Growing from Kitchen Scraps

All the way back in April 2013, I wrote a post: What do you do with your kitchen scraps?  One of the things I do with kitchen scraps is to compost it.  What if composting is not your thing?  You could always turns kitchen scraps into a life science lesson for kids!

Many websites talk about regrowing food from scraps.  In order to do this, I left the bottom 1-2inches of the lettuce intact.  Plonk it in some water (remember to change the water daily and watch for mosquitoes!) and watch it grow!

Regrowing Romaine Lettuce

Composting

What do I do with my kitchen scraps?  Why do I freeze them?  Here's where my frozen kitchen scraps go: into a flower pot with some soil!

Kitchen scraps in pot

Why??  This is my tiny little effort at composting, a tiny little effort to reduce the amount of rubbish that I throw into the rubbish bin.  I first attempted composting in a closed container under the kitchen sink.  As it was a closed system, I had to open it up and stir it every day to avoid anaerobic decomposition.  Then I got lazy and didn't stir it for 1 week..... URGHHHH..... stink stink stink!!  So the closed compost bin was banished from the house!

Eventually I started the more current system of adding kitchen scraps to a pot of soil.  Initial problems of having flies was solved by burying the scraps instead of leaving them on top, like this:

Kitchen scraps buried

How about trying out composting?  You reduce the amount of rubbish and get some fertiliser at the same time!