‘mean talk’. It was only after I started wondering what ‘mean talk’ means that I realised you were actually saying ‘me & Tok’ being you and your cool little doggy lol. Anyway Australia here , down south, keep up the good work, some of your info doesn’t apply down here such as some of the garden pests don’t exist here, but we have other pests to take their place believe me. Looking forward to watching more of your videos 🤙
he is saying,Me and Tuck.His dogs name
I planted spring onions in early March last year and by May 4th they had grown significantly taller and tastier. They were so potent they made me cry cutting them.
And these were SPRING ONIONS. The only problem I had was managing the pests, so I'm hoping this year I'll be better able to fend off slugs and the like.
Hi James ✌🏽 once you get the carrots to flower, you then plant the seeds of the flower and then you’ll have yourself a great tasting carrot
I watched your show on Thanksgiving 2024 and got inspired. I planted a lemon seed in with another house plant. Guess what.? I now have a lemon tree. Very exciting. IAm hooked. Thank you.
I did this as a child with my brother and mother. When we harvested I remember my little brother said: «Mom, what we put in was more than we are getting now»😂. So your try is so much better👍
with the green tomato you can do pickled green tomatoes , best pickled vegie
🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 Really surprised at your potato crop from the store.❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck!
Sweet potatoes are fun to grow! Just plant the eyes like regular potatoes & when they start to sprout, be sure they have LOTS OF SPACE because at every point where a stem touches the ground, it will root & grow several sweet potatoes!!!😊😋😋😋
This is one of the most fun videos Ive seen! Oh how I love Tuck! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Love your channel ❤❤❤❤, greetings from Costa Rica 🌺
When plants slow down or just before frost ..take all green tomatoes and ripen in home in a box in a cool dark place and check every day
So impressed with your skill. It seems miraculous to get all that food from scraps. Bravo!
I love watching these videos but this one by far is my fave. I love the explanations the animations, and Tuck 😂😂!
It warms my heartt to see how well James has done. i started watching him 10 years ago. He inspired me. thank you James.
Am I the only one who is saying, "What??? where's the "Let's go!!" ???? I always say that when I watch James' videos. That's part of the intro😭
Interesting video :) I have been trying all year to grow ginger, FINALLY, i have four small sprouts, hope they hang on.
I am in NW MO and hire year on my tubers. Last year didn't grow a whole lot. I put he pot in same place this year, funny spot and it really didn't thrive. I relocated it to a shaded spot,getting only late afternoon sun and I had 7 shoots instead of the 2-3. It stands much taller too. I will harvest soon and next year plant a tuber and set in the shaded spot. Hopefully it helps💕
@@jenniferrevilla5298 Thank you for the tip, I actually have been placing it in the sun in the afternoon, I'll keep it in a bit more shaded spot :)
Thank you for the video. I literally just saved some beets, carrots and ginger from store bought. I have grown store bought before but with seeds. I saved the tops and meant to look up a "how to", and your video just popped up today. 😮 It's super cold where I live, so I threw my scraps away. However, Most everything you have grows here, even in the snow.However, you must plant earlier or transplant from indoors.
All is my basil plants came from 2 Walmart basil plants from the produce section. 🎉SO FUN!❤
I have forgotten tomatoes until they got too old to eat. I hate to throw food away so I threw it at the base of a flowering tree as sort of fertilizer. Way later when I was taking out more food to dispose of, I found a couple of plants. I replanted them and ate fruit off them that year! That will work! Glad I didn't throw the fruit in the trash. I was so surprised when I found the plants!
Turmeric take a while to root. When you buy turmeric from the store, check if the eyes are intact and healthy. Most of the store bought turmeric the eyes are scraped off.
Thank you for your honesty about the taste of the tomatoes. I like to leave them on the vine until they’re almost red. That’s how they get all their sweetness. I’m sure you knew that, but were too excited to harvest. Great reminder about planting organic produce.
I do this all the time with green onions, but didn’t know I could do it with other scraps too! ❤❤❤❤s for Tuck.
Spring onions do really well, i have 6 plants in the entrance and i constantly cut and eat their leaves, only leaving one leaf per plant.
Interesting unusual experiment, more of this please
I'm curious about berries myself.
I love watching your channel on a 15° Fahrenheit day. It gives me hope! Can't wait to grow again.
i wish someone could motivate me as much as this guy motivated that ginger and potato.
This is the first time I have ever seen your channel and I am so blessed to come across it. God bless you, brother. This is amazing. You definitely sold me with the harvest of potatoes. I will plant something today January 4, 2025. I will thrive in gardening.❤ I’m also a new subscriber.🎉💚🌱
You should cover the potato plant partially in soil as it grows you will have higher yield
I had my first container vegetable garden last year but it didn't do very well. I didn't notice if you mentioned the proper soil in the video. Can you suggest please? I'd like to try again after watching your video.
Takes a bit and you have to keep everything moist because the roots are growing at same time plant is trying to grow ..but once roots get established you'll have explosive growth
Thank you, James, for doing this experiment bc I have been wondering how cutting off the root part and replanting would come up. I'm impressed. I will try next spring.