Planting the Whole Fruit: How a Chayote Gives Life 🌱🥒

Watch a gardener tuck a sprouted chayote (佛手瓜) into the soil—not a seed, not a cutting, but the entire fruit. Buried with care, it will send up a vigorous vine, producing dozens of its own fruit in the months ahead. This is propagation at its most generous: one gift from the past becomes the harvest of the future.

Let’s talk about the wisdom of planting what you already have. Instead of buying seeds or seedlings, this method uses a single mature fruit to start a whole new plant. In a world of packaged inputs, what does it mean to grow food from food? Have you ever saved seeds or planted sprouted vegetables from your kitchen? Share your own stories of growing with what’s at hand below! 👇

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