No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More

Katie Elzer-Peters

Dec 2018 · Cool Springs Press

About this ebook

The debut book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, 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. For more no-waste gardening advice, explore the second book in the No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Organic Gardening. 

Ratings and reviews

No Waste Kitchen Gardening by Katie Elzer-Peters Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More This would be a fun book for families with children to use together to grow a wide variety of vegetables using items purchased at the produce market. Or, adults wanting to try their hand at growing a few items using kitchen scraps might find it fun, too. The parts of plants are described, illustrations are provided (photos and drawings) and how-to-do-its for all plants suggested are easy to follow whether using seeds or parts of plants that will become new edibles or provide edibles in the future. Having tried the avocado seed to grow a tree I can say it definitely works as we are collecting avocados from trees we started as seeds over a decade ago. Trees may take some time but are rewarding just as some of the easier more quickly growing prjects might be to begin with. I am not sure I learned anything “new” but this was a fun book to read and one I believe I would gift to my granddaughters in the future. Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Cool Springs Press for the ARC – This is my honest review. 4 Stars

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.