Page 18 - Bringing out the Potential In Our Children - Gardeners - Food Producers

 Lettuce - put the romaine lettuce stumps in half inch of water

refilling if needed to keep it at half inch. Do this for a few days until
you start to see new leaves starting to regrow, then you can plant
them into some soil and grow them in a sunny windowsill.
 Celery - cut off the base of the celery and placing it in a bowl of

warm water in a sunny spot. Watch for new leaves starting to grow in
the middle of the base. In about 5 to 7 days the leaf growth will start

to thicken and can be planted into a pot of soil and grown on a sunny
windowsill.
 Green Onions - cut off the base with the roots intact and put it
into a container of water in direct sunlight. Change the water every

few days and it won’t be long before the green part will start to
regrow. You can cut off the green part and they will keep growing

back.
 Potatoes can also be grown from scraps, from the potato
peelings. Cut the peelings into two inch pieces with at least two or
three eyes on them. Dry them out overnight then plant them about 4”

deep in the ground with the eyes facing up. In a few weeks you
should see the potato plant starting to grow.

If you are not quite ready for a garden plot yet here’s a quick simple way to

get some seeds sprouting for some freshly grown food – seed sprouts.
You can sprout beans, peas, lentils, wheat, alfalfa, clover, broccoli, radish,
onions and more. The thing about sprouts is that you get to see results
happening in days, easily visible in the sprouting jar.

Here’s how to do it.
Material needed:

1 quart wide mouth canning jar
some screening or folded cheese cloth cut about the size of the jar opening
with an inch overhang. elastic band to hold the screening as a lid.

1 canning lid for storage
2 - 3 T. of sprouting seeds
Method: