Harvesting Edible Broccoli Leaves: 5 TIPS!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- Learn when and how to harvest broccoli leaves, which and how many leaves to harvest, how to deal with cabbage worms, plus some recipe ideas! Broccoli leaves (aka greens) are not only edible, but delicious and healthy!
VIDEO SECTIONS
0:00 Start
1:05 Nix the Worms
2:11 Harvest Time
2:35 Down, Not Up
2:55 Harvest the Blue
4:13 Leave Some Leaves
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Leave your tips for us! What cabbage worm control methods do you have? What's your favorite broccoli leaf recipe?
I cook collards and broccoli leaves together and I have put them in soups along with cabbage, carrots, celery, onion and whatever else you like in soups. I have also freeze them for winter eating. Blanch them same as tomatoes. Most of the time I put them in a pot of water with potato, garlic and onion and slow cook them. They are so nutritious.
@@antoinettedewall1191 That sounds like a great winter treat! There's nothing I love better than pulling out my summer harvest from the freezer in January. 😀
just saw this great idea for cabbage worm prevention! I haven't tried it yet, but will definitely do it next year, and the comments from people who have tried it say it works!! (early in the season)put a stake in the ground by each plant, and on that stake put a sock with 6-8 moth balls in each one, and cover with an upside down solo cup so the rain won't get to the mothballs. but the smell will keep the cabbage worm moths from ever laying eggs on your plants to begin with! can't wait to try next year. for now I just have to keep picking them out and murdering them before they murder my veggies!
@@SouthsideTile Oh that makes sense! Moth balls for cabbage moths! There's so many sketchy garden "tips" out there, but that one sounds like it might actually work!
@@antoinettedewall1191 oh my goodness, I am so salivating, especially over those last ingredients. That's exactly how I make a delicious broccoli potato onion soup. I chop up a couple of rashers of bacon 1st, add the garlic &seasoning and boil the stock for 10 minutes. Give it a Blitz with the bar mix and add to the potato broccoli and onion. Top it up with water and sometimes I add chicken stock cube as well. Mmm, Replace the broccoli with cauliflower and just as delicious😋
Goodness gracious, I'm a sucker for a dollop of cream on those blended thicker soups!
Food is absolutely one of the best subjects ever.
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I haven't used my slow cooker for a while and definitely inspired to get it out today thanks🙌💧🌱
For the broccoli leaves, i do a cream soup. Sautee your onions, carrots, celery, herbs and bay leaf in a big stock pot. After 15 min, remove your bay leaf. Add in your stock of choice and bring to a boil add in your broccolli leaves and bring it to a simmer. Add in 2 bricks cream cheese, a block of super sharp cheddar and with an immersion blender, cream everything til its silky smooth. Add back in the bay leaf and let it simmer with an occasional stir for 15 min and voila! Serve with a really hearty bread or baguette. Its basically broccoli cheddar soup.
Oh that's an interesting way to use them! I make broccoli cheddar soup all the time, but I use the broccoli florets and stems. I never thought to use the leaves only. (And let me tell you I always have more leaves than florets and I'm always sad the florets are gone.) I am copying this comment right now into my recipe book. THANK YOU!
i dehydrate them and add them to tons of different foods and no one even knows. thanks for the tipe
“What’s that, honey? Oh, that’s just parsley.” 😈
you can plant onion as companion plant for broccoli to avoid cabbage worms
I have heard that but haven't tried it. Thanks for the tip!
@@ReSprout ooo I have onion tip.. i found outlast season, if we give our onions a haircut, at 6-8 weels old, the foliage thickenps up and they get more rings. Example five leaves equals five rings on the onion. 7 leaves equals 7 rings.🙌
@@ralsharp6013 I'm gonna have to try that! I can always use green onions anyways so the "hair" won't go to waste!
@@ReSprouttotally agree.. mmm, green onion garnish.. good in omelettes too!
Just add crumbled dried broccoli leaves and call it parsley!!🤔😂😂💧🌱
@@ralsharp6013 🤣 No one will be the wiser!
Beautiful, thank you ❤
Loved your vid! Thank you!
Wow love it especially the leaves with oyster sauce and the stem with dry garlic on top
Sounds yummy!
So glad I found this 😊 this is right on time, ok 👍🏿
Thank you for the info. Harvesting the leaves as well as it is a cold weather leaf crop
They're very yummy! Glad this helped! :-)
Great! Thanks - definitely excited to eat the leaves..
Enjoy!
Great video, thanks! This was my first year growing broccoli. The leaves were looking beautiful and I was excited to eat them, when the cabbage moth came out of nowhere! I treated with BT and was able to salvage some plants but did not get to enjoy the leaves as I had planned. Next year I will be better prepared. Great content, I've subscribed.
Those moths are so beautiful and SO EVIL! I found the best way to do the BT is as a preventative before you even see the moths. I just set a reminder for myself to do it every 2-3 weeks no matter how good the plants look.
Very helpful. Thanks!! Am trying / cooking them for the first time right now!!
Have fun! Just don't tell the fam what they are eating until AFTER they like it. 🤣
I've never tried it but I surely going to I love broccoli 😁🥦
GREAT video~ Thank YOU! Just subbed: Short, full of useful info & NOT a lot of wasted time. Looking forward to checking out all your videos. Happy New Year!
Thank you Jennifer! That's my goal - useful and no wasted time. More videos soon!
@@ReSprout Fantastic~ Thanks SO Much!
Thank you...all these years i never thought of eating the brocolli leaves!!!! I am going to stir fry mine today with garlic and fresh prawns!
Sounds yummy! I hide them in salad all the time. Usually a 50-50 split between broccoli leaves and romaine. Perfecto!
I am in douglassville pa and I am so happy I found you. I just started gardening last year with tomatoes. Now I am trying new things. You are helping me out a lot. I am harvesting my broccoli leaves for dinner tonight and I just removed my scapes. Thank you for all your information
I'm so glad to help Colleen! I feel like broccoli leaves are one of those "secret vegetables" 🤣
Thank you very much I'm growing broccoli 🥦 on my roof top in the Philippines I love your vedeo now I will start to eat the leaves
That's great! Good luck!
I love growing broccoli this time of the year in Texas. Been harvesting leaves for a few weeks for my smoothies. Minimal insect infestation November, December.
I agree,.I always snap off the leaves early in the morning .. my kale has been producing continuously since April 2022
See, I KNOW this, I just have such a problem getting myself motivated to go outside in the colder months!
Really GREAT video. I have never seen anyone cut up their broccoli leaves like you did!! I have some vestiges of two broccoli plants from the summer in our dining room. They still have some leaves barely. We have two pet rabbits, so I am hoping the plants will survive as long as possible. I will harvest the tiniest amount of leaves today. Of course, we regularly buy our rabbits dill and other fancy greens to eat, from the store (and couldn't possibly rely on what we grow). We live in cold, snowy (right now) Boston. Thanks a lot.
You're gonna laugh, but the way I found out about whether broccoli leaves are edible, is I actually tried one. I thought, HEY, they're a a brassica! Probably yummy! And they were. Tasted like kale! I don't have rabbits, but if they like kale leaves, I'm sure they'll love broccoli leaves!
I found out three seasons ago about eating the leaves. We had a few plants i took all the leaves off cause i was done with the plant. Well the plant wasn’t done. The plant was covered with leaves a few weeks later. It was awesome. No florets but I ate and shared those greens, and canned lots of leaves. They tasted so great in winter with a lil bacon.
That's what's so great about broccoli-even if the florets don't pan out, you got the leaves!
Such an healthy food i love it
Great substitute for kale!
Mmmmm! Broccoli leaves are soo delicious
Right?!
Thank you so much for this awesome video! This was my first time growing broccoli and after watching your video I harvested my leaves yesterday and mixed them in a pot of collards I grew in my garden. THEY ARE DELICIOUS! :)
They are, right??! I actually found out they were edible by just grabbing a leaf while I was in the garden and giving it a munch. (Yeah, cuz I'm that kind of a weirdo, LOL.)
@@ReSprout yes they are ☺ I love them!!! Yay for Greens!!! 🙌🏾❤ Thanks again!!
My first time growing broccoli my kids love it raw with ranch i thoughts the leaves were to pretty to compost too so I cooked them with kale and mustard greens. Yum! Sauté an onion wash and cut up the greens, do remove the big stems sprinkle in a few chili peppers add salt and 1 c chicken broth let em cook until tender. I gave the kale and broccoli leaves a head start since the leaves are tougher and then added the mustard greens YUM!!!
Mmmm... you're making me hungry. LOL.
I love broccoli leaves in my protein shakes 💙
Yes, love putting veggies in my smoothies! Great way to sneak them in! 😉
We call them caterpillars in Europe! We cover our brassica beds with butterfly netting to prevent the moths from laying their eggs on the leaves. Great video, thanks!
That's the first thing I tried but it didn't work too well for me. I think there was always a hole or something. They always seemed to find a way under there!
They are not moths but butterflies
i thought i was an idiot for cook brocc leafs until i saw this video!😂
very informative btw i really enjoy it,cheers from indonesia!😁👍
Guess we are both "idiots" then. ;-) That's ok, more greens for us!
terrific video! Thank you. I also love your beautiful compost box. AND your humor, cracks me up! would love to see how you you built that pretty compost box or how you do seed sowing / starting. I live in zone 5/6 in southern New Hampshire where the growing season isn’t very long so I am itching for spring to arrive and get everything started. I’ve always wanted to grow broccoli and after watching this video of yours I’m excited to try it out, and, eat the leaves. Thank you for fabulous content :)
Thank you Elizabeth! Probably the only other tip I'd offer on broccoli is to plant it as a fall crop. That was a tip from a local farmer friend. That pretty much cured me of all my cabbage moth issues. So I just two beds in the fall now, and that's my year's worth. I was thinking of making another compost bin (you can never have too much compost!)-so maybe I will do a video of that!
I am sooo looking forward to all of your upcoming videos!! You have such a great spirit about you! That is great info about the broccoli, I will have to try that! I live in Southern New Hampshire which is zone 5b, so this year our probable last and first frost date is 5/7 then 10/3 ..will try it in the fall and spend the spring trying out your strawberry lesson!! I get so inspired by your videos and just itching to get scratching in the dirt again! I went out to my garden on Thursday to the area where i want to place a greenhouse and configured where i could put some of those pretty compost bins. Would LOVE it if you would do a video on how to build yours. Have a wonderful day and thank you again for your inspiring content 😊
You're so kind Elizabeth! I have SOOO many videos I would love to make. I DO need another bin, though, so maybe I'll bring you all along on my build. :-)
@@elizabethhendriks9030 hello neighbor (almost!), I am also in zone 5b, just a east of you in Maine. I was able to get broccoli started from seeds indoors late March and then transfer the seedlings in grow bags. All the broccoli did quite well, the biggest challenge was hardening off because the weather kept dipping down so low each night (for so long) so I kept bringing them back inside and then back out onto the deck in the morning. I did it without grow lights (don't have any) but it was fun (and kept me moving). I like starting seeds at the end of winter, it's exciting to anticipate spring. I suspect that you can relate.
This is my first year planting items other than tomatoes. I’m so glad I found you when I looked up how to harvest coriander. Actually getting ready to do that now. What do you do at the end of the season with so much extra stock? Can you freeze the broccoli leaves?
Yes absolutely! I either freeze it in freezer bags, all chopped and washed or I'll dehydrate it, also chopped. Very easy to add to soups and stews like that and it doesn't take up valuable space in the freezer.
Thanks👍
All brassicas leaves I harvest all spring and autumn I cut it put in ziploc for winter soup same thing for green onion
Yes, they're great in soups! I actually dehydrate them for this purpose. I have BUCKETS of dried greens in my cellar.
I planted basil (in big pots) next to my broccoli last year. I saw only one or two worms! The leaves were absolutely beautiful! I didn’t know I could eat them, so they went to the compost and the chickens. Now, I know. Thanks for sharing. Can you also cook them like spinach?
Yes, just cook them a little longer. They're not quite as tender as spinach.
Soaking in salt water will remover most insects and worms. Also from another video I have blueberry bushes and during the harvest season I put dollar tree windmills around the bushes and tie ribbon on the branches to blow in the wind.
Oh I like that windmill idea! Maybe I can find a nice piece of a garden art that spins!
Im polish and love to make hulupsi ALS bandshells stuffed with rice or rice and hamburger
Boil leaves of broccoli till soft and ready g pop r stuffing
Fry up some hamburger and boil some rice
Mix together with a lil salt and pepper
Use about a large tablespoon of mix to leaves ! Roll up and place in Pyrex baking dish. Add tomatoe soup or sauce watered down and seasoned with Worchester sauce dash of salt and pepper teaspoon or so of sugar
Yes absolutely. The Young Leaves are delicious!!
Have you tried drying some out? Similar to parsley or Swiss chard. Good for scrambled eggs, soup, quiche and beef stew ..mmmm, all those good things!
Yes, that's actually my favorite way to preserve them! I use them for soups in the winter all the time like that. I have a whole bucket of dried leaves in my cellar. 😉
@@ReSprout shut me up about it, I'm addicted to those "green-flecks" in and on top of our food now.😂
I totally understand the favouritism at your end.
Stuff like cabbage and cauliflower leaf are just as good and full of Sulphorophane.. (brilliant for the gut to brain axis, brain fog, adhd&autism etc)
I grind it up so fine, it's like flour. Then I swap out& 1/3 cup of flour for the broccoli leaf flour, when making Anzac crispies for my grandchildren. Some cookies you can tell it's in there, especially if too much dried stuff in there - but these ones you can't tell!
When I put dried kale, broccoli leaf or Swiss chard in the biscuits, I add a squirt extra of golden syrup and 10 grams extra butter, so the cookie doesn't dry out..
Keen to know what you do with your dried Greens??
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@@ralsharp6013 Ooooh, crisps! That's the great idea! I am a chip fiend and am always looking for ways to make them healthier. I use greens a lot in cooked things, so casseroles, soups, stews, enchiladas, oatmeal, beans, sauces, etc. Basically, if I'm boiling or baking or pressure-cooking some sort of dish where it's easy to just rehydrate the greens in the cooking process, that's what I do!
@@ReSprout my daughter loves her new age pressure cooker and just purchased one for me last week, from sell swap and buy. Excited to try it. You've got some great ideas here and some beautiful followers.🙌💧💧🌱 Oops apologies for repeating myself about the green flour! 🤔😅😂🙏🏽
I was just at a garden owned by an Amish family and their broccoli plants were outstanding. Looking at the blue green leaves, I asked if they ate the leaves which they said no. I was curious if they were edible and that is how I got to your video. Thanks for the info, I will be going back to that Amish family and letting them know about this and also asking for a few leaves to cook up. Thanks.
If you like kale you'll LOVE broccoli leaves! That's what I tell everyone who raises their eyebrow at me. ;-)
It could be the oxalate levels are too high?
Awesome videos!!! Are you a naturalist only and never use fertilizer or a hybrid gardener like me that uses both? Your plants looks ginormous!!! How do you do it? Thanks!
Hi Mike! I follow the USDA organic guidelines for farming. For the most part I just use homemade compost for fertilizer, although when I have issues (like calcium deficiencies or something), I've purchased organic amendments in the past. As far as pesticide, the only one I've used so far is BT, which is rated for organic gardens. I've had really good luck with just choosing disease resistant seed varieties. They're worth every extra penny in my opinion!
I haven't been growing for very long but it seems the best control method is just daily checking for larvae and worms and removing them by hand.
That's what a lot of people do! I get SOOOOO weirded out by touching worms, though, LOL. I really had to prepare myself mentally to do the shots in this video.
I LOVE broccoli greens and they are great mixed with collard greens. I cook mine in the Instapot. Add a cup of water to the pot, fill er' up with greens seasoned with what you like. I use salt, garlic, onion powder and a drizzle of olive oil, then set time for 12 minutes. When finished, do q quick release and your done!
Oh! I have an Instant Pot! What a great idea! I usually sauté them or boil them, but they always take longer than whatever else they're paired with, since they're tougher. The Instant Pot would fix that! And that recipe sounds heavenly!
@@ReSprout Yeah, the IP is a HUGE timesaver when cooking greens. My wife and I grow a lot of our own food and eat collard greens almost daily, like taking a vitamin. So we put up a TON of them in the freezer. In order to save time cooking them, I tried the IP and was amazed how wonderful they cooked them.
@@DanScottChannel Have you tried dehydrating them? That's my new favorite way to preserve greens! Since I almost always end up throwing them in soups or boiled dishes anyways, it really works out. Saves lots of freezer space. Using the the Instant Pot would make all of those faster though. I have a 2 gallon bucket of dehydrated broccoli leaves from last year. I just toss a handful into whatever I'm making!
@@ReSprout No I haven't but I do have an Excalibur dehydrator, so I'll also try this as well. Thanks!
@@DanScottChannel That's what I have-that thing is a BEAST!
Please show how you prepare the beds... fertiliser used etc details...
Nice videos. Which zone you are in ?
I'm in 7A on Long Island, NY. I suppose I should put that on my videos. You're not the first person to ask, haha! I will put that video idea in the cue. I'll definitely be doing some prep work in the spring, so maybe soon!
@@ReSprout thank you !
Great Ideas :
*Growing Vegetables on Suburban Property
*Cooking with Broccoli leaves
*Growing Broccoli at Home
How to compete with the Broccoli Plantations?
Thank you for sharing informative videos!
LOL, no, I cannot compete with broccoli plantations. This is all for me. 😉
Video shows a compost bin lid with a wire mesh. What is the mesh for?
Animals! I have all sorts of animals in my area who LOOOOOOOVE compost. 😳
Do you have to wait for full broccoli heads before you harvest the leaves? I’m wondering the healthiest way to keep the growth but also use the leaves since there are so many
Nope, you can harvest any time! Just make sure to leave 2/3 of the leaves so it can continue to grow.
When is the best time to spray the BT?? Morning or night? Trying to protect my other plants and pollenators
Hi Vern, I don't think any particular time is better to combat "drift." I would just watch your wind forecast if you want to keep it isolated to one area. If your weather app doesn't show wind speed, there's a lot of great boating apps that do, since wind is VERY important if you kayak or sail.
Wtf you should get more views!! Good content!!
Let's go! Bring 'em on! 😀
Eat them !YES!
They were very tasty! 😉
Simple dishsoap and water in a spray bottle will get the larva off the leaves. And no chemicals left over.
I like simple!!
Luckily my brocolli leaves are so beautiful.I am blanching right now and save them in my freezer. They are so delicious 😋.
Right?! I just took them to Christmas dinner for a "caesar salad" and no one was the wiser. Everyone thought it was kale. Shhhh! ;-)
Get like 2 to 3 runnerducks. Theyre awesome at eating bugs. But wont rely touch your greens. Theyre also quiet, dont require a pond and dont fly.
Oh I would love that! My town (and the insane amount of pedestrians and cars that pass my front yard) maybe not so much. 😉
Are the leaves edible without cooking?
Yes! I eat them raw all the time. Just prepare the same way you would raw kale.
Dill😊lots of dill😊
I love dill! Can never get enough!
Pookie dokie
Dimatreacous earth
Yes, I'm gonna try that this year!
I need them in Detroit
Let’s go Detroit!
@@ReSprout its fucked up here in Detroit but we do need them for sale here in Michigan in fruit veggie markets i need them for my diet
@ Yeah no way are you gonna get broccoli leaves for sale-everyone thinks they're trash! I've never seen them for sale, even attached to the darn broccoli at farmers markets. Do you have a farmers market near you? A lot of farms have days where they allow people to come and pickup "waste" vegetables. If you ask and get a relationship with one, they might save the leaves for you, or let you come to the farm. Maybe even for free! Broccoli leaves are not really a sellable item. I'm sure the farmers compost them and use them that way, but if you volunteer to stop by, or maybe volunteer to harvest, they would likely let you take whole bins of them home for free!
@@ReSprout i need them for my green smoothies
@@ReSprout we have mostly a downtown eastern market in Detroit
I slap those flying moths with a broom. I split the moth worms in two pieces. I add the moth and worm to my compost. They give back what they took from me. 😂
OMG my neighbors already think I'm nuts. I think if I started running around my yard waving a broom in the air the police would finally show up. 😂😂
butterfly net works great
NEEM oil!
Plant onions around the plant.
I love onions! Got a whole bed this year!
Dish detergent mixed with water spray away bugs
Some of the clips show extensive damage from the 'worm'. I dont mind the holes but my 'worms' crap all over the leaves - small soft black balls. That is definitely a turn off!
Yeah definitely! Totally agree. A triple-wash in a sink full of water should take care of that.
Wood ash keeps the Slugs away
Thanks for sharing! Do you apply to the leaves or around the plant?
@@ReSprout both rinse lightly.
Better use natural pesticides like NEEM (Azadirachta) Good for pollinators and environment.
I just cut the leaves
That definitely works!
Video shows fine spray mist of bacteria spores. Not sure I would like to breath that into my lungs
Hi David, I suppose you can always wear a mask if you want. Probably watch the wind on the day you spray too.
I have beautiful leaves but NO flowerrtes!
Hi LaVonna, you might need more sun! Or patience, too. Every year, I swear I'll never get florets because they take so long and then they all pop out all at once unexpectedly, overnight it seems.
you have such a bad worm problem....all leaves are infested, try wood ash for organic worm control
They are the bane of my existence!
Just so everyone knows collard greens And broccoli greens Are delicious. Brussel Sprout greens, not so much. They're too pungent. I won't. be including them in my greens mix anymore.
In fact, I probably won't even grow them Anymore, They take up too much valuable real estate in the garden. and I don't really like Brussels sprouts all that much And I definitely don't like Brussel Sprout. greens.
I haven’t grown Brussels sprouts for the same reason - they’re big! But also the hubs hates them so I’d be setting myself up for cooking issues if I suddenly harvest 5 lbs of them. 😬