Edible Perennial: Okinawan Spinach with Morag Gamble
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Attractive perennials are the foundation of a permaculture Morag Gamble's (moraggamble.com) home garden. They are super hardy, super productive, low maintenance, easy to propagate, beneficial for the soil, create microclimates and habitat, and have aesthetic value too.
This clip is about Okinawan Spinach (Gynura bicolor) - one of these great perennials Morag values highly in her garden.
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Got this plant from a friend. Got 6 or 7 cuttings and they all grew. Very easy to propagate!
Received this from my neighbour last night wandering around his garden. Love the look taste and ease of this. Excited to put the cuttings in today to my Northern Rivers garden.
I hope it's growing well and you enjoy sharing cuttings with many more people.
I bought a large okinawa spinach from bunnings for 50c and it looked like it was dying. I ended up saving it and it provides me with so many greens and i have buried some stems sideways to make the produce roots to propagate more plants. Excellent plant that not many people know about.
Morag this is DELICIOUS raw. Its one of the best salads because no bitterness at all. Very very very yummy and one of my favourite vege for dipping in belacan sauce (spicy shrimp sauce) or a replacement for lettuce.
Thank you for sharing! Glad you enjoyed it
I also add this to salads. Delicious and its fragrance is lovely too. :)
Hello and thanks for your info. I recently started growing this plant, then got busy, didnt water it enough and the bugs ate it completely down. I left it alone, the rains came in the summer as they do here in South Florida, and it came back, right as rain! Yep, it's a hardy, and pretty! plant.
Exactly!! It’s one of the reasons these kinds of perennially hardy plants are so fabulous. I fill my garden with plants like these so whatever the season brings there are plants that can thrive, or if harmed, can bounce back
We use Okinawa Spinach in our culture for postpartum recovery. It’s a medicinal herb for us.
I bought some cuttings of this plant from Baker’s Creek Seeds earlier this year and they’re establishing really well. I live in San Antonio, TX and they do seem to thrive better under the shade. My eventual plan is to create enough cuttings to use it as a ground cover in a bed I have Joey Avocado Trees growing in (that are also under larger oak trees). Using purple bee balm and Turkish Rocket as a nice purple and yellow backdrop to the bed.
ty i'm having a hard time finding a place to buy it
Picked up a cutting at the herb day in Albion yesterday. Plant once, easy propagation, and fits my idea of not planting repeatedly for some greens. Much appreciated video.
Yes - I love these kinds of 'evergreens'!
Wow...I have discovered so many plants I have nvr heard of through u Morag...... thank u so much
Thank you! I’ve never tried Okinawan spinach-looking forward to finding some in my area and adding it to my food forest!
Just stir fry with slices of ginger/ garlic + sesame oil.... it's delicious.
Young leaves/ shoots to be thrown in salads or eat off the.
plant. love it.
Love this stuff. I just made a video about propagating some that I got from a gardening LEGEND from California.
Arigato for sharing!
Thank you Morag. Looks tasty.
Love this gorgeous plant. Im curious, should okinawa spinach be blanched prior to use?
you can eat it raw or cooked
I have what they call Malaysian Spinach - looks very similar but no purple - I have it in a pot so I can contain but its not running wild - delicious to cook too!
Yummy thank you Morag. I have to find this in Sydney.
It grows like a weed in my Sydney backyard - it seems to like our climate
Hi Morag. Love your work. I recently discovered this in my garden. Been propogating it. Im so excited. Just wanted to ask what to do. Mine has been eaten so thorougly by caterpillars duringvthe summer. Any tips?
I love Okinawa spinach. So tasty. Thank you for featuring it today. I'm trying to grow it in my yard but I don't know. They don't look so good. Lol. I live in Florida and it gets pretty hot. Do you think they might prefer some shade during the day?
From my experience it does best in indirect sunlight.
Thank you very much. I’m going to have to try it. I have some seeds for Egyptian spinach. I’m looking forward to them coming up and seeing how they do. Are you familiar with that variety?
I've never heard of that spinach, I like the purple underside! Can I request you do a talk on clary sage if you have some? It's a pretty herb, and I have some but what do I do with it? I've been eyeing it off in case there is a loo paper shortage again lol :D
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Hi Morag, can you tell us what zone this personal grows in?
I looked it up and the info I found said zones 8b-11.
@@LivingForJesusMennoniteMom Not sure I can grow it here in WA state in the US. We are zone 7-8 around here.
Thanks for the info!
Wish it went to seed
Can it be eaten raw?
Yes! Delicious and great fragrance as well.
I love the lemon myrtle but can’t find in the US, does any know how can I order it?
Moral, where did you find your comfrey plants? I can’t find any!
i dont know your location but Greenpatch Seeds and even Bunnings sell plants in Mid Nth Coast NSW Austraia
What is your location
Morag Gamble : Our Permaculture Life chesterfield Va USA
Ray and Mary Thomas you can order comfrey from Grower’s exchange
Madeleine Nguyen thank you I already found and planted! Blessings!
Hi
Do you sell this plant or the seeds of it?
Thanks
Hallo, i can not bye okinawan spinarch seed in Germany :-( Lieben Gruß, Doris
Can you eat this raw?
Best cooked
Added raw to salads is delicious.
Hello I come from China, is an agricultural lover, would like to exchange with you, I grow vegetables here, I see you in I have not seen.