Chinese yam is nutritious and can be used fresh or dried. I came to your video because I wanted to confirm if the vine growing out of my compost pot was a Chinese yam and it was! Turns out I had thrown out some Chinese yam while clearing my fridge and the yam is now growing into a vine. Chinese yam in soups is beneficial for the stomach and spleen meridian from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective.
This is on the official Tennessee invasive species list. I have also spent SO. MUCH. TIME. as a professional gardener untangling these from plants and trees. Please check your state’s invasive list before planting
ok interesting info. see what you make out of my saga. i became a diabetic and desperately searched for changes in my diet. i use purple rice and true yams as sources of carbs. i shop for these at the international market on division st in biloxi, ms.. they normally have chinese yams and hawaiian yams. i dont go very often as it is quite a drive for me. my last trip i thought i would buy more than i usually do. but as the weather got so scorching hot...i quit using my stove. i used the small hawaiian yams but i did not have room for the large chinese yams in the fridge. so i put them in a basket and similar to potatoes they sprouted. i cut hunks off with the sprouts and cooked the rest. i bought a small plastic kiddie pool and my son put potting mix in with other gardening mix and covered the sprouts. about 4 days later, i noticed very healthy growth. it has been over a month and they are growing like crazy. ive never seen any true yams grown. i am a country gal and have grown lots of beautiful fruit and veggies. i simply dont know what to expect nor how to tend them. if they develop yams...how do i support them? i really dont want them growing on the ground. how long will it take to get 1 to 2 lb yams?
Raw they're like a mix of the texture of okra and the flavor of a water chestnut. Cooked they're identical to potato in my mind. They're slimy when raw, but that cooks out of it.
Not like a yam!! I’d say a slimy, more juicy -super juicy, jicama .... Not too much flavor but good. If you don’t like the sliminess of okra he might not like these though it’s the same feeling or like the same as aloe leaf. That was wrong… I cooked some to you and it wasn’t slimy once it was cooked it’s not really sweet or any flavor I wouldn’t say just like watery and basically like a jicama is the closest I can get.. Wait let me try harder I’ll say it’s like, uhhhh.... jicama-aloe-AsianPear love child!! ☝🏻🧐
Oh how cool I just found one of these at a random grocery market I went to off the beaten path yesterday. It’s strange isn’t it?!I like it though. I like trying new things no matter what but I did actually enjoy it I tried it right and cooked it’s like a slimy more Juicy jicama! I ate a couple chunks of it and I saved a couple to plant hopefully that’s doable ...thanks for making this video!
These things are terribly invasive and I wish people would stop advocating growing them. They will quickly strangle anything growing near it and they drop an insane amount of bulbils late summer, early Fall. To get rid of them you have to not only dig up the tubers but also remove every single one of those darn bulbils. I don’t recommend growing them. A neighbor planted them and they ended up spreading to my garden. I hate these things with a passion.
I like food, so I lump it into the same category as things like peppermint. Once you plant it, good luck killing it... So design well. Plus I enjoy having edible calorie banks stored in the ground for whenever I need them.
@@frenchiepowell And therein lies the problem. I didn’t choose to plant them, someone else chose to plant them in their yard and they spread to mine. They are a non-native invasive and they can choke the life out of everything growing near it.
Chinese yam is nutritious and can be used fresh or dried. I came to your video because I wanted to confirm if the vine growing out of my compost pot was a Chinese yam and it was! Turns out I had thrown out some Chinese yam while clearing my fridge and the yam is now growing into a vine. Chinese yam in soups is beneficial for the stomach and spleen meridian from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective.
This is on the official Tennessee invasive species list. I have also spent SO. MUCH. TIME. as a professional gardener untangling these from plants and trees. Please check your state’s invasive list before planting
I hear you can eat Dioscorea remotiflora raw as well. Mexican root
Chines Yam grows much better in warm and shelterd environment with a lot of light!
ok interesting info.
see what you make out of my saga.
i became a diabetic and desperately searched for changes in my diet.
i use purple rice and true yams as sources of carbs.
i shop for these at the international market on division st in biloxi, ms..
they normally have chinese yams and hawaiian yams.
i dont go very often as it is quite a drive for me.
my last trip i thought i would buy more than i usually do.
but as the weather got so scorching hot...i quit using my stove.
i used the small hawaiian yams but i did not have room for the large chinese yams in the fridge. so i put them in a basket and similar to potatoes they sprouted.
i cut hunks off with the sprouts and cooked the rest. i bought a small plastic kiddie pool and my son put potting mix in with other gardening mix and covered the sprouts.
about 4 days later, i noticed very healthy growth. it has been over a month and they are growing like crazy. ive never seen any true yams grown. i am a country gal and have grown lots of beautiful fruit and veggies. i simply dont know what to expect nor how to tend them. if they develop yams...how do i support them? i really dont want them growing on the ground. how long will it take to get 1 to 2 lb yams?
Love it!
Always love a perennial vegetable! How do these taste?
Raw they're like a mix of the texture of okra and the flavor of a water chestnut. Cooked they're identical to potato in my mind. They're slimy when raw, but that cooks out of it.
you can't describe any food can you?
They are nothing like a tradition yam or sweet potato.
With that said it is delicious.
Not like a yam!! I’d say a slimy, more juicy -super juicy, jicama .... Not too much flavor but good. If you don’t like the sliminess of okra he might not like these though it’s the same feeling or like the same as aloe leaf. That was wrong… I cooked some to you and it wasn’t slimy once it was cooked it’s not really sweet or any flavor I wouldn’t say just like watery and basically like a jicama is the closest I can get..
Wait let me try harder I’ll say it’s like, uhhhh.... jicama-aloe-AsianPear love child!! ☝🏻🧐
They're rather bland but they are good for you. It has the crunch of water chestnuts and the tastelessness of a jicama.
If they're perennial how often do you harvest the tuber? Thanks for the video!
Oh how cool I just found one of these at a random grocery market I went to off the beaten path yesterday. It’s strange isn’t it?!I like it though. I like trying new things no matter what but I did actually enjoy it I tried it right and cooked it’s like a slimy more Juicy jicama! I ate a couple chunks of it and I saved a couple to plant hopefully that’s doable ...thanks for making this video!
Wow very good vietnamese
Pennsylvania is juat such a funny name.
JL Hudson, Seedsman carries the bubils
Great video.
This vegetable so yummy
they look and act a lot like sweet potatoes or morning glory
Dioscorea polystachia.
This jam is growing wild in South Asia. And you call this for chinese jam ? Haha.
Lol yep! In America it's the best common name we've got for it 🤷
But also in America, almost anything that comes from East Asia is Chinese 🤦♂️
Jesus Christ, don't plant these! It's like f'ing kudzu in my flower beds
I don’t haaaave a bulbil man!
These things are terribly invasive and I wish people would stop advocating growing them. They will quickly strangle anything growing near it and they drop an insane amount of bulbils late summer, early Fall. To get rid of them you have to not only dig up the tubers but also remove every single one of those darn bulbils. I don’t recommend growing them. A neighbor planted them and they ended up spreading to my garden. I hate these things with a passion.
I like food, so I lump it into the same category as things like peppermint. Once you plant it, good luck killing it... So design well. Plus I enjoy having edible calorie banks stored in the ground for whenever I need them.
I plan on filling my yard with every “invasive” edible plant to hopefully take over my grass!
@@frenchiepowell And therein lies the problem. I didn’t choose to plant them, someone else chose to plant them in their yard and they spread to mine. They are a non-native invasive and they can choke the life out of everything growing near it.
@@ashlynngreen8409 Why when you could just plant non invasive edible plants?
@@ashlynngreen8409 😍