Sweet potato greens (and
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- There are over 4000 edible vegetables on this planet, and we only eat around 100 of them on a continuous basis. This makes food rather boring if you ask me. Try something new....Eat the greens!
This is my personal recipe for sweet potato pesto. If you plant sweet potato slips, than you are in luck! just go out and cut some vines and try it....you will be surprised.
Thank you for sharing!! I learned a lot and I’m 69 years old!! They say your never to old to learn! 😂❤
Never! 😉
That was terrific! I learned so much, and boy you are self-sufficient. I am growing sweet potatoes for the first time this summer and I never knew people ate the leaves and stems. Here in NJ my family had only ever had the tubers. Thank you so much for the great video.
Thank you! 🥰
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You’re my type of teacher. Have a blessed life.
You as well and thank you! 😇
I really appreciate you reminding me that I can ferment the stalks! Like dilly beans only not stringy.
Thank you. I thought everyone was pickling them. They are so crunchy when they are fresh. I thought, why not pickle them for the winter? It makes great relish.
I'm bogged down with sweet potato Vines . I'm so glad I found your channel . I never thought of using the leaves like this .. amazing! New Subby
thank you! 🥰
So helpful, thank you! Can't wait to make the casserole.
I know that the Asian people in my area love the sweet potato leaves but they don’t say how they use them. When the sweet potato leaves show up they get snatched up and get sold out that day. I learned so much from you. 😊
I am so glad I was able to show you how to use this very under used veggie. I wish more people would eat it in the US. It would help our food situation more if they did.
Informative post! Thanks!
Thank you 🙂
Thank you for this! This is just my second year growing sweet potatoes and I love the greens! (AND the tubers) Thanks to you, I have 2 containers in the freezer now, and I'm soaking the stems! I don't have dried garlic stems but had a good garlic harvest so I'll pop in some cloves!
I use stems to stretch out my garlic harvest, you can add chopped garlic in there and it will work just fine.
Yummy.: I love this video
Thank you! 😃
Getting ready to harvest the sweet potatoes greens for this year. I think I love them more than the tubers.
So do I. I find I get more food from the greens than the tubers. I treat them as a bonus
Fascinated by being as resourceful as possible, love this recipe. Just subscribed.
Thanks and welcome
Grandma Rebel, Love your post. I learned so much. I am in north central Texas . Love that freezer idea to make blocks of greens. That is Very cleaver.
This is my first year to grow sweet potatoes and those leaves traveled everywhere. The 100 degrees certainly did not bother the sweet potatoes. I heard that the stems are also good in stir fry. Because I lack freezer space, I blanched and dehydrated many of the leaves to use in smoothies. I like your pesto idea.
My basil did well in the heat, but I will also use your pesto idea with the sweet potato leaves. My sweet potato plants flowered this year. Do you do anything with those sweet potato flowers ?
My garden results were a disaster for potatoes, cucumbers and decreased for tomatoes. Next Spring, I plan to plant to for sure : basil, okra, butternut squash and cushaw. I made a beginner mistake and planted the 2 squashes close to each other. Then every morning I diligently went out and pollinated all the flowers with a brush. I ended up with butternut squash that was a pale green. I had 1 huge cushaw the size of a small child, the butternut was a little on the small side, but tasted good. I also understand that you can eat squash leaves. I did not try that. I was too busy with the sweet potato leaves. Would love to see more of your recipes. Bon Apetit
Welcome! my sweet potatoes didn't flower. I don't think I've ever seen them flower. Every year, I harvest the potatoes, then bury the vines in the ground, and they come back up every year. Snow-mageddon didn't even kill these things! It took to late fall for the tomatoes to finally bloom and set fruit, along with the okra and ground cherry. My ginger didn't do anything so I'm leaving it for next year. I did get some okra. But I've never had success with cucumbers. Loofah was even a bust this year.
I have eaten squash leaves. I was hesitant to do that this year because of the drought. Maybe next year we will get more rain? I hope so.
Looks delicious! Thanks for posting...
Thank you so much. You have a wealth of information in this one video. I never knew about the fig leaf. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
thank you 🥰
Wow!! This was a great video. Love all the tips and the recipes. Will definitely do more with my sweet potato plants. Thanks
You are very welcome!
I started growing sweet potato leaves for the leaves not the tubers. It will be nice to buy /get more vines from you for me to grow more sweet potato leaves please ❤
Thank you. I do not have any vines at the moment. I have other veggies planted there this year. Depending on where you are, I might be able to refer you to Baker Creek Seed Company, where the do have sweet potatoes on sale in the fall.
Thank you, looks and sounds delicious on every aspect you created and used.
Thank you!
I love sweet potato greens, now i know what to do with the stems😊❤ thank you, subscribed ❤
Thank you! 😍
You are a great teacher! I just subbed. Looking forward to more of this!
Thank you and Welcome!
Excellent
Thank you ❤
You are great, great tutorial.
Thank you!
You did such a great job 👏🏾 I wish you would have showed us the casserole 🥘 plated.
Honestly, didn't think about that. Will do for next time!
@@SunsetGazing Usually, i will make them with eggs, onions and garlic for breakfast with toast on the side, but i usually have too much for just eggs. I came across this on accident, and I love it! We cant grow good spinach down here, so this is the perfect substitute.
Do you find that by removing the leaves you are reducing the ability of the plant to make good tubers. I grow them more for the tubers than the leaves
I actually grow them for the leaves. I can propagate the vines so that I can have continuous plants and I get more food with the vines than I get with the tubers. It is all about what you want.
Thank you ❤️
I want some.
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Love sweet potatoes leaves
I've been using them for a few years. I never thought to use them as greens till I tried them.
The strainer you used to get the water out is fantastic, what's the name n where can I find one,,,,
What to use If you don't have fig leaf tho
Bay leaf (laurel leaf), green tea, black tea or mustard seeds also have tannins in it. you can use those as substitutes for the fig leaf.
Oh, you mean the salad spinner? I think i got that one from good will LOL!
I kept mine 8n tomato baskets and grew right out of them
and that worked? I know someone who is trying buckets and they get nothing. What do you fertalize with?
I got a sweet potato vine growing though and I will try it. Wasn't impressed with poke salud first time though
Never had poke salad. Too much work for me.
greetings from Indonesia my friend, how many months does it take for sweet potatoes to be harvested?
If I start them from cuttings, I should be getting my first picking in 4 months. the weather here is very warm, and we don't get much of a frost until April most years.
@@grandmarebel ok thank you my friend I will try in my farm
The stems look a lot like nasturtium stems do you think you could pickle nasturtium leaf stems? Great tips and I have grown sweet potatoes this year but here in uk where I am they do not grow well.
I've tried growing Nasturtium, but never had any success so far. If so, I don't see why not? You can pickle/can anything!
Nasturtiums like a cooler time to grow. Early spring is the best time. Shade if the sun is too hot.
Do the sweet potatoe vine grow sweet potatoes?
Yes they do! this is just the green tops that grow out of them.
I just moved to north arkansas from west central Illinois. Well on my second season. Time flies. Am I too far south for spinach?
SW MO here and nope, you're not too far south but you'll have a slightly shorter growing season than you did before. You'll probably be wanting to get some started for the fall crop.
its not impossible, but it is more of a early spring, late fall crop here, and i'm more south than you. spinach is hard to grow the more south you get.
Interesting, never thought of using my sweet potatoe leaves to make a pesto
I'm curious about fermenting the stems, why a fig leaf, for the sugar? Then what if u don't know anyone w fig tree what else can b used? I'm assuming your using child fermentation vs picking canning to ensure the stems crispness
Also was curious about ur tropical sweet potatoe plants living thru the winter. I'm in AR, SW of Little Rock 7b & mine won't survive. I bring sprigs indoors put in my north facing kitchen window in jar of water. Then I'm able to pick fresh leaves all winter then replant next summer when temps warm. Of course this summer was brutal w 100° buying first week of May. What plants survived the heat stopped producing. U know it's miserable when they cayenne didn't start growing until temps dropped near normal in Aug. Forecast for 2023 says spring & summer will b 2-4° warmer than this yr & lack of rain. Not sure if that means another +60 days without rain, preparing for that. Need to rethink how, when, & what we r growing for ur new extreme climate.
Thanks for reaching me new trucks w my sweet potatoe leaves.
I grow amazing spinach crops. I plant them on my south side next to my brick house (bricks used for mass thermal heat) & cover it in plastic- grown in a sun box. If ur temps only getting down to -1 u should b able to grow also. Just find a spot not getting nailed w wind on south side, SW exposure best. U might have to add but of sand to the soil
Thank you for all the questions! Actually, I'm not far from you. I'm in the smack middle of Texas in zone 8A. We did feel the heat, and yes, my peppers are just starting to bloom. I'm hoping my okra starts fruiting as well so we can have some for next year.
As for why fig leaf....there are several reasons. #1, most people use mustard seeds and bay leaves for pickles. I do have a bay leaf bush, but because of this heat, didn't do well. #2, there are several plants that contain something called tannins. Black and Green Tea has tannins in it and so do bay leaves, mustard seeds, fig leaves and grape leaves. You use tannins instead of "pickle crisp" to keep what ever you pickle nice and stiff so it has that crunch. It is a free resource for me and I use it. I also use fig leaves to make tea through out the winter. It adds a bit of sweetness without all the sugar.
My sweet potatoes are at my south facing side of my house, so it is protected when the harsh winds from the north come every year. remember March 2021 when Texas went dark because of the freeze? That is what I was talking about and I was fully expecting the vines to die off. They were so deep underground that they actually survived the -1f temperature and came back up with abundance. I am worried about them not surviving the heat though. I have several rain catchment systems in place right now, and we are working on another. We are right there with you on these terrible summers. Wishing it would end.
@@grandmarebel I have several friends spread throughout TX, only ones who didn't lose power was ones in Longview. I was extremely worried about my 82 yr friend in Houston. I'm not a fan of that city then to have a crises. I got her a dual source gene that's large enough to keep her house running, but I fear people will c her lights on & take what they want....
The good news is the attic blast is not suppose to hit us this yr, should stay north of river valley. We'll b warm & dry. I don't even want to think about next spring/ summer forecast!
I've been searching for other southern Gardner's to c what they've got going on, share ideas, as well as new techniques. That's how I stumbled upon ur channel.
In winter I have some plants indoors under lights, tomatoes, sweet peppers, herbs, & greens- fresh salad. I have different slips I save for next yr. Examine yesterday I picked about a dozen egg plant that finally flowered but never produced. I'll put some sweet potatoes slip in water also to have fresh all winter & replant next season. Idk if I'll have tubes to harvest. I had 6 different type potato plants that didn't produce tubes. I had 9 plants ea of zucchini, yellow, acorn, & Hubbard. I got 1 yellow, 3 zucchini & all plants rotted except for 1 Hubbard that's trying. Even the watermelon & cantaloupe didn't do well.
All my herbs died except for my 2 yr large sweet basil that I bring indoors every winter
I blew thru 1500 gal of rainwater collection by beginning of June. 1st of Aug I got bit of rain, barely enough to fill half tank. Cost me more in city water than I received in produce watering 3x day.
This yr I decided to put a tunnel, talk enough for me to walk in, over my raised beds that r on south side & will receive west sun. I'm also enclosing 1 IBC rainwater tote in it for thermal mass. Going to move some mature summer crops, toms, peppers in there & cukes & melons already there. I'm hoping I can have pea crop all yr since it's too hot to plant outside in spring. I'm remodeling my laundry rm & will have a hydroponic grow wall in there, at least that's the plan
Next summer will b the big test, doing outdoor hydroponic. Uses 90% less water. Pump must likely have to b running constant, assuming hear the same. I'll use IBC for fish tank & use it to fertilize. My biggest concern is will the water get to hot for the fish &/ or plants?
Ur biggest challenge is going to b learning how to grow, when to grow, & what to grow- our favorite summer crops may no longer work.
I've been picking okra about 2 wks. I'm not a fan, I'll cut it up small in my soups for nutrients & or thickener. Also pickle for my son. The plant is beautiful & makes good companion shading for tender plants below.
I didn't think of the tannins, I was thinking as sweeter. My son lives on Gulf of AL & has couple fig trees, I'll have to harvest the leaves also.
I'll buy some of ur purple sweet potatoe slips from u if u have extra & don't mind running to post office. I collect seeds from all my plants. Them start performing better for that climate. Ur slips would work well for me
@@user-tn7xo7ky9o Ya, this year was not a good garden year for us as well. I'm just now getting some of the crops that survived, but all the pollinators are not coming out like they used to. As for the slips, I don't know if youtube has private messaging, but if you want, i can send them to you. Believe me, i have plenty.
I want scorpion peppers. My daughter brought me back some from Alabama and my life hasn't been the same since I ran out.
for those peppers, you want to start the seeds 4 weeks before the last frost date, start inside the house. Then, when they are about 6 inches tall, you want to plant them outside after the frost date, in the spring. It will take all spring and most of summer, but then you will get plenty of blooms and fruit when fall hits.
You measure like I do.
😁Just like my mother, her mother, and her mother did back in the mother land 😁
Lol. My hubby told me to stop measuring by guessing, and to use the measuring cup, so I scooped the sugar from the bag in one fell swoop, told him it looked like a cup to me. He stopped me, and made me level it out, before putting it in the cookies. It was 1 cup, on the line! Lol.