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Summary:

Grow your own fruits and vegetables from nothing but kitchen scraps! Several of these projects require nothing more than a jar, a windowsill, and a few pieces of food that would otherwise end up in the trash or compost.

Table of Contents:

• Growing up
• Grow romaine lettuce from stubs
• Autumn salad
• Start your own celery plant
• Growing green onions or leeks
• Potato leek soup
• Putting down roots
• Sprout lemongrass from the stalk
• Lemongrass ice cream
• Starting herbs from cuttings
• Basil-parsley pesto
• Plant a pineapple
• Tropical smoothie
• Tubers, bulbs, and rhizomes
• Grow garlic from a single clove
• Garlic bread
• Start ginger from a root
• Homemade ginger ale
• Sprout a sweet potato
• Sweet potato oven fries

• Save those seeds!
• Pepper in a newspaper pot
• Making newspaper seedling pots
• Your own pumpkin patch
• Crunchy pumpkin seeds
• Lemon tree in a pot
• Homemade lemonade.

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Author/Creator:

Cornell, Kari A. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Dig in!: 12 easy gardening projects using kitchen scraps [by Cornell, K.A.]

Subjects:

Gardening — Juvenile literature

Kitchen gardens — Juvenile literature

Gardening

Kitchen gardens

Genres:

Juvenile works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 61) and index.

Audience:

Preteens
Children
Ages: 8-10.
Grades: 3-5.
IG970L (source: Lexile)

Physical Description:

64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

J635.023 C814di

ISBNs:

9781512430653 (library bound)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017010731

OCLC Numbers:

978252040

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: jlg19549069