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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
George Hudson

Gardener’s notebook: how to grow cheap houseplants from old root vegetables

If you’ve got an old root vegetable lying forgotten in your vegetable box, don’t feel too guilty and chuck it out — it could make some great indoor foliage if you plant it in a bit of compost and a spare pot.

Here are three root vegetables that you can find easily at your local grocer, that will grow into leafy (cheap) houseplants.

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