“Garbage gardening” is an easy and inexpensive way to grow flowers and edibles using kitchen scraps — the pits, seeds and roots that otherwise would be headed to a landfill. It’s a fun way to recycle. Educational for the kids, too.

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“Some are perennials, others are annuals or biennials,” Peterson said. “You will be amazed as you discover how these beautiful plants can develop.”

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Start new plants on the window sill by using the byproducts from roots, nuts, tubers, beans, bulbs, seeds or cuttings — the “garbage,” if you will.

Water, pebbles, soil or peat can be used as a growing medium.

“Every plant you grow should go outside for five months or so, depending upon where you live,” said Peterson, from Scituate, Massachusetts. “Winter becomes a holding pattern (for perennials), just keeping them alive. But once they’re out again, in summer, they’re wonderful.”.

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Also, avoid hybrid fruits and vegetables because their seeds won’t deliver the same taste.

Choose self-pollinating produce, like tomatoes, Ophardt said. “You can save those seeds and get the taste you want.”

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“Plants grown from standard eating varieties will make decorative foliage specimens and attractive floor plants.”

Some recycled remnants can do double duty as ornamental and edible.

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