Grow Something Different to Eat | CALLALOO AMARANTH HARVEST | Florida Food Forest 

You are very inspirational. I love learning about new and interesting food to grow. Thank you! 👍🏾

She's hard working woman God Bless 🙏 you! And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.

I love the intro to this video, Dan! That rain looks so good and we know your food forest loves it! I’m like you, I’m loving growing unusual and ancestral foods. Thanks for sharing this great info.

This is my first time to grow Callaloo..I got the seeds from my sister-in law's friend in Toronto..We are all from the Philippines, living in Canada...I wasn't expecting much when I planted in a big pot in my garden..Even talking to my senior neighbours, it's like we're not interested...I transplanted maybe 12 seedlings on the ground few weeks ago and still young..My sister cook Mung beans soup and we put those Callaloo leaves..What a surprise, it was so yummy (almost similar to our chili leaves back home, not easily available in Canada)..Today, I transplant maybe 30 seedlings on the ground, for the remainder of our summer..

I’m growing this. My neighbor is from Jamaica and she told me she cooks with sautéed onion, garlic, thyme, tomato and scallion in a frying pan until slightly cooked then adds the cut up calaloo with peppers and allow it to simmer down. Sometimes add coconut milk as a part of the sauce. I made some a few nights ago with added coconut milk and it was awesome!

Thank you my brother! I am sowing my callaloo seeds as soon as I finish posting this comment.

👋🏽Hey my friend. Always nice to see what you’re gonna teach us👍🏽🎁💐

Africa is the mother land to us all . Nice harvest. We love greens. You are right we should definitely try new foods . Another Great Video. Thanks for sharing. Have a good day. #ONELOVE

You harvest a lot of callaloo. The stems looks nice and soft, and very easy to steam with some okras. One luv, let’s get together and feel alright🙏

Thanks for sharing about this plant I’ve never heard of but we live in Southern California and it’s very hot so we need plants that can deal with heat

Your callaloo is so healthy! The color is gorgeous and the leaves are so large! Awesome harvest Dan!

Thank you for sharing my friend ❤ what a beautiful harvest. Have a great day 😀 Eva

I started growing this plant 3 years ago and it comes up every year. Thank

Happy 4th of July to you and to all our American friends!

I love eating this plant and I love growing it. The callaloo that you buy in the can does this plant no justice, you have to grow it. It is easy to grow but the insects love eating this plant too. I had to start growing mine on my deck instead of in the yard.

Thank you so much for another great garden video hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy

Zinnas are BEAUTIFUL! Love the interesting items you share. Thank you so much. 😊👍🏽✌🏽

Thanks for the inspiration, Brother Dan. Nice learning more about the callaloo and seeing your amazing food forest. Peace and blessings my friend!

Been eating calaloo since i was a child, and it's still my favorite leafy green vegetable 😋 I am green with envy 😊🌱

Stay safe Dan and family!

Wow I learnt something new today. I never heard about that leafy green veg.Enjoy your weekend Dan.

Thanks, I have planted my food as we call it in Kampala, Uganda. I needed easy greens to grow...

Hope that we can take advantage of this information you provide us with. 😊

This was a good view

It is my favorite vegetable. I grow it every summer. Thank you for this.

Very nice share. You have put me on to something new as always! Thanks my friend!

I know I'm gonna see something different every video, love the channel bro

Beautiful start to the video. I try to do something different from time to time. My main crop in the summer is tomatoes, but tomatoes are really not a staple food. I just enjoy fooling with them. I love the fall garden, as here, fall allows you to grow so many other things that are closer to being a staple. Good vegetables, like the brassicas, root crops, and greens of all types. I will look into callaloo. Take care.

Kalaloo looks so fresh and healthy..We call it chaulai in india and it belong to amaranthus family

Haven't even heard of callaloo before somehow.

Thanks for the great video my friend 👍

Sounds like a really good leafy green Mr D, how would it grow in zone 8B reckon? I need to give it a try over here for sure!! Y'all have a good Thursday sir!! Dan

Thanks for sharing different food to grow. I plan to grow some callaloo. I also am growing yacom. Appreciate you sharing.

Love the way you provide the history of a lot of vegetables; particularly callalou. I see Humble Servants Homestead grow it also. Thanks for the information and God bless!

Great video share. I love amaranth tho I haven't tried the callaloo...Yet 😀 thank you for the background on it. So interesting. Beautiful harvest. flowers are beautiful too. My zinnias are growing slow this year.

Hey Dan. I’m going to try Callalloo. I never heard of those vegetable greens. Do you sell the seeds? I have learned so much from you. My sister tried my kohlrabi and she wants to grow some next year. I didn’t plant enough. Next year I will. Dan thanks for sharing your beautiful video. Blessings ❤️

Thanks for the reminder I need to harvest my callaloo. First time growing it!

The caterpillars are annihilating my amaranth. I have to plant a lot and share with the critters. Let's keep trying new things. Thank you for this message.

I like that time-lapse at the beginning. Definitely agree to try different things in the garden other than the usual veggies and fruits.

Those callaloo looks good

I love the time lapse of the weather in the beginning, The view of the Food Forest from above looks amazing, your yard is full, just covered with delicious healthy homegrown food, That was a great harvest of you Callaloo, excellent video

Sounds like a pretty versatile green. Good to hear you are not having any bug issues! I love the message, try something different!

Thanks for sharing how you harvest the callaloo. Its definitely on my list of things to grow now!

Ate it in Jamica. Loved it

I started seeds last month!!! I'm so excited

Very nice thanks for sharing cheers

We always try 3 or 4 new things each growing season, its how we have found some of our new favorite things to eat. Great video Dan. Have a great day.

I tried growing callaloo before but I don’t think that’s what I got lol. I’ll try again,I just bought more seeds while watching your video. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful weekend!🤗🌱

Love this! 👍👍👍

Enjoy, looks tasty Dan

Interesting info, I didn't know about this plant.

Pretty greens

Blessings my friend love things I cut cut and harvest again later. Great advice especially about just try growing something different. Hope your week is great

Great info...soothing intro 👌😊 Have a great day fam..

Dan you just made this make sense for me! I had seen the different versions and was super confused so thank you so much! I’m definitely stepping out of the box from now on🙏🏽#OneLove

Nice greens ❤️👍

Great harvest and good info. I have never tried callaloo or amaranth. I may try growing them this Fall. Thanks for sharing, Bro! Stay blessed! 😇🙏❤

Never heard of it, & got a good amount of harvest from it. I bet they taste good too, thanks for sharing 😊😊

Beautiful Flowers..

Great advice 👍Try something different 👍👌😀

I agree with you. Most people limit themselves on food. Most people say to me...I have never heard of that or what are you growing?

My favorite veggie 😋 Crop looking great sir👍👍

Hope you and your family have an awesome good Fourth of July

This year I grew red striped green amaranth and liked it a lot. I just reseeded it. I'm also growing malabar spinach which I purchased from your etsy store. Malabar and amaranth are both new to me.

Thank you!!! I'm going to try kohlrabi because you made it look so good.

Love and Respect, I've grown Callaloo here in da UK on my Allotment, it grows really well , especially when we get a good summer.

I have some Jamaican friends and they swear by this plant! So of course I had to buy some seeds, and I'm going to drop them seeds(in my TNOG voice). Thanks for sharing, I always learn alot from you!❤

Okay Dan. Thanks to you I am growing some callaloo. I can't wait to see how it grows and tastes.

Thanks for this video I’m going to look into Callaloo. I’m growing red Amaranth for the first time this season.

Baking soda is good to use for cleaning also.

Nice harvest 💚🌱💚 I grew spinach and various leafy greens this year for the first time... but the many bugs have put me off tbh! The sheen? Plant, the leaves are gorgeous 😍

Love to hear the history of the plants. I haven't had a problem with pests last yr and this year and i think its because of the different plants and trees we are growing. When the plants are strong and healthy and mature they don't give off that warning that they are about to die to the pests.

Thanks for clarifying what callalu is Dan...that was gonna be my first question 😅 A bountiful harvest indeed 🙏🙏

Wow, this is amazing, I'm in North Florida, where can I buy those seeds.

I am going to have to stay with what I know to eat. Callaloo was growing in many of my containers and I have not planted any. Someone that came by to help with the woodchips who I will call the non helper ended up leaving with most of the callaloo that was growing wild, okra and beets. Thank you for sharing I enjoy true history lessons not his story lessons. Be well and be safe. Peace

I grew some red amaranth and just harvested the seeds. The red variety is so pretty. I didn't know you could harvest the leaves too. I will be planting more just to eat the leaves. Thanks! 😎❤

Lovely; been growing callalloo for a while, it seeds and come back every year. In Grenada, its the leaf from dasheen - very different but equally delicious. You caan go wrong with Mother Nature!

Hi, thank you for the video. Can you tell me what the optimal spacing between each Callaloo plant should be? I over-seeded my Callaloo patch and am thinking I need to think them out but am not sure what this plant's personality is and what spacing it prefers. Thank you again, for your great video!

Just watched your Calaloo video, I am from Guyana living in Canada now, I grow it every Summer. I see your Moringa (drum stick) in the background, you can cook those leaves as calaloo as well, add coconut milk

Good eating

Your callaloo grows like mine. Although I'm aware that MotherNature has a great variety of strains of different plants, I get so baffled when ppl say they're growing callaloo that is being attacked by pests, but theirs looks like a different plant to Me. And MINE are in fact pest-RESISTANT, so I can never relate to their experiences (and I don't DARE tell them otherwise because I'm careful not to share unsolicited wisdom with ppl whose CHARACTER I don't know these days).... And so lowkey, I think they might NOT even have callaloo. I also visited a CH'room filled with self-proclaimed herbalists (ALLEGEDLY).... and they were discussing "amaranth". It was as if they knew NOTHING ABOUT IT!! Thank Goddess I'm not quick to believe someone JUST BECAUSE THEY SOUND like they know wtf. I wanted to join the stage and educate, but I could tell that they "knew everything" and I like to stayInMyLane these days unless I know I'm NOT dealing with sociopaths. #letthembumptheirheads All that aside, you have THEE LARGEST VARIETY of fruits that I've ever seen in one garden that I wanna try!! And I'm SO JEALOUS THAT YOU'RE FRAMED BY ALL THOSE SEED PODS!! I don't have a long enough season for My moringa to seed, but I wouldn't be mad at MotherNature if she Blesses Me to see it one year!!

Nice video

Awesome job Buddy. I have the coco yams, but never had the amaranth. I’m going to have to give it a shot next year. Thanks.

Great advice Dan! This year I am also growing Amaranth, didn’t try it yet.

It's a very pretty video. I have seedlings and was hoping to find: condition, spacing, soil media. Full sun? Needs compost? Straight in the sand?

Thanks for you video! I live in Mississippi zone 7b, and started my callaloo seeds late and now they are 2-4 inches tall. Can I put the seedlings in the garden in October?

No bug issues, sounds like my type of veggies. I love eating African foods, does my body good 👍🏾😌. I do like spinach, do you sell these seeds?

Hi Dan! I love calalloo! I've been trying to grow it, but I just don't think the environment is right where I am. do you grow red amaranth? Can you eat those leaves as well? I think I've seen people eat the grain that comes from the top of it as well. 🤷🏾‍♀️ Thanks for sharing!

We grow callaloo every year but this we have been battling the leaf miners. Any suggestions on how to get rid of them?

Hi Dan, I’m from the UK 🇬🇧, I have been given 3 small plants today, it is the middle of September and I forgot to ask the lady if they will grow through the winter! Our winter temperature goes down to -5c degrees I don’t have a greenhouse so what are my chances? Thanks in advance

Very informative video thanks for sharing dear 💗watching from Pakistan love and support from my side 👍👏hope to see you around 🤗🤝🤝

i never see callaloo vegetable before and wash with sea salt good kill all the gems 152 likes and enjoy your day

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I love these tropicals. I now have chaya, cassava, sissoo, true yam and would like to add amaranth/callaloo I heard this is a good crop to improve the soil also, is this true?

I really want to try this. Time to go look for seeds. I looked in your shop. Will you have seeds for this? 👍😎🌴🌻🌸😀😎🌴👍 - LazyLizLife

Are your flowers reseeding on their own?

OneLove

Do you see the callalo seeds

Can you eat it raw?

Where do I get calaloo seeds?