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No-waste kitchen gardening : regrow your leftover greens, stalks, seeds, and more / Katie Elzer-Peters.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Cool Springs Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 127 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780760361603
  • 0760361606
Subject(s):
Contents:
No-waste kitchen gardening-how it works and how to do it -- Regrow roots and underground stems in soil -- Regrow stems and modified stems in soil -- Grow seeds in soil and water -- Regrow whole plants and stems in water.
Summary: "No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants. Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks you'll need to grow and re-propagate produce from food waste. You'll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow. You'll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors and maintaining your re-grown plants. Two-part photo instructions show first what the root, chunk seed, or leaf should look like when you re-plant it, and second, when to harvest or re-plant it in soil to continue growing." -- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 635 E52 Checked out 06/21/2024 33111009151529
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Learn to grow and re-propagate produce from kitchen scraps like carrot stumps and apple cores with No-Waste Kitchen Gardening .

No-waste kitchen gardening-how it works and how to do it -- Regrow roots and underground stems in soil -- Regrow stems and modified stems in soil -- Grow seeds in soil and water -- Regrow whole plants and stems in water.

"No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants. Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks you'll need to grow and re-propagate produce from food waste. You'll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow. You'll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors and maintaining your re-grown plants. Two-part photo instructions show first what the root, chunk seed, or leaf should look like when you re-plant it, and second, when to harvest or re-plant it in soil to continue growing." -- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (page 124) and index.

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