Regrow Green Onions in Water

March 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Regrow Green Onions in Water and save yourself money from not having to buy green onions at the store anymore.

regrow green onions in water

As I was sharing this tip on my other website BountifulBasketRecipes.Com I realized that it’s been a long time since I posted this and many of my newer readers might have missed it.  So I decided to share the steps again.

 

Step 1.)  When cutting your green onions, only use the green.  Be sure to leave the roots and keep the white part.
regrow green onions in water

 

Step #2.)  Find a jar and add water.  You’ll want to regrow your green onions indoors using this method.

regrow green onions in water

Step 3.)  Sit back and relax and watch them grow.

regrow green onions in water

Once your green onions get to a desired place make sure you snip the green, while keeping the white still in tact.  Store them put in in a ziploc bag until you are ready to use.  Then repeat the process.

The longer you keep them you may want to snip the newer roots — but it really isn’t necessary to do that.

You can also grow your green onions outdoors too.  Just plant the whit part leaving about an 1/2 in. exposed while keeping the soil moist and watch them grow.

Pretty simple huh?  Have you ever tried to regrow green onions in water?

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Square Foot Garden Update 2 Months

May 9, 2012 by

It’s been 2 months since we planted our garden and with our new drip line in, the plants have been doing wonderful!!!

I can’t believe how much of a difference this has made.  We have stuff popping up from seeds I planted from last season that never came up.  Prior to putting the drip line in, I had been watering my garden with the hose.  I thought the plants were getting enough water, however now seeing the difference, I really don’t think the water penetrated into the soil.

Here’s a look at my artichoke plant.

Here’s a look at my tomato plants and if you look closely to the left, you can see some of the pepper plants I have.

We purchased several types of tomato plants, better boy, champion, a few heirloom plants one being brandywine.

These brandywine tomatoes I purchased, don’t look like they’ve grown at all and were actually discouraging until I read how slow growing they are.  They take 90 days to hit maturity, which will put us at the end of June.   I doubt we’ll get a good crop on this, when the temperatures hits over 100 degrees.

We purchased these plants in 1″ pots, now take a look at the other tomato plants

See the difference?  The brandywine tomatoes looks a lot smaller, now you can see why I got discouraged.  I can’t wait to see if they produce anything, I’ll keep you updated on that.

While we tying up some of the branches we actually broke one of the stems off.  Instead of throwing it away, did you know that you can root your tomatoes and replant them?  Here’s a look the one I’m rooting and will be planting in a few days.

Lastly, we pulled a few carrots from our winter garden and this one by far was just about perfect!  My husband planted the carrots… see how excited he is!

Overall I’m really excited about my garden.  How is your garden doing?

 

 

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Free Kindle Book: The Everything Grow Your Own Vegetables Book: Your Complete Guide to planting, tending, and harvesting vegetables

April 20, 2012 by

Right now you can download this Free Kindle Book:  The Everything Grow Your Own Vegetables Book:  Your Complete Guide to planting, tending and harvesting vegetables.

This will be a great book to use, if you want to get started in gardening.  Best of all it’s free!  Hurry and download before the price goes up.

If you don’t have a kindle, don’t worry.  You can still gain access to thousands of free book by downloading this  Kindle App for your smartphones, ipad, ipod, pc’s and more!

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Spring Garden 2012

April 19, 2012 by

This will be our 3rd spring since I started my square foot gardening.

Spring one, I planted way too late for our dessert heat. My soil was packed as hard a clay and nothing thrived. However in the fall, I loosened the dirt and we actually did pretty well with our tomatoes.

Spring two. We built more boxes added new dirt and decided to try the square foot method of planting. I had good luck with cherry tomatoes, Swiss chard, eggplant, beets and some jalapeno and banana peppers. Tomatoes were alright we got enough to eat in occasional salads and even make a few batches of salsa. We also made out with 2 watermelons.
It definitely wasn’t enough to justify all of our hard work in getting the boxes built etc.. We even had a few issues with tomato rot. As for fall we planted turnips, carrots, beets and radishes. We weren’t consistent with watering so the plants seemed to stay alive but dormant.

Spring three. You are probably thinking that I should give up now.. Heck no! I’m even more excited for this year. My wonderful husband is getting into gardening with me and we, put in a drip system..

Now with our drip system in our vegetables are getting consistent watering.  So far it’s made a HUGE difference, just in  the past two weeks my fall vegetables have started to take off.  And I have stuff popping up from last season.

We’re trying a bunch of different tomatoes this year along with some bell pepper, jalapeno, habanero, anaheim peppers, watermelon, zucchini and spaghetti squash and eggplant. We also planted tomatoes in all 4 beds to see which ones will thrive the most and to get an idea of where our plants thrive the most.

Each year is getting better and we are learning from our mistakes. Don’t be afraid to garden. Start off with something small and go from there.  Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.  As long as you are learning from them it’ll make you a better gardener.  2 years ago both of my thumbs were black, they are yellow now..

Here’s a look at our garden a month in.  We bought 1″ in plants and a few gallon plants.  So far I’m really liking the gallon plants for early spring.  They seem to be doing the best.

That crazy thing in the middle is Swiss Chard.  Prior to the watering it wasn’t more than 2 inches tall.  Now it’s crazy!

This side of my garden gets a bit more shade.  This side will thrive when the summer heat hits.

Are you a desert gardener?  Are you having success with your garden?

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Square Foot Gardening

February 28, 2012 by

I’m a little behind with getting my garden together.  I was hoping to have it done a few weeks ago.   What?  A garden in Las Vegas are you crazy?

Gardening in Las Vegas is possible, even with our extreme heat.  The issues most of us face is with our property.  We often don’t have enough space.  I grew up moving a lot being an Air Force brat, and my parents never gardened.  To me, I imagined gardening in rows, with lots of land, until I came across square foot gardening.

When I started square foot gardening I made lots of mistakes and am still making mistakes with gardening.  Each year though, I’m getting better. It’s a learning process and  If you’ve been looking to garden, whether you have land or not, square foot gardening is simple to get started with.

Check out this book:  I wish I would have read this before I got started.  I read it afterwards and it gave me lots of information to use.  I know use it as a reference guide.

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