The Amazing Things You Can Learn From Pinterest

Pinterest is an interesting site. It allows you to share bookmarks with others—friends, strangers, and basically everyone who creates an account. I don’t know how I feel about that, but I have found some very interesting bookmarks on Pinterest.

What’s really interesting is when others have pinned the pins—and others pin those pins, and so on. There are times when you are looking at a repin of a repin of a repin of a—ha! You get the idea.

I found such a pin (and repined it myself) about growing plants from things you would normally throw away. Some of the pinners had experimented, with success, growing green onions from the root ends of onions they had previously used. A few of them had used the same technique with romaine lettuce, bok choy, and other vegetables.

So I tried it. Here is the green onion I started with (in a repurposed tea bottle. See how green I am?) I only had one at this point.

And here is the romaine lettuce I tried.


And here they are on day three. You can see a little bit of growth.


And on day 5 you can really see the difference.


Sadly, on day 7, the romaine lettuce (which had been doing so well) was a soggy, rotten mess and had to be thrown own. But the onion… look at that! I also added two more.


And here they are on day 9.


I am looking forward to my never-ending green onions. (And to thwarting the green onion consortium, which causes the price of green onions to skyrocket in the winter. I mean, seriously. If they're this easy to grow, why are they $1 a bunch in December?)

And by the way, what else can I grow in the window?