Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank, shares a sustainability pro-tip in honor of Earth Day. Instead of wasting leftover pasta water by pouring it down the sink, you can save it, let it cool and use it to water your plants. The starchy H2O will give them a beneficial nutrient boost and help them grow. Just be sure to avoid using cooking water that has been salted or seasoned.
This also applies to leftover water from boiling spinach, potatoes, and hardboiled eggs, according to Reader’s Digest.
this definitely is an amazing thing to plants, it gives them a boost like NOTHING that can be bought in stores. ive had an orange plant that didnt bloom for years and then gave them some pasta/potato water twice a week, and now its blooming like crazy , pretty much over night. and plants that were looking kind of drawn are looking BEAUTIFUL!
I feel like y’all aren’t appreciating that Okapi are endangered, extremely hard to find animals (even the folks studying them don’t see them, only scat and in camera traps), only ~100 live in zoos worldwide, and I got to MEET TWO OF THEM AND HAVE MY LIFE LIT UP BY THEIR BEAUTIFUL SMILES AND THEY LICKED ME WITH THEIR GIANT AMAZING TONGUES. I FELT THEIR PRECIOUS BREATH ON MY MORTAL HUMAN FLESH. NOTHING WILL EVER COMPARE TO THAT MOMENT.
Got a bone to pick? Let Osedax worms know! These worms can transform a whale skeleton into a homemade broth, drilling into the ex-whale with acid and licking their plates clean until there are no more leftovers to be found for to-marrow’s lunch.
