How To Regrow Vegetables From Scraps

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!

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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.

00:25All 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

00:47properly and then about ten weeks after planting you'll notice potato plants

00:51growing and that's when your potatoes are ready to harvest. Now sweet potatoes are

00:56a little bit more tricky to grow but it is possible so it's worth having a go.

01:00Basically you need to cut a sweet potato in half and it needs to be suspended in

01:05water like this to allow shoots to grow. Now my potato fits perfectly in this glass

01:10jar but say you had a wider container if you insert toothpicks around the side it

01:16will suspend the potato in the water and allow those shoots to grow. So once they

01:20start sprouting out the top all you do is twist the leaves off and it's very

01:25similar to lettuce which we talked about growing last time. So you pop the leaves

01:29into some water and they will begin to sprout and grow roots. Once those roots

01:33start to grow they're ready to pop outside in soil. Now sweet potatoes love

01:38sandy soil they love really sunny conditions and they're not very social

01:41bit like us at the moment so make sure you space them out well. Finally onions

01:45literally you cannot go wrong growing these they're really easy to grow inside or

01:49outside all you need to do is cut off the root that's the bottom bit in case you were wondering

01:54leaving about half an inch of onion with it then you simply place it in some

01:59soil this way down so root down into the soil and it will start to grow new

02:04roots. Once that happens this bit will actually die off so you can remove the

02:08onion leave those roots and then it will take a couple of months and your

02:13onions will be underground ready to harvest. So if you manage to grow your veg from

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