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What can you grow or propagate from supermarket vegetables?

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  • Sadly with the exotic fruits like mangoes, avocados, kiwis, dates, lychees, oranges etc etc, we cant provide the right conditions without turning the whole house into a garden. theyre interesting to grow and have as houseplants however. 
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  • @Whiterot- WHY do it???  Because the root end of the spring onion would be thrown away!  Why on earth wouldn't I plant it to then have never ending spring onions and never need to buy them again!
    Coastal Suffolk/Essex Border- Clay soil
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @Joyce Goldenlily. I knew someone who got a pineapple from growing the top.
    I wondered about the fruit,  I germinated kiwi seeds but dumped them thinking they'd  never get to fruiting stage. 
    Ive had avocados growing in the borders from stones out of the compost heap,  just wondered if they would fruit if I’d left them. 
    When I had rabbits I would put the tops in a saucer of water to grow for them to eat. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Sadly with the exotic fruits like mangoes, avocados, kiwis, dates, lychees, oranges etc etc, we cant provide the right conditions without turning the whole house into a garden. theyre interesting to grow and have as houseplants however. 
    But will they actually get fruit on them and how long does it take?  I’ve grown lemon pips before and never had a lemon. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    @Whiterot maybe people don't want to wait a year or two to eat vegetables. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2023
    What I don’t understand regarding the spring onions, is what you’re planting?  When I use spring onions the only bit I discard is a wafer-thin slice from the base of the onions which has the roots attached.  

    What I see in the photos and videos is the bottom 2cm or so of the spring onion which is being described as ‘waste’. It’s not waste in this house … we eat it … we eat the whole of the spring onion from the bottom to within the top centimetre or so. 

    Confused of Norfolk 😵‍💫

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    It's the same here Dove. The white bit is the best in my opinion. 
    West Yorkshire
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I must admit, I  thought you were supposed to eat the white bit too. It's some of the green that I throw away - and the roots.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You are supposed to eat the white big @B3 … it’s where the flavour is. 

    It seems that some folk treat spring onions more as if they’re chives 😵‍💫

    If anyone isn’t sure how to use them to their full potential and without waste… see here
    https://food52.com/blog/6576-how-to-prep-spring-onions

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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