Making one small change at a time can make becoming eco friendly loads easier. Lots of small changes add up to a big difference.
The spring onions I buy from the supermarket were grown in Egypt. I'm not sure where the ones I buy from the market are from, not England though because all the English produce is labelled. There are some serious food miles attached to my little green onions, so I want to get the most out of them.
It's the easiest thing in the world to replant spring onion scraps. I store my spring onions in a mug of water in the fridge door, which keeps the roots nice and juicy - if you don't do this then you might need to add a step, and stand the cut off bits in a little water for a couple of days to get the roots rehydrated. Cut off about a centimetre of the white from the base of the spring onion, make a little hole in a pot of compost, poke the spring onion scrap in, cover the roots as best you can. Keep the pot watered and pop it somewhere nice and sunny, like a windowsill. You can keep adding rooty scraps to your pot as you go, until it's full. Take out any that haven't worked (it can happen to anyone!) and use that space to regrow new onion scraps.
You can cut off your regrown spring onion greens and add them to all your yummy salads and meals!
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We've done this in the past, but now I grow chives in the garden and let them mature and treat them as spring onions as well as the usual snipping of the greens. Adds such lovely colour and taste.
ReplyDeleteOh that's interesting, I don't think my chives seem to get thick enough to be spring onion like, I'll keep an eye on them this year and see!
DeleteI've just bought a book from eBay called "Don't Throw It, Grow It!" I used to love growing carrot tops and mustard and cress on the window sill as a child, I'm dying to give it another go. xxx
ReplyDeleteOh that book sounds fantastic! I used to love growing carrot tops too!
DeleteI love this idea. We eat a lot of spring onions,and even though I've bought some seeds to grow I think I'm going to give this a try too.
ReplyDeleteI find this works better, I have seeds too but they very rarely grow very big (I'm probably doing something wrong!)
DeleteBrilliant idea! MUST try this. My Mum did this with a lettuce last year and it worked well!x
ReplyDeleteYou've inspired me, I've popped my lettuce-end in a saucer of water to see if it re-sprouts!
DeleteThere are a number of things you can do this with. For a while I did this, but fell out of habit. I need to start it up again! Thanks for sharing on the Waste Less Wednesday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteYes, I have a lettuce on the go too!
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