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.
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. 🍅=❤️
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.
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 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?
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!
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
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.
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 🙏
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). 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. 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
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. 😇
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 🤸🙏🐾
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 ❤
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'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
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 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! ❤
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.
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!
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
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 !!!!
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💕
would love to see a video where you regrow veggies scraps indoors? I've tried celery a few times but once I stick it in dirt it dies. Would love some advice on doing this with a variety of veggies but indoors during the winter please. Love your channel.
Root the celery in a glass of water first. I use toothpicks, similar to sprouting an avocado pit. My regrown celery has never produced thick stalks, but the leaves dehydrate beautifully and I was able to harvest some celery seed as a spice, if left to flower.
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!
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.
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😊
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 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..
That was a great experiment. The potato grew a lot more than I expected because it hadn't been hilled. I used to have interesting volunteer plants around my pig pen when I had my farm. I lived in Maine, so the growing season was very short, but I would often have tomatoes from seed ripen in that area.
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❤❤❤❤
Last year we bought four different tomato plants. We compost all our scraps, including eggshells and other organic matter. This year we had many seedlings so we planted them instead of buying more. Not only was it an incredible harvest, the tomatoes tasted amazing. They tasted better than before, especially the tiny ones. Canned most of them, so no bought tomato sauce until next year needed. We also made dried powdered tomato flakes, which can be used as paste when mixed with water.
I plant the root bases of most greens from salads. The beet, celery, lettuce, cabbage tops are good for fresh salad addition for the days you need extras. Always good to see you in the garden. Love me. Love my garden. 🍆
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👍
This brought me so much joy and inspiration. Don't get me wrong, I love my wonderful husband, but I wish he was as excited about nature and growing food as you 😄
Dad would take potatoes that started growing stems from the 'eyes'. He may get 4 or more plants out of a single potatoes. The onion? Try halving it from stem to root a couple times🤔
Store tomatoes are bland and flavorless anyway, so I'm not surprised the ones you grew didn't taste the best. I was surprised that the garlic didn't form heads until you mentioned they didn't go through a winter in the ground, then that made sense. Overall, a fun experiment to watch! Thanks for filming it for us!
Good for people who know nothing about growing people food to not waste their time, yep plant potatoes get a potato plant onion same plant ginger same plant seeds and get tomatoes check with your county extension they have lots of fun advice My grandmother used show us little kids how to do starts in the window sill
Very good presentation. The garlic can be grown in summer. You can refrigerate them first for that cold period. After that, it will bulb like it does after winter. Good job on the potatoes and tomatoes. The potatoes, beets and carrots were most interesting to me.
i love regrowing green onion .i have green onions all year . just leave about a inch in the garden or leave 1'' of the white part by the roots and replant it.(the store bought one). i regrow carrots and celery for the seeds. regrow maters too .
This was a fun experiment! Would you try another experiment next season growing from seeds and spices you can get at the grocery store? Like mustard seeds, fennel seeds, etc.? Some of them are irradiated, so they're dead, but it might be fun to see what works and what doesn't!
I always regrow the bottoms of Romaine lettuce. I found you need to start with a nice big tight bunch and scrape the dryness off the bottom, then plant it down at ground level. Works great!
I've grown tomatoes and bell peppers every year from store vegetables and fruits. They both grow like crazy just by planting the seeds. Onions grow great as well.
I like to grow potatoes in a large container. A couple of years ago, I did layers of 3 different kinds of potatoes. After about 4 months, I harvest about 5 pounds. I was just amazed that it worked. Now I do just one kind per container, works well for me.
I get food from the locally owned grocery for the chickens -- there was bags of onions that were growing significantly so I planted them in pots everywhere around my garden. They grew flowers but there was small onions ... I ate some but I'm going to do what you said about drying them and making them sets for net year. I'm in zone 4 so I don't suppose they will over winter??? Thank you for the awesome experiments!!!
Good on you for going the distance with your experiment, I especially appreciate your advice on the ginger; I'll head out and try to revive my poor little lump of ginger from going rotten thanks to your inspiring message.😊 One thing I’ve been doing is buying organic fruits and veggies, just say one beet or one potato, special tomatoes, carrots, so it's not costly, and use those for seed and rooting material, as they're organic and should be pesticide free. I'm in Melbourne Australia, we're heading into our characteristically hot summer from an extended winter, juggling climate change 🤷♀️😬probably quite similar to MI, minus the snow! 😎💙👍🇦🇺love your vids❤
I grow scallions in a pot indoors all winter long so I can just use one at a time. I snip just above the base and they regrow all winter long. Also grew some very nice leeks from the root base of store bought leeks. Every little bit helps!
Sungold cherry. Planted 5 seedlings. Got ATTACKED by so many tomatoes. It was overwhelming. I froze them and will kick up the flavors of the salsas I shall can up later this month.
It amazes me how much people are so shocked about how you can take a potato and regrow it into a bunch of them. When I grew up on the farm, we would split the potatoes and let them callus over and then we would hand plant them in the field during the spring, and harvest them by hand in the fall. Most tubers, bulbs, and rhizomes can grow easily. You should have also split your ginger and you would have multiple plants. Just don't overwater them or they can rot. We were always taught in school to let your potato soak in water, but the farm kids new it didn't need the water. LOL However, some need the extra rooting. Things like lettuces, celery, and the like should use water to root first. Make sure you leave more of the core for your cabbage. And tomatoes... if you find your favorite tomato in the store, learn to seed save. Some of my best germinators were some that you can't find seed packets for and that I could get from the store.
Excellent presentation Thank you. You have given me some great tips for growing vegies. Will be cleaning out my fridge and planting. I'm excited about it, to see what I'm able to reproduce. Many thanks. ❤
Carrot tops taste like carrot. You can use them in salads in place of carrot root for flavor. I've got a few carrots I put out in the spring. The roots are crap but the tops are nice and green. I do recommend removing the main stems and just using the leaves.
I plant sweet potatoes for year long leaves that are heart shaped and delicious. So good. I plant carrot tops for the carrot flavoured leaves in salads. I plant onion scraps for the shoots which I use in cooking. I plant cherry tomatoes whole for new tomato plants.
I've been regrowing green onion roots cut off from the onions I purchased from the store for a couple seasons now. I buy one bunch of green onions, save the roots & plant them in my raised bed. I use scissors to cut onions as i need them. They keep regrowing all season long.
I grew some gorgeous celery from a couple of celery hearts. The leaves were so beautiful and tasty. I love to use the leaves for flavoring. I also grew a ton of ginger from one piece of ginger from the grocery store. I was amazed at how much i got.
Awesome! Have not tried to grow potatoes or onions in the 20+ years that I've lived in the Atlanta, GA area, though my mom used to grow potatoes in Anchorage, AK in the 60's/70's. I've been torn as to whether to purchase seed potatoes and onion sets or whether to grow from store-bought like you did. I think at the moment I'm leaning heavily towards store bought based on your successful experimentation. Probably should do both though....? In any case, thanks for providing us with yet another way to grow our own food. ❤❤❤❤❤for the Young King (Tuck)!!!
It is always a pleasure to watch you James, you have such a genuine enthusiastic way and it just fills ones soul to see another person having so much passion for gardening! Thank you 🙏 for doing this experiment and may I say.....I loved the potatoes harvest, oh my gosh, digging for potatoes (gold) is always high on my fav list 👍🙂
Btw, I tried to extend my cucumber production by removing dead leaves weekly. It may have worked but while doing the pruning, the bumblebees arrived right on cue after the last leaf was removed. (3x)
I live in Seaside, CA near Monterey. I can never grow things as well as these, esp. potatoes! Wow! I get very few and they're very small (smaller than a golf ball)! My tomatoes were a lot smaller than yours, but the small ones were sweeter. I got one plant of tomatoes that appeared to be yellow which were very sour no matter how long I let them stay on the vine. My garlic did pretty well. My cabbage grew several small heads from one cabbage base. My lettuce & celery always bolted or went to seed. I've never been successful with yams (orange sweet potatoes) but I'm going to try it again. So far I have about 10" of leaves (maybe less). I plan to cut and root them & make another attempt at growing yams. I tried purple yams from yam seeds that turned out horrible. I really struggle with sandy soil I mix with potting mix and produce the success you have. Right now I have broccoli being eaten by green caterpillars I just picked off, even after spraying with Neem oil. I just put nets over them. My carrots and beets take forever and a day to grow and aren't sweet. I'm also experimenting with growing zucchini, green beans, pea pods, strawberries (not doing well), kale (it's great), some collard greens (last year's was fantastic), basil, chives, & starting a few fig trees & 2 tiny lemon trees.
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 have 3 avocado trees growing from seeds from store avocados. Just harvested sweet potatoes, spaghetti squash (mini squashes) & cantelope (didn’t get big) from store produce.
A great experiment. The beat and the carrot came out very interesting. I can see Tuck got his haircut at the begging of this experiment. Very cute. Thanks for sharing your video.
Thank you for doing this experiment. So many different trials. I'm going to regrow an entire potato this coming year instead of part. Also, I did what you did with the tomatoes and we got quite a bit.
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! 👍👍🥰✌️🇨🇦
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.
🍅=❤️
❤that's a lovely and sad story all at the same time. I'm sorry for your loss xxx
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.
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.
Exactly. Planting entire potato seems a waste.
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?
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!
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?
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?
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 🙏
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). 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. 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.
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. 😇
Zone 10b. I grew a beet for 4 years (for the greens) so good.
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.
Interesting unusual experiment, more of this please
I'm curious about berries myself.
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 🤸🙏🐾
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 ❤
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'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
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 !
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!
❤❤❤❤❤ All for Tuck! Hes the very best taste tester. Great video.
We did this with celery! It grew beautifully and the flavor oh my! We even dried the leaves.
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! ❤
All is my basil plants came from 2 Walmart basil plants from the produce section. 🎉SO FUN!❤
Thank you, this was an interesting video with a great idea to utilize vegetable waste to regrow food.
Love the idea of growing in a garden, anything that sprouts! Great kids garden idea!
i wish someone could motivate me as much as this guy motivated that ginger and potato.
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.
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.
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
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
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 !!!!
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 :)
would love to see a video where you regrow veggies scraps indoors? I've tried celery a few times but once I stick it in dirt it dies.
Would love some advice on doing this with a variety of veggies but indoors during the winter please. Love your channel.
Root the celery in a glass of water first. I use toothpicks, similar to sprouting an avocado pit. My regrown celery has never produced thick stalks, but the leaves dehydrate beautifully and I was able to harvest some celery seed as a spice, if left to flower.
Anytime I stick anything in dirt it dies.
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!
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.
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.
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😊
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
This is one of the most fun videos Ive seen! Oh how I love Tuck! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I learn a lot from your channel. Thank you very much. I have problem with potatoes they die before they can bear potatoes.
🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 Really surprised at your potato crop from the store.❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck!
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..
That was a great experiment. The potato grew a lot more than I expected because it hadn't been hilled. I used to have interesting volunteer plants around my pig pen when I had my farm. I lived in Maine, so the growing season was very short, but I would often have tomatoes from seed ripen in that area.
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 do this all the time with green onions, but didn’t know I could do it with other scraps too! ❤❤❤❤s for Tuck.
Last year we bought four different tomato plants. We compost all our scraps, including eggshells and other organic matter. This year we had many seedlings so we planted them instead of buying more. Not only was it an incredible harvest, the tomatoes tasted amazing. They tasted better than before, especially the tiny ones. Canned most of them, so no bought tomato sauce until next year needed. We also made dried powdered tomato flakes, which can be used as paste when mixed with water.
I plant the root bases of most greens from salads. The beet, celery, lettuce, cabbage tops are good for fresh salad addition for the days you need extras. Always good to see you in the garden. Love me. Love my garden. 🍆
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👍
I never knew how onions grew. That is fascinating!
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
Thank you for doing this. I've regrown celery and green onions before
This brought me so much joy and inspiration. Don't get me wrong, I love my wonderful husband, but I wish he was as excited about nature and growing food as you 😄
James, you have such a green green thumps !
I believe if you plant M&Ms, you would get a chocolate tree.
All I can say is Wow! I'm practically speechless.
Dad would take potatoes that started growing stems from the 'eyes'. He may get 4 or more plants out of a single potatoes.
The onion? Try halving it from stem to root a couple times🤔
Store tomatoes are bland and flavorless anyway, so I'm not surprised the ones you grew didn't taste the best. I was surprised that the garlic didn't form heads until you mentioned they didn't go through a winter in the ground, then that made sense. Overall, a fun experiment to watch! Thanks for filming it for us!
0:36 “woter”😂
Good for people who know nothing about growing people food to not waste their time, yep plant potatoes get a potato plant onion same plant ginger same plant seeds and get tomatoes check with your county extension they have lots of fun advice
My grandmother used show us little kids how to do starts in the window sill
Wow the yield on the potatoes is amazing😮
Love Tuck. My little Yorkie looked just like him. I lost her a month ago after 16yrs together. Enjoyed your video, thanks.
Very good presentation. The garlic can be grown in summer. You can refrigerate them first for that cold period. After that, it will bulb like it does after winter. Good job on the potatoes and tomatoes. The potatoes, beets and carrots were most interesting to me.
i love regrowing green onion .i have green onions all year . just leave about a inch in the garden or leave 1'' of the white part by the roots and replant it.(the store bought one). i regrow carrots and celery for the seeds. regrow maters too .
Not that long ago, families did this and more to provide their primary source of food year-round.
This was a fun experiment! Would you try another experiment next season growing from seeds and spices you can get at the grocery store? Like mustard seeds, fennel seeds, etc.? Some of them are irradiated, so they're dead, but it might be fun to see what works and what doesn't!
I love watching these videos but this one by far is my fave. I love the explanations the animations, and Tuck 😂😂!
I love growing potatoes. I always grow mine like you did here. From a store bought one that started.
Makes sense. I am now interested in growing the potatoes
I always regrow the bottoms of Romaine lettuce. I found you need to start with a nice big tight bunch and scrape the dryness off the bottom, then plant it down at ground level. Works great!
I've grown tomatoes and bell peppers every year from store vegetables and fruits. They both grow like crazy just by planting the seeds. Onions grow great as well.
I like to grow potatoes in a large container. A couple of years ago, I did layers of 3 different kinds of potatoes. After about 4 months, I harvest about 5 pounds. I was just amazed that it worked. Now I do just one kind per container, works well for me.
Loved this! Nature truly is the best! 😍🙌💚
I get food from the locally owned grocery for the chickens -- there was bags of onions that were growing significantly so I planted them in pots everywhere around my garden. They grew flowers but there was small onions ... I ate some but I'm going to do what you said about drying them and making them sets for net year. I'm in zone 4 so I don't suppose they will over winter???
Thank you for the awesome experiments!!!
Good on you for going the distance with your experiment, I especially appreciate your advice on the ginger; I'll head out and try to revive my poor little lump of ginger from going rotten thanks to your inspiring message.😊 One thing I’ve been doing is buying organic fruits and veggies, just say one beet or one potato, special tomatoes, carrots, so it's not costly, and use those for seed and rooting material, as they're organic and should be pesticide free. I'm in Melbourne Australia, we're heading into our characteristically hot summer from an extended winter, juggling climate change 🤷♀️😬probably quite similar to MI, minus the snow! 😎💙👍🇦🇺love your vids❤
I grow scallions in a pot indoors all winter long so I can just use one at a time. I snip just above the base and they regrow all winter long. Also grew some very nice leeks from the root base of store bought leeks. Every little bit helps!
I love Tuck! I can’t get my Rottweiler to eat veggies unless they are disguised or already mixed into his freeze dried dog food.
Make a vegetable stew and add a stew bone for flavor, dogs love that.
I did this with a Pineapple this year. It grew well. I started it indoors under my grow light in February, then transplanted outdoors
Sungold cherry. Planted 5 seedlings. Got ATTACKED by so many tomatoes. It was overwhelming. I froze them and will kick up the flavors of the salsas I shall can up later this month.
It amazes me how much people are so shocked about how you can take a potato and regrow it into a bunch of them. When I grew up on the farm, we would split the potatoes and let them callus over and then we would hand plant them in the field during the spring, and harvest them by hand in the fall. Most tubers, bulbs, and rhizomes can grow easily. You should have also split your ginger and you would have multiple plants. Just don't overwater them or they can rot. We were always taught in school to let your potato soak in water, but the farm kids new it didn't need the water. LOL However, some need the extra rooting. Things like lettuces, celery, and the like should use water to root first. Make sure you leave more of the core for your cabbage. And tomatoes... if you find your favorite tomato in the store, learn to seed save. Some of my best germinators were some that you can't find seed packets for and that I could get from the store.
I love the onion experiments. I’m definitely trying the regrow method!
Love this! I grew potatoes last year.
This year I planted onions and garlic in the fall.
Mother Nature is beautiful. Anyone that has useable land should be growing some sort of food.
Thanks James & Tuck for this great video. I was very inspired by the concept.wiill be sharing. Great work as always.
Excellent presentation Thank you. You have given me some great tips for growing vegies. Will be cleaning out my fridge and planting. I'm excited about it, to see what I'm able to reproduce. Many thanks. ❤
Carrot tops taste like carrot. You can use them in salads in place of carrot root for flavor. I've got a few carrots I put out in the spring. The roots are crap but the tops are nice and green. I do recommend removing the main stems and just using the leaves.
I plant sweet potatoes for year long leaves that are heart shaped and delicious. So good.
I plant carrot tops for the carrot flavoured leaves in salads.
I plant onion scraps for the shoots which I use in cooking.
I plant cherry tomatoes whole for new tomato plants.
I've been regrowing green onion roots cut off from the onions I purchased from the store for a couple seasons now. I buy one bunch of green onions, save the roots & plant them in my raised bed. I use scissors to cut onions as i need them. They keep regrowing all season long.
I grew some gorgeous celery from a couple of celery hearts. The leaves were so beautiful and tasty. I love to use the leaves for flavoring. I also grew a ton of ginger from one piece of ginger from the grocery store. I was amazed at how much i got.
Super experiment! I have tried leeks as well with pretty good success. Thank you to both James and Tuck 💜💜
Awesome! Have not tried to grow potatoes or onions in the 20+ years that I've lived in the Atlanta, GA area, though my mom used to grow potatoes in Anchorage, AK in the 60's/70's. I've been torn as to whether to purchase seed potatoes and onion sets or whether to grow from store-bought like you did. I think at the moment I'm leaning heavily towards store bought based on your successful experimentation. Probably should do both though....? In any case, thanks for providing us with yet another way to grow our own food. ❤❤❤❤❤for the Young King (Tuck)!!!
It is always a pleasure to watch you James, you have such a genuine enthusiastic way and it just fills ones soul to see another person having so much passion for gardening! Thank you 🙏 for doing this experiment and may I say.....I loved the potatoes harvest, oh my gosh, digging for potatoes (gold) is always high on my fav list 👍🙂
Btw, I tried to extend my cucumber production by removing dead leaves weekly. It may have worked but while doing the pruning, the bumblebees arrived right on cue after the last leaf was removed. (3x)
I live in Seaside, CA near Monterey. I can never grow things as well as these, esp. potatoes! Wow! I get very few and they're very small (smaller than a golf ball)! My tomatoes were a lot smaller than yours, but the small ones were sweeter. I got one plant of tomatoes that appeared to be yellow which were very sour no matter how long I let them stay on the vine. My garlic did pretty well. My cabbage grew several small heads from one cabbage base. My lettuce & celery always bolted or went to seed. I've never been successful with yams (orange sweet potatoes) but I'm going to try it again. So far I have about 10" of leaves (maybe less). I plan to cut and root them & make another attempt at growing yams. I tried purple yams from yam seeds that turned out horrible. I really struggle with sandy soil I mix with potting mix and produce the success you have. Right now I have broccoli being eaten by green caterpillars I just picked off, even after spraying with Neem oil. I just put nets over them. My carrots and beets take forever and a day to grow and aren't sweet. I'm also experimenting with growing zucchini, green beans, pea pods, strawberries (not doing well), kale (it's great), some collard greens (last year's was fantastic), basil, chives, & starting a few fig trees & 2 tiny lemon trees.
I have good results with onions,celery, potatoes,and tomatoes. Free food thank God.
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!
Your potato haul...was like mine the first time it happened! And it was only bout 1/3 of a potato!!! Well Done Sir!!!! So cool!!!!
I have 3 avocado trees growing from seeds from store avocados. Just harvested sweet potatoes, spaghetti squash (mini squashes) & cantelope (didn’t get big) from store produce.
A great experiment. The beat and the carrot came out very interesting. I can see Tuck got his haircut at the begging of this experiment. Very cute. Thanks for sharing your video.
Thank you for doing this experiment. So many different trials. I'm going to regrow an entire potato this coming year instead of part. Also, I did what you did with the tomatoes and we got quite a bit.
I did it with a pineapple in Texas last February and my neighbor down there sent me a photo of it still growing