10 Vegetables That Regrow From Kitchen Scraps

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Is it possible to regrow vegetables from kitchen scraps? The answer is yes! Not only is it possible, but it’s also a great way to reduce food waste and save money on groceries.

Fine Dining Lovers and several other gardening heavyweights explain how, but in this article, we’ll look at the top 10 vegetables you can quickly regrow from kitchen scraps.

Lettuce

This is one of the easiest vegetables to regrow from scraps. Keep the bottom inch of your lettuce head and set it in a bowl with shallow water. Change the water daily, and about one week later, you will find new leaves growing. Once they have grown a bit, you can move them to a container or the garden.

Celery

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Celery stalks are one of the most reliable vegetables to regrow from scraps. Cut the base from your store-bought celery and put the celery in a jar or bowl with water. You should see new sprouting from the center of the base in a little over a week. After two weeks, it can be transplanted into the soil to grow indefinitely.

Green Onions

Like celery, green onions are super easy to re-grow from trimmings. Take the bottom inch of your green onion bunch and put it in a jar with some water so that only the roots are covered. Replace the water every day, and buds will appear in a week or two. You can cut off what you need to cook and then let the rest grow.

Carrots

Carrot tops can also be regrown from what we usually discard. Grab a carrot and slice off the top inch, complete with some greens on the end. Embed it into shallow soil. Leave it wet, and after a few weeks, you can start to see fresh green shoots appear in the center. Plant your carrot tops in the container. Harvesting fresh carrots may take a few weeks or months, but it’s worth the wait.

Garlic

Your clove of garlic just started sprouting; no worries. Plant it in some soil with the sprouting part facing up, and you will have new garlic stalks coming up within a few weeks. You can keep letting them become bulbs, or you can harvest the greens to use in cooking.

Potatoes

Potatoes are also a type of vegetable you can regrow from scraps. Large potatoes should be cut into sections, each with an eye. Allow the pieces to dry for a day before you plant them in the soil. Potatoes will sprout new plants, so long as they are kept constantly moist, in about 2-3 weeks.

Ginger

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One of the best things about growing ginger is how beautiful it looks! Put a chunk of ginger root, buds pointing upward, in a bag and bury it under about 2 inches of soil in your garden. You can see the new shoots coming up at home in two to three weeks. Just snip off what you want to use for today (or maybe just cut the scallions and leave enough for them to keep growing).

Peppers

Comment if you have used pepper seeds from cooking in your gardening. The seeds need to sprout on damp paper towels for a couple of days before planting them in the soil. Provided that the soil is kept moist (but not waterlogged), new pepper plants should grow in about two weeks.

Radishes

This vegetable is not surprising, as radishes are known for being easy to grow from scraps. Take a radish, cut the upper part off, and place it in a shallow bowl of water. Within a week or two, little leaves will begin to sprout, and you can then move them into the soil for continual growth.

Cabbage

There are two ways to regrow cabbages from scraps. Save the bottom stem of a cabbage head — put it in shallow water to grow back new leaves, or Cut off the top inch of your current cabbage head and plant it in the soil to regrow a whole new crop for later.

Disclaimer: This list is solely the author’s opinion based on research and publicly available information.