Thank you for your vidio. I survive in South Africa on a 1100 m2 sub tropical coastal propperty with a beach cottage on it. 10 rabbits, 10 chickens, 7 bee hives, 100 banana trees, 1 peach tree, 1 orange tree, 30 casava trees, 2 cherry guava trees, 3 katobwa grape vines, 2 passion frute vines, 5 pawpaw trees, 3 rows of 20 metre shugarcane, 100 strawberry plants in boxes, sweet potatoes as a ground cover and a small kitchen garden. Rain water 30,000 litres storage and 5 kw 48 volt solar with a 5 kw L-iorn battery and 2kw solar pannels. We get summer rain of +- 1000 mm and winter rain of 100 mm. p/ year. My sweet potato leaves and roots must be used for rabbits and for my self. I also use panana leaves and saplings for my rabbits. I have my rabbits in a rabbitary. My chickens is limited to their chicken run and a grass drive way of +- 30 x 4 meters. We all eat bananas including my dog. I do make shugar from the s/cane and wine and vinigar from the extra banana's and grapes. I hope this informaton can help someone to survive off grid.
I admires you and your family. I have a garden in Florida we eat a lot of things from it. Have a lot herbs for teas, bananas, cassava, mangoes, sugar cane, avocados, moringa, papayas, Gandules, but also peppers, brassicas, turmeric and ginger. I know is a quite of work you have there. I use to tell my husband that I felt I was a soul from 1800th. Until I started listing others doing more that me. 😂
I’m in Florida and have had a Moringa tree wherever I’ve lived here for the past 10 years but this year maybe because of the drought we’re in, my tree is dormant. I’m soooo sad!! I’ve been thinking of restarting by cutting off one of its limbs and planting it. I’m glad you’re getting the word out there, cuttings work very well for me. I’ll try seeds though for new plants.
Cassava recipe. Peel a pound or two of cassave. Open a can of coconut cream milk pour it into a large pot with trimmed cassava root, a little salt, and boil or steam it off until the coco milk has largely evaporated leaving behind a sweet condensed milk cream on the root.
Look up for a “Yuca al mojo” recipe, you won’t regret it. This is how we eat it all over the Caribbean. Also you can make cassava bread and use it as a gluten free bread or tortilla alternative.
Hi, everyone! I have a lot of yuca, I do make pasteles with them, you can even freeze them raw and cook them whenever you want. Now, that anyone can tell me how I do flour from the yuca. I make a lot homemade bread!!! 😊 please.
There are two kinds of cassava, what we call white doesn’t have the red part in the leaves and it’s softer to cook than the one with red stems in the leaves. We uses this last ones to make pasteles, similar to tamales, we use green bananas and squash for the dough.
OUTSTANDING VIDEO!!! You have a new Native Floridian Fan here!! I actually already have 3 Moringa trees in pots that I need to transplant soon! I will be looking for the other 2 plants to start growing as well! Again, great video and THANK YOU!!
we add moringa leaves whenever we cook shrimp, crab, or lobster in Sri Lankan cuisine. Also, moringa leaves are fried with grated coconut as a side dish to eat with rice. make coconut milk curry using the big seed pods. "murunga curry"
Youngest leaves of cassava boiled for 5 minutes as per chaya are fine to consume. I like the idea of making a quick growing attractive temporary fence by planting branches in a cross cross pattern.
I have moringa growing in my SoFla 10a garden. I live at the southern tip of Lake Okeechobee in Belle Glade. Our soil is known as “the muck” and is very fertile and rich. I’m hoping to find Cassava and Chaya. This year I’m growing sweet potatoes all year. The leaves and tubers are edible raw and cooked.
Sweet potatoes are a great one, got several videos on them. I have the cuttings for them available for mail from my site if need be but search for local permaculture nurseries. They usually have them.
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Another great video! I've been gardening for a few years and even though you don't know it, you've been there every step of the way! My best to you and your growing family.
Moringa, I have 2 big trees of it and it’s kind of giants now so I keep pruning it so my other tropical fruit trees won’t be competing in productions. I just cut so many cuttings and gave them away in a 1 gallon pots, neighbors and friends! ❤️🤗
@@apteryx7080 I never did, I still do old ways our grandfather teach us. Any banana peels soak in a bucket for a day is what I used as fertilizer and it works!❤️🤗
Port st Lucie here. I have Chaya and Moringa trees. No cassava. Will try it. I'd add longevity spinach to the list (perennial). Grows like a weed anywhere, propagated with cuttings just stuck in the sand. Super nutritious. Nice video. Thank you
@@Anne--Marie Longevity spinach (Gynura procumbens) is a popular vegetable grown in the tropics. While regular spinach is best grown in colder climates and has a tendency to bolt in the heat, longevity spinach is perennial in warmer climates. It is a common cooking and medicinal ingredient throughout Southeastern Asia.
Yuca is a staple crop in the Caribbean including other staple crops of the Caribbean such as Breadfruit, Plantains, Bananas, Malanga and Yautía roots. I live in Lakeland 9b/10a and all of these roots and tropical food staples from my island are growing really well. I also have two coconuts growing in my yard since we consume LOTS of coconut in Puerto Rican cuisine. One was brought from Puerto Rico and the other one was bought at Home Depot in Mulberry, FL. This past winter the coconut brought from Puerto Rico managed to survive really well. The other one was bought later but also managed to survive nights of 50*f degrees. Surprisingly, the weather here in Lakeland is similar to the weather in the mountainous regions of Puerto Rico (which probably explains why it survived cold nights since I got it from the mountain in PR). I also have pidgeon peas which is another staple in Puerto Rico. I have a tree but it hasn’t produced yet. Hopefully I will have some beans 🫘 this year.
what is yautia root?! i havent heard of that one yet. thats great about the coconuts. my father in law keeps trying, they grow for a few years then we get a colder than normal winter and it dies. hope yours make it!
@@TheUrbanHarvest Yautía is a root that you can eat. The plant grows like an elephant ear and once it’s huge enough it’s ready for reaping. It’s a Caribbean staple also since it comes from our indigenous peoples.
@@TheUrbanHarvest I have found another name for this root which I didn’t know. It’s called Taro root, but in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 we know it by Yautía (Native Taíno word)
I am in Port St John, no far from you! I have almost everything of those. Where you found plantain around here? I have a lots of plants to make teas. Mint, marjoram, cilantro, onions grow fantastic here, from seeds, parsley, thyme, ginger and turmeric. Good to hear there are other people growing stuff. So Healthy!!
Thank you for the very informative video. As a newer Florida resident, I've seen these plants mentioned in other places but nobody says anything about HOW to use them. Now how about a few cooking videos? 😉😁
Awesome, I have all three! And, now that you mention it, they are the most productive plants in my garden! Thanks for the info on cooking the cassava, sounds delicious!
We like to joke in the event of the zombie apocalypse when people raid others for food, we will invite the marauders over for chaya salad... and be rid of them. lol
I grew up in the Philippines and these plants are good food! I'm in FL now will check out these plants in the nurseries hope they have them. Thanks for sharing.
🤗 I'm doing good I already have them all! I love this video, very informative! Definitely on my referral list! Florida is my home too! Plant, grow, eat, share, be merry & grateful 🌻
When I lived in Tampa I grew all three and they thrived. I moved sixty miles north and all three die back in the winter and are much smaller in the colder environment.
find a microclimate and they will probably do better for you. south side of your house closer to the house for warmth, under the canopy of a large tree, etc.
@@TheUrbanHarvest great video - i live about 60 miles north of tampa too and could plant them next to house (we do get a slight freeze on avg once a year) but worried that these would attract rats. We have a small yard.
That was a great video Elise! I have all three plants growing here. But I learned a little bit more about what to do with them! Thank you! I have four Moringas which is probably a little more than I need but gosh it's such an amazing plant. And I use all of my trimmings in my dry compost tea..Feel secure to have it! I made flower essence out of my Moringa last month. One of my trees was in abundant full full bloom. I picked the flowers I let them bathe in sunlight and purified water and I actually went through the evening with a full moon. Strained it and then did a 50-50 brandy tincture, in a spray bottle. It just sends a great vibe and feels wonderful to spray on the body. So grateful for all of your knowledge!
Great vid! I am in 10a sw florida--tried yuca over the summer with no luck but will try again in Spring. Regularly use chaya in crock pot soups--they cook on low heat overnight and this removes the cyanide. Have moringa seeds I haven't planted yet! I would add a 4th crop--sweet potatoes--easy and perennial!
@@cliveburgess4128 I put most of mine in containers and let the vines go up a fence--and for pests I used some neem oil here and there--I had lots of basil nearby too which might have helped.
Yuca ? you have no idea how good yuca is, but not to worry, I'll give you the name of some dishes that include yuca or make yuca the primary ingredient an if you are in Miami you could probably find them in latin restaurants. 1 Moho con yuca y chicharrones 2 Vigorón: yuca, chicharrones and cabbage,tomato and bitter orange juice salad. 3 Baho or tapado: meat yuca green plantains, ripe plantains and the salad of vigorón cook with spices and other vegetables. 4 Chancho con yuca: pork meat cooked, yuca and cabbage salad. 5 Yuca frita: boiled yuca that is later deep fried. Enjoy. Yuca is very productive, in my experience I have used every part of the plant for cuttings, and you can cut them very small like 2 or 3 inches and you will get a new plant, but first leave them in a shaded area until you see the sprouts coming out, then loosen the ground and place them. Keep the soil moist and you will have good size roots that are contained around the bush attached to it. Star checking root size when the plant is about 5 feet high, but depends on how loose and wet the soil was When cooking remove not only the brown outer skin, but also the thicker white layer under it or it'll taste bitter when cooked.
After the skins of cassava are peeled off, the root should be soaked in water for several hours, the it can be steamed (longer time) or boiled. Eat the cooked cassava with little bit salt + chopped peanut. It is delicious.
I highly recommend okinawa Spinach AKA the tomorrow leaves because tomorrow it will Have a new leaf. Little to no pests,Grows so easy and fast don't need to water once it gets established. It also propagates extremely fast from cuttings so you can give them to all your friends and family. It has a broad leaf that is juicy taste good and fills you up and has a nice crunch to it.
Yes you are right. It’s a great vegetable. One that thrives on neglect and is so bountiful and healthy. Where I live it does back somewhat in winter. There is a relative we call Sambung which is a similar vegetable but powers on through the winter. It actually grows better for me than Okinawa Spinach. It doesn’t have purple underneath the leaf. Lots of health benefits - good for controlling blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure and cancer.
Chaya in scrambled eggs or in an omelet is excellent. Also good in stir frys and fried rice. Been told to boil it for no less than 20min tho. Has more protien than spinach and no watery taste like spinach can have. Started w one plant, now I have forty !
Just found you as a suggested video. Gonna plant these even though i only have less than half an acre 😕. But I figure, its better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them. Just subscribed. Have a great day! Zone 9b here. Central Florida.
Great tips for growing the correct plant for the climate conditions in Florida. Would like to grow Cassava. It is also a staple in central America. Can I grow from roots bought at the market? Not sure where to get cuttings. Thank you for timely info. Dean, Central Florida East coast
I have Moringa and beetles are eating the leaves. 😮💨 it grows fast but at the same time leaves get yellow and they all drop. So I have a 8 ft skinny truck with a bush at the top
cut it and plant the cuttings. they will grow, even the really thick ones. plant them several nodes deep. then you'll have several trees, cutting them will force sideways growth so you'll get more branches, even from the parent tree. yellow leaves usually means it needs a little nitrogen. give it a little patience and you'll have several beautiful trees.
Hi Elise I just found you and subbed! I'm in Pasco County 9B. Just started planting and I have all of these in pots. Some of the tropicals I collected I'm putting in bigger pots for the winter (mangoes, plinias, etc) but I'm about to plant the moringa, chaya and yuca. How about the planting with and without tree canopy, do you address that in your work? I have a lot of open space but I'm concerned about the cold snaps, not worried about the chaya but more the moringa and yuca. BTW for other viewers, the yuca makes a great potato substitute for soup, if you're avoiding nightshades. Thanks!
Yuca really prefers sun but can take some partial shade. The chaya is completely flexible and will take a considerable amount of shade though it will be a bit slower growing in shade. The moringa will grow just about anywhere but I find its a lot more spindly looking in the shade.
I'm also in Pasco County (East side) and would love to get some cuttings from you to start my crop, if possible? I am a Retired Police Officer from this side of the County!
I'm curious who was crying or squealing near the end of the video ? LoL &thanks for sharing your Florida gardening wisdoms. I am ok with gardening and growing a decent amount of food in the north but in Florida I had no luck. Almost everything I tried to grow either drowned or got eaten by wildlife/buglife. So many different kinds of fruit trees I grew from seed and beautiful melons. Bugs and wildlife always beat me too it. I'm not giving up yet. Also what is your best solutions for not getting eaten also. I have got some pretty nasty wounds from what I'm pretty sure was a spider. It was real bad. Thanks again for sharing your wisdom.
Hi, thank you for the videos. Just moved to Naples, the soil here is only sand. I love gardening. I started with Avocados but they are dying due to the flood we had. Do you know how can I save them? Thanks
Thank you for the info. I am growing Yuca for the first time, but I haven't been able to grow Moringa yet. The seeds won't germinate. Any suggestions or recommendations? I'm in FL zone 9b.
Chaya, a.k.a. Mexican Tree Spinach is delicious in scrambled eggs. I boil it first in a glass pan, then add it to the eggs. Aluminum pans are no good to use with this plant for some reason.
What a wonderful video.I wish I could find cuttings of these crops to plant in my backyard.And God bless bless your baby which wanted his/her mama atention .
Love your videos. I am attempting to grow asparagus in grow bags. They have been growing about a year. They have ferns and seeds? My question is when or if I trim them back here in South Florida.
They wont form the traditional stalks here, we are too warm especially in south Florida. Very north Florida has a shot. You will likely only get the ferns without stems.
What part of Florida are you in? I'm in zone 8b in north Florida (Gilchrist County) and my Morninga tree froze back and never came back out afterwards. Interesting video. Thanks.
Hi. Is it possible to get yuca from the actual yuca? By, planting the yuca in the ground or is it only by the cuttings? Thank you for your amazing videos?
The stuff you get at a store is already coated in wax. I'm not aware of being able to but could be wrong. Its a pretty resilient plant and will grow if you give it the slightest opportunity.
I heard it's possible and that sometimes the roots bought from markets would sprout while on the kitchen counter, just like sweet potatoes. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try, you might actually get lucky with it.
I just watched your April video on the Greenstalk. I have two of the original. When I water from the top without covering the hole there the watch rushed through fast so I hold one finger over the hole. Is that what you do or cover it with something. I live in a northern region so they are just sitting for the winter.
the greenstalks have little "catch trays" for each tier which fill up then slowly trickle the water into the soil. If you fill it up to the line your plants should be getting all the water they need even if some comes out the bottom. That being said if you think there is something else going on you can reach out to their support, they have always been super helpful if I had questions.
Are they shade tolerant? Can you put the sticks and seeds in a pot and transplant later or should they go straight into the ground? Is zone 9b Dixie county ok for them? Thanks!
I'm also in Dixie County which is , I believe , Zone 8b and in a previous inquiry she recommended growing them in pots and bringing them inside in the winter . I know it gets much colder here at times than I thought it would and some of my outside plants really suffer ; banana plant etc. I really want to grow Moringa here so I might try growing it on the south side of my property , give it lots of mulch , possibly planting where it will be partially shaded from a big Oak tree , covering it while it's still small during a cold snap and pray.
@@pamelab4419 Ops! That was a typo on my part: Dixie is 8b as you posted! Since my previous post I started moringa seeds in pots and transplanted to the west side of my property: that side has a warmer microclimate than the east side… I’ll post an update next spring… I did find a channel that is about 30 miles north from us that stated her moringas die down in the winter but come back strong in the spring… had some leaves in a salad and they tasted good so it’s worth the effort! Good Luck!
