Can I plant a vegetable that sprouted in my kitchen?
Yes, you can experiment with planting sprouted onions or seeds found inside kitchen vegetables. However, beginners often struggle to keep these plants alive because they forget to water them or don't know if it is the right time of year to grow them.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Replanting in a larger container or pot to give roots more space to spreadDid this help you?
- 2Avoiding watering every single day and just giving the plant general TLCDid this help you?
- 3Asking knowledgeable family members for gardening adviceDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m totally new to this gardening thing and I’m just experimenting on my onion that I completely forgot that it already grew the green stuff on top.”source ↗
“I forgot to water it and now it looks like this. What can I do to improve this?”source ↗
“Is it possible to grow a pumpkin at this time of year?”source ↗
“As i was taking all the pumpkin guts and seeds out (we’re gonna do homemade pumpkin seeds), i found this lil guy in the image”source ↗
“Is there anyway i could grow this? Or is it too late?”source ↗