Growing Vegetables From Table Scraps

Each "eye" of the potato tuber is a bud that can grow a new plant, so a tuber can be cut into pieces with at least one eye on each piece that will grow new plants.Elena Masiutkina/Shutterstock

Science fair season is coming up. Many kids want to work with plants. One set of experiments that’s common is trying to grow seeds in a variety of media, such as water, milk, and cola. The seeds will sprout in all of those conditions, but they won’t grow well as a plant in all of them.

Another experiment is more of a demonstration, and that is trying to grow a variety of fruits and vegetables from table scraps. In this case, it’s important to know which parts of a plant are capable of growing.