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- I may seem overly excited about this squash, since it is grown in other areas as "just another plant". But here in northern California, it's not something we normally see and I consider it a strange and uncommon plant. Especially due to our growing zone and season.
A few things I didn't get mentioned; the Chayote like s rich well drained soil, a general purpose organic fertilizer or vermi-compost 2 or3 times through the summer and water, but do not over water. Pruning is okay, but will quickly grow back. 100-150 squash, that will be the other oddity. I have spent most of the year watching and waiting for this plant to grow and have now reached harvest time. Thanks for your support!
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I'm from himalaya and it is cold crops in our place. We eat everything of it. We make fritters from flower, or stuffing in eggplant or fish, we eat young tender vine and leaf as a leafy green veg, stir fry it just with garlic, turmeric and dry red chili, also you can add chayote flesh in it, also cook with dry meat or dry shrimp, or cheak peas, etc. The most yummy part of the chayote is it's root. It kinda taste like potato but tastier than potato. There's so many ways of cooking this vegetable. It is so versatile. It's seed or we called tongue is so good when it matures, we just slice the fruit and pluck the seed (tongue) and chard them to coal or boiled them, it's yummy. And it gives a lot of fruits. It gives so much fruit we even feed it to our cattles and chicken and they loves it too. Thanks for the video.
this is a super vegetable. it should be eaten every day as part of a healthy diet. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for great video! In New Orleans we call them mirlitons. Great with shrimp and tomatoes or stuffed with crab meat but my favorite was is to just cut in half, top with butter and microwave for 2-3 minutes.
Best chayote video! Trying to see how it grows, yours is the first to show the whole vine. Thank you! And the only to show the anatomy, mention male flower.
You crack me up. I have an old friend like you that giggles from time to time when she talks. That is an essence of life...finding beauty at each moment. Not to mention all the info.t
My mom adds it to "caldo de pollo"(chicken soup) and let me tell you it's DELICIOUS! You can also boil it in water and add salt and it taste really yummy.
Karla Navarro Might you be able to send me a picture of the dish to see if it may be something I would like to try? Please?
One of my favorite ways to eat chaote!
We cook it in chicken broth, then butter it.😋
I'm in So. Cal and I just grew chayote last year for the first time and I loved it.
How long did your chayote plant take to flower and to produce the fruit? I'm also in South CA, I planted my chayote plant In Early April and it's now mid September, the plant is huge but it has not produced any flowers at all. I water it every other day and when it was a Yung plant I fed it miracle grow fertilizer.
I call those fruits"Grandma's Smile". Grandma use to smile like that when she took out her teeth. Now look at the bottom of the fruit and see if you don't see a green toothless smile.
I’m from Louisiana I grew up with Mirliton as we call them (chaote) most everyone has them. Our harvest is usually late summer early fall. We stuff halves and freeze for Thanksgiving yum.
I wanted to let you know how we start them we save 2 good mature fruit there are male and female, put fruit together in a brown paper bag place in a dark cool usually a utility closet. The fruit will sprout and grow in the large bag feeding off the fruit we remove and plant in the spring after last frost. Place the fruit that is shriveled below grown and the white vine above it will turn green once it has sun.
How can you tell male from female? Do you need both to get them started?
@@dianelanderson5504 My question too : )
@@dianelanderson5504 the male and female flowers grow on the same plant, just like squash vines. You only need one plant because it is self pollination.
@@angelau1194 .. once you have a flowering vine, and it starts budding/flowering, the females have a growth that looks like a baby chaotie with a flower growing out the bottom of it. The male doesn’t have that little growth .. the male is a flower only. Yes .. a single vine produces both male and female on the same bush
@@mike_adams Thank you Michael. Essentially they're like a zucchini or squash - in fact they're probably the same family : )
Take a look at my Monster squash, forgive the video length, but I think better then making a pt. 1 and pt. 2. Enjoy my friends! Don't forget to hit "like". Thanks so much.
I grow these every year -- they will come back from the roots and produce again for about 3 years and make even more Mirlitons the next growing season... very fast growing and they love organic fertilizer and Mulch... Give a try at growing Cacuzza --- they grow just as fast and are good to cook with, just like Mirlitons.... facebook.com/Louisiana-Mirlitons-837247456337648/
The Abled Gardener its a staple in the ph. And the green leafy tops are delicious for salads
The young leaves are edible and delicious!
Glad you are so excited by our Louisiana mirlitons. We grow them all over our fences. I have a recipe from my great grandmother, we stuff them with shrimp, mmm. :)
We call it christophene in my country. It has many health benefits, when eaten raw it's great for people who suffer with migraines .
I’m from Jamaica but I never knew it was good for migraines and I never knew it could be eaten raw. I’m going to have to get brave and try it.
I really like the Asiantable 2 garden video on griwing this plant! The way it was pruned seemed really neat! I've seen ornamental vining plants attaching themselves to itself!
That's exactly what this does, it's a crazy vining plant that's for sure.
Hi there, I am from Australia. it is best to prune to a more manageable plant, also It utilizes the whole fruit for it's water and nutrients in the first initial stages of growing.
Yeah we call it choko pronounced Cho ko
Thank you for this wonderful teaching lesson and information.
lovely i love growing chayote squash too
easy and simple way.
I live in Oklahoma, USA. I have never seen these before, but I plan to try them. Wouldn't it be a wonderful addition to apple pie filling. I am hoping to can some. With so many options, sound like a wonderful addition to my samll farm, and thanks to other comments plant on the side of my chicken coop. Perhaps they might prune from time to time. lol This was a wonderful video. Thank you so much!
Just had my first Chayote (store bought) yesterday. To me it tastes (raw) like a cross between a cucumber (which most people seem to suggest) and a raw green bean. EDIT: Yes, I ate the entire 'fruit'. Delicious.
Also sauté in garlic, onions with or with tomato but we always want it a little watery so we can eat it with rice meat or shrimp.
Thanku for detailed information n anatomy. I'm surprised to see my store bought chayote sprouting in my fridge so I planted it. I didn't think it would live but it is a foot long now n has another standing up with tendrils. I almost forgot what I planted there. I'm so happy n made a chicken wire trellis for it to climb onto. It's my first successful squash so far. Can't wait to enjoy it with my family
Chayote or Güisquil (like we call it in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras) it´s origen takes place in south Mexico, Guatemala and Central América, where we eat them in soups, soutés, fried, and in salats, its delicious and we also eat the tips of the vines. in my childhood we just to run true the forest, jungle and the highlands and we found them everywere around Guatemala, I love them and I coock them now there is found in every arabic store in Copenhaguen, is an important vegetable in many tradicional Maya recipies, congratulations growing them, you´ll never regret that!!
Great video! Explained so clearly. I learned something new today. Thank you.
This was such a great video!!! I’ve always wanted to grow one knowing I’m in the right climate (AZ desert). Thank you! I cook this the way my husband’s family taught me (Mexican dish)- dice in bite sized pieces, dice onion and minced garlic-sauté in olive oil until slightly tender. Add in fresh (or canned) tomatoes and their juices, a bullion (or more if making a lot), a splash of water and cover. Cook until chayote is tender. I like adding corn if I have fresh on hand. Salt and pepper to taste along the way.
Beautiful lady , very clear explanation.
Cook some ground beef with chopped cilantro, onions, red pepper, and garlic; then chopped two Large Chayotes in about 1/2 inch squares and cook them in boiling water then drain all the remaining water and mix everything together adding salt to your choice!
Finish cooking it for about 5 minutes and serving is ready!
It would blow your socks off 😋😋😋
I love chayote and sinced im on low carb diet. I use chayote to make macaroni salad. Instead of using macaroni i replace it with chayote to keep my low carb diet. 😀👍 and it super delicious
I'm on Keto and miss macaroni salad. Thanks for the suggestion! Gotta try that.
Do you have to cook it or just raw in your salad?
How do you cook that? 😳
@@annchong9701 you can cook it, keep in mind it’s almost like cooking a potato , so it will get soft if cook too long, some people juice it with lemon and other fruits as well
@@tonydiablo6976 you can cook for a few minutes, it’s almost like cooking a potato, if you cook too long, it will get too soft. You can add in soups, stir fry or even juicing.
Wow love planting
Loved your video it mde me feel so proud of a plant that i have known since i was a little kid.....loveeeeeeeeee it!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for the anatomy lesson and the warning about how strong the trellis needs to be.
I grew up eating chayote, however, I am now on my third attempt planting chayote. At the moment I have it in the greenhouse to keep it alive. Looking at how monstrous your chayote have grown made me a bit apprehended now:-) I am having a second thought of keeping it the greenhouse for this summer. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing. Thumbs up...
can you propagate it from cuttings?
I boil it in a little crab boil and then cut it up. I add it to a casserole like a mock seafood or shrimp casserole.
I'd like a fresh garden salad after watching this!
If you pick them half that size, they are so tender when cooked you can eat them unpeeled. Very good with sauteed garlic and onions, add a spoon of sour cream at the end.
Great looking plant. I have never heard of eating it raw or eating the leaves and roots. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes Bob.
+Bob Lt I ate the leaves due to the anti-inflammatory affect, as I have issues in that area. It didn't taste that great, like older dandelion, but if it helps I don't mind. I would rather eat that then take 2 Ibuprofen, LOL.
Young leaves are very yummy put in soup or stir fry. Love it.
I love chayote. we cook this stir fry, can mix with carrots, cabbage, zuchinni, green beans, onion. Use also for soup. we eat also the tops, just blanch it and put some tomatoes onions, lemon juice and fish sauce if you dont like the smell of the fish sauce you can use salt. Yum!
That's merliton baby !!! In New Orleans we stuff them with shrimp and ham lawwddddd that's good eating !! Squirrels love you them too watch your vines !!
That sounds delicious! I've heard of so many names for these guys, LOL, it's starting to grow like crazy again. The same plants as last year, so I'm glad it made it through the winter.
N'awlins girl here too! I use ground beef in mine
Aisha Gooden thanks! I'm in New Orleans too and I was like "that sure looks a lot like Mirliton". Shrimp Stuffed Mirliton is so good. My uncle used to make it most holidays we spent in the parish with the family. Haven't had it in a long time.
My mom and myself cook these EVERY Thanksgiving & Christmas !! This is my yr ill be attempting a vegitarian Thanksgiving and ill be stuffing these guys with quinoa, hope it works out 😩 smelling gumbo is going to kill me tho!
Yes Indeed! I'm a creole and live cajun land! We call them mirilton! Smothered down like a potato with ground beef, smoked sausage and shrimp and mixed eat plain or mix with rice to make a dressing!
It grows really well in south Louisiana. We stuff it with Shrimp and bake it and also we make a casserole with it with hot sausage. Also we don’t use a trellis, we just let it grow along the fence line.😋⚜️⚜️⚜️In Louisiana we called them Militons!
I’ve planted one for the experiment first time this year. I started it indoors around April and planted outdoor after last frost (May 12) I grow it vertically up to second floor balcony since I have limited space in my garden. It’s been growing like crazy but not any fruit on it so far. But I still have time until first frost (Nov. 12) and hoping to get some. Because it requires 150 days until the harvest .Fingers crossed 🤞
Hi, so glad that your chayote did so well in your garden. This is a squash, so… you can use it like you would a zucchini, or a potatoe. In the Latin American countries, you cut and use it in stews, soups, salads(cooked then chopped or sliced. My favorite is sliced, then sandwich some cheese, then dip into a meringue egg(like a chile relent) then fried till golden brown. This is topped with a tomato warm salsa on top….yummm.in the wintertime, soups are delicious, and make cream chayote soup.
Chayotes are popular in the Philippines. We sauté it with garlic, onion, tomatoes and some ground pork and seasoned it with salt and pepper and some fish sauce, it’s good. They are also good with Mexican soup called albondigas. I would love to grow them in my garden.
Hi Kim, it's a popular ingredient in Filipino chicken soup Tinola ng Manok. San Fransisco Filipino restaurants should have it on menu should you fancy testing it. Worth making the rounds and taste the ingredient in Southeast Asian Action so to speak.
Thank you for an outstandingly educational and useful video. Came here to see about this vegetable and left saying let's go plant !
OMG I love your ideas and gardening❣️
I love chayote i cook them by peeling them , wash off the sticky stuff then slice it, cook them until it turned soft then add 1 egg, toss it quickly then garnishing it with green onion or coriander. Its help ppl with the constipation too. 🐮!
WOW, Kimmie that is one HUGE plant. Thanks for sharing your monster plant information.
+LARK'S GARDENS Thanks for watching Lark, I know the video was a little long, but I had cut out as much as I could. LOL. Too bad it only grows in warmer areas. I hope mine makes it til the first frost. Take care Lark, Kim
I took a cattle panel and made a hoop out of it for a trellis. The vine grows up and the fruit will hang down and be super easy to find and harvest.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been growing this crazy vine in my yard for several months and it has done exactly as you said. I allowed it to grow up to the roof and all over my almond tree, but it never flowered. Until now, I had no idea what it was. I became tired of it and cut it back down to the ground, HOWEVER; it is doing like Jack's beanstalk and coming back. Now that I know what it is, I will take care of it and see how it produces. I love to eat chayote raw. Thanks again.
This is a good plant for a chain link fence.
I’m going to try to grow it ! Very nice video!
Thanks so much
this plant we grow this in Puerto Rico Chanute is a vegetable we chose to cook or steaming not to much flavor in this contains a lots a waterproof like like steam. nice video beautiful place to.
Just let a Choko start to grow on it's own and plant the whole thing in the ground. They grow slowly at first and then take off. They will grow over anything.
Agree, been growing mine since last year. They were slow then take off this year.
You can eat the plant too....That's not a joke. The fruits help against digestions problem. Efter a couple of years when the plant is gone off or old, you can dig the root op for a big fruit in the size of a water melon. It tastes fanstastic. you cut it in thin slice of half a centimeter and fry it.
What a thorough and thoughtful presentation. Quite insightful, brilliantly expressed. I'm very grateful and markedly impressed by your straight forward ease in presenting the information. You engage the audience and invite them to discover with you. Bravo young lady!!!
I grow mostly winter squash Butternut and acorn. I'm bringing in wood chips for weed control. Lovely squash!
I don't peel mine, and I saute chopped up bits with fresh garlic and onion, and a little coconut oil. Tastes great, and it's satisfying. Also awesome with butternut squash, sweet potatoes, carrots(I get the carrots or sweet potato cooking for a bit first, because they take longer)... also good with spinach and mushrooms for a different texture. Living in Florida, I'm planning on planting these babies for lots of yum. Has anyone tried freezing extra?? They'd have to be cook, most likely.
I'm also going to try pickling some.
Master Michelle , great pickled !
It's not only the fruit of the chayote plants that's edible, even the tops try it, it's so delicious.
You're amazing, my grandmother taught me how to grow this, we have it in Australia, but I know it from madeira Island. It's an amazing fruit. About to grow a vine soon. I had 450 on one plant.
I peel mine, cut it into cubes and microwave with some butter for 5 to 6 minutes. Then I mash it and add butter, salt and pepper. Easy and yummy.
That sounds yummy, so many different ways to eat this great squash. Thanks for stopping by, Kim
Just tried Chayote this week. I had it roasted...yummy. Last week I made it with rice and carrots,..an easy recipe but not very flavorful. This week I will try again but kick up the spice. I even sprouted the seeds already and will plant in the garden once it gets warm enough. Can't wait to see if I can get it to grow here. Fun experiment for the summer
You can cook the tender tips of the vines,too.rabbits and birds love them as a treat.
That’s awesome it’s really giant you are lucky
chayotte is a very versatile veggie... i love the sprout as salad..steam the sprout (when you are trimming)..chayotte is great sauteed with ground pork and shrimp; also for tinola (chicken ginger soup), for pancit...hundred of uses..be creative..
Great video 😉👍
+Creative Flower Thanks so much and thanks for watching. Kim
God bless you as well Kim. Thanks for the vid.
+our florida garden Your welcome! Do you grow chayote in Florida? You must be in zone 9? I hope you liked my monster, LOL, thanks for watching and commenting, take care, Kim
Yes we do. I have a neighbor who has it on her fence. Your monster was really cool.
in Australia its common to steam the choko and eat with butter salt and pepper. Also bake in oven with potato and pumpkin
They are really delicious stir fried with garlic. You can also add slices of meat e.g pork or beef.
Thank you for your video!
I have been eating chou-chou (another name for it) in Seychelles my parents grew it in Kenya and South Africa. Never new you could eat it raw (will try it)x. We boil or steam the chayote. Slice it up, slice onions add olive oil, apple cider with salt and black pepper, great salad with curry or any meal.
+john laporte John, thanks so much for letting me know how you ate the Chayote (or whatever anyone calls it) and the recipe. Now I'll have to try it this way. I haven't even cooked one yet as the growth has slowed a bit. I think quite a few of the little ones have fallen off, though I did notice it's covered with bees now. Thanks again for your post, I'll see if there's one to pick and try it your way. Kim
Thank you
I’m almost 3 years late lol but just wanted to say hi! You’re name was interesting and I like your personality and brief simple explanation behind your gardening process! 👋🏼
My family is from both north & south of Mexico and all eat Chayote in Caldo/soup to sweetened. As a taco filling too. I used to rent a home with it and just thought of growing in my own land now. Ty for this info!💖
I never knew much about the chayote squash before this video. I grew up in Florida on a farm, but we might have been too far north to grow these. Now that we know how versatile they are, I think I'll buy some and try them out. Very interesting how to plant it. Thanks for educating me on this very interesting vegetable. I don't know much about the the jicama either.Thanks Kim.
+sunnyside30 That would be great to grow one or two. I'm glad you were able to learn something about the Chayote, I was going to try Jicama, but the seeds didn't come up. I wish you luck with your Chayote, Kim
Chayote grow huge. A plant can cover and entire house if you let it. The entire white area in the middle of the fruit is the seed. The whole plant is edible - fruit, leaves, stems, tendrils, shoots, and root. The shoots and tendrils are so tender and delicious!
We love that out here in Salinas California
Making salad is the best just like cucumber. Lots of nutrition and good for losing weight:)
Have seen them devour a couple of water tanks on my Nan's farm Kim :D :/
A few folks I know use them as filler in fruit pies. It was always said that MacDonald's apple pies in Australia were made from Choko/Chayote in the 70's & 80's to save money. Not sure how true that is though 😉
Cheers Kim.
+RobBobs Backyard Farming LOL, that's a good one, I wouldn't put it past McDonalds to do that. I can't believe how big this thing grew until the first frost and I wasn't ready, so many fruit got a freeze burn, I got quite a few and now they're in the greenhouse growing, one is about 3-4 feet long and it's much too early to put out. I liked the taste of them with just some dip, or in a salad, but I am going to try them in an apple pie. Thanks for watching, take care, Kim
This is a really good informative video. Just the kind to help my efforts. Thank you greatly.
But....There must be other purpose if they use Chokos on apple pies... Apples are abundant in Australia...
@@InstrumenttechSubicBay Chokos are a cheaper crop than apples & take on the flavour of what they're cooked with. ;)
Can be used in stir frys or stew/soups with pork bones is what my mom uses them for because they are a cheap vegetable to feed a big family of 8.
Brilliantly explained! WOW! I am going to grow it for the first time in my life, in NJ, in the coming summer. I am Indian, and there are tons of ways to cook it.
I had taken mine out this summer due to it taking over me garden and boy did I miss it! I will be putting a new one this coming summer just in a different area. Let me know next summer if you get one growing in NJ climate. Take care, Kim
Will share details with you Kim.
Lovely, we call it christophine here. Can be cooked crushed add flour and seasoning and stew,, makes a sexy augratin. Stewed in magerine and a lil oil,
you can use it in so many things but sure is good to eat. I'm going to try growing my own I'm in Australia so I hope mine will grow.
Yes I'm sure yours will do well, Rob Bob is in Australia also, he has the channel, th-cam.com/users/bnbob01 and says he remembers it growing like crazy. Good luck and let me know how it grows. Kim
Thanks for a very informative video. Just got some myself and intends propogating them.
Its great in soups , stews and stir fry. It does absorb flavors ar8it , but it does have a sweet almost cabbage taste when cooked. Never knew how it was grown. Definitely will try to grow on.
It's quite worty to be exciteable over. Such a monster. I hope the weather holds. It would produce so much but then you might just have to top the flowering at some stage to enable good size on the fruits.
What an excellent video! I'm in Alaska and with a hot summer and the Midnight Sun, that baby could be ginormous! Probably not enough to fruit, but you taught me the whole plant is edible! Stuffed Chayote Leaves? With Moosemeat? Oh, yeah! Fermented Tendrils? Probiotic! Wow! Thank you for this great video! Pumpkins grow to 1000 pounds here, so....
Wow, Alaska, that must be fun living there, it seems so pretty on my Google Earth travels. Can you even obtain chayote in your stores up there. I would like to hear from you if you decide to try and grow one, What part of Alaska are you from? Have a good Christmas season! Take care, Kim
Hi, from Kenai, Alaska! I have a Chayote in my fridge as we speak! I like to make a pie, exactly like an apple pie. Take quite a few to do that. The one in my fridge, believe it or not, is going into my Sausage and Peppers tonight! It takes on flavors so well and it's texture adds a surprise and tasty bite. We had a terrible growing season last year. I grew 22 Patty Pan Squash to pick small and do fermented pickles with them for the State Fair. Not one grew. Only one tiny zucc grew, but there was lotza flowers! Got colder and wetter to fruit, so I ate the flowers!
Young shoots are good for stir fry. The fruit can be used for stir fry, curry, tempura etc
I love chayote good for chicken soup and yes you can take out the seeds to plant but don’t dry it after you remove the seeds plant it immediately
the tendrils can be eating in fritatta with egg
According to medicine benefit this melon or chayote is good for our brain or memory from the to all greens and the melon chayote it is good wether to cook it or make juices as green drink so refresh and yummy
Awesome update thank you for sharing have a blessed day
+Linda Penney I'm glad you enjoyed my strange plant. Too bad it takes so long to grow, next year I'll start it sooner. Thanks for watching Linda.
This year my chayote plant bear over 200 fruits and it ran all over the place unto anything it could find to hook its tendril to
I threw a chayote into a container not thinking it would get too big. Then I noticed it was growing rather quickly so I built a small trellis for it. Then a week later it got too big so I had to transfer it next to my olive tree and it’s grasping onto it like crazy. Man, did I underestimate how big it would grow haha
Sister very nice to look your vegetables gurden, long live sister, God bless you.
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The seed - called the heart here in Australia - is beautiful eating. When I was a child, everyone in the neighbourhood had a choko vine on the back fence and a passionfruit vine on the side fence. Simply boiled til tender, salted and dripping with butter is most delicious. The rotting you mention is the fruit using it's own resources to grow. I can easily imagine it growing in the wild like a weed.
Wow, that really sounds good. I've never had passion fruit. I was going to try and grow one this summer but it didn't work out, maybe this next summer. I took my chayote out due to overgrowth but putting another in this next summer also. take care, Kim
It does grow from seed. if you leave it in the kitchen or somewhere there is light it will start to open at the area of the seed and then put out a shoot and sometimes small roots.
You don't have to wait for the roots to grow. Just put it down on it's side so the roots can grow
Great for rhubarb pie too!
Great plant. We grew Chayote before and it grows vigorously. I am also in Northern CA, Sacramento to be exact and we just cover it during winter and it returns in the summer. The asian markets sell them here too. We make curry out of it. Very delicious!
+Backyard Bliss Wow, I am about 50 miles north of you, it's great to know that you grew the chayote and it came back the next year with some cover, did you mulch it or was it some other kind of cover? It's nice to know you sold it too, can I ask how much you were able to sell them for? I might take a load to the Farmers Market on Saturdays and make a little extra money. Thanks for your comment and watching, I appreciate it. Take care and God bless, Kim
I just mulch around the area but i dont remove the old growth from the trellis so it acts as a protection too. Sorry for the confusion, but we didn't sell them. I was just mentioning that they are easily found at the asian markets here; and thats how we bought our "plant" as it was already growing when we purchased it. However, I am sure you could make some money selling them. They are normally about 3 Chayotes for a $1 at the markets, but you could easily do 75 cents each or 2 for a dollar. :)
+Backyard Bliss No, I misunderstood what you said due to my reading, (I had a stroke a few years back and I misread things a lot) My plant isn't putting on as many fruit as I thought it would, maybe they're not being pollinated altho, it has full of bees for the last 2 days. I doubt if I sell any of them, just give them away. Thanks for the information on taking care of the plants through the winter time, I appreciate it.
In Mauritius we eat the leaves too. Sautée or in soup. Only the tender leaves are used.
Nice when boiled with or without white sauce beaut baked and make great chips fry as you do potatoes.Better peeled under running water as they make hands feel dry if young half grown no need to peel at all.
It's a climber. Yes, you get a lot of chayote out of the plant. We used to have a 20 ft wall that it would climb on and go over the neighbors yard . It created a lot of trash and they would complain, but only after they took the chayotes.
hola, tienes que correr unos hilos por tu jardin para que se haga como un techo y cuelguen los chayotes, es la mejor manera de produccion, asi lo hacemos en Mexico. saludos
The way my mother used to cook it, peel it and then cut it into cubes, boil it for a few minutes, drain it and in a saucepan put a little oil and add cut up tomatoes, onions and bell pepper and the chayote, stir fry, add salt and pepper to taste and lastly add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, and enjoy. Another way is to peel it and slice it, add a white cheese in between two, deep it in egg that has been beaten and fry on both sides until golden brown and you serve it with a i
Sorry, serve it with a light tomato sauce.
Recipe to low high pressure, boil one chayote for just five minutes, do not peel it, eat it and drink the water.
Thanks! I'll share info when I share the fruits I grow!
Thank you for the teaching, I am trying to get the growing one to plant
Usually is not to eat it Raw !
It used is to add it to a sup or picadillos,
Always cooked, but that’s my opinion only!
Lo puedes comer crudo también, pero es otro sabor y textura completamente.