Growing Veggies & Fruit From Scraps! Any Good Tips?!

Be prepared to wait a long time til harvest with the spent veg method. I've done this but it just took so long that I didn't feel it was worth the wait. Esp. since lettuce can be fully mature with in 35-40 days.

The pinnacle to self sustainability is to learn to save your seeds, and get a good rotating crop that's interplanted with compatible crops. The key is keeping the best dirt possible. A good place to start is John Jeavon's double digging method to growing high calorie crops in small spaces.

Biointensive method: [link to www.growbiointensive.org]
If you order your seeds here, you can be sure that they are open pollinated, heirloom, and completely organic and non gmo. I would suggest that you find a reputable supplier in your area, as those seed will be proven for your zone.

I have been practicing for 15 years now. I am a 4H leader for garden project, teaching youth 5-12 years old how to lay irrigation, save seed, plant said seed, greenhouse management, crop rotation, dirt building (composting, soil management), nutrition in the soil and for plants, how to recognize diseases and pests and how to treat problems, how to market and sell the end product, and I also work with the cooking teacher to teach kids how to get the veg/fruit from the field to the table.

I keep chickens, and rabbits, raise veg, grapevines, fruit trees, have a 8x12ft greenhouse, compost, and can what i can :-) Ask me anything.