Turn leftovers into potted plants, pretty and easy to grow, no need to buy flowers for the home

Sweet potato

Sweet potatoes left at home for a long time will sprout, affecting the taste and lowering their nutritional value, making them unsuitable to eat. Throwing them away is a shame, so better to turn them into potted plants, simple and easy to grow, both pretty and edible; sweet potato leaves are excellent leafy green vegetables.

Find a pot, put in some soil, bury the sweet potato, and that's it; water it every few days and it will grow strong and healthy.

Placed directly in a pot covered with small pebbles, it can be made into a bonsai with a very artistic feel.

Sweet potatoes can also be grown hydroponically, placed in a glass container with water and they will thrive; once the leaves grow long they can even be shaped, and the one below is a heart shape made by using the sweet potato's climbing habit.

Potato

When the temperature is slightly higher, potatoes easily sprout and turn green; sprouted potatoes produce toxic solanine inside and must never be eaten again, but they can be made into potted plants to beautify the home. Potatoes, like sweet potatoes, are tuber plants and can be grown either in soil or hydroponically.

You can also plant several in a flower pot and they will quickly grow into a small forest.

Ginger

Ginger is a very common kitchen seasoning with a special fragrance, excellent for removing fishiness. Ginger can likewise be planted in a flower pot as an ornamental plant; its branches and leaves are very dense and it has a faint fresh fragrance, so it can be both viewed and eaten.

When the flowering season comes, it can also produce fragrant ginger flowers, which look lovely in a vase at home.

Carrot

When cutting carrots we often cut off the top section and throw it away, but actually as long as you leave a little more when cutting, you can soak it in water and grow it; the lush carrot leaves are full of vitality.

Taro

Put a sprouted taro in a pot, add pebbles to hold it in place, pour in some water, and it will grow into a handsome foliage plant bonsai, simple and cost-free.