If you are a frugal gardener you are going to love this idea. Do you want help stop the waste of good food? We throw away over 133 billion pounds of food every year, and people are still going hungry. So how do you feel about growing your garden this year from food scraps? Some of the easiest and most inexpensive plants to grow are from things that might otherwise end up in the trash can. Here you will find how you can use them to make some delicious, healthy crops you can enjoy with your family and friends?

Check out the following 5 foods which can be easily grown from stuff you normally throw away.

When collecting your ‘scraps’ make sure to source them from organic fruits and vegetables. This is because pesticide and herbicide-treated plants generally are unable to grow a second generation. The seeds in GMO fruit or vegetables are generally bred from suicide seeds which means that they will not produce another generation of healthy seeds.

Green Onions - The root ends you usually chop off before adding them to your favorite dish? Don’t throw them away, soak the roots in a container of clean water about an inch deep. Make sure you leave a short shaft of green above the water line. Place them in the sun and as the plants grow taller, keep the water level higher. The roots will grow longer too, and in a few weeks you can transplant them to your garden to grow a whole new batch of green onions.

Celery The root base of your celery is another part of food we often throw out. If you put the base in a glass of shallow water and wait about a week you will see new celery shoots growing out of the center of the stock. Once it starts to grow a few inches high transplant it into your. You will see a brand new plant grow. Just make sure you plant once you start to see the outer stalks deteriorate. Celery prefers cooler weather, so if it is too hot outside, you can transplant to a pot in your kitchen or by a sunny window in your home.

Fresh ginger This is great when you are thinking that you won’t be able to use all of it before it goes to waste. What to do is plant it, and grow even more fresh ginger. Just plant the newest buds (they kind of look like little eyes forming on the stalk) of the ginger facing up in potting soil. Find a nice fresh piece from the store, use some to spice up a fresh juice or delicious dish, and then plant the remaining section.

Romaine lettuce To re-grow your own Romaine lettuce leaves from the heart is simple, you cut the root end that you don’t eat and place into a bowl of water about 2 inches deep and then basically watch it grow. In just a week you will see a growth of about 4 inches.

Pineapple Is it cold and grey outside, not the tropical surrounding in which you associate the growth of pineapples… watch the video below to see just how you can re-grow your own pineapple, this is great something fun and easy to do with the kids.