Growing up in Kansas and Colorado one of the things I did not want when I grew up was to live on a farm. I detest gardening (mainly because of the bugs and dirt) and taking care of farm animals. Of course back then I had a momma who did all the gardening and the washing and the fixing and such. I was quite happy with my life with no gardening until of course now when our family has so many food allergies to worry about. (note: I am going in for a complete work up of food allergies you may see a whole new blog soon depending on my findings. It will still be gluten free but it may be go 100% dairy, soy and other things as well)
I would now give anything to grow all my own foods, to raise all the meats and eggs and I would love to garden. Sadly I have no where to do it right now. We are thinking about putting a raised garden in the back someday but it would be very expensive since our back yard goes up small mountain. Lots of landscaping, lots of investment but so worth it in the end. Also we would need some kind of heated greenhouse since 6 months out of the year its too cold for anything to grow.
With all this in mind I started a table top garden. I wanted to start out easy but will be increasing my items soon to include onions and whatever I can research to grow. You should already know I have a pineapple growing, its doing well but will be years before it produces fruit. but my lettuce and celery wow those are just doing well.
All you do is take the ends and put them in a cup of water (about 1/4 the way up the stem) and keep it watered and it goes to town. the photo is 3 days growth. If I have a few of these going I can have fresh salad all the time. I am tickled that I actually grew something and I will be putting these in bigger pots with dirt soon I think or I may just leave them in cups on my window sill. Not sure yet, I didn’t think it would work so didn’t plan ahead. I have tons of windows and if I can just put a pot of veggies in a sunbeam that would be great, I can have a mini garden inside the house.
What do you think about that, have you tried something like this before? I would love to know your thoughts on this.
I tried re-growing green onions (scallions) late last year, and was astonished at the results! I did find that after 3-4 cuttings/regrowings, though, the insides got a bit slimy from all the water uptake. I’ve been wanting to try regrowing lettuce, but didn’t know of anyone in Alaska who was able to do it with the weak sunlight we get in the winter- thanks for posting your experience!