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Here's a weekend project: the next time you make a hardy winter stew, save the vegetable scraps and start a compost garden. Keep reading for a DIY guide to creating your own compost garden indoors.
For leafy vegetables like carrots and beets, select specimens with the tops intact, then cut off all but 2-3 inches of stem.
Prepare a bed of gravel, small stones and/or soil in a shallow dish or pie plate.
Below: the planting process.
Remember this technique with avocado pits? It works with potatoes too.
After a couple of weeks, the carrot tops are coming along nicely.
Below: sprouting beans
Garlic greens can be harvested to add a bit of flavor to soups and stews.
The beets begin to grow.
Above: the garden after three weeks.
Children make great garden helpers.