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Beginner Urban Gardening: growing your own food with limited garden space

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Starting a garden can be intimidating, and let's be real, a lot of us do not have the space to start growing vegetables in the ground, or want to invest time and energy in changing the landscaping (or lack thereof) at a rental. With this guide, you c...

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Beginner Vegetables

Beginner Herbs

Gardening Supplies

Grow from Scraps

Seed Starting

Container Gardening How To

Beginner Vegetables

Beginner Herbs

Gardening Supplies

Grow from Scraps

When cutting store-bought romaine, keep a few inches of the base, suspend in a glass above water for a few days until you see roots forming. Change water daily. When roots sprout, transfer to soil. Harvest new growth leaves, smaller leaves are more t...

Romaine Lettuce

Pull one or two potatoes from a bag when purchased, let it start sprouting eyes, cut potato into sections (divide sections by eyes) and place in soil

Potatoes

save a clove or two from a head of garlic and pop in the soil. After a few weeks (in the right season) you can harvest a brand new head of garlic

Garlic

Save top of a fresh pineapple, pull off a few of the bottom leaves to expose the “root nodes”, place in soil. Growing a pineapple from a top to harvest takes 2-3 years, but it makes a beautiful houseplant and can fill space with greenery nicely. “pup...

Pineapple

Save the cap of the turnip root, treat the same way as you wood a romaine cap. Suspend in water for a few days changing water daily, place in soil once you see new leaves growing from the top. Harvest baby turnip greens as a nutritious leafy green.

Turnips

Keep a section of fresh ginger, save until it begins to sprout, place in soil. Harvest fresh ginger root in a few weeks.

Ginger

Keep the cabbage heart when slicing away from the head while connected to a few inches of the root. Suspend in water until root nodes start forming. Change water daily. Place in soil. Harvest fresh leaves as they grow. A new head will not form, but t...

Cabbage

Save onion caps and plant to have an endless supply of green onion.

Onions

Take about a 4 inch segment of stem with a few leaves on the end. Plant in moist soil, or suspend water, clean water daily, until you see new roots forming then transfer to soil. Allow plant to grow, trimming as needed to promote “bushy” re-growth. O...

Fresh Herbs- Basil, cilantro, sage, rosemary, mint, oregano