How to Regrow Lettuce With Just Water
Image by: Jennifer Stavropoulos
It’s important to have fresh vegetables and fruits in your diet as they provide nutrients, essential vitamins, and minerals that your body needs to function properly. Not only that, eating healthy food can lower blood pressure, up your fiber, help lower eyesight problems, improve your skin, and a lot more. A good way to have a properly balanced diet is to have some salad in your meal plan. You can easily prepare it at home. With just tomato, spinach, cucumber, corn, lettuce, and a drizzle of your favorite dressing, you are good to go! Speaking of leafy vegetables, do you know how to regrow lettuce with just water? Yes, you can do it easily at home! So next time you have them in your salad, don’t throw the bottom part away. This tutorial is by Jennifer Stavropoulos on Youtube. Watch the video below to see the growth of the lettuce each day.
What you need:
- lettuce
- glass or bowl
- water
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Instructions:
Cut a few inches of the base of the lettuce and place it in a glass of water. You can also use a bowl or anything to prop up the lettuce. Fill the container with a half-inch or an inch just to cover the bottom of the lettuce. Do not fully submerge it in water.
That’s it. Just leave it by the window sill if there isn’t too much difference between the temperature indoors and outdoors. If there is, place it under grow lights.
The next day you will notice the water turned a little bit yellow. Pour it out and change the water in the container. Do it every day or so when the water looks dirty.
Keep it growing for a few weeks until you notice some roots on the bottom of the lettuce. You can now harvest the lettuce that you have grown to make some salad. After harvesting, transfer and plant it in soil for it to fully grow.
You can also do it with other vegetables like basil, lettuce, carrots, green onion, garlic, celery, cilantro, bok choy, sweet potato, leeks, rosemary, and lemon balm.
