Nothing brightens a home more than having a bit of greenery in each sunny window of your home. There are ways of doing this that will not cost a lot of money and will be different from the average house plants sold at garden centers.
Start by cutting the top inch off a beet or parsnip, rutabaga or turnip, and completely cut off the greens. Line a earthware ashtray or dish with pebbles and fill it with water. Set the flat end of the cut off vegetable on the pebbles. Over the next days change the water if it gets cloudy. The results of this labor will produce a forest of greenery that will last two months or more.
Slice the leaf crown with one inch of fleash off top of a pineapple. Set it in moist sand and keep it watered. When it roots plant it in potting soil and you will have a bromeliad that lasts for years.
Germinate apple and orange, lemon and grapefruit seeds and sow them in small flats of potting soil and keep them watered. When they are a few inches in height. transplant them into larger pots and watch them grow into trees.
Kiwifruit and loquats, pomegranates and papayas and mangoes can be started this way as well.
Turn a carrot into a hangiing display of fern-like foliage. Cut the top off an inch or two, of a extra large carrot. Hollow out the center leaving the outer wall intact. With a strong needle run a thread through the outer wall of this "basket," and hang it, leaves down, in a sunny window. Fill it with water and keep it filled. Before long delicate foilage will sprout and hide the carrot base.
All these make interesting house plants that are not poisenous to pets or children.
Start by cutting the top inch off a beet or parsnip, rutabaga or turnip, and completely cut off the greens. Line a earthware ashtray or dish with pebbles and fill it with water. Set the flat end of the cut off vegetable on the pebbles. Over the next days change the water if it gets cloudy. The results of this labor will produce a forest of greenery that will last two months or more.
Slice the leaf crown with one inch of fleash off top of a pineapple. Set it in moist sand and keep it watered. When it roots plant it in potting soil and you will have a bromeliad that lasts for years.
Germinate apple and orange, lemon and grapefruit seeds and sow them in small flats of potting soil and keep them watered. When they are a few inches in height. transplant them into larger pots and watch them grow into trees.
Kiwifruit and loquats, pomegranates and papayas and mangoes can be started this way as well.
Turn a carrot into a hangiing display of fern-like foliage. Cut the top off an inch or two, of a extra large carrot. Hollow out the center leaving the outer wall intact. With a strong needle run a thread through the outer wall of this "basket," and hang it, leaves down, in a sunny window. Fill it with water and keep it filled. Before long delicate foilage will sprout and hide the carrot base.
All these make interesting house plants that are not poisenous to pets or children.
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