Organic Gardening, Easy Style

I'm so excited to try this idea for regrowing celery, from Providence Acres. My newly found friend Sheryl posted this at her blog. Apparently, you can "regrow" celery by cutting the bottom off and planting it in your garden. Sheryl recommends letting the celery bottom sit on a saucer of water overnight, which probably helps. I personally found that, if left long enough in the refrigerator drawer, old celery will eventually start sprouting new growth. So I'm sure this is going to work.

More info on this subject appeared on a "Chickens in the Road" blog. Some folks say you can do the same for pineapple. Cut the top off, plant it, and it should produce a new pineapple! Amazing! Someone from Idaho said it worked for her, so perhaps it might work for some of us other folks too.

Someone else mentioned that you can replant the bottom ends of green onions too. I've got a whole big, empty part of the garden where I've been putting extra compost; think I'll use it for my experiment. Considering how many celery bottoms we get at The New Deli (so much soup and tuna and chicken salad...), we just might end up with a great bounty!

Another poster mentioned that celery likes cool weather. I might have success then, here in the Bay Area, with the cool Bay breezes. The pineapple might not like it as much. But I'll keep you posted :) What a great way to get some organic gardening going on, free of charge!