People Are Trying to Plant Everything Bagel Seasoning and the Internet Has Thoughts
Listen, the Internet is full of wild ideas and offbeat experiments, this I know. But somehow, it never ceases to amaze me the things people will try, whether it's in the name of funny social media content or just pure curiosity. Sometimes I'm envious of this creativity. After all, if you don't ask, the answer is always no, right? Other times, I'm unequivocally confused by the mayhem.
Like probably much of the country, I keep a bottle of Everything Bagel seasoning in my spice cabinet. I love the stuff. But did it ever cross my mind to try to plant it? Nope, not once. However, perhaps I'm in the minority here, because I recently came across a TikTok content creator who decided to bury the stuff in soil to see what happens, and apparently she's not the first.
Over at Toasty Homestead on TikTok, a fearless gardener decides to explore what happens when one plants Everything Bagel seasoning. Apparently after she planted some beans from her pantry that actually started to sprout, her kitchen became a veritable playground for trying to plant different items. But will anything because of this Kirkland Everything Bagel seasoning sprinkled into a pot? Well, we'll see.
@toastyhomestead Growing everything bagel seasoning, because nothing in my pantry is safe anymore #gardentok#chaosgardening#experiment#growyourownfood#everythingbagel
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What's In Everything Bagel Seasoning?
Traditionally, Everything Bagel seasoning includes black sesame seeds, white sesame seeds and poppy seeds, but there's also usually minced garlic, dried minced onion and salt.
As Toasty Homestead points out, sesame seeds and poppy seeds really want opposite living conditions to grow, so therein lies the first problem in gardening.
"To give this experiment a fair shot, I'm also separating them (the different seeds) out," she says in the video. "For the poppy seeds I'm adding water and freezing the whole container. This mimics winter conditions which they actually need to sprout."
Once that water is frozen, she pops it into a cup of soil to allow it to slowly melt.
For the sesame seeds, Toasty Homestead just gives them the regular soil treatment, because they prefer hot, dry conditions.
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What People Are Saying
Social media is nothing if not full of smart alecks, and they came to play in the comments section of this video.
"Can't wait to see the bagel grow," said one person.
Another wiseacre had their own quip that did make me giggle.
"Do birdseed next please," they wrote. "We need more birds."
Now you will have to check back in with Toasty Homestead to see if anything actually does sprout from those little cups. In the meantime, all we can do is enjoy a bagel and wait.
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This story was originally published April 17, 2026 at 12:05 PM.