A Champagne Shabby garden tale

The garden is put to bed for another year. Not as well as I'd like, with compost and manure spread around to break down over the winter, but it'll have to do. I have flowers, but my favourite gardening is vegetable gardening. I love bringing in food from my own garden for dinner. Today, I pulled out the leeks, which are on the left, and the last of the green onions. 

I especially love what I call grocery store gardening. I don't grow everything from seed, like I did the leeks.  Some things, I grow from other things. Take the green onions you see in the sink as a super simple example. When you chop off the top, you're chopping off roots, right?  Well, take them back out to the garden, make a hole with your finger and pop the roots into the ground. 

See that's little brown knob?  That's the root from the original green onion. All it takes is time and water. They're so slim ( ok, maybe not this guy) you can put them anywhere in your garden, including shadier spots. 

I've trimmed the onions and when I trim the leeks down, all the greens will go in my plastic freezer bag which right now holds some chicken bones. I'll thaw them and other good scraps another day, for soup or risotto stock. 

What on earth does this have to do with Champagne Shabby?  Well, all three of us hate waste and are looking to use more of what is already out there.  This is just another example of the Champagne Shabby lifestyle. Not cheap - resourceful. What do you think?