Regrowing from Food Scraps

Well let's just say that all of buzzy videos about regrowing food from scraps really didn't work for me. I don't know if it was because I did it in the heat of Texas summer and triple digit weather, or what.

What I tried that kind of worked:

- Romaine Lettuce (harvested once...and it was very bitter from the heat)

- Jackfruit seeds (took FOREVER to germinate...but it's growing! Talk to me in 3 years...apparently that's how long it takes for it to bear fruit)

What I tried that didn't work:

- A Choy (fairly successful but eaten away by pests so no harvest happened)

- Bok Choy (mini sprouts but died once planted. Only ONE was successful out of...20? but immediately bolted)

- Celery (grew some leaves from the center...and then died once planted...RIP to 3 celery stems)

- Cabbage - nope

- Napa cabbage - maybe some green came out in the middle...then died

- Yu Choy - some green shoots came out, and then rotted in the water

- Mushroom bottoms from Chinese store (with medium from grocery store) - NOPE, a bug found these though...

- Lemon seeds from a really old lemon (maybe this was the issue lol) - nope, these just rotted

So promising. Look at all those little A choys growing! The repurposed Oui Yoplait containers for the lemon seeds! My first of many 50 lb bags of Potting Mixes....the excitement of the $1.50 Daiso planters...

I even got this plant shelf from IKEA! It was so neat back then. It's a disaster now. But that's why I'm building a potting bench soon!

Bok choy. Only one guy survived...to immediately bolt and turn into a mutant. It got seriously out of control later...there were millions of little branches with dead dried flowers...yeah....

Napa was so promising...and so was the celery. But alas, either the TX heat took it once I transplanted it outside and in the soil, or there's just simply not enough root growth from this method.

I think I spent a whole afternoon plucking these slimy jackfruit seeds out LOL. But oh how I love jackfruit. Separate blog post on how these germinated and how it's doing so far!

Why not? Because it didn't work and just attracted bugs ok? That's why not. I put it in this container to keep it "dark" and misted for moisture. Ugh.

The end. I just buy seeds now or plants already started at Lowe's/Home Depot LOL.