I heard it, but I didn’t believe it.  You can grow green onions by soaking the bottom white part in water.  I love this idea for reusing vegetable scraps even before recycling them in the compost heap.

I am soaking green onions right now on my kitchen counter and they’ve already grown a centimeter in just one day.

You can also grow romaine lettuce and celery from scraps.  What have you grown from scraps?

Photo courtesy of The Burlap Bag.

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