Christopher talks about the Buffalo Gourd plant
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Christopher Nyerges talks about the Southwestern Buffalo Gourd, which sprawls over the ground like other squash plants. Though it is a marginal food source, the leaves are an acceptable source of soap. Read about many common wild foods in Christopher's "Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants" book, available at Amazon, bookstores, and the Store at www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com.
we call them coyote gourds in Nebraska, '
take the leaves and make a great bug repellent for your crops and garden. done it for decades
nothing in the bug world eats the gourd leaf,
couple leaves in a clear glass jar and sun tea it for a week. spray product on a few leaves to test it first
once it shows no harm spray the plant to keep bugs of your crop.
Thanks for this excellent suggestion
Wow, thank you for sharing that! Where did you learn this stuff? It’s hard to find info online.
The native people are still here and still use these!
Thanks for the info!
when he starts using it like soap it feels like a tim and eric skit i love it
The tip of the 100lb iceberg. These plants have extremely protient and oil rich seeds, the Root is on average like a 100lb or more carrot. It's surreal how big the roots of these things are, for the vines they sprout.
The vines die every summer, but the huge root stays alive for years, maybe even decades, and is basically a massive potato.
I found two of these plant specimens while practicing shooting, in the hills east of Pahrump. It took me a lot of force to cut open the gourd, and the seeds were slippery enough that I had to use tweezers to remove the healthy ones. Gave them a good shake in a bottle of soapy water and they tasted quite good. Apparently the roots are edible, but I wouldn't want to kill any wild plants just for that.
had them in the creek in san diego,called them stink vines,they have a tubor root ,the vines are really tough,
more than 30 years ago, i started making a sun tea out of the leaves- NOT to drink but as a bug repellent for my garden, as nothing in the bug world eats wild gourd leaves-- works well up till your garden starts to fruit- then only spray on bottom of the plants or taste will be in the produce
The word "calabacita" is the Spanish word for "squash", such as zuchinni. It includes Buffalo gords and all sorts of other types of squash.
They grow so freely in Manteca,Ca.
We live on a road in New Mexico and thank you for defining the Buffalo Gourd plant, as my daughter and I have wondered what it was. Many grow on our road and on the way to our road. But our leaves are darker green. Very distinctive from the vegetation surrounding it. Also, we don't know what are the vines with deliciously sweet soft singular dark purple or black berries that grow, taking over our juniper trees. I fed them to our goats when ripe and they love them, so I tried them and they are delicious to eat.
So blend the stuff in a waring blender for soap... Filter the goop and us it in your washing machine..
Well Done sir.
Will goats and Chickens eat anything of the buffalo Gourd... the seeds... but what about the goats and the leaves... I wonder if you ferment the gourds if it will make them more attractive to the animals..
Anyone who has more information on how to use these gourds, specifically using all parts of the plant, please share. I’ve found lots of small information online, but nothing substantial enough to work with the plant. I will start my own experiments if need be.
People paint the gourds in Christmas colors and use them as tree ornaments. If you find any information on how to eat the tuber let me know!
@@ogadlogadl490 I’ve seen information about eating the plants. People would eat the VERY young leaves, but after a certain point it becomes inedible.
@@zacherybutter7349 Interesting, I have a HUGE one growing in a garden bed where I had dirt brought in from where a new house was being built and they had to dig out the basement casement. I don’t know if it came as a seed or a portion of tuber, took my 3 years to ID it tho, I’d cut it all the way back and it would just grow vigorously again. It’s like an aggressive octopus at the moment, kinda wondering if the flowers are edible as the plants so prolific. I’m worried to fry up some of the flowers tho as the whole plant seems a little indigestible to humans.
@@ogadlogadl490 I’d just as soon NOT eat it before I did eat it. I read somewhere that the tuber underground could be used to make soap because of the saponins. But more research would be needed. Just go on a deep dive in google and use different search terms. Especially searching for the native name of the buffalo gourd.
Tons of them here in californao
I actually have this plant here in Kansas I believe
What if I wanted to stack all the little balls into a 100 foot pyramid on my property?
Christopher Nyerges Every Halloween my kids and I collect about a dozen of those “pumpkins” and draw faces on them and decorate our house. 🎃