Rather than throwing your scraps in the bin or the compost, why not grow new vegetables?!
Here's your quick guide to growing root veg from scraps!
Here's your quick guide to growing root veg from scraps!
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00:00Reducing food waste has never been more important but did you know you could be
00:10using your veg scraps to grow your own? Here's my quick and easy guide to grow
00:15your own root veg basics using nothing but leftovers. So first of all the humble
00:20potato it's a staple of most UK dishes and it's really simple to grow your own.
00:24All you need to do is get some peelings they need to be about two inches across
00:28and crucially they need to have eyes on them. All you need to do let the peeling
00:33grow out and then plant it so it needs about four inches of deep rich soil and
00:39you need to pop them in a sunny spot so you pop them in with the eyes facing
00:44upwards make sure you've got the four inch depth otherwise they won't grow properly
00:48and then about 10 weeks after planting you'll notice potato plants growing and
00:52that's when your potatoes are ready to harvest. Now sweet potatoes are a little
00:57bit more tricky to grow but it is possible so it's worth having a go basically you
01:01need to cut a sweet potato in half and it needs to be suspended in water like this
01:06to allow shoots to grow. Now my potato fits perfectly in this glass jar but say you had
01:12a wider container if you insert toothpicks around the side it will suspend the potato
01:17in the water and allow those shoots to grow so once they start sprouting out the top all you do
01:23is twist the leaves off and it's very similar to lettuce which we talked about growing last time
01:28so you pop the leaves into some water and they will begin to sprout and grow roots once those
01:33roots start to grow they're ready to pop outside in soil now sweet potatoes love sandy soil they love
01:39really sunny conditions and they're not very social a bit like us at the moment so make sure
01:43you space them out well. Finally onions literally you cannot go wrong growing these they're really easy to
01:48grow inside or outside all you need to do is cut off the root that's the bottom bit in case you
01:53were wondering leaving about half an inch of onion with it then you simply place it in some soil this
02:00way down so root down into the soil and it will start to grow new roots once that happens this bit
02:06will actually die off so you can remove the onion leave those roots and then it will take a couple of
02:12months and your onions will be underground ready to harvest so if you manage to grow your veg from
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