Romaine lettuce works too. I just haven’t taken a photograph of it yet. I cut the top part off the lettuce & stuck the bottom, plus three inches in a bowl, I spray the top with water & change the water everyday. So far I’ve got about 3 to 4 inches of new growth! Once it reaches 5 to 6 inches, I’m to plant the bottom, leaving the new growth out, in dirt. Said it takes five months to get a new head of lettuce, but if I do this until I have it everywhere, then I won’t ever have to buy lettuce again. Cool, huh? ~amy
I do that too with the things we call ‘spring onions’ – they look like small, elongated onions, which are usually under the soil; they have a couple of long green leaves that shoot up above the ground, and you can pick those and chop them small for a salad, to sprinkle onto bread, or over cottage cheese. Delish! When their roots are a bit bigger, I plant them out into the herb barrels in the garden. It’s fun to re-grow things! 🙂
We have those tiny green onions in/on our lawn. Before they took over, when the grass got mowed, we would smell yummy cut grass. Now, it smells like a yummy salad. We do cut them up & eat them too. Some have landed in our herb garden. Reggie, I am regrowing romaine lettuce…i put it in water beside the green onions & they have grown about 3 or 4 inches. The chart says when the green is about 5 or 6 inches tall, I plant the ugly part in the dirt & five months later, I will have another head of lettuce. Which seems like forever, but if I did it all year long–I wouldn’t have to buy lettuce ever again! It is very fun to grow & regrow thing. I love gardening. Thank you, Reggie! ~amy
Thank you, djrobinski! Another one I did, but haven’t photographed because it doesn’t look as cool…yet. If you cut off the edible part of romaine lettuce & stick the bottom (with about 3″) into water, the green in the middle grows back up. When the it has grown about 5″ tall, you plant the ugly in the dirt & five months later you have more romaine. Seems like a long time, but if you kept buying the lettuce & repeating the process, you could have free salad for a long time! Sorry for the babbling. I’m just excited. ~amy
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I may try this.
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Romaine lettuce works too. I just haven’t taken a photograph of it yet. I cut the top part off the lettuce & stuck the bottom, plus three inches in a bowl, I spray the top with water & change the water everyday. So far I’ve got about 3 to 4 inches of new growth! Once it reaches 5 to 6 inches, I’m to plant the bottom, leaving the new growth out, in dirt. Said it takes five months to get a new head of lettuce, but if I do this until I have it everywhere, then I won’t ever have to buy lettuce again. Cool, huh? ~amy
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Great idea. It should work.
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I do that too with the things we call ‘spring onions’ – they look like small, elongated onions, which are usually under the soil; they have a couple of long green leaves that shoot up above the ground, and you can pick those and chop them small for a salad, to sprinkle onto bread, or over cottage cheese. Delish! When their roots are a bit bigger, I plant them out into the herb barrels in the garden. It’s fun to re-grow things! 🙂
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We have those tiny green onions in/on our lawn. Before they took over, when the grass got mowed, we would smell yummy cut grass. Now, it smells like a yummy salad. We do cut them up & eat them too. Some have landed in our herb garden. Reggie, I am regrowing romaine lettuce…i put it in water beside the green onions & they have grown about 3 or 4 inches. The chart says when the green is about 5 or 6 inches tall, I plant the ugly part in the dirt & five months later, I will have another head of lettuce. Which seems like forever, but if I did it all year long–I wouldn’t have to buy lettuce ever again! It is very fun to grow & regrow thing. I love gardening. Thank you, Reggie! ~amy
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Wow!! That sounds amazing! So the romaine lettuce and the green onions are companion plants, in a way?
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Fab idea! Pretty and useful!
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Thank you, djrobinski! Another one I did, but haven’t photographed because it doesn’t look as cool…yet. If you cut off the edible part of romaine lettuce & stick the bottom (with about 3″) into water, the green in the middle grows back up. When the it has grown about 5″ tall, you plant the ugly in the dirt & five months later you have more romaine. Seems like a long time, but if you kept buying the lettuce & repeating the process, you could have free salad for a long time! Sorry for the babbling. I’m just excited. ~amy
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