Last year, I bought a 1.5 lbs bag of purple baby potatoes in my local ShopRite. I couldn’t find purple potato seeds, so I decided to take a chance. There were 22 baby potatoes and all of them had eyes with some growth protruding, so I knew they would take off. Sure enough, I got an excellent crop out of those 22 baby potatoes. We enjoyed them until the end of year and then somehow forgot about them. When in March I realized we had still about ten pounds of potatoes, they had already started to sprout. In April, I planted some and the rest donated to the community garden. Both - us and the community gardeners - enjoyed huge crop of delicious purple potatoes. In the past, I occasionally planted store-bought potatoes when they were sprouting, but this was the first time I deliberately purchased a bag of potatoes just for planting. I am glad I did.
I'm 69, when I was a little kid, my elderly neighbors, threw all their scraps, from veggies in a certain spot of the garden, they would get food from there, it amazed me, i thought that was so cool!
My parents always grew potatoes from the eyes that would sprout attached to a 1/4 slice of the potato. It was free food! Great experiment. Thank you for all of your videos. ❤
Another thing I do with veggie scraps is add them to a bag I have in the freezer and when it’s full, I simmer them on the stove in some water for a few hours to make a nice broth. Then either can freeze that so that I always have broth on hand to use instead of water for making soups, stews, casseroles and such.
I love this! I grow potatoes, celery, garlic, tomatoes, cucumbers , green onions, ginger, and romaine lettuce this way! Start my bell peppers , watermelon, avocado, and so much more from the seeds of store bought items. I also have beautiful lemon trees from the lemon seeds I save. I had a great harvest this year from sweet potato slips from store bought sweet potatoes. Five slips gave us a five gallon bucket of potatoes. I will certainly do that again next year! Tuck these are for you!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love this, I did an experiment one time with scallions, and celery. I also take all my tomatoes that are not looking good at the end of season and just let them compost in my beds and I get lots of free tomatoes (large and cherry) every year. It definitely is a great experiment and they all taste as fresh as their original veggies. Thank you and God bless 🙏
That's amazing! Thanks for doing this I always learn a lot from you! My fav part of beets are the tops / greens! I always cook radish tops, beet tops, turnip tops. A little EVOO, salt, red pepper flakes, garlic and sautee for 2 minutes. Can add wine or lemon juice or stock or water to make a lil steam. Super fast and easy! Please don't throw away your tops! I have chitted and planted organic potatoes. Super easy!
I have a large compost frame (nearly 1 metre high) where are all my kitchen scraps and garden rubbish goes in. Every year in the late summer I harvest huge amounts of my favourite potatoes out of it because the potato peels with the “eyes” just go like mad and I let the plant simply do its thing. I buy from the store the waxy baby potatoes and usually I eat them with the skin, but sometimes there’s a bad bit which I cut off. This year I harvest it nearly 18 kg of beautiful potatoes 🥰 Thank you for this video, it’s amazing how things grow if we let them. 😇
James! I had to pause your video to tell you that this video was one of the most exciting ones I've seen in a very long time! I don't get out much obviously... But, you really hit the nail on the head with thisk one -- so appreciate you sharing this with us!
Great idea from this video. If u ever get a really good carrot. Or a black or a purple.. regrow the top and massive seeds. Carrots are great for seeds. Thx james.
Am I the only one who is saying, "What??? where's the "Let's go!!" ???? I always say that when I watch James' videos. That's part of the intro😭 Interesting video :) I have been trying all year to grow ginger, FINALLY, i have four small sprouts, hope they hang on.
I am in NW MO and hire year on my tubers. Last year didn't grow a whole lot. I put he pot in same place this year, funny spot and it really didn't thrive. I relocated it to a shaded spot,getting only late afternoon sun and I had 7 shoots instead of the 2-3. It stands much taller too. I will harvest soon and next year plant a tuber and set in the shaded spot. Hopefully it helps💕
Love your energy and approach. I have to say that after watching about 5 of your videos I wondered why you kept saying ‘mean talk’. It was only after I started wondering what ‘mean talk’ means that I realised you were actually saying ‘me & Tok’ being you and your cool little doggy lol. Anyway Australia here , down south, keep up the good work, some of your info doesn’t apply down here such as some of the garden pests don’t exist here, but we have other pests to take their place believe me. Looking forward to watching more of your videos 🤙
SHARE THIS VIDEO IF YOU ENJOYED IT, ALSO CLICK THE LINK FOR THE FREE RAISED BED GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY LINK: teamgrow.us Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:11 Veggie Scraps to Regrow 01:10 Prepping Raised Bed to Plant Into 01:35 Planting Out Veggie Scraps 03:18 Full Bed Of Veggie Scraps Planted 03:51 14 Days After Planting 04:55 23 Days AFter Planting 06:40 Free Raised Bed Giveaway! 07:10 34 Days After Planting 08:06 91 Days After Planting 08:20 Harvesting Regrown Onions 10:30 Harvesting Regrown Beets 12:33 Harvesting Regrown Carrots 13:44 Tuck Eating Regrown Carrots 15:02 Harvesting Regrown Potatoes 17:58 Harvesting Regrown Garlic 19:41 99 Days After Planting 19:54 Harvesting Regrown Tomatoes 21:32 106 Days After Planting 23:09 135 Days After Planting 23:22 Transplanting Ginger Plant into a Container 23:57 Was it Worth it to Regrow Veggies from Scraps? 25:16 Final Thoughts Me and Tuck hope you enjoy the video!
Yes. Throw scraps into garden. Make sure you want those scraps to grow there if they sprout or regrow. I had volunteer tomatoes from my scraps. I live my volunteers❤❤❤❤
re: rooting and growing stuff like celery, cabbage, lettuce, etc - you peel all the leaves off the outside. all of that's going to rot on you, you have to remove them and you MUST have some of the root cells on the bottom or it won't root. always plant the bottom of your onions and then just snip the green tops and chop those up to eat. they'll grow all year round - heat and cold and snow don't bother them
I live in zone 6 in Mass. I throw a few of my sweet 100's cherry tomatoes on the soil of the raised bed gardens at the end of the season. In the spring when the soil hits temperature the seeds sprout and i get plants. They get loaded with cherry tomatoes. I also do the same with my bigger tomatoes like Early girl and have had the same results. I also save a handful of lil red and lil yellow potatoes, full size Yukon gold potato and a sweet potato that i leave sprout thru the winter in my house. i then plant them in the soil in a sunny place mid to late march depending if there is snow on the ground may be later. I get a good-sized harvest from them every year. i actually get to put a second batch down, but it yields half of what i get from the first. i have been doing this for over 30 years with no fail. i also plant the garlic from the grocery store in pieces like you did. but it takes 2 maybe 3 years before it amounts to anything. Experimenting is fun in the garden.
i love regrowing green onion .i have green onions all year . just leave about a inch in the garden or leave 1'' of the white part by the roots and replant it.(the store bought one). i regrow carrots and celery for the seeds. regrow maters too .
Great experiment James, I will recreate it. One thing about the beet - you can eat and enjoy just the greens from the top. Young leaves are great in salad, larger ones are wonderful sauted in olive and garlic, mix with some orrechetti pasta- yum. The green tops of beets have the most amount of potassium than any food!
Excellent presentation Thank you. You have given me some great tips for growing vegies. Will be cleaning out my fridge and planting. I'm excited about it, to see what I'm able to reproduce. Many thanks. ❤
I get food from the locally owned grocery for the chickens -- there was bags of onions that were growing significantly so I planted them in pots everywhere around my garden. They grew flowers but there was small onions ... I ate some but I'm going to do what you said about drying them and making them sets for net year. I'm in zone 4 so I don't suppose they will over winter??? Thank you for the awesome experiments!!!
Good on you for going the distance with your experiment, I especially appreciate your advice on the ginger; I'll head out and try to revive my poor little lump of ginger from going rotten thanks to your inspiring message.😊 One thing I’ve been doing is buying organic fruits and veggies, just say one beet or one potato, special tomatoes, carrots, so it's not costly, and use those for seed and rooting material, as they're organic and should be pesticide free. I'm in Melbourne Australia, we're heading into our characteristically hot summer from an extended winter, juggling climate change 🤷♀️😬probably quite similar to MI, minus the snow! 😎💙👍🇦🇺love your vids❤
Store tomatoes are bland and flavorless anyway, so I'm not surprised the ones you grew didn't taste the best. I was surprised that the garlic didn't form heads until you mentioned they didn't go through a winter in the ground, then that made sense. Overall, a fun experiment to watch! Thanks for filming it for us!
Sungold cherry. Planted 5 seedlings. Got ATTACKED by so many tomatoes. It was overwhelming. I froze them and will kick up the flavors of the salsas I shall can up later this month.
Carrot tops taste like carrot. You can use them in salads in place of carrot root for flavor. I've got a few carrots I put out in the spring. The roots are crap but the tops are nice and green. I do recommend removing the main stems and just using the leaves.
I grow scallions in a pot indoors all winter long so I can just use one at a time. I snip just above the base and they regrow all winter long. Also grew some very nice leeks from the root base of store bought leeks. Every little bit helps!
Btw, I tried to extend my cucumber production by removing dead leaves weekly. It may have worked but while doing the pruning, the bumblebees arrived right on cue after the last leaf was removed. (3x)
Awesome! Have not tried to grow potatoes or onions in the 20+ years that I've lived in the Atlanta, GA area, though my mom used to grow potatoes in Anchorage, AK in the 60's/70's. I've been torn as to whether to purchase seed potatoes and onion sets or whether to grow from store-bought like you did. I think at the moment I'm leaning heavily towards store bought based on your successful experimentation. Probably should do both though....? In any case, thanks for providing us with yet another way to grow our own food. ❤❤❤❤❤for the Young King (Tuck)!!!
A great experiment. The beat and the carrot came out very interesting. I can see Tuck got his haircut at the begging of this experiment. Very cute. Thanks for sharing your video.
I’ve been growing ginger and turmeric from pieces I bought. Turmeric is selling for about $22-$23 per pound here, so it’s definitely worth my time to grow it in pots and take it inside during the cold weather. (Zone 4A)
You are always the best! Thanks! I’m a NY transplant in Southern Alabama but you have started me on my food forest down here. Thanks for all your tips and suggestion.❤❤❤❤for Tuck
What a great video! Love that you had the forethought to start this and see it through over the season. Mad Love bruv you're kicking up such growth in so many ways❤❤❤!
This is awesome! I have recently planted onion bottoms and beet tops so this gives me an idea of what the results be like. I have to try the potatoes! That's a really fantastic yield! Great job James!
My favorite way to grow! I have more success withmy kitchen scraps then when I buy fancy seeds! I still learned something from your experiment that I can try! Put the garlic in later.
This is how I got my initial seed for my romaine lettuce I grow. I planted the base of some romaine but actually left the smaller inner leaves intact so it already had a head start and something for it to be able to use to photosynthesize energy for itself right from the start. It’s super easy to get lettuce to bolt and viola, about a month later I had thousands and thousands of lettuce seeds to use to start a bunch from scrap. Now all it takes is for me to have three heads rotating in my hydroponic deep water setup and I have more lettuce then I can even fathom to use every day. I use the cut and come again method until the plant is done and bolts naturally, then I just cut it off, take it out and plant a new seed. Haven’t ran out of seeds yet, but just earlier this year I let a. Couple I had growing outside go to seed to get some new fresh seed. I actually do this for a lot of vegetables I want to grow. I go get about 15 pounds each of all the different potato varieties I want to grow, also one sweet potato, and use those as my seed potatoes each year. Before I got seed for my basil, I re-grew basil from the store too. It is a very cheap way to get stock of seeds for plants you may want to grow and the nice part is with most of the veggies you get, you get to consume most of it too before using it to grow more food/seeds! Absolutely love it! Plants are f-ing amazing!
Amazing!! Now you can take those bottoms and regrow that. Endless supply of food. Hearts for Tuck. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ It doesn't matter how they look, chop it up and everything is tasty. Tiny carrots for Tuck.
I've done this before but not with beets. I'm surprised and disappointed the beets didn't go to seed. I've done well growing tumeric in pots and ginger in the ground here on PEI, Canada.
I figured you knew full well how some of these would go, but decided to do it anyway just to show others (i.e. how the carrots and beets were not going to regrow their main taproot). But I didn't expect the beet and carrot to get so weird since they survived their regrowth. 😂 I am jealous of your soil though. I make my own too, but finding decent compost is like pulling teeth around here for some reason. 😭
I grow my potatoes, ginger and garlic this way all the time. I save the seeds from my tomatoes and all my peppers. Then I grow them again but they aren't store bought, they're from varies I been growing for years. ❤ 🍅 🌶 🫑 🌰 🧅 🥔 🍠
Great video and Thanks for the experiments, really fun to see! Just one question, the potatoes, did they taste good? Did you get clones of the one you planted or did you get offspring that is different? Like with the tomatoes? Thanks for another video! ❤
I save seeds from my favourit heirloom tomatoes instead of buying new seeds every year. I have also tried saving seeds from storebought hybrids, just to sees how they'll turn out. This year I actually got some that tasted really good. Will be interesting to see what their offspring will taste like next year...🤔
