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April 9, 2014

How to Regrow Lettuce

How to Grow Food from Scraps ~ Regrow Lettuce

I am always amazed that you can actually regrow food from the scraps that I would normally toss to the chickens.  We have been Regrowing Celery for a couple of years now, but this is our first time trying to regrow lettuce.  It worked like a charm, and was so easy to do.  Read on to find out how to get a kick start on your gardening and regrow your own lettuce.

How to Regrow Lettuce ~ growing food from scraps

How to Regrow Lettuce:

  • Romaine Lettuce
  • Shallow Dish
  • Water
  • Rocks ~ to stabilize the lettuce
  • Sunny window

How to Regrow Lettuce ~ growing food from scraps

Sustainable Food Scraps ~ gardening with kids

Simply chop the base of the romaine lettuce, leaving about 2 inches.  This is the piece that you would normally compost or feed to the chickens.  Place the base in a dish of water in a sunny location.  You may need to add a few rocks to stabilize it. Thats all you need to do.  I know it sounds too good to be true, right?  I was surprised too.

How to Regrow Lettuce ~ growing food from scraps

You should start noticing changes pretty quickly.  The photos were taken at about 2 weeks after we started our little lettuce plants.

How to Regrow Lettuce ~ growing food from scraps

You should soon start seeing little roots forming.  Once you see these, you are good to plant into soil.  We chose to plant ours in little containers right by our back door, but they could go straight into the garden as well.

So much easier and quicker than starting from seed.  Plus it is a great science experiment for kids.

How to Regrow Lettuce ~ growing food from scraps

You also might want to try our simple tutorial on how to Regrow Celery.

Regrowing Celery ~ how to grow food from kitchen scraps

For more ways to encourage kids to garden, check out our:

Gourd Surprise

How to Grow Sprouts on a Sponge

27 DIY Garden Markers

Starting Seeds

Regrow Celery

Related posts:

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  2. Gourd Surprise
  3. Starting Seeds
  4. Vegetable Stamps using Lettuce
Posted in Food, Spring and tagged Experiments, Fun Food, Garden, Spring.

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2 thoughts on “How to Regrow Lettuce”

  1. Rachel S. on July 13, 2014 at 1:23 pm said:

    Hi. I was just wondering how long it takes to fully grow. Do you reuse the same bottom part after you harvest it to regrow more?

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  2. Sandy on August 4, 2014 at 9:20 pm said:

    Thank you for the great site. I already started my celery stalk; now will try lettuce, as I happen to have two small heads of red leaf lettuce. Here’s to good growing! Cheers–Sandy

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