Sustainable Living: Treasures From My Backyard Part 7

Onions
Onion sprouts

Hello and welcome back to my sustainable living series!

Today I will show you two plants that blossomed from our kitchen scraps: the onion and mint.

Before I became a concerned citizen of the earth, I always thought that all plants came from seeds, therefore before they even grow, a load of effort is required from the ‘planter’. Imagine my delight when I found that the onion and mint that we set aside from our kitchen staples sprouted into seedlings.

MintOnions

The mint took about two weeks to start growing, while the onion took about ten days to propagate. We had to move the onion to out enclosed pot garden though, because one of the four hens started digging through it.

The perks of having these two herbs home grown include saving on trips to the supermarket, and running into possibilities of not being able to consume all that we end up buying (hence waste). More importantly we are sure we are getting fresh and organic produce.

 

By MrsWayfarer

Living Free and Making a Difference

7 comments

    1. We also had a couple of tries with our mint. Living in a tropical country what I learned from our first batches is that they dried out easily so we started generously watering the newer batches of mint and so far it seemed to work.

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