Growing Red Malabar Spinach and How to Make Fresh Wraps With This Summer Vegetable
John from www.growingyourgreens.com shares with you his favorite leafy green summer crop that prefers warm, hot weather… The Red Malabar Spinach Vine. In this episode, John shares growing information about Malabar Spinach as well as shows you how you can use this unique vegetable fresh to make some delicious garden vegetable wraps.
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Great video John, couldn’t agree with you more about the fresh food one gets from his own garden. While in the grocery store yesterday I asked about some garlic that the sign said was fresh. “Where did the garlic come from?” the clerk replied “from Chile” I thought wow that’s “Fresh”? So growing your own is by far the best and is fresh. I am planning next years garden already and wanted to let you know that your tips and garden have played an influential part in what I grow.
I would really love it if you did a video on how to save seeds from malabar spinach. I love that veggie, but I am finding it really messy and really slow going to collect their seeds. You rock Jon, keep on growin’ on.
May have a video when I have a lot of ripe malabar seeds to harvest.. that being said, its really easy.. I did it the “one at a time” method in this video.. while getting the nutrients from the fruit.. That is an unnecessary step. Just collect all the stems or just pull whole plants with purple pods. and hang to dry in the sun or shade or dehydrate out the liquid. You will be left with the seed.
Save your seeds! So you can send me some, Pleeeeeeeease!
Trying to collect and grow, as many different non GMO varieties, world wide as possible.
do what he does 1 hater
Look’s great, bet it taste excellent!
Great video John! Here in the tropics we usually plant them by cuttings! But of course, it can grow here all year round, so there’s no need to save the seeds. They are really yummy. Normally we don’t allow them to vine, we cut them when they are about a foot long. they are young and tender. new suckers grow and the more you cut the more it grows! I like to cook it with squash and mung beans…Yummy!
Great episode John. Friend of mine let me try some malabar he was growing. It was delicious, can’t wait to grow some of my own next year.
Good stuff John – love that HUGE bug that stopped by for a visit during the video..
Guess he/she was hungry too!
Anyone interested in some Malabar Spinach seeds? I got mine from Baker Creek. I grew the plant this year and I’m not a fan of the texture. Too..thick? Too succulenty? for my taste. Send me a self addressed envelope and I’ll send you some seeds.
Great Video John! Just bought a Malabar Spinach plant the other day… Thxs for the info. I’m all excited to see it grow!! Eat Well,Be Well!!
yummm, you’re an inspiration!
Hey John! I have growing the hyacinth vine and I didn’t realize you could eat them. However, I do get differing info about them on the web. Have you ever grown them? I have read that you can eat the flowers, young pods and beans, but you want to really cook and change the water several times to cook the mature beans. The leaves taste like spinach and the beans like lima beans.(which is the family they are in)…remind me of scarlet runner beans…
I found a store here in Red Bluff, CA that sells 50lb bags of glacial rock dust for $20.00.. I was really surprised! I ask the lady at the counter about it and if its popular in organic growing she said she has only sold a few bags but she grows everything with it and it does great… she mentioned a guy on youtube that uses it in everything… i said John Kohler? she said ohh u have seen his videos as well.. i thought that was pretty cool. Is $20.00 a good price for Rockdust?
A fun video. I always learn alot. Your sincerity and passion really comes through. . . thanks.
glad im getting out there
Yes, $20 is a great price.. consider yourself lucky its available in your local area!
Hi John! Again, great video. 1 1/2 moths ago we found out my mom has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Watching growing your greens and raw food juicers has really opened my mind up. Still researching juicers. Having problem with that but you are so informative. My tomatoes came out great. Next step…taking over the rest of our little backyard with veggies and fruit. thank you for all you do.
Yum. So long since I have made a dish such as this – in contrast to eating these ingredients by themselves, one-at-a-time. Excellent combination – a full nori wrap experience. And avocado certainly adds a sense of satiation. Fun video:)