A Monster in the Garden/The giant Chayote squash
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- I may seem overly excited about this squash, since it is grown in other areas as "just another plant". But here in northern California, it's not something we normally see and I consider it a strange and uncommon plant. Especially due to our growing zone and season.
A few things I didn't get mentioned; the Chayote like s rich well drained soil, a general purpose organic fertilizer or vermi-compost 2 or3 times through the summer and water, but do not over water. Pruning is okay, but will quickly grow back. 100-150 squash, that will be the other oddity. I have spent most of the year watching and waiting for this plant to grow and have now reached harvest time. Thanks for your support!
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I'm from himalaya and it is cold crops in our place. We eat everything of it. We make fritters from flower, or stuffing in eggplant or fish, we eat young tender vine and leaf as a leafy green veg, stir fry it just with garlic, turmeric and dry red chili, also you can add chayote flesh in it, also cook with dry meat or dry shrimp, or cheak peas, etc. The most yummy part of the chayote is it's root. It kinda taste like potato but tastier than potato. There's so many ways of cooking this vegetable. It is so versatile. It's seed or we called tongue is so good when it matures, we just slice the fruit and pluck the seed (tongue) and chard them to coal or boiled them, it's yummy. And it gives a lot of fruits. It gives so much fruit we even feed it to our cattles and chicken and they loves it too. Thanks for the video.
I made today a most delicious cream of chayote soup. It takes sauteed onions and garlic and the chayote cut up until soft. I added a roasted poblano pepper and celery, salt and pepper and once cooked, I added cream and blended to puree. Back to the pot with a little butter just to cook for 5 min. or so. Delicious!
this is a super vegetable. it should be eaten every day as part of a healthy diet. Thanks for sharing.
I love chayote and sinced im on low carb diet. I use chayote to make macaroni salad. Instead of using macaroni i replace it with chayote to keep my low carb diet. 😀👍 and it super delicious
I'm on Keto and miss macaroni salad. Thanks for the suggestion! Gotta try that.
Do you have to cook it or just raw in your salad?
How do you cook that? 😳
@@annchong9701 you can cook it, keep in mind it’s almost like cooking a potato , so it will get soft if cook too long, some people juice it with lemon and other fruits as well
@@tonydiablo6976 you can cook for a few minutes, it’s almost like cooking a potato, if you cook too long, it will get too soft. You can add in soups, stir fry or even juicing.
I grow two chayote squash (we call them choko here in Australia) as a shade for my chicken house and over the top of the chicken run. This helps shade the chickens during the summer and in the winter the plant drops out its leaves but does not die back. That means that in winter the chickens get lots of sun and in summer - lots of shade. The chickens also eat anything that the vine drops and best of all, the plant thrives on neglect. I DID have to plant the original choko about a foot away from the fence line and ran some old wire to about three feet up on the chicken run fence. That way the chickens could not eat off the tops before the vine really went 'nuts' and covered everything in sight. Love your video - very informative and don't never feel bad about getting sidetracked in your presentations...the garden is a never ending wonder of discovery that has surprises around every corner. (My chicken run is about 5 x 12 yards, covered over the top with chicken wire and acts as main 'road' to the back of my five other hoop houses where I grow our vegetables. I also have 34 fruit trees across my 748 square yard suburban property.
My back yard has Chayote growing up the house, over fences and fruit all over the place. It is magical and was such a surprise. I am near San Francisco, Ca. I finally followed a thick vine and found it came from an empty lot all the way to my house. The vines are hugging my lemon tree creating a magnificent fort and nice shade. There are two types that seem to be growing, one is just like the chayote in this video, and the other looks like a prickle pear, it has thorns all over the Chayote fruit, they don't hurt if you are careful. The smoke from the wild fires seem to put them in to "depression" but one day, I dusted the ashes off gently and the leaves popped right back up and seemed alive again. Now I check for ashes regularly. The baby chayote are adorable, just adorable! Tiny little chayote with fuzz, so cute! I've never been a gardener, only tried growing potatoes once.... but the beautiful Chayote vine has ignited something in me, and I think I'll looking in to growing more of my own. Thank you for this video, it helps me understand what I am looking at and appreciate it more.
The other one you have is the prickly chayote. The one I am trying to get ahold of as it's supposed to be sweeter than the smooth one.
It is delicous if you peel off the outside skin then julian the part surround the seed and stir fry it with garlic. Also, the tips are edible and very sweet I heard...also stir fry with garlic but you may need to peel the outer layer if you try to break the shoot and it feels stringy.
An excellent video and a blast from my past! Growing up in south Louisiana these were everywhere and are known there as mirliton. Gardeners treated them a lot like zucchini - drop a bagful at the neighbors' door and run, lol. We cooked them stuffed with shrimp or crab stuffing. Parboil them to soften the flesh just a bit, scoop out the seed cavity and discard, scoop a bit more of the flesh to make a pocket, add the extra flesh to your stuffing mix, then stuff them and bake until the fruit is tender and the stuffing is done. Yummy.
Thanks for great video! In New Orleans we call them mirlitons. Great with shrimp and tomatoes or stuffed with crab meat but my favorite was is to just cut in half, top with butter and microwave for 2-3 minutes.
Best chayote video! Trying to see how it grows, yours is the first to show the whole vine. Thank you! And the only to show the anatomy, mention male flower.
The young leaves are edible and delicious!
You crack me up. I have an old friend like you that giggles from time to time when she talks. That is an essence of life...finding beauty at each moment. Not to mention all the info.t
Hi there, I am from Australia. it is best to prune to a more manageable plant, also It utilizes the whole fruit for it's water and nutrients in the first initial stages of growing.
Yeah we call it choko pronounced Cho ko
I'm in So. Cal and I just grew chayote last year for the first time and I loved it.
How long did your chayote plant take to flower and to produce the fruit? I'm also in South CA, I planted my chayote plant In Early April and it's now mid September, the plant is huge but it has not produced any flowers at all. I water it every other day and when it was a Yung plant I fed it miracle grow fertilizer.
My mom adds it to "caldo de pollo"(chicken soup) and let me tell you it's DELICIOUS! You can also boil it in water and add salt and it taste really yummy.
Karla Navarro Might you be able to send me a picture of the dish to see if it may be something I would like to try? Please?
One of my favorite ways to eat chaote!
We cook it in chicken broth, then butter it.😋
I’m from Louisiana I grew up with Mirliton as we call them (chaote) most everyone has them. Our harvest is usually late summer early fall. We stuff halves and freeze for Thanksgiving yum.
I wanted to let you know how we start them we save 2 good mature fruit there are male and female, put fruit together in a brown paper bag place in a dark cool usually a utility closet. The fruit will sprout and grow in the large bag feeding off the fruit we remove and plant in the spring after last frost. Place the fruit that is shriveled below grown and the white vine above it will turn green once it has sun.
How can you tell male from female? Do you need both to get them started?
@@dianelanderson5504 My question too : )
@@dianelanderson5504 the male and female flowers grow on the same plant, just like squash vines. You only need one plant because it is self pollination.
@@angelau1194 .. once you have a flowering vine, and it starts budding/flowering, the females have a growth that looks like a baby chaotie with a flower growing out the bottom of it. The male doesn’t have that little growth .. the male is a flower only. Yes .. a single vine produces both male and female on the same bush
@@mike_adams Thank you Michael. Essentially they're like a zucchini or squash - in fact they're probably the same family : )
I call those fruits"Grandma's Smile". Grandma use to smile like that when she took out her teeth. Now look at the bottom of the fruit and see if you don't see a green toothless smile.
My husband loves chayote.. i put it in my chicken soup it is very delish!!!
Also sauté in garlic, onions with or with tomato but we always want it a little watery so we can eat it with rice meat or shrimp.
Chayote or Güisquil (like we call it in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras) it´s origen takes place in south Mexico, Guatemala and Central América, where we eat them in soups, soutés, fried, and in salats, its delicious and we also eat the tips of the vines. in my childhood we just to run true the forest, jungle and the highlands and we found them everywere around Guatemala, I love them and I coock them now there is found in every arabic store in Copenhaguen, is an important vegetable in many tradicional Maya recipies, congratulations growing them, you´ll never regret that!!
We call it christophene in my country. It has many health benefits, when eaten raw it's great for people who suffer with migraines .
I’m from Jamaica but I never knew it was good for migraines and I never knew it could be eaten raw. I’m going to have to get brave and try it.
I live in Oklahoma, USA. I have never seen these before, but I plan to try them. Wouldn't it be a wonderful addition to apple pie filling. I am hoping to can some. With so many options, sound like a wonderful addition to my samll farm, and thanks to other comments plant on the side of my chicken coop. Perhaps they might prune from time to time. lol This was a wonderful video. Thank you so much!
Thanks for making the video I learned a lot :) We used to eat these in South Africa when I was a kid, and we always loved them... I have not found any for about 40 years!! and then I started becoming aware the folks on Kauai (Hawaii) where I live started growing and selling them at the farmers market... A friend of mine knew I was trying to find and grow them, and she gave me one from her kitchen that had started shooting, (like a potato) So I just prepared a bed for it with chicken manure and compost and planted it with the 8 inch long stem with little leaves sticking up out of the ground, and just left it to it's own services, well that was about 6 months ago, it has done a Jack in the bean stalk on me!!! Taken over the whole of my trellis/nursery and is positively thriving!!! It has several full gown squashes and looking at your video made me realize I should be harvesting them!! I wonder also whether I should be nipping off the little male shoots or just leave them on the vine??
The tendril shoot is very good stir fry with garlic.
After watching your video a while ago I went hunting for a chayote squash in the supermarket In Malaysia. I found one with what looked like roots at one end of the fruit. Bought it and after a week, it sprouted while place on a table. Fter another week it was about 3 inches tall and I planted it in a pot. This is the third week and i decided to plant the fast shooting plant in the ground. Well, thanks, lady, as I look forward to a young shoots and fruits in my meals.
I’ve started growing 2, I love the young leaves.
Chayotes are popular in the Philippines. We sauté it with garlic, onion, tomatoes and some ground pork and seasoned it with salt and pepper and some fish sauce, it’s good. They are also good with Mexican soup called albondigas. I would love to grow them in my garden.
Hi Kim, it's a popular ingredient in Filipino chicken soup Tinola ng Manok. San Fransisco Filipino restaurants should have it on menu should you fancy testing it. Worth making the rounds and taste the ingredient in Southeast Asian Action so to speak.
Cook some ground beef with chopped cilantro, onions, red pepper, and garlic; then chopped two Large Chayotes in about 1/2 inch squares and cook them in boiling water then drain all the remaining water and mix everything together adding salt to your choice!
Finish cooking it for about 5 minutes and serving is ready!
It would blow your socks off 😋😋😋
Hi Kim,
Thanks for another fantastic video. I didn't know anything about Chayote other than seeing them at the produce mart. I like how you go beyond teaching how to plant and harvest. It was great seeing all of the plant parts- a great way to become more familiar with a new plant!
donna
lovely i love growing chayote squash too
easy and simple way.
Thanku for detailed information n anatomy. I'm surprised to see my store bought chayote sprouting in my fridge so I planted it. I didn't think it would live but it is a foot long now n has another standing up with tendrils. I almost forgot what I planted there. I'm so happy n made a chicken wire trellis for it to climb onto. It's my first successful squash so far. Can't wait to enjoy it with my family
I really like the Asiantable 2 garden video on griwing this plant! The way it was pruned seemed really neat! I've seen ornamental vining plants attaching themselves to itself!
That's exactly what this does, it's a crazy vining plant that's for sure.
Thank you for this wonderful teaching lesson and information.
Chayote is an amazing fruit/vegetable....so good for you
I love chayote. we cook this stir fry, can mix with carrots, cabbage, zuchinni, green beans, onion. Use also for soup. we eat also the tops, just blanch it and put some tomatoes onions, lemon juice and fish sauce if you dont like the smell of the fish sauce you can use salt. Yum!
There fantastic in all soups, also great steamed and topped with butter&lemon. Not a veggie that's good raw.Great vid.Awesome plant!
+Rhonda Juarez Actually, I didn't mind it raw, although, I like Jicama raw also and they tasted very similar. I can't wait to try it in soup, do you put it in any soup? I thought maybe a potato and corn chowder soup with Chayote? If you have any good recipes, let me know. Thanks for watching and the comment, Kim
Just had my first Chayote (store bought) yesterday. To me it tastes (raw) like a cross between a cucumber (which most people seem to suggest) and a raw green bean. EDIT: Yes, I ate the entire 'fruit'. Delicious.
Glad you are so excited by our Louisiana mirlitons. We grow them all over our fences. I have a recipe from my great grandmother, we stuff them with shrimp, mmm. :)
It's good for Keto diets too.
If you pick them half that size, they are so tender when cooked you can eat them unpeeled. Very good with sauteed garlic and onions, add a spoon of sour cream at the end.
I boil it in a little crab boil and then cut it up. I add it to a casserole like a mock seafood or shrimp casserole.
Beautiful lady , very clear explanation.
Very well done video!! Thanks so much. I just got my first chayote fruit to grow, and should be planting them today! I'm so excited.
It grows really well in south Louisiana. We stuff it with Shrimp and bake it and also we make a casserole with it with hot sausage. Also we don’t use a trellis, we just let it grow along the fence line.😋⚜️⚜️⚜️In Louisiana we called them Militons!
I am original from Vietnam so I eat lots of this but in soup or stirred fry. I didn't know we can eat it raw. I love this vegetable! You sure have "the green thumb!"
Hi, so glad that your chayote did so well in your garden. This is a squash, so… you can use it like you would a zucchini, or a potatoe. In the Latin American countries, you cut and use it in stews, soups, salads(cooked then chopped or sliced. My favorite is sliced, then sandwich some cheese, then dip into a meringue egg(like a chile relent) then fried till golden brown. This is topped with a tomato warm salsa on top….yummm.in the wintertime, soups are delicious, and make cream chayote soup.
You can eat the plant too....That's not a joke. The fruits help against digestions problem. Efter a couple of years when the plant is gone off or old, you can dig the root op for a big fruit in the size of a water melon. It tastes fanstastic. you cut it in thin slice of half a centimeter and fry it.
Great video! Explained so clearly. I learned something new today. Thank you.
Usually I stir fry with chillies, garlic, onion and add some dried shrimp. It’s very delicious
hahaha Interesting, yet funny too. I have grown Mirlitons (chayote) for years. I had a vine that lived for 13 years before a hard freeze killed it. I would put ropes up all over my yard like a huge spider web. It was planted about 20' away from my oak tree and I could pick fruit nearly 30' up into the tree. I've picked as many as 200 off that one vine. I have a pic of 3 of my grand sons holding each 2. Some are as big as their heads, hugest mirlitons I ever saw. Dr. Hill from Tulane Univ. in New Orleans came to my house when he was trying to repopulate the area with them after Hurricane Katrina. The floods wiped them out nearly. If you let them just sit after picking, they will sprout sooner or later. They'll even sprout on the vine if left on and the freeze doesn't get them. All this time and I never knew you could eat all parts of it. We've tried a few different ways of eating it but down here in South Louisiana the preferred method is to boil it till it's tender. Cool and then cut in half. Where it looks like an old man with no teeth, slice across the "mouth" down to the vine end. Scoop out the seed. Then you scoop out the flesh, but leave at least 1/4" all around. Cook up your stuffing, usually rice and meat or seafood, like a jambalaya and then mix that with the flesh you scooped out. Then you stuff the halves with your mixture, real full and fat, then top with bread crumbs and then you bake it. Crazy good. After they're stuffed and ready to bake you can wrap them and freeze. We'd put about 12 wrapped in a box and freeze dozens of boxes like that so we'd have 'em to eat all year. Like I said, my old vine would cover my entire back yard, maybe 2,000 sq. ft. and go way up into my trees and on top of the roof.
Young tender ones you can eat the whole thing but when you stuff older ones the skin is tough, so you just scrap out the flesh you left in when stuffing. They can cover a house. Lots of people grow them next to their sheds and it'll cover the whole thing. Just pulls the vines off the shed when it's time. Cut them back in winter and mulch and they usually come back, bigger and better each year. I always planted them on the south side of a big ditch where they'd be protected from the cold and where the water would drain away good. They like to be soaked but they need to dry out pretty much or they'll drown and die.
This was such a great video!!! I’ve always wanted to grow one knowing I’m in the right climate (AZ desert). Thank you! I cook this the way my husband’s family taught me (Mexican dish)- dice in bite sized pieces, dice onion and minced garlic-sauté in olive oil until slightly tender. Add in fresh (or canned) tomatoes and their juices, a bullion (or more if making a lot), a splash of water and cover. Cook until chayote is tender. I like adding corn if I have fresh on hand. Salt and pepper to taste along the way.
I love chayote i cook them by peeling them , wash off the sticky stuff then slice it, cook them until it turned soft then add 1 egg, toss it quickly then garnishing it with green onion or coriander. Its help ppl with the constipation too. 🐮!
Wow love planting
Thanks for the anatomy lesson and the warning about how strong the trellis needs to be.
I've got a choko plant growing now that is already covering close to twice the area of the plant you've shown, now spreading over our shed and pergola! Every shoot seems to be growing at a rate of six inches a day with no sign of slowing down. This is it's third season and by far the best. I was so disappointed with it's growth last year I considered ripping it all up and starting again. Thankfully I persisted.
They dislike extreme heat conditions and last year when we had a string of 38'C + days in South Australia most of the shoots died and the plant barely survived. My fault as you can never let the ground dry out with chokos. Maybe the stresses it went though last year contributed to this year where it looks like we'll have well over a hundred chokos to pick, with the first of this years crop already harvested and eaten.
Thank you that was sooo interesting - bit late but just goes to show that good videos never die : )
I live in S. Australia and one year I thought that I'd like to try and grow a choko (as they're called here) but I didn't have a trellis so silly me thought that I'd try and grow it up the orange tree. Not a good plan. It was so vigorous that it nearly killed said orange tree : ( Then I had to remove the choko vine which wasn't fun. Aah well live and learn.
I hope that your channel is still out there because I just subbed.
Loved your video it mde me feel so proud of a plant that i have known since i was a little kid.....loveeeeeeeeee it!!!!!!!!!
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I'd like a fresh garden salad after watching this!
That's merliton baby !!! In New Orleans we stuff them with shrimp and ham lawwddddd that's good eating !! Squirrels love you them too watch your vines !!
That sounds delicious! I've heard of so many names for these guys, LOL, it's starting to grow like crazy again. The same plants as last year, so I'm glad it made it through the winter.
N'awlins girl here too! I use ground beef in mine
Aisha Gooden thanks! I'm in New Orleans too and I was like "that sure looks a lot like Mirliton". Shrimp Stuffed Mirliton is so good. My uncle used to make it most holidays we spent in the parish with the family. Haven't had it in a long time.
My mom and myself cook these EVERY Thanksgiving & Christmas !! This is my yr ill be attempting a vegitarian Thanksgiving and ill be stuffing these guys with quinoa, hope it works out 😩 smelling gumbo is going to kill me tho!
Yes Indeed! I'm a creole and live cajun land! We call them mirilton! Smothered down like a potato with ground beef, smoked sausage and shrimp and mixed eat plain or mix with rice to make a dressing!
I love the spiky chayote variety,they are sooooo delish and I used to eat them by themselves, sometimes with coffee like bread.
We use them in New Orleans with shrimp and / or oysters to make dressings to use as side dishes for meat or poultry dishes. They don't really have a flavor so they are good to carry other flavors such as Thyme, Rosemary, Oregano, etc. I also cut them into chunks and cook them in chicken and vegetable soup along with potatoes, zucchini, carrots, squashes, etc. I use them with apples in pies. But I never eat them raw. They have a kind of slime when they are cut ... not really a slime but a kind of sap or juice that is unpleasant on my hands. So I cook them. They are very nutritious. Peel them, cut them into chunks, and cook them in soups or combine them with roasted eggplant and bread crumbs and shrimp and / or oysters to make a delicious dressing to go with roasted chicken or turkey! BTW...in New Orleans we call them mirlitons. They are native to Central America and are actually originally from Costa Rica. They are cultivated in Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and southern Mississippi. I've never grown them but have started one to plant in my garden when the weather warms up.
+Randy Watts I did so much research on these guys because I had never seen them before. I was amazed at all the different things you can do with them. I love them raw and dipped in ranch dressing, also a salad with rice vinegar. I have 5 growing this year, I was hoping somebody here would take some, but when they started growing I just decided to put them in the same garden box and have a even greater monster.
chayotte is a very versatile veggie... i love the sprout as salad..steam the sprout (when you are trimming)..chayotte is great sauteed with ground pork and shrimp; also for tinola (chicken ginger soup), for pancit...hundred of uses..be creative..
I took a cattle panel and made a hoop out of it for a trellis. The vine grows up and the fruit will hang down and be super easy to find and harvest.
I’ve planted one for the experiment first time this year. I started it indoors around April and planted outdoor after last frost (May 12) I grow it vertically up to second floor balcony since I have limited space in my garden. It’s been growing like crazy but not any fruit on it so far. But I still have time until first frost (Nov. 12) and hoping to get some. Because it requires 150 days until the harvest .Fingers crossed 🤞
I don't peel mine, and I saute chopped up bits with fresh garlic and onion, and a little coconut oil. Tastes great, and it's satisfying. Also awesome with butternut squash, sweet potatoes, carrots(I get the carrots or sweet potato cooking for a bit first, because they take longer)... also good with spinach and mushrooms for a different texture. Living in Florida, I'm planning on planting these babies for lots of yum. Has anyone tried freezing extra?? They'd have to be cook, most likely.
I'm also going to try pickling some.
Master Michelle , great pickled !
What a great and interesting video! Thank you for all that interesting instruction! I have eaten
Chayote for years but did not know how to grow it. Indeed a monster plant and so beautiful!
I peel mine, cut it into cubes and microwave with some butter for 5 to 6 minutes. Then I mash it and add butter, salt and pepper. Easy and yummy.
That sounds yummy, so many different ways to eat this great squash. Thanks for stopping by, Kim
It's not only the fruit of the chayote plants that's edible, even the tops try it, it's so delicious.
Im in new orleans. Grew one in front yard. Grew out 80' worth of vines. Created a looping canapy with it. Taste better cooked. My fave is shrimp stuffed.
Great looking plant. I have never heard of eating it raw or eating the leaves and roots. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes Bob.
+Bob Lt I ate the leaves due to the anti-inflammatory affect, as I have issues in that area. It didn't taste that great, like older dandelion, but if it helps I don't mind. I would rather eat that then take 2 Ibuprofen, LOL.
Young leaves are very yummy put in soup or stir fry. Love it.
This is my favorite vegetable. Grows in India , there are many dishes in Indian cuisine. I tried , without success to grow it in Houston. Will try again!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been growing this crazy vine in my yard for several months and it has done exactly as you said. I allowed it to grow up to the roof and all over my almond tree, but it never flowered. Until now, I had no idea what it was. I became tired of it and cut it back down to the ground, HOWEVER; it is doing like Jack's beanstalk and coming back. Now that I know what it is, I will take care of it and see how it produces. I love to eat chayote raw. Thanks again.
This is a good plant for a chain link fence.
We grow them on the east coast of South Africa ... here they are known as sou sou's ... my grand mother grew them around her chicken run ... they loved the chicken poop ... I know she never had to feed the plant due to the poop ... makes an awesome relish ..
It does make a great relish, my daughter fixed it that way and I couldn't stop eating it, thanks for commenting, Kim
My grandma also grew them around the chicken coop and never cared for them, North East Coast of Africa in our case. We use it in soups, boiled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, stuffed are delicious, deep fried too!
I grew up eating chayote, however, I am now on my third attempt planting chayote. At the moment I have it in the greenhouse to keep it alive. Looking at how monstrous your chayote have grown made me a bit apprehended now:-) I am having a second thought of keeping it the greenhouse for this summer. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing. Thumbs up...
can you propagate it from cuttings?
this plant we grow this in Puerto Rico Chanute is a vegetable we chose to cook or steaming not to much flavor in this contains a lots a waterproof like like steam. nice video beautiful place to.
Sister very nice to look your vegetables gurden, long live sister, God bless you.
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Thank you for an outstandingly educational and useful video. Came here to see about this vegetable and left saying let's go plant !
Hi nee friend here and I admire your monster plant..thats my one of my FAv
OMG I love your ideas and gardening❣️
I grow mostly winter squash Butternut and acorn. I'm bringing in wood chips for weed control. Lovely squash!
I would love to have a plante. Last night I boil some with carrots and stir fryer all of them with broccoli. It is so good
What a thorough and thoughtful presentation. Quite insightful, brilliantly expressed. I'm very grateful and markedly impressed by your straight forward ease in presenting the information. You engage the audience and invite them to discover with you. Bravo young lady!!!
Thank you
Your excitment is contagius. Right after the video i tried to order seeds. Then i realized that i have to wait until spring. Greetings from Austria
+Maxwell Smart Well you need a squash to grow a plant, so if you can find one of the squash, then you need a really long growing season. The vine requires 150 day growing season at least, of nice warm weather. I'm not sure this is a plant for Austria unless you have a warm, humid greenhouse. Where were you going to order them?
Just tried Chayote this week. I had it roasted...yummy. Last week I made it with rice and carrots,..an easy recipe but not very flavorful. This week I will try again but kick up the spice. I even sprouted the seeds already and will plant in the garden once it gets warm enough. Can't wait to see if I can get it to grow here. Fun experiment for the summer
I’m going to try to grow it ! Very nice video!
Thanks so much
They are really delicious stir fried with garlic. You can also add slices of meat e.g pork or beef.
Thank you for your video!
Making salad is the best just like cucumber. Lots of nutrition and good for losing weight:)
great in soups, baked, We use it like a potato. they are so good.
I have been eating chou-chou (another name for it) in Seychelles my parents grew it in Kenya and South Africa. Never new you could eat it raw (will try it)x. We boil or steam the chayote. Slice it up, slice onions add olive oil, apple cider with salt and black pepper, great salad with curry or any meal.
+john laporte John, thanks so much for letting me know how you ate the Chayote (or whatever anyone calls it) and the recipe. Now I'll have to try it this way. I haven't even cooked one yet as the growth has slowed a bit. I think quite a few of the little ones have fallen off, though I did notice it's covered with bees now. Thanks again for your post, I'll see if there's one to pick and try it your way. Kim
You're amazing, my grandmother taught me how to grow this, we have it in Australia, but I know it from madeira Island. It's an amazing fruit. About to grow a vine soon. I had 450 on one plant.
I was talking to my brother-in-law about having a natural shade on plants to avoid LV heat, we discussed about climbing rigged squash but I think this looks even better. Thank you.
It does really well as a shade vine but anything under it starts dying when the vine getting overgrown. Good luck.
The Abled Gardener Thank you for input , I haven't been back to Vegas but as soon as I am there I am planning a few things including chayote squash.
You can cook the tender tips of the vines,too.rabbits and birds love them as a treat.
According to medicine benefit this melon or chayote is good for our brain or memory from the to all greens and the melon chayote it is good wether to cook it or make juices as green drink so refresh and yummy
you can use it in so many things but sure is good to eat. I'm going to try growing my own I'm in Australia so I hope mine will grow.
Yes I'm sure yours will do well, Rob Bob is in Australia also, he has the channel, ruclips.net/user/bnbob01 and says he remembers it growing like crazy. Good luck and let me know how it grows. Kim
Thank you so much for this. Very informative. Got 2 chokos from a friend and work and going to give it a go. Just have to try to find a spot in my small garden that is big enough to accomodate it :)
Good luck with your Chayote'
Just let a Choko start to grow on it's own and plant the whole thing in the ground. They grow slowly at first and then take off. They will grow over anything.
Agree, been growing mine since last year. They were slow then take off this year.
WOW, Kimmie that is one HUGE plant. Thanks for sharing your monster plant information.
+LARK'S GARDENS Thanks for watching Lark, I know the video was a little long, but I had cut out as much as I could. LOL. Too bad it only grows in warmer areas. I hope mine makes it til the first frost. Take care Lark, Kim
Brilliantly explained! WOW! I am going to grow it for the first time in my life, in NJ, in the coming summer. I am Indian, and there are tons of ways to cook it.
I had taken mine out this summer due to it taking over me garden and boy did I miss it! I will be putting a new one this coming summer just in a different area. Let me know next summer if you get one growing in NJ climate. Take care, Kim
Will share details with you Kim.
My family is from both north & south of Mexico and all eat Chayote in Caldo/soup to sweetened. As a taco filling too. I used to rent a home with it and just thought of growing in my own land now. Ty for this info!💖
Its great in soups , stews and stir fry. It does absorb flavors ar8it , but it does have a sweet almost cabbage taste when cooked. Never knew how it was grown. Definitely will try to grow on.