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Aerows

(39,961 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 06:14 PM Apr 2015

Has anyone tried this? Put a celery core or a Romaine lettuce core

in water to let it regrow?

I'm not sure if this is really gardening, but I've tried it and here are the results:



That was *3* Days after I put it in water. Sitting next to it is a romaine lettuce heart.

Edit: Oh hell, wrong photo. Will post another.

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Has anyone tried this? Put a celery core or a Romaine lettuce core (Original Post) Aerows Apr 2015 OP
I 'be heard you could do that alfie Apr 2015 #1
Better Pics Aerows Apr 2015 #2
You can do it with onions, too. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2015 #3
Thanks for the advice, dixie Aerows Apr 2015 #4
I'm trying it atm with regular onions. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #6
I THINK the thing about onions is dixiegrrrrl Apr 2015 #7
I actually used the inner cores. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #8
I tried it with celery. Grew fine in the jar, but didn't survive after planting sinkingfeeling Apr 2015 #5
I'm going to have to try this. My husband has a hydroponic garden woodsprite Apr 2015 #9

dixiegrrrrl

(60,011 posts)
3. You can do it with onions, too.
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 06:55 PM
Apr 2015

replant the stems of green onions or stem end of cooking onions.
You get more green onions.
I keep a porch planter box full, snip the greens when I want garnish.
Leave them long enough and they go to seed.

Also carrot tops, if you want seed.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
6. I'm trying it atm with regular onions.
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 08:33 AM
Apr 2015

I got a lot of green tops, but then they started getting sort of 'wilty'. I'm thinking maybe it's time to transplant them from the planter out into the garden.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,011 posts)
7. I THINK the thing about onions is
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 09:56 AM
Apr 2015

They grow into "real" onions either from seeds or from little bulbs which you have to buy.
The ones I grow from the end of an onion just produce greens, which is fine for me, cause I use a lot of onion greens.
I don't think the cuttings have enough nourishment to make a new bulb.
Again, that is just off the top of head.
Before coffee even....

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
8. I actually used the inner cores.
Tue Apr 7, 2015, 10:14 AM
Apr 2015

Cut off the outer layers to use in cooking, then let the cores attached to the roots to plant. Figured those were close enough to the little bulbs to give it a shot. Find out soon enough when I dig em up to transplant.

woodsprite

(12,201 posts)
9. I'm going to have to try this. My husband has a hydroponic garden
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 11:10 AM
Apr 2015

set up in our basement. We've been growing our own lettuce, spinach, swiss chard and arugula all winter. Enough to keep a family of 4 supplied w/ greens daily.

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