--- product_id: 1180312 title: "Don't Throw It, Grow It!" brand: "deborah peterson" price: "19478CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/1180312-dont-throw-it-grow-it store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Don't Throw It, Grow It! **Brand:** deborah peterson **Price:** 19478CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Don't Throw It, Grow It! by deborah peterson - **How much does it cost?** 19478CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/1180312-dont-throw-it-grow-it) ## Best For - deborah peterson enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted deborah peterson brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Don't Throw It, Grow It!: 68 windowsill plants from kitchen scraps ## Images ![Don't Throw It, Grow It! - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Rd7lcE2nL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐ cute and educational but not very useful *by T***I on Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2017* Cute layout and easy to understand, but not as helpful as I'd like if your end goal is to produce food, or to do anything cheaply. As an apartment dweller, I'm very into vertical urban farming and container gardening, where you can usefully grow your own food worth eating in a small apartment using windowsills, balconies, and containers. Ideally, I do things cheaply, using DIY planters, seed starters, etc.This book does not cover that kind of gardening.I've been into this for several years and am pretty good at it by now: I already grow my own raspberries, beans, salad greens, hot chilis, and a lot of herbs in a very small Manhattan apartment. I have produced potatoes in a "potato condo" and was hoping this book would give me ideas for more varieties of things to grow from cuttings, seeds, etc, that I was currently wasting. In my head, I was going to maximize efficiency, cost, and non-waste by turning around my kitchen scraps into more food.This book does not help with that at all.It tells you, indeed, what food items you can regrow from a pit or a cutting, but it's laid out more like a child's science experiment with an avocado pit or half a potato in a glass of water, so you can see the roots sprout and understand for yourself how nature works and that plants are alive. The varieties of plants it suggests are almost always totally inefficient in an apartment building, and will produce almost no edible results in this small of a space. For example, the entire section on fruit trees. The title bills this as "windowsill plants" and almost no fruit tree is a "windowsill plant." At least, if you can get it to survive in a small pot on your windowsill, it certainly isn't ever going to produce fruit.It tells you a lot of the dead obvious: this thing is so easy to grow, if you just stick it in the ground it will work! That's true for onions and potatos certainly (both so determined to grow they start sprouting in the pantry and in the trash all the time, we've all seen it) but they all require *having ground to stick it in.* That's not a "windowsill plant." Why would a book mention things like citrus and pomegranate that are actually enormous trees and almost never bear fruit indoors? Figs actually grow very well in New York City--if you have a backyard. Cuttings from fig trees in Italy survived so well on ships hand-carried over in the Ellis Island days and thrive so easily if you just stick them in the ground here, there is now a fascinating diversity of fig trees planted all over the city by Italian immigrants. Great. Interesting. I already knew this. This book telling me to plant something so painfully easy is not new information, especially when it requires me to have a yard.For small plants that do succeed on windowsills, the book chooses ones that require lots of advanced and money-costing equipment like heating pads and sprouting trays. I have owned all these things before and I know how to use them--and they are not beginner items. They are for serious gardeners. The bright, playful font and short length implies that this will be easy-peasy for any old regular person in a city apartment who has never grown a plant in their life, and that's totally not true. It tells you to buy peat starter pellets (which will require a long and annoying trip to a specialty garden store on the outskirts, where people have yards and do things like gardening, if you live in the dense downtown area of any city) doesn't mention that you can start seedlings in old paper egg cartons, or any number of DIY urban farming hacks that are well-published in a lot of other books actually designed for poor people or those concerned about waste and ecology trying to grow their own food. What's the point in growing something from a "kitchen scrap" if I have to buy $50 worth of equipment to sprout it myself, and then it's going to produce like, maybe one fruit or a dozen nuts ever? Filling a book with advanced and specialty items that take a lot of fussing to start is a great way to turn people off of gardening or convince them it's hard. I personally could pull off almost everything in this book with the right equipment and space, but most beginners couldn't, and sometimes I'm not looking to challenge myself to something new and difficult.It's all summed up in this book's comical inclusion of a pineapple. They are adorable to watch and easy to start and a great project for kids to learn how to grow things (right up there after potato and avocado) but they are the epitome of painfully inefficient for city people who's end goal is cheap access to actual food. One pineapple crown makes one ENORMOUS plant that dominates your entire kitchen (can't put it outside unless you're in the tropics!) and after three years, eventually shoots up a stalk with a tiny baby pineapple on it. They're ridiculously cute and fun, but an utter waste of space, resources and time if you actually want to eat pineapple.This book is basically that: cute, fun, informative, educational about how "our food really does come from nature and is part of a biological cycle!" but totally irrelevant if you want to grow actual food indoors, cheaply, on your windowsill. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Wasn't what I thought it would be *by B***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2023* Book might have good info but most info on non local plants and kinda blahs! I need inspiration for what I use. Donated same week I got it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fun and thrifty *by L***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2022* I give this book to 20 year olds, they seem to enjoy growing for free --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/1180312-dont-throw-it-grow-it](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/1180312-dont-throw-it-grow-it) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-06-04*