No-Waste Kitchen Gardening - (No-Waste Gardening) by Katie Elzer-Peters (Paperback)

About the Book

Learn to grow and re-propagate produce from kitchen scraps like carrot stumps and apple cores with No-Waste Kitchen Gardening.

Book Synopsis

No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants.

Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks you'll need to grow and re-propagate produce from food waste. You'll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow.

You'll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors and maintaining your re-grown plants. Two-part photo instructions show first what the root, chunk seed, or leaf should look like when you re-plant it, and second, when to harvest or re-plant it in soil to continue growing.

Edibles big and small, quick to grow and those that take a big longer, are included, so you can pick and choose which projects to take on. A few of the many plants profiled include:

• Green onions
• Tomatoes
• Melons
• Avocadoes
• Potatoes
• Carrots

Cut back on your food waste, cultivate your own food easily, and maybe even share gardening with a new generation, all with the advice from No-Waste Kitchen Gardening.

Review Quotes

Author Katie Elzer-Peters provides expert advice on how to use your scraps to re-grow almost an entire garden right on your kitchen counter, or from a small piece of your yard--Earthformed

No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a valuable resource for people who are concerned with living a more frugal lifestyle...and it's an added bonus that's it's also fun to read!--CrystalMcCann.com

About the Author

Katie Elzer-Peters is a horticulturist who has written several gardening books with Cool Springs Press. She has a master of science in public garden management and now operates a garden industry digital marketing agency, The Garden of Words. A resident of Wilmington, North Carolina, she enjoys tending her garden and drawing and painting pictures of it. Follow her on instagram: @katie_gardenofwords.