Cool make your own live plants out of stuff around the house?

I heard you can use certain vegetables and stuff to create live plants.. you just plant parts of the vegetable or fruit or something and it grows into nice plants. Anyone know of anything like that and how to take care of the plant?

Cool make your own live plants out of stuff around the house?
I'll list as many as I can and then my favorite. All the seeds of fruits and veggies will grow but they may not resemble the parent if they were grown from hybrid seed. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnip, beets etc. should be washed well to remove any growth inhibitors. They can planted whole or you can just use the tops or eyes if spuds. My favorite is the humble carrot grown as a biennial to flower. The plant and flower resemble Queen Anne's Lace but the smell is unbelievable, it smells just like carrot cake fresh from the oven. RScott
Reply:Plants you can grow in from the grocery store:


Carrot tops: take the end with the leaves and set in a saucer of water on the window sill, the leaves will sprout out and you can set them out in the garden. Kids think this is cool


Potato: you can use toothpicks to hold up a potato over some water in a jar and it will make roots and leaves and grow happily in a sunny window. Same thing with a sweet potato and it has prettier leaves.


Pineapple: the leafy top can be planted and grown, it is actually a bromeliad.


Avocado: makes a neat evergreen tree but don't hold your breath to get an actual avocado from it, it might take twenty years to bear fruit.





There are others that you can start at the house but most of the plants that you grow from vegetables or fruit need as much sun as you can give them inside. It is not easy to grow things in the house that belong outside in the dirt . There is a reason why greenhouses are made of clear materials. Sunny windows are your best bet without investing in some supplementary light.