How to make a DIY vegetable garden out of kitchen scraps

Ever wish you could shrink your food waste and stretch your food budget? This clever video by herbivore blogger Cobi Kim shows you how easy it is to regrow full vegetables from your kitchen scraps, such as pineapples, onions, garlic and celery. Most of the regrowth projects take only sunlight and water to grow roots strong enough to plant in the ground outside.
Kim is a big proponent of organic gardening - from scratch or from scraps. "There is nothing more rewarding than picking your dinner fresh every day," Kim told the website "Jama's Alphabet Soup." "I started mine in a 3 x 4 foot space and have added on in the past two years. Start small, grow big."
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For this video, Kim demonstrates how a traditional round onion planted root-side down starts the regeneration process in only three days. On the other hand, green onions don't have to be planted at all. They can regrow edible green stems from the bulbs after only a few days submerged in water in a sunny place.  
The vegetable blogger also shows how something as challenging as a pineapple stem with the lower leaves removed can be ready to plant outside after only three weeks soaking in water. The only downside to your pineapple project could be that once planted, the fruit takes 18 months to reach maturity. 
It's estimated that 52 million tons of unconsumed food ends up in U.S. landfills annually. This figure does not include an additional estimated 10 million tons of food waste produced by the agriculture industry. 
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