This week the Hive Garden Question of the Week is all about easy grows, so if you're new to gardening, listen up. I'm a huge believer in everyone growing food, even if it's something on your windowsill, and I think this is a great crop to start with. It's foolproof and uses supermarket scraps.
This is the one 'scrap' crop I absolutely grow, all the time. I hate growing spring onions from seed - they take forever to plant (all those tiny seedlings) and even longer to grow. These, however, grow super fast.
Just snip of the ends and plant - that's it. You can even leave them in a glass of water on the windowsill and they'll grow. Don't forget to change the water though or it'll start to stink.
It also means that if you're harvesting them, just harvest the leaves, letting them grow back again (until they end up going to seed).
Sure, it might be cheaper growing by seed, but for $2 for spring onions, and getting a whole other secondary crop from them, that's not too bad. I often get bunches from the food co-ope (where supermarket waste goes to - an amazing charity) so it's super effective for me.
Whilst I don't have a big garden in the new place, I've put spring onions in already - some in the herb garden, and some in a big black pot. It makes me feel as if I'm at least growing something.
Some other 'easy' tips:
- Let your vegetables go to seed. You may get self seeded plants the following year - for free!
- Plant a whole bulb of garlic and use the shoots as 'cut and come again' garlic chives.
- Soil health is everything - when you pull up crops, snip them off at the base and leave the roots to rot in the soil, adding nutrition.
- Add more greens to your diet by snipping of the occasional beetroot leaf as your beets are growing. Yum! You can also add broccoli leaves and cabbage leaves as greens as well.
I'm at the point in my gardening journey where I find most of it 'easy', so it's all relative. I'd love to know some of your gardening tips though for easy crops!
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That's a really great idea with the spring onions. I grew them from seed and found that they grow incredibly fast and get very big... but that could also be due to the variety. We have several terms for the same thing here, just with different growth rates. lol
I think it's great that organisations like this exist. A friend of mine was once caught dumpster diving because she had taken discarded food... and was fined... Mind you, she is a single mother and is studying for her master's degree in psychology. And yet such a harsh punishment for something that other people throw away. And she wouldn't be dumpster diving if she could afford everything with her child and her studies.
I look forward to more tips from you, because I think you certainly have more to offer than I do in this regard. I wish you a blessed day.
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Wow, that’s so cool! I never knew you could regrow spring onions that easily. I’ve been wanting to try growing something small, and this seems perfect for beginners like me
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STOPThanks for this tips, i want to this soon.
I've tried this with everything. Just let it go! And haven't had much luck. Carrots for instance. They come up everywhere, and are wild carrots, not nice orange carrots, and it's hard to tell them from the real thing. Also parsley, since the second year is for seeds and the herb doesn't taste all that good. Veggies don't come back often, but tomatoes! Tomatoes one can do this with, as long as disease isn't present.
I've decided to not bother with tomatoes next year, because I had nice black brandywines coming up in spades on their own this year, and they did better than the ones I planted and tended all summer long. This will, hopefully, be an addition to of the food forest I'm trying to get going on my tiny plot. I've got other perennials: blueberries, asparagus, raspberries, peaches and pears. Some medicinal plants come back year after year.
That part of the spring onion is the "sweetest" to eat.
So I can only have green leaves :)
This year I grew four types of onions (red onion, silver onion, white onion, and leek)
My wife told me that she would hit me in the head with an onion if I sowed it so much again :) But for me, it's really, really easy to sow onions.
Hahah I never have success with big onions. I keep trying. The more, the better! Fried onions, French onion soup, roast onions... So good.
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