Regrow Your Veggies ... this is an interesting concept. It has excellent photography, effective illustrations, and detailed instructions. It covers various general growing details (light, temperature, soil) and a wide variety of foods (including but not limited to potato, ginger, and mango).

My initial impression was that this book is designed for city dwellers who have no space for traditional gardening but want to have some control over access to their food and its freshness. As somewhat of a traditional gardener, I wondered what use I would have for this growing approach. But I was easily sucked in by the concept of just trying it ... purchasing something from the market that I love to eat, and using the seed or remnants to grow it on my own.

Herbs such as basil, coriander, turmeric and mint seem obvious choices for me to try. And having my own avocado tree has its own appeal. I blog under the tagline “creating my own little patch of happiness in OKC,” and I am always willing to try something new. I will certainly use some of the ideas detailed in this book as I continue to cultivate my little patch. You can find me blogging at Patch405.com.

I was offered an advance digital copy of this book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed here are my own.

Brilliant. Easy to follow.
This book is great and I’ve already recommended it. Thank you so much for letting me read this

Well this book successfully made me interested in the process of growing my own foodstuffs from generally discarded bits. You do have to sacrifice a few inches of your spring onions, celery, fresh beetroot or whatever in order to have enough of a source for new life, but with a water-based start to proceedings and then some growth in good potting soil you can get a plant that keeps on giving. Apparently. What it has is a nice touch in giving us the history of use of these vegetables, a flavour guide and suggestions for the uninitiated, and suchlike, as well as showing the process of converting detritus into delicious. What it doesn't have is any 'after' photos – I still feel a little dubious that you can keep lopping bits off the top of a leek, or the outside of a celery plant, and it will continue to feed you happily. But the outlay in trying would surely be outweighed by any success you might get, so I do feel the book is encouraging enough to get many people to give it a go. We get basic plant care, and the eco-bit for the reasons why we're trying this in the first place, before getting the gazetteer part, which offers four pages for every foodstuff, from the toughest rhizomes to the most standard herbs and the hardest to produce tropical fruits. The text keeps reminding us of growing things in 'our part of the world' – it is a German book, so a lot of the climate tips equate to Europe and much of North America. It should have a wide audience in those territories – and I think the 'buy for gifting' audience will be large, too.

An easy to use resource on how to start growing several items, including basil, avocados, and ginger. It has clear instructions on how to prepare from beginning to end on starting and planting your new seedlings. It also has a clear rating system, showing how much sunlight, water and how hard it is to grow. Wish it had a few more, but overall a good book. Also enjoyed the issues and problems section at the end. Would highly recommend, especially for the novice gardener.

Great guide with easy-to-read instructions on regrowing fruits and veggies from scraps - everything from lettuce to sweet potatoes to pineapples. I appreciated the difficulty ratings for each one (as well as the honesty about what to realistically expect), and the section at the beginning giving an overview on plant growth was helpful as well.

Going into this book I thought it sounded like a great idea. A simple to use book that would encourage people to regrow veggies from discarded scraps.
Unfortunately the execution of the book wasn't as good as I was hoping for. The book does have simple to use instructions and pictures for growing a wide range of veggies and herbs. It also has a description giving the background on each plant as well. The issue I have it that the book tells you how to regrow things like avocados and mangos which you only learn in the last section of each plant that it will only be a houseplant which to me defeats the purpose of the book. The ARC copy I received also has many sections not translated to English so hopefully it will be fixed for publication. Overall it is probably more suited for projects with children than a practical gardening book.
Thanks to Netgalley.com and Fox Chapel Publishing for this ARC copy for a review.

I love it! As a newish gardener, this book is exactly what I needed! The book is simple to read, which is great when you don't have a lot of time or patience to figure out what to do. The pictures and step-by-step directions are fantastic. Seriously, I took the author's advice and am regrowing a few veggies and fruits right now. I also discovered I was doing some things incorrectly, too, like with the ginger I had planted before reading this book. If you're new or not-so new to the gardening scene, check it out! I think anyone can get something out of it, and if not, the book is short and the pics are pretty so you still won't be wasting your time.

Regrow you’re vegetables is the one garden book everyone needs. This title should be required reading for every child in school and every adult. It demystifies the magic of gardening and puts the beauty and joy of growing your own food back into anyone’s hands.

Please make this book into a Netflix show or get it on HGTV. It’s that timely and important. Gardening 365 days a year, even when it’s cold outside. It gives new meaning to a Victory Garden!

I received a copy from Netgalley for an honest review.

We may be spending time actually hunting down vegetables at the moment, but how about making the most of them? This book shows you how to take something you might otherwise throw away, such as the top of a beetroot and set it growing again. It includes a good selection of vegetables including some of the more exotic ones such as ginger.

Definitely an activity to do with the children

This is a compact manual on how to regrow many veggies and some herbs from leftovers and what the are problems we could face. This latter part and the dedicated key on each page helped understand the process more clearly. The Key shows the level of difficulty in the process as well as light, warmth and humidity requirements. I liked the fact that it was all in one place, and there is no need to scramble about on multiple online videos to get the needed input. It is simply put and gives the period each would require that it should be easy to put into practice (with the appropriate effort, obviously). If you are even mildly interested in growing vegetables and have no previous exposure to this idea, I would highly recommend this because I intend to purchase a copy as soon as the postal services around the world are back to normal.

I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers, but the review is only influenced by my own reading experience and my previous interest in the subject.

A great resource for regrowing vegetables from what you have in your refrigerator. I have read information like this elsewhere, but this book gives great ideas, history, and uses for the fruits and vegetables covered. Great for kids too.

So interesting to learn how to keep growing your own produce, and I'm excited to put it in action this spring!

What a handy little book to have! This book is organized and easy to follow which is great for someone like me who does not have a green thumb. Also, the author is vegan and teaches sustainability and why I should care. The average household creates 939 lbs of garbage a year! So, the author explains how we can cut back on the amount of garbage we create by applying the 5 R's
1. Refuse 2. Reduce 3. Reuse 4. Recycle 5. R. Also, in times like these, with so much panic buying and shortages at the grocery stores, it is good to be a little self sufficient and try to grow at least a mouthful of your own food. She then talks about the things needed to regrow our veggies using kitchen scraps such as sunlight, water and soil to name a few. After that she has pages of the different types of kitchen scraps that can easily be regrown. Also, in each plant section is a paragraph about how to use the vegetable and sometimes even a simple little recipe. A nice little surprise. I was so inspired I started romaine lettuce and an avocado this evening after dinner. Last but not least there are sections on troubleshooting problems and a list of resources if you wish to read more on this subject. This book is well illustrated. As I enjoy gardening, though I am not very good at it, I am grateful to Netgalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for a review.

I’ve been on the rubreddit of Frugal lately, and it’s been growing a lot recently due to quarantine. One post that really jumped out to me was seeing people regrowing their scallions with such ease, and it made me wonder what else we could grow at home. When I saw this book under home and gardening in NetGalley, I knew I had to request it.

What I love is the foreword. There is already the economical appeal of regrowing your veggies. But the author pitches in the impact on sustainability and recycling. In a way, regrowing our plants is “recycling them”; we are creating less waste. Not only that, by watching them grow from cropping to full vegetables, we are fostering a stronger connection in our relationship with food (calling out to all the veggie haters to become fans!)

The book directly dives int the possible vegetables that you can regrow, each with a small legend indicating the level of difficulty, sunlight, warmth, and humidity needed. I’ve stuck to the easy ones like cabbage, lettuce, scallions, leeks, and such. But she also includes sweet potatoes, mango, and even pineapple (yeah!), which looks super hard, but it’s so impressive how she could actually pull it off.

After showing us all we can make, the book also delves into problems we might face and how to solve them. It also introduces additional resources if we want to keep learning to be regrowers.

It was a really fun read. I’m already regrowing scallions, but I hope I’ll be able to get started on other projects too!

There are already a lot of books on this topic so it's hard to do it again in a fresh way that adds anything. This is a good book if you're new to the topic. The author goes into how to "regrow" (sometimes merely as a houseplant, and even then sometimes just a temporary one) a variety of produce items.

The list includes: chinese cabbage, scallions, potatoes, leeks, sweet potatoes, horseradish, romaine lettuce, beets, celery, jerusalem artichokes, onion, basil, galangai, ginger, lemongrass, coriander, turmeric, mint, pineapple, avocado, mango. Some of these are only for houseplants or a different version (like you can get new beet greens from beet ends but not new beets, and carrots will only give you new greens, which aren't very tasty). In some cases, you need versions of the foods you wouldn't necessarily have, like you need the roots on your cilantro to regrow it and apparently you can get it that way in some Asian markets but it's not common (other sources say you can just root it in water but I just grow it from seed). I wish it would have included more variety.

The book also talks about light, watering, common pests and problems, and other troubleshooting. There were a few things that I was surprised not to see mention of, like tap water can have a lot of chlorine that can interfere with growing plants or even kill them, or that if you're going to regrow potatoes you should look for organic (non-organic ones are often treated with chemicals to keep them from sprouting). It's important to remember that anything you regrow just in water is of course not getting any nutrients since there's no soil, so this sort of produce is pretty nutritionally bankrupt. They do offer planting suggestions for most of the plants into actual soil though. This is good information to have right now when food insecurity is an even bigger problem for some than usual, but it's also information that is pretty readily available online. If you want it all in book form, this is a good primer.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a really knowledgeable book about recording your own veggies from other plants and leftovers.
This book includes some fantastic photography and explanations/instructions that are easy to understand and follow.
The book also includes how to overcome problems when you are trying to regrow your own veggies and gives ideas and tips on how to get around said obstacles.
I can't wait to give this book a go in practical!

Ohh..now I wish I didn't throw away all those veggies scraps I could have planted and propagated! Ha!

Now that all of us throughout the world are stuck at home (imagine that!) I feel that this is a great book to have to grow our own veggies without leaving our house. Every little bit counts! We don't need big pieces of land . Just some pots seem to be enough.

I can't wait to experiment!

Really up the alley of the zero wasters.

I like the step by step instructions in photographs, and the small and pretty watercolor illustrations were a nice surprise.

Thank you, Netgalley and Fox Chapel Publishing for the review copy. This is my honest review.

This was a fun and inspiring read about regrowing your own vegetables! This is especially helpful for those just getting started in this useful and interesting hobby. Very nice pictures throughout the book too!

This was such a fun and easy book to flip through! It is full of information on propagating vegetables in your home. I can see this book being useful to many - from those looking to save money on their groceries as well as for children to have fun with science. I plan to start with scallions and celery; I already have an avocado pit growing.

Thank you, Fox Chapel Publishing and NetGalley for a digital ARC!

This has everything you would want in this type of book: it is nicely written, friendly, usable, well illustrated and nicely presented. The book takes care to give all kinds of information: from a general over view to location, care, pests (like fruit flies in the house), and cultivation issues such as lack of rooting. The book uses lovely water color illustrations and photographs combined to showcase the points or steps.

The book breaks down as follows: (why propagate, location info (light, warmth, soil), care (water, humidity, repotting, fertilizing, overwintering), items that can be regrown (bok choi, scallions, potato, leeks, horseradish, romaine, beets, celery, sweet potato, jerusalem artichokes, onion, basil, galangal, ginger, coriander, turmeric, mint, lemongrass, pineapple, avocado, mango), problems with pests and germs (rot, mold, mildew, aphids, gnats), cultivation problems (etiolation, sunburn, chlorosis, lack of rooting), and then resources at the end.

Like a recipe book, each regrowable item has a set of steps to prepare and then plant the cutting. Each step has a photograph or illustration. Very specific instructions are given to ensure there aren't mistakes or doubt (e.g., the exact size of the base of bok choi to be cut and prepared). A call out box gives info on how much light, warmth, and humidity are needed and the difficulty to get that item to reroot. After the steps is info about harvesting and use - and what to expect (not all plants fully regrow, for example). Each item also has a full page introduction discussing its origin and use as well as tips to know in advance of attempting to regrow it.

In all, this is a really great book on the topic. Beautifully presented, informative, easy to use, and useful. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.