One clever woman's lettuce hack
A popular Aussie TikTok user has shared a genius hack for overcoming the east coast’s ongoing lettuce shortage.
With the price of fruit and veg still very high due to recent flooding, inflation and supply chain issues, user permacultureouttapoverty posted an easy alternative to spending and that is, to grow your own.
@permacultureouttapoverty How to regrow a lettuce #nswlettuceshortage #lettuceshortage #lettuce #foodshortage #food #regrow #propagation #regrowlettuce #regrowyourfood #regrowveggies ♬ original sound - Permaculture_outta_poverty
“Water propagation method, for people who don’t have access to soil or an outside garden space or [have] very little income to get started,” she wrote alongside the clip.
However, the real struggle is finding a head of lettuce that has the roots attached with the young woman admitting she found hers 40km away from where she lives.
Once she’d found it, the next steps were easy: She chopped the head off the cos lettuce, then put the roots and remaining bit of leaf in a jar of water.
She then placed the jar of water on the window sill, removed the remaining leaves, and to ensure that only the roots were submerged, put a skewer through the top of the lettuce to stop it from falling into the water.
I’ve already started to get some very small regrowth overnight, so [I’d] say a few days,” the woman wrote, asked how long it will take to grow a full head.
“After I have my first regrowth, I’ll be planting it in soil.”
The handy clip, which has been viewed 245,500 times, attracted hundreds of comments, with many users sharing their own experiences propagating vegetables.
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