If it’s one of your goals to grow your own food in your garden this year, then you should start off with a small and manageable project.
That’s why Simon Ackeroyd shared that when you’re cooking an onion from the supermarket, you shouldn’t throw away the base that you’d immediately chop off during preparation.
“Instead, place the base of the onion in shallow water,” he recommended, as he demonstrated popping his into a tiny trinket dish.
He shared that the magic would really start to happen in a few days, saying: “After a few days, it will start to send out shoots and roots”. When this happens, and you’ve seen growth on the onion, then it’s time to “place the onion in compost”.
Once your onion has been placed into compost and covered over the top, let it sit for a week. Then, “after a week, it will produce long green onion shoots”.
Simon shared that “these onion stems taste delicious in stir fries and salads,” and you’ve made them for free.
The green-fingered gardener also did something similar with peas. He popped supermarket peas into compost and waited until they grew pea shoots.
He said that they’re “delicious, healthy, and rare to find at the shops,” which is even more reason for you to give them a go for yourself, also describing them as a “gourmet treat”.
In the comments, people joked that they usually do this by mistake when things are left in their fridge for far too long.
One woman penned: “I usually do this by buying an onion and ignoring it at the bottom of my fridge’s veg draw for about three months”.
Someone asked whether these are similar to “chives”. Simon replied: “Not quite, but from the same onion family. Chives sort of taste similar to the green shoots I’ve grown in this video though.”
Another asked when it needed to be watered. Simon said, “Start it off in shallow water, and after a few days, place it in compost and water every one or two days. It will be ready in about 10 days.”
“I’ve got to try this,” a keen gardener gushed.
Would you try this hack? Let us know in the comments…