How to Grow More KangKong than You Can Eat in Soil | Water Spinach
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- John from www.growingyour... shows you how you can grow more KangKong aka Water Spinach aka Ong Choy aka Ipomoea Aquatica than you can eat in Soil.
In this episode, you will learn more about the easiest to grow vegetables - Chinese Water Spinach that grows easily from cuttings you can buy at an Asian market.
You will learn why growing this vegetable is illegal to grow in some states, and how the USDA classifies it as a Noxious Weed. You will learn how this leafy green vegetable can fetch up to $20 a pound, due to its legal status.
You will discover some of the finer growing techniques of growing water spinach so you can double its zinc content, and increase other minerals in the plant by simply inoculating your roots with mycorrhizae.
You will learn how John easy roots cuttings or shoots of the water spinach that he purchased at the grocery store so he can grow more water spinach without having to buy seeds or starter plants.
You will learn the temperature required to grow water spinach. This is truly a heat-loving plant and does not appreciate temperatures below 65 degrees.
You will discover some of the nutritional benefits of eating the water spinach and why you may not want to cook this nutritious vegetable. You will discover how John prefers to eat this vegetable.
You will learn how much to water the water spinach and the temperature variation of a concrete block wall and the water spinach leaves and how the plant is able to keep itself cool in the hot summer.
You will learn 3 different methods for growing water spinach and why each method may be beneficial for you, depending on your specific situation.
After watching this episode, you will learn more about one of the easiest to grow vegetables in existence and how to have an endless supply of this delicious leafy green all summer long.
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We always put kangkong/water spinach in beef sinigang, adobong kangkong, stir-fry kangkong. Yummy 😋
Hey John, I am in SoCal. I bought this OngChoy or Kangkong in Asian supermarket. I saved the cutting and grow them in water first for a week until the stems grow a little roots. I planted them in a 12 inch pot spaced about 2 inches apart. The first harvest took around 5 weeks then every 3 weeks thereafter. I harvested 3 times so far from the original cuttings. It's very easy to grow. Just fertilize the soil after harvesting and water everyday.
I have not been successful when transferring “kangkong” to soil
@@pbfloyd9b Make sure you have roots growing from the stem cutting already. Depending on where you live, you may want to wait until the weather is warm enough. Btw, i used pots. They are easier to managed. Good luck.
@@konde888 Thanks for your reply. I’m in zone 7 and yes I waited until there are roots coming out before I transferred them. I will try again this summer
I live in Danang, Vietnam. The maids were cleaning and saw the TV and went crazy. I told them you are growing it in Las Vegas. They think its cool that Americans were interested and growing it. It grows everywhere here and at the public market, its costs less than $0.25/lb. It is a veggie and also a medicine that is widely used in many situations.
What do you use it for medicinally? I am interested in this
@@TopTropicals Ì you need ion for your blood, these have lots of ion.
@@amyhoang9140 Awesome! Thanks ;)
Thank you for the video, in Africa we like it a lot! When I arrived in the USA, I was so happy to find them in all the asian stores, and I also grew them in my back yard.
Nice
Love it when you feature one plant so thoroughly!!👍
hi ... i live in japan. because of your videos i am also growing my own veggies... water spinach also is one of them. Thank you 🥰
It is delicious. We eat it all the time in Taiwan. It is called Kong Qing Tsai. A little garlic, olive oil, and salt, less than 10 minutes on the stove top and voila. I have been eating it for 7 years. It tastes “softer” than spinach. The USDA is part of the establishment and therefore suspect.
Nice recipe I usually eat it raw but I will try this.... It is softer than spinach and it helps me sleep.
yummy definitely a must eat dish in TW
I found Water Spinach a few years ago. It is legal in my state. I love it. When I eat it my skin feels softer I sleep when I normally don't. It makes me feel better. I just took a bunch of cuttings indoors since it will not stand a hard frost. I bought hundreds of seeds freely on Amazon and Ebay. I have no problems at all.... It was under 60 degrees last night and I have some still alive..... I really does grow like a WEED.... It will grow in water.... Try it. Nice video...
It's illegal in some countries since it's an expansive plant that may destroy other native plants.
@@djimanufacture7682 I know that.
same results here❤
Growing this from seed this year. Excited to eat them in the summer! ❤🙏
Kangkung is one our fav veg here... greetings from Indonesia..
It grows super easily from cuttings if you can get it from your market. Just as many other plants can be grown from cuttings or roots. It actually is difficult to keep alive in CA if you do not water it. It is delicious though. If the season is long enough, mine do eventually produce flowers and seed. I do not get seed every year, especially if I am harvesting heavily. But the seeds seem to stay viable for awhile.
I've been trying to grow plants that are healthy and easy to grow in Hawaii. Ong Choy, Longevity Spinach, Marunga, and Okra have done well for me. Now to get the kids to eat it...😂
Delicious raw recipe!!! Water spinach leaves, okra wrapped in nori sushi sheet. Spread miso on wrap. Mmmm, so fricking good!!! Miso, okra, water spinach. Try it!!!
It's so good John! Water Spinach aka Morning glory spinach aka kangkong.
The salty umami from the miso, and the yumminess from the okra and water spinach. Yooooooo!!!
I will try this, thank you!!
Thanx John Longtime fan!
Can we win your juicer?
I checked and it can be grown here in California....
Basically, at this point, anything can grow there.😆😂
I went to the Asian store bought some in a plastic and planted it in a container. 2 years later it’s still doing great :)
A lot of the Filipinos is Cali grow Kangkong in their backyards, actually.
Sometimes John gets a bit carried away. It can be bought all over too.
Anything will grow in California.
Kang Kong is good when cooked with Sambal, its a common dish around the Singapore region. I wanna grow this but i heard its hard to grow them in pots and they are pretty thirsty so a water based planting will be the best idea. They are known to grow near drains because like i say, they like water very much.
Hahaha exactly, these guys are longkang plants. I see them grow like crazy around drains and canals.
I am in Singapore, and I grow them in containers/planters and they are not difficult - just need to water daily, and sometimes twice daily if it is hot.
Thanks for another awsame video
Always nice watching heaven on earth with John!
Thank you John for the tips. I bought seeds to grow but it took a long time to grow them. I wanna try your method and hopefully I still have enough time and experience a harvest before it get cold here in BC.
In the Philippines, we quick steam kangkong and eat with soy sauce and calamansi.
We dont like eat it raw because it has a lot of sap.
Sweet potato tops/leaves (Ipomea batatas) specially the purple ones are good raw (or steamed too).
I love kangkong.I need to have this in my turtles pond
Here in the UK they seem perfectly fine getting seeds online or growing it. This will be first year growing it from seed. So far the seedlings are about 3 inches tall, just hope they can survive leaving the greenhouse and growing in the UK summer.
I remember when I was in school and I was called an obnoxious weed........good times!!😀
I want to root some from the grocery store, Do i have to cut off all the leaves before sprouting in water?
hiiiiiii i love your videos:))))) do you take any vitamins or supplements ????
Pickled Ong choy stems Filipino style is delicious!
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Hi John, how do you get rid of bugs? I watched your video using Boogie Brew Neem Oil, is it safe on Kangkong?
Great job 🏞️
It takes only 20 days before you can harvest it. It is also a SUPERFOOD packed with vit c magnesium electrolyte and many more.
Is this plant actually part of the spinach family? Or just a discriptive name? I ask because I'm allergic to spinach but I love it, so always looking for non cultivar similars
totally unrelated. In asia many greens are called "spinach" if they are an edible leafy green.
@@growingyourgreensinespanol6584 thank you,! I figured . now I just have to get some cuttings
ipomoea aquatica or kang kung is a water morning glory
@@growingyourgreensinespanol6584 Since Asians call it kang kong or ong choy and spinach is an English word it'd be more accurate to say Americans call many Asian greens spinach if they are an edible leafy green.
It’s actually more closely related to sweet potato
What type of soil do you grow it in? (what mixes)
Cool juice
Hey John, your videos are fucking awesome!
This is what King-Kong eats, a super food called Kang-Kong....now you know.
😂😂
👋 Hi! Are you selling those Kangkong? I want some. I want to buy some stalks. That is so easy to plant in water 💦. I am here in California. Thanks 🙏
Thank you!
Zinc helps fight infections. It boosts immunity.
Wow nice
Johnson seeds sells packets in my local store.
Could it be planted in zone 7b (nc)?
Are you located in Las Vegas? Do you sell seedlings/small plants?
where can I buy the seeds?
Noxious weed is ridiculous to anyone who has a brain of their own. We know that because there's food shortages this would be perfect for people who want to be food self sufficient and they don't want that.
How can you tell if it’s illegal in your state?
Your state will have a government website listing plants that are banned and ones who are protected. A .gov site.
It's illegal since water spinach is an expansive plant that may destroy other native plants.
Hi John, do you sell any of your clippings to locals in Vegas?
Buy the KangKong in the Asian markets
Where can i get these in arizona?
You can also steam it but not too long. So that you can save some of the nutrients in it. Recipe for this can be found on RUclips.
When will you be selling the seeds? WINK, WINK!
Ebay
Why in the world did you move to Vegas?
In Australia your allowed to eat it in all states 😊
I friggin knew it youre from the juicer videos....
*in here I sell them for two dollars per kilogram*
You can also plant it using recycled bottle and put it inside your house with sunlight. There is a DIY on RUclips how you can do it.
USDA says it's illegal because it's a major competition to lettuce, cabbages and spinach; more so since Kangkong grows faster with zero human intervention in the poorest of environments.
Basically it will destroy the spinach-lettuce-cabbage market.
serves you right, you invade us with sweet potato, we in turn giving you kangkong. Joke aside, eat your greens and happy eating.
The seeds are on Amazon
It's considered a weed? I didn't know that. I live in the northeast USA and we can't grow that here because of the cold weather. We have to import it. This stuff is very expensive here. But it tastes SO good, my god. I would be over the moon if this "weed" were to take over my garden. 😅
I live in Southern Jersey, zone 7. I have no problem growing them from cutting. Every 2 1/2 weeks, I get to have a nice meal with this "superfood".
Why don't you let some of them grow old so that they will flower and give you seeds? They have beautiful flowers, like moring glories.
too much here in Philippines ,(kangkong/ water spenach)
i would like to add one point. Whether its legal or not, an invasive specie or not, hinges on the fact that if it has potential to affect multi million agribusiness. It comes down to if some private profiteers' businesses are hurt. It is politics and has nothing to do with nature.
All over S America, the single one country that places heavy control on border food check is Chile. Their govt models again on neoliberal economy. Big business (which benefits a small group of politically tight knitted families) calls the shot. Everywhere else in S America ppl mostly practise small and medium size farming has no equivalent border restriction both in manner of stringency and official zealotry.
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Hello, this is my simple recipe for Kangkong.
Cut kangkong with stems and leaves
Oil
5 gloves Garlic
1 medium Red Onion
5-7 Green onions
Black peppers powder
Soy sauce to taste
Stir fry and Enjoy with hot rice and fried eggs…!
You should stir fry it with a little garlic. It the tastes a bit like mushroom.
That heat is brutal. You will have to be eating cactus soon enough.
People living in the tropical countries were cringing at you.***
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It is weird why Chinese Spinach is not liked by the US. Chinese Spinach is so popular in Asia.
if your super market sells it, you can grow it. and ong choi can't be smoked! LOL
The seeds germinate at about 69 degrees.
That's sold in all asian grocery
They usually seeds in Florida
the only effect after eat kangkong is you will get sleepy.. good for someone have insomnia.
110 ? You live in Nevada or AZ
Robin Hoodlum he live in Nevada
Would be amazing to meet him some day
26:40 John does this consciously
Free Kang Kong
Kangkong got nothing on me!
u r gonna be growing veggies in pelican bay.
Marai kaget lho kowe ki Dhe..
Dude don't be surprised
Why is it illegal? If is nutritious?
I think because it grows so easily that if it gets out into the wild it can take over native plants... Or they don't want us growing easy plants that are healthy for us? Lol
Thank you for the information but you talk too much get to the point
🤔....did you say $20 per pound??........is it vole retatdent? these voles in my garden are voracious!!
I put 1/2" hardware cloth on the ground under my raised beds. Voles, Moles, and Gophers cannot get into the beds anymore.
What’s a vole?
@@1jw298 its a 🤬digging rodent that eats EVERYTHING
@@ohio_gardener Thank You for shareing and the advice😁
Man, you could say the same things in 2 min. You are repeating the same things 10 times.
Kangkung ilegal in US ? LOL 😂
That's fucking hilarious to me.
didnt need to see the biden ad......... wouldn't vote for him if they paid me.........
Then you aint black. Dog faced pony soldier. Cmon man.
C'mon man! Be nice to that dirty old man. C'mon man.
@@alicebonnet4607 lol
Screw the Feds! It's not a weed if you can eat it.