Sweet potatoes are "the ultimate emergency food". In this video we show how to harvest the parts of the sweet potatoes that grow above ground to produce a constant stream of high-quality food during the hot Summer months.
Thank you for this video, it is literally the ONLY one I found on the complete edibility of the leaves and stem. Everyone is just talking about the leaf so this was great information.
Wonderful video, thank you. It made me realize I've been doing it right like cooking the leaves and starting new plants from rooted cuttings. The leaves and sprouts are good with garlic, onions and fish sauce.
You are welcome. Glad that you found it informational. We have sweet potatoes sprouted in the ground by themselves this year. Should be able to do a video on how to cook sweet potato leaves soon.
This video was excellent. I recently discovered you could eat the leaves but didn't really know how to harvest them. I watched several videos but yours is the absolute best for me. Thanks for all the helpful tips.
I love Vietnam food. Interesting, I never saw sweet potato leaves in the Vietnam restaurant dishes. Maybe it is because I only had American Vietnam food. 😂
Really cool video. Just looked up after I planted some old sweet potatoes from the kitchen and they started growing like crazy. Only recently understood that the leaves are edible.
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THIS WORKS with sweet potato leaves or moringa leaves : Cook field peas in a pressure cooker remove from heat and let cool a little > turn them into gravy with a commercial stick blender > add RAW sweet potato or fresh (or frozen RAW moringa leaves) > use the stick blender to fine grind the leaves into the gravy > grate fresh ginger over the gravy and eat >>>you will feel very strong and energetic !!!
I can image that they like them. When I grew up, the farmers would collect the vines and chopped them up. They would then cook them with other feeds for the pigs. Not sure if they are still doing it. The white juice coming out of the vine actually have starch and sugar in them.
Thank you for your video. this is really useful. can you let me know the differences between trimming the leaves and not trimming the leaves? would trimming the leaves affect the growths of the sweet potatoe? I love eating potatoes leaves, too! this is such a good idea
I did an experiment comparing two plants. The one that I trimmed the leaves gave me some small tubers but the one I did not gave me none. The garden was first year with native soil so the soil was not that great. Now that the soil is conditioned enough, I may do another experiment next year.
@East x West Farms yes I'm in South Africa. We are on our way to winter now. In the spring and summer, the weather is 35°/45° Degree Celsius. I will definitely try the stems out tonight. Will try and stir fry them.🥰
Wow thank you so much for taking the time to make this the short, clear and comprehensive video . I am saving this and will watch it again now before I go harvest leaves ! I am subscribed to your channel , I am only subscribed to a couple of gardening channels that have been so helpful 👌👌👌I hope you will make these videos for a long time to come. From deep in the heart of a fellow grower who grows what she eats and eats what she grows thank you so much sister! 🤗❤️
This is awesome. My understanding is that sweet potatoes are native to Central and South America. Even so sweet potato leaves as food is almost completely unknown in the United States. We grow them here as drought resistant landscaping plants but nobody eats them.
@@EastxWestFarms Sweet potato plentiful in Malaysia, both tubers and leaves. Very easy to grow, just bury tubers in soil, in few weeks you will have abundant supply of leaves and eat them till you get tired! Haha! My sweet potato leaves are grown from tubers that I bough at market.
This was very helpful! Thank you for all of your tips and suggestions. I did not know about the white substance turning black. I don't need black fingernails 😄
what a great video ... thank you so much for sharing all of this info ... i wished you make a video to show us how you cook too but i guess that ll be too much to ask for ... thank you again for sharing :)
Thank you. Yes, I plan to make cooking videos but our outdoor kitchen has been delayed. Now that the weather is warm, I hope I can finish it in a month or so.
Never tried eating them raw. Here is what one website says “The greens are edible raw, but are a bit strong in flavor”. If you do not like sauté, blanch it might also work.
Hello, I’m a new subscriber. I enjoyed your video. I have never tried eating the leaves or the stems. I must try them soon. I have some sweet potatoes that are currently vining. 😊🌱
East x West Farms I am growing Japanese sweet potatoes in some garden bags...I hope I get tubers. I’m going to try the leaves this weekend. Thank you again for the information.😊🌱
Thank you! I harvested my leaves today and was wondering about the stems. This is great, it really increases the volume of the harvest! I am going to try growing some greens hydroponically (Kratky style) from the stems. This would expand the variety of vegetables we can grow inside during winter (we get a lot of winter sun).
@@EastxWestFarms I'm planting sweet potatoes today, we going into winter here in Durban, South Africa but our winters aren't too cold so hope they'll still grow well, thanks again
Wow, I am going to have to plant me some sweet Potatoes. There is some much that you can use off the plant. When you cook up the vines and peppers and the meat can you make a video of that? Thanks Haiying and Chris for the great videos.
Lyle Z we’ll do some cooking soon. The plan was to do it all in one video but the we realized we have not published a video in a while. With the outdoor kitchen operational, cooking has become a lot easier.
Thank you for the video. I'm growing I thinks it's called Japanese sweet potato? It's kinda purple potato. I eat the leaves with fish. And my chameleon loves the leaves too.
I would not worry about it. Surprisingly I do not see any bugs that eat sweet potato leaves. Some times a heavy rain will damage the leaves but rarely from bugs.
Here is a cooking video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pL0do7XRqNk.html. You can sauté the leaves like other leaf greens and cook the stems in stir fried dishes. I usually do not cook with a recipe.
I had some when they were flowering and I did not taste any differences. The same goes with different varieties. I had at least three different varieties and they all tasted the same.
Hello! Thank you for the great video. The patch that you didn't harvest the leaf, do you get more potatoes? I'm very greedy, I would like both the leafs and potatoes. But I'm not sure if van
Thank you very much for your time and video. It's very informative, however, l want to clarify if the vines grow 1-2 feet per day or 1-2 inches per day.
Thank you. We have not harvested the sweet potatoes that we cut the leaves yet. Here in Texas, the summer is too hot so the plants go into about two months of summer hibernation. If the sweet potato was planted too late in spring or from cuttings, we may not get sweet potatoes at all. Most time we will wait until the first Frost to harvest the sweet potatoes so they can get as much growth as possible.
@@SaphsContainerGarden here are the results: the one I did not cut does not have any sweet potatoes. The one I cut several times has a few small potatoes. Both of them were from cuttings and the soil was pretty bad. Consider all other variations, it is safe to say that the cutting did not hurt the tuber production; it might have helped. I will do a similar experiment on slips next year and see if I have different results.
So happy I found this video, my sweet potatoes are about to be harvested and I fixed my first leaves for supper last night. Details please on how you prepare the leaf stems to eat, I was wondering about fermenting them since they may not turn to mush. Any help will be appreciated.
Lightly sauté with crashed garlic. 1) put some oil in a pan, add crashed garlic; 2) wait until the garlic is light brown, then add sweep potato leaves; 3) switch the heat off after the leaves get slightly withered, add a pitch of salt or some fish sauce. 4) it is done, enjoyed it. The entire cooking should take just a few minutes.
@@EastxWestFarms I generally save some of this after it's cooked and I add it to omelettes or frittatas, just like spinach. Great informative video! Liked and subscribed!
Hi Rose, the easiest way is to stir fry the leaves with a little olive oil and a dash of salt. We have a quick demo here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_rienTSmsMk.html
Hi Rick, I don't really see a difference between the wines I cut and the ones I let grow. Maybe the cut branches send out more branches and the uncut ones grow longer in a straight line. I'd say the leaves are just about the same either way.
Yes, you can harvest the leaves while the tubers are growing. You want to make sure the sweet potato has enough leaves to grow. Usually this is not a problem because sweet potatoes grow vigorously.
Lightly sauté the greens and cook the stems like carrot or daikon javelins. Here is a cooking video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pL0do7XRqNk.htmlsi=WP-1DzRBMOqJTwwA
Hi just came across your channel, thank you. Just wanted to know, my sweet leaves are purple and green, the vine is purple and the back of the leaves is light purple, and the top is green. This from the orange sweet potato. Is that okay to eat. Yours look all green. Thanks
Hi Cynthia, I see purple sweet potato leave as landscaping plant in Dallas but we never tried them. I assume they are just like green sweet potato leaves but I don’t know. A bit if googling leads me to this academic study by a group of researchers in Taiwan. They investigate the effect of PSPL (purple sweet potato leaves) on the human immune response. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4479675/
