Carrot tops are edible. Also lilac flowers, the leaves of the linden tree (which taste like spinach or lettuce--no bitterness), violas, rose petals, new pine needles in spring (you may not have that in Vegas, lol), ginger leaves, daylily flowers, aloe vera, grape leaves, cattails, and let's not forget about the so-called "weeds": Chickweed, pigweed, pineapple weed, fireweed, dandelion of course, clover (just don't ferment it!), creeping bell flower, milk thistle---I could go on and on...
in primary school, our teachers used to take us into the forest to make pine needle tea :) it didn't taste of much, but it was hysterically exciting to go out of the school gates haha
Most fruit tree leaves are edible but very high in fiber. I like to ferment Blackberry leaves & use them as herbal tea. They start to taste a bit like the fruit. Or dry them to use as fish food.. :)
Just don't eat or make tea from leaves of any stone fruits - cherries, peaches, apricots or plums. They have cyanogens in them (which causes the almond smell when you crush them) and especially cherry leaves can kill you.
All summer I harvest the nasturtium leaves, dehydrate them add them to my green smoothie mix. I collect the seeds and ferment them with other vegetables and they add a nice peppery flavor. Also, the longer you pick sweet potato leaves, the smaller the potato. This is because the plant has to continuously put energy into producing more leaves. However, I plant some sweet potatoes with the sole purpose of harvesting the leaves for dehydration purposes. I also eat carrot greens and make tea from strawberry, blackberry and raspberry leaves. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with everyone. There is so much waste that we don't even realize we're doing. Videos like yours help reduce such waste.
What I don't know is the first one, checked and found it is: Garden Nasturium. It is good for eyes. But don't eat it as vegetable, you can use it as side dish as it mostly use as medicine. Since allowing all the grass grow in the garden, I found and knew quite a lot medicine. They are the best seasonal plants. I picked a few each day. And found how easy to survive😃
I know this isn't a fruit tree but you can eat some maple leaves. You can eat silver maple leaves and they are slightly bitter, DO NOT EAT RED MAPLE LEAVES THEY ARE EXTREMELY TOXIC.
Filipinos eat also chili leaves with out problem. Actually, we look for it in most of Asian market because it is part of the recipe. Chicken soup with unrripe papaya and chili leaves. We call the dish tinola.
Thanks! I heard people eat borage also, which I havent tried because of the texture. For the nasturtium, I also heard that the seeds fresh from the plant can be made into “capers”. Thank you again for the videos!
MIchal Barkai, I grew up in the Philippines. Sweet potato leaves are eaten there. I like it sautéed. For me, it is tastier than spinach. Another way of preparing it is blanch the leaves then drain. Slice red onion and tomato. Dressing: vinegar, olive oil, salt to taste, a little sugar to counter the acidity, and ground black pepper. Then combine all the ingredients.
Love this... nasturtium it self seeds itself in my garden..very prolific.. the plant can be eaten like you would do collard greens, Sautee / stew a bit with or without extra condiments.. it taste a bit like wasabi or mustard greens, the young seeds can be pickled too or grind into a paste to use as condiment.. many leaves are edible, we just forgot..just like pokeweed
Wow chili leaves. They look so beautiful on the plants I'm growing. I can't wait to have my own chili Christmas trees. I'm growing various Mexican chilies like guajillo, poblano, jalapeño, pasilla, ancho/negro. But I'll be careful before eating the fresh leaves now. I didn't even think about the leaves being edible before. I developed hashimoto's, an autoimmune disease, and certain nightshades or goitren foods I won't dare eat fresh anymore like broccoli cauliflower cabbage. I heard you can also eat them fermented to significantly reduce the iodine blocking factor but I think they would have to be well into that process because I ate them slightly fermented and noticed I felt foggy minded which is a symptom. I feel better now not eating them at all. A shame because I discovered I love Honduran/ Salvadorian pupusas with curtido.
We eat pepper leaves as soup too. In Eastern medicine, the fruit is very yang, hot to warm up your body. In opposite, the leaves are more ying, it cool down your body in summer and sooth your digest system. Not like that for peanut or potato, its leaves are poisonous to prevent animals from eating them. Yam's leaves are very tasty and good for your body, it nutty and soft, it will not produce yam if you eat leaves.
In Minnesota I had a mulberry hedge and use to make realy good wine. We use sweet potato leaf in out chicken soup for vit. A. or we also use chili leaf in our soup. Eating these kind of foods helped keep Filipino healthy during the had times like world war 2. Bitter melon is also a healthy food that I had to get use to then I enjoyed it. Watch this video I would like to try putting nasturtium or tropaeolum leaf and flower in to a bitter melon salad. Bitter melon salad I eat remove seeds andcut up the melon and rinse while squeezing out some of the bitter white sap. Them add chopped red onion and red tomatoes and vinegar and black pepper to taste then refrigerate over night. Like I said I would like trying to add some nasturtium ribbons. and flowers. And if good I can take a large bowl to a pot luck Filipino summer gathering. We have taken bitter melon salad before and it is eaten up real fast by people saying Sarap! And we collect the nice looking pepper leaves at the end of the season from all pepper plants and blanch them then freeze them getting the air out of the bags. each bag has enough leaves for a soup of six cups of water. Waste not want not. Diba?
Awesome video Wendi, love the glimpses you share with us of your COOL garden, yes with so many wild edibles and I honestly didn't know that chili leaves are edible, I bet each kind of leaf has a similar taste,in accordance with their fruit? Thanks for sharing, Liked and checking out your edible plants out, have you heard of the Chayote's wild cousin? Grows over here in the wild, unfortunately people here couldn't care less about eating the fruits, which look like bumpy alligator heads,it has a taste something like a chayote but combining the flavor with that of a green bean.😊👍
chili leaves are edible and safe. Others you can eat: Hummingbird tree flower sweet potato leaves string bean leaves soursop leaves can be used to make supplement tea for diabetes. calabash tree fruit
Purslane which is considered a weed, (store bought ones may be a different, so beware), but wild ones are very tasty sprinkled in a salad, sort of lemony, can be cooked also if you don't care for the texture. It's nickname is Miner's lettuce, back during the gold rush when the miner's had a difficult time finding greens for their diet they would eat it, it helped prevent scurvy as it is high in vitamin C. Young leaves of Roselle are also edible, they can be used in salads, or cooked.
Chili leaves are cooked with chicken in the Philippines as the greens in the "tinola" stew, along with unripe papaya. Sweet potato leaves are usually just blanched and eaten as salad. Same with squash leaves. My mom would just drizzle fish paste on them.
@@wendiland the varieties we have here tend to be unnamed unlike the chilis in the US but it seems if using the leaves, people don't care which chili it was from. 😂 I guess you try with whatever variety you have in the garden. I've haven't noticed any difference, mostly coz I just go along with what's available, I haven't compared leaves from different plants.
Your plants are all beautiful and exceptionally healthy. I wonder how they would look in a Florida garden? We have a lot more space here to grow things than where you are and I can't hear my neighbors.
Thanks for sharing, your nasturtiums are beautiful, what variety are they I’ve never seen leaves or flowers that large, would love to find seeds for them, I grow them every year and do munch on the flower and leaves, have been told the seeds can be used as a pepper substitute, do you know if the is true.
No disrespect intended. Honest feedback is usually appreciated from the creators. Hopefully she has seeds or plants available still. Covid-19 is no joke.
Carrot tops are edible. Also lilac flowers, the leaves of the linden tree (which taste like spinach or lettuce--no bitterness), violas, rose petals, new pine needles in spring (you may not have that in Vegas, lol), ginger leaves, daylily flowers, aloe vera, grape leaves, cattails, and let's not forget about the so-called "weeds": Chickweed, pigweed, pineapple weed, fireweed, dandelion of course, clover (just don't ferment it!), creeping bell flower, milk thistle---I could go on and on...
in primary school, our teachers used to take us into the forest to make pine needle tea :) it didn't taste of much, but it was hysterically exciting to go out of the school gates haha
How on Earth are your nasturtium leaves so huge? Never seen them so big! Thanks for the helpful tips!
Excellent Video! I grow many myself, and encourage others to grow these plants as well.
Most fruit tree leaves are edible but very high in fiber. I like to ferment Blackberry leaves & use them as herbal tea. They start to taste a bit like the fruit. Or dry them to use as fish food.. :)
Sir how do you ferment ? Could you tell me :) I have mulberry shrub which isn't fruiting so I could use the leaves.
Just don't eat or make tea from leaves of any stone fruits - cherries, peaches, apricots or plums. They have cyanogens in them (which causes the almond smell when you crush them) and especially cherry leaves can kill you.
All summer I harvest the nasturtium leaves, dehydrate them add them to my green smoothie mix. I collect the seeds and ferment them with other vegetables and they add a nice peppery flavor.
Also, the longer you pick sweet potato leaves, the smaller the potato. This is because the plant has to continuously put energy into producing more leaves. However, I plant some sweet potatoes with the sole purpose of harvesting the leaves for dehydration purposes.
I also eat carrot greens and make tea from strawberry, blackberry and raspberry leaves. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with everyone. There is so much waste that we don't even realize we're doing. Videos like yours help reduce such waste.
What I don't know is the first one, checked and found it is: Garden Nasturium. It is good for eyes. But don't eat it as vegetable, you can use it as side dish as it mostly use as medicine.
Since allowing all the grass grow in the garden, I found and knew quite a lot medicine. They are the best seasonal plants. I picked a few each day. And found how easy to survive😃
I know this isn't a fruit tree but you can eat some maple leaves. You can eat silver maple leaves and they are slightly bitter, DO NOT EAT RED MAPLE LEAVES THEY ARE EXTREMELY TOXIC.
Filipinos eat also chili leaves with out problem. Actually, we look for it in most of Asian market because it is part of the recipe. Chicken soup with unrripe papaya and chili leaves. We call the dish tinola.
Thanks! I heard people eat borage also, which I havent tried because of the texture. For the nasturtium, I also heard that the seeds fresh from the plant can be made into “capers”. Thank you again for the videos!
Borage tastes like cucumber!
Nasturtium is quite tasty. I like the leaves in salads and the flowers are so pretty.
Gr8 Stuff. Will check out the chilli leaves, mulberry leaves and sweet potato leaves. Thanks!
I started eating sweet potatoe leaves because of wendi and they really do taste good in slads!:) Second year in a row now
MIchal Barkai, I grew up in the Philippines. Sweet potato leaves are eaten there. I like it sautéed. For me, it is tastier than spinach. Another way of preparing it is blanch the leaves then drain. Slice red onion and tomato. Dressing: vinegar, olive oil, salt to taste, a little sugar to counter the acidity, and ground black pepper. Then combine all the ingredients.
Awesome video wendie, I love nasturtium in my salad,awesome video
Love this... nasturtium it self seeds itself in my garden..very prolific.. the plant can be eaten like you would do collard greens, Sautee / stew a bit with or without extra condiments.. it taste a bit like wasabi or mustard greens, the young seeds can be pickled too or grind into a paste to use as condiment.. many leaves are edible, we just forgot..just like pokeweed
Wow chili leaves. They look so beautiful on the plants I'm growing. I can't wait to have my own chili Christmas trees. I'm growing various Mexican chilies like guajillo, poblano, jalapeño, pasilla, ancho/negro. But I'll be careful before eating the fresh leaves now. I didn't even think about the leaves being edible before. I developed hashimoto's, an autoimmune disease, and certain nightshades or goitren foods I won't dare eat fresh anymore like broccoli cauliflower cabbage. I heard you can also eat them fermented to significantly reduce the iodine blocking factor but I think they would have to be well into that process because I ate them slightly fermented and noticed I felt foggy minded which is a symptom. I feel better now not eating them at all. A shame because I discovered I love Honduran/ Salvadorian pupusas with curtido.
Amaranth leaves are really tasty too
We eat pepper leaves as soup too. In Eastern medicine, the fruit is very yang, hot to warm up your body. In opposite, the leaves are more ying, it cool down your body in summer and sooth your digest system. Not like that for peanut or potato, its leaves are poisonous to prevent animals from eating them. Yam's leaves are very tasty and good for your body, it nutty and soft, it will not produce yam if you eat leaves.
Tapioca leaves the young ones. Boil it .wash it n it's good to eat with sambal
In Minnesota I had a mulberry hedge and use to make realy good wine. We use sweet potato leaf in out chicken soup for vit. A. or we also use chili leaf in our soup. Eating these kind of foods helped keep Filipino healthy during the had times like world war 2. Bitter melon is also a healthy food that I had to get use to then I enjoyed it. Watch this video I would like to try putting nasturtium or tropaeolum leaf and flower in to a bitter melon salad. Bitter melon salad I eat remove seeds andcut up the melon and rinse while squeezing out some of the bitter white sap. Them add chopped red onion and red tomatoes and vinegar and black pepper to taste then refrigerate over night. Like I said I would like trying to add some nasturtium ribbons. and flowers. And if good I can take a large bowl to a pot luck Filipino summer gathering. We have taken bitter melon salad before and it is eaten up real fast by people saying Sarap! And we collect the nice looking pepper leaves at the end of the season from all pepper plants and blanch them then freeze them getting the air out of the bags. each bag has enough leaves for a soup of six cups of water. Waste not want not. Diba?
Chili leaves very good for chicken ginger , garlic,onion , green papaya , very good.
Awesome video Wendi, love the glimpses you share with us of your COOL garden, yes with so many wild edibles and I honestly didn't know that chili leaves are edible, I bet each kind of leaf has a similar taste,in accordance with their fruit? Thanks for sharing, Liked and checking out your edible plants out, have you heard of the Chayote's wild cousin? Grows over here in the wild, unfortunately people here couldn't care less about eating the fruits, which look like bumpy alligator heads,it has a taste something like a chayote but combining the flavor with that of a green bean.😊👍
chili leaves are edible and safe.
Others you can eat:
Hummingbird tree flower
sweet potato leaves
string bean leaves
soursop leaves can be used to make supplement tea for diabetes.
calabash tree fruit
There's one or two I didnt know about, thank you for teaching me something!
How do you take care of those nasturtiums? They are so healthy! I am just starting to grow nasturtiums from seeds. Nice vid!
Purslane which is considered a weed, (store bought ones may be a different, so beware), but wild ones are very tasty sprinkled in a salad, sort of lemony, can be cooked also if you don't care for the texture. It's nickname is Miner's lettuce, back during the gold rush when the miner's had a difficult time finding greens for their diet they would eat it, it helped prevent scurvy as it is high in vitamin C. Young leaves of Roselle are also edible, they can be used in salads, or cooked.
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Fig tree leaves are more nutritious than moringa.
Chili leaves are cooked with chicken in the Philippines as the greens in the "tinola" stew, along with unripe papaya.
Sweet potato leaves are usually just blanched and eaten as salad. Same with squash leaves. My mom would just drizzle fish paste on them.
That sounds really good. I’m tempted to grow more peppers just for the leaves! Do you know if all kinds of pepper leaves are edible?
@@wendiland the varieties we have here tend to be unnamed unlike the chilis in the US but it seems if using the leaves, people don't care which chili it was from. 😂
I guess you try with whatever variety you have in the garden. I've haven't noticed any difference, mostly coz I just go along with what's available, I haven't compared leaves from different plants.
Another awesome video you got there! Thanks!
Thank you!
Your plants are all beautiful and exceptionally healthy. I wonder how they would look in a Florida garden? We have a lot more space here to grow things than where you are and I can't hear my neighbors.
Haaa overpopulated urban space...I grow quite a bit of tropical and sub tropical plants so probably will do well there.
Would you please list the names of tree you was talking about.
Love learning these thing. I had no idea. T Y.
Thanks for sharing, your nasturtiums are beautiful, what variety are they I’ve never seen leaves or flowers that large, would love to find seeds for them, I grow them every year and do munch on the flower and leaves, have been told the seeds can be used as a pepper substitute, do you know if the is true.
Hostas and daylilies are also edible.
daylilly shoots aremy favorite spring veg ! they taste like green beans
Hostas are edible??
Thanks for sharing
Great video...
thank you so much
My Burmese friend grew up eating carrot tops and passion fruit leaves.
I've got some wild carrots growing and the leaves are delicious and has a pungent minty flavor
I say Asian people really know how to eat. Nothing is to waste.
Laos peoples eat that too those peppers leaves along with the young peppers.
How do you cook the leaves? I've only had them in soup.
@@wendiland soup or stew.
like it.like and love from sri lanka.
good morning! Not a topic question. What app/program do you use to make your finished videos? Thx
What is the trellised white vegetable that you planted behind the loofah? "Childa"? "Childigger"? I'm super interested in finding out what that is...
It is a chayote squash.
I saw you on John's channel
You can also eat silver-dollar weed aka pennyworth .
My mulberry shrub isn't fruiting!! 😭😭😭
Hi wendi which city are you from ?
Southern California
Any way you can sell me a chayote so ai can grow some? I am in OC.
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Here from growing your greens... honestly, just due to eye candy. Will watch all videos for greenery tho. Her cuteness doesn't take away from that.
No disrespect intended. Honest feedback is usually appreciated from the creators. Hopefully she has seeds or plants available still. Covid-19 is no joke.
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