(Note: photo of a pechay plant from Pixabay free images)
Do you buy vegetables, particularly green leafy vegetables in the grocery or in the market? Then if you happen to buy ones with long stems, you can have some planting materials to start your own garden.
After removing the leaves that you need for cooking, or the young stems, put it in a container with water, the matured end of the stem submerged in water and let it stand for a few days. You can change the water to prevent the stem from rotting or to prevent mosquitoes from breeding there.
When you noticed roots coming out at the basal end of the stems, transfer it to the place you wanted to plant it; maybe a vacant space in your garden, or in a pot with good kind of soil. Cultivate the soil first to let water and air seep through it and to allow the roots to freely grow.
Water the soil first before planting it but do not place it directly under sunshine to prevent wilting. If you have some compost or rich soil, or vermicast, put it on the soil around the plant to make it healthy. I also use vegetable peels as fertilizer.
I do not apply commercial or synthetic fertilizer because it is more healthy to apply natural fertilizers. Vermicast are usually found in rich soils where there are many earthworms. They are the earthworm’s waste material which can make your plants grow healthy.
Water your plants occasionally when you noticed that the soil becomes dry. Soon you will have your own leafy vegetables garden.
Example of Vegetables That Are Easy to Grow from Cuttings
Since we became conscious of eating a lot of green leafy vegetables, we usually buy spinach, water parsley, celery, and local vegetables like “alugbati” or Malabar spinach or Basella alba, along with moringa, okra or lady finger, lettuce, pechay, cauliflower, and broccoli, among others.
Of the vegetables I mentioned, water parsley, spinach, and alugbati are so easy to grow from cuttings. There are also other vegetable condiments that are sold with roots intact so you can grow them too, like citronella. But citronella grows well if directly planted into the soil and not in pots because it has massive root system.
If you care enough for your “instant garden,” soon you will experience the joy of harvesting from your own plants. You can get just enough leaves you need for cooking so you can have a lasting supply as your plants grow so well.
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Very useful article for garden lovers. Especially for those who would want to grow organic vegetable in their own garden. I used to put seeds of leafy vegetables and they used to grow in the garden without much effort similarly chilli, lady's finger, brinjal and tomato too used to grow easily. Now we are having the season of mango's and they are growing well and so do we have coconut trees and guava. If one likes to spend time and do gardening it is very good. Gardening also acts as a therapy.
Yes, gardening is so easy, and plants grow easily if the soil is good, along with the weather, and of course it needed to be tended regularly. It is indeed a stress-reliever.
It is very nice and useful to garden.
Yes, it is good to have your own mini garden out of cuttings from the vegetables you bought from the supermarket or market. Some vegetables like carrots, pechay (the one in the photo), beet roots, usually have some roots in it, so you have to cut the upper portion and leave an enough amount at the base with the roots and you can plant that stump. Soon it will grow.
Growing vegetables in the garden is a good Idea. Do we need pesticides for growing good quality vegetables or it is dangerous for health.
Gardening is really good, it can relieve you of stress, and produce your own food. But as much as possible, do not use pesticides because it is harmful to the body and to the environment.
We do not need to spray pesticides because eventually it will be absorbed by the plant and it will endanger our health. It will also poison the soil. Yes, gardening is a nice activity.
How I like to have veggie garden at home, but we have smaller space in the city unlike in the province.When I was a teenager, I liked to live in the province for I liked to plant fruits and vegetables, but when I graduated in college and acquired a property in the city the house and lot and work here too, I no longer had planted a single veggie and fruit.At home this time grown in the yard two grown ups moringa hehehehe. Every morning, as usual as a Filipino with east breakfast usually fish tinola and we add some moringa leave and tomatoes, onion, that always make our day fulfilled.
Hi Cely! You can plant too using pots or recycled containers, as others do in urban gardening. Anyway, you can plant in your province when you are on vacation.
Gardens so nice, my teens love it and set lot of hours, plated garden still should be given lots of work and sttnetion and this and that, like spending money for the soil and the plants it selves, but its good thing to enjoy at the end of the day or morning when you wake up hold you cup of hot chocolate and enjoy the view
Having your own vegetable garden is really nice. You feel a sense of accomplishment and it is really nice to watch the plants grow.
I absolutely love gardening at home (especially with the kids). I try as best as possible not to use pesticides (they're so dangerous). I recommend to my family and colleagues that as much as posisble they should go organic.