Peppers, Artichokes and a Chow Chow! Plus a bit of lunch || Plot 37 (Episode 58)
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- Planting the first lots of peppers out into the poly and we are given two new perennial vegetables for the garden; a Globe Artichoke and a Chow Chow.
I also harvest asparagus and lucullus chard for lunch and make stuffed jacket potato skins with an Asparagus and Toasted Almond salad. Yum.
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I'm also harvesting loads of asparagus at the moment and i have just picked up a new/old knife for the job. This is the one i've ordered thats just like the one i lost.
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Loved the lunch segment, more please!!! There are so many things I would love to grow but don't know what to do with them, so I don't...more lunch videos will expand my fresh menu, yay!! 😃
Thank you! 😄 I’m definitely going to try and squeeze more ‘what to do with’ bits in!
Oh I have the same loppers. I call mine Cyndi. Cyndi Lopper.😁😁 I'm showing my age!
Hahah! 😄😄
That is hilarious!
I really appreciate the food prep stuff. So many vegetables are still a mystery to me
Another great vlog Jess! Yummo on lunch, I will be making veggie jackets like yours! Exciting stuff going on with the cool new perennials, planting chili’s and sowing beans. Backward walking mum with Artichoke, Haaha. Can’t wait to see strawberry cage construction. Have a great week! See you Saturday. 👍🏻🙂
😄 thanks, yeah I’m excited about all the new perennials too! I’m on the strawberry cage today!
Hi Jess, thank you for showing what you do to use up your veg. Can we have more recipes please. Thanks 😁😍😋
Hahah, thanks Vikki. I’m going to try putting more in!
My partner is jamaican and we eat chow chow alot! He pronounces it choe choe. It reminds me of a pear but less grainy and savoury. You peel the green skin off, cut in half through the wrinkly bit at the bottom and remove the seed inside. I then cut into about 1in cubes and you can add them to soups, stews and curries. There is not much flavour to them but they soak up flavour and sauce. They take about 15 - 20 mins to cook through but you can cook them longer as they hold thier shape well rather than fall apart like a over cooked potatoe. I didn't know you could grow them here.
Oh fab Samantha! Thank you! That’s just quadrupled my knowledge 😂. That’s really handy to know, I’m really looking forward to trying them.
I’m not sure how successful it’s going to be, the lady who gave it to me grows them outside about 5 miles away so I’m hoping!
Loved the lunch bit. Sometimes I have no idea what to do with my produce. Thanks
Chow chow or choko vines grow huge where I live in NZ and fruit prolifically. The fruits are bland, but are great for extending a stir fry or vegetable soup.
Looks absolutely delightful! Delish! Yum! Thanks for sharing your meal with us
Another great video! I can't get enough actually ❤
Everything you cook looks sooo good! You are an inspiration, not only in the garden! Thank you
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. 😊 I think the chow is what we call chayote. Love it diced in soups and stews. We also steam it, sliced, and enjoy with a mayonnaises dip much like artichokes.
Yet again jessie fantastic vlog........
Love the lunch. New ways of how to use our produce is always welcome.
Thanks Bev!
Hi Jess, I stumbled upon your channel while recovering from foot surgery (non-weight bearing for 6 weeks). The first video I watched was week 54 so I immediately went back to the beginning. I am now caught up - sheesh, I’m exhausted from all of the gardening, but well on the mend so thank you for getting me through what could have been a very boring period. You’ve now also rekindled my interest in growing veg. I live in La Crosse, WI (USA - Zone 4) so we don’t have near the growing season you do (snow on the ground for 3-4 months) and, I live in a condo so anything I plant has to be in pots or raised beds that can be moved. So, I sat in my chair with my foot up madly ordering pots and seeds from Amazon.
My husband is from London and has mentioned allotments but I never really paid much attention. Now, I am fascinated. I am also amazed by the number of vegetables you grow that I have never heard of. Kalettes, tree cabbage, cucamelons, red spring onions, who knew? I’m going to have to order some seeds from the UK for next year as many of these “odd” things are not available here. Since I have very limited space, my goal is to grow things that aren’t available in our supermarkets or at our farmer’s markets. I was able to find seeds for the mashed potato squash (never heard of that one) and I’m growing some red Brussels sprouts (also new to me). I’ve never eaten chard before but I’ve started some rainbow; even if I don’t like it it is very pretty.
So, thank you for your knowledge and for some inspiration to do veg growing. I’m looking forward to following you, Mum, the chickens, Lilly and your plot throughout the year and to more “what to do with all of this veg I’ve got” segments. I might make the stuffed potatoes for lunch today with some spinach I have in the fridge. Cheers! Brook
A very civilized lunch meal.
It's got to the point now that once you say cheers and wave goodbye I can't stop thevideo. I have to wait and see if Mum is walking backwards.
Jess you need to write a cookbook !!❤❤❤
Ive never seen that potato recipe before! Cant wait to make those for my boys ☺ thank you!
Mouth watering goodness on a plate. And the size of those asparagus! To die for 😋
Loved the lunch bit. What a great use of greens; I’ll definitely being trying that with the stuffed potato.
Thanks! Trying to hide chard in everything! 😄
Love the food inspiration 😋😋
LOVED watching the allotment produce being cooked
Great viewing as always Jessie, loved the lunchtime cooking segment too 😊
😄 thanks Sheila!
Hi Jesse, really hope everything is ok. You post every Saturday until this week which leads me to thinking something is wrong my love. Best wishes Nick x
Thank you for the “how to cook” video portion.
I have been so jealous of watching everything you've been planting. It's been way too cold here to get much started outside of the greenhouse until yesterday. I am slowly catching up! 😊
Oh... almost forgot! Thank you for the cooking segment. Those potatoes and the salad look wonderful!!!
Yay!! Glad your weather is coming good. I love those first few days of decent temps in the greenhouse!
And thank you! 😄
You are an inspired cook, and should make more programmes. I'll come to your restaurant (if your Mum is the waitress!)
We have an allotment cat, she comes over for a fuss of me in the morning.
I love that Jacket potatoe recipe/ideas, I will try something similar but will probably have just the jacket potatoe tbh. Looking forward to being able to start eating from the garden/allotment.
Yeah, Lily is always after a fuss!
So nice to be coming into that time of year, isn’t it!
@@JessieatPlot37 need to give up work so I can spend more time at the allotment.
It is so lovely to see young people in touch with nature.Being in the natural world would heal the planet.Your artichokewill put out side shoots , these you can plant out .I make artichoke risotto with parsley, artichoke omelette, artichokes braised in olive oil with garlic and parsley ( allaRomana).
Lovely vlog Jessica. It is always good to know what to do with extra greens. Your lunch looks delicious.
Thanks Jay!
Hi Jessie from Vancouver Island. You produce a seriously interesting and entertaining vlog. I'm an ex-Londoner, and know your neck of the woods. Anyway, the point of my comment is to mention that artichokes can terrorise a bed. You can never find them all, and they continue to arise despite carefully sifting through the bed at harvest. It took me years to clear mine out. Probably better to grow them in a large pot. They can get to over 2 meters tall thus may require supporting.
Hi David! Luckily the artichoke I planted was a globe artichoke so it produces classic artichokes (a flower) rather than the Jerusalem version with is an edible tuber. I know how prolific the ground ones are!!! 😯
@@JessieatPlot37 Oops, re-artichoke. I am manifestly sorry to have made such an idiotic comment. However, try some Jerusalem artichokes, they are worthwhile.
That meal looks excellent! Im really enjoying your videos, cheers! 😁
Love the idea of adding more perennial plants in plot Jessie. Once I used to have a few plants of different variety of artichoke just to produce the "Greens" for the compost.
And it's good to see all the process of the plot's harvest ending, perfectly cooked, on your stomach 😁. The Vlogs are evolving quite good. Perfect Jessie👏🏻🙂
😄 thanks Jorge! Yeah, I’m really keen to get as many useful perennials as we can. 😄
I grow runner beans from seed each yr now..think they're either Lady Di or Enorma and trying cobra for first time. But trick learned from Zimbabwean woman on site, I let runners go to dry paper and eat those beans. Super delish and used as in chilli con carne or any bean stew type thing. They're big so I don't use as many but really great. Seem to cook quicker too.
Hi Claire, yeah dried runners are much under-used! That Greek Gigantes bean I was sowing is just a runner bean but it happens to produce massive beans so they make the most unbelievably good drying beans but basically just the same!
Lunch looked amazing. Had to go and make somethinking for myself. Thanks for all you do on the channel.
😄 thanks Linda!
I want to move to England tomorrow and get an allotment. We don’t have them like yours here in America. Wow. Just wow.
Strawberry manovers Lol 😆 Code Name operation 🍓
Hiya Jessie thanx for visit and lunch. Take care Ontario Canada 🐝
Love the Sambuca hair styles!
Hi Jessie, I want a Chow Chow plant! We used to have them in our garden in Zambia when I was growing up. They are delicious boiled with a bit of butter. I am sure they would also be great cooked other ways. They taste a bit like marrow and they have one large’ish pip. You are so lucky but unfortunately I don’t think it would grow on my allotment in Oxfordshire as it is too exposed. I can’t wait for an update on its progress...
Nice to see the ideas to use up the leaves. That salad also made me drool delicious. Xx
😄 thanks Sarah. Those potatoes are such a good way of cramming in huge amounts of leaves when you’re inundated 😂
Your cooking segments are always brilliant and help with adding variety to how we can prepare the food harvested from our gardens.
Looks so delicious we will have a go at preparing the potatoes and salad. Thank you and please do continue to share your recipes. 😋
I loved the lunch cooking demo, thank you. I am learning a great deal from you.
Thanks Glennis!
Another brilliant Tuesday blog Thankyou!!! 💚
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fantastic video jess once again always watch your videos with a glass of red wine keep up the fab work
Yummy, will have a try on that recepie! And I love Your forks! That´s for real eaters. ;)
Hahahahah!
Hi Jessie, great video thank you so much. I am really new to allotments so found your lunch recipe section really helpful so please keep going with them. Take care and thanks again, Julie 😃
I'm flipping starving now, fab vid xxx
It was me that asked lol... thank you again... we have had it growing for a few years but I think we where picking them wrong lol... I have a little curved knife so I'll try that ... keep smiling 😃 samantha
Ah! Yeah, give the curved knife a go! 😄
You really have a big allotment....there's a lot to do there....me I till my garden because of the heavy clay....and then each year I try something new....those green pathways look great but they would be a lot of extra work....
Loved your lunch. Definitely going to be giving that a go at some point. Plot is looking great again.
Thanks Rusty!
Jimmy nardello long thin sweet red peppers great as a frying pepper
Excellent and interesting vlog Jessie and the Asparagus and Jerusalem Artichoke are good additions to the allotment. I have got myself a mobile phone holder and tripod it's an all in one product rather than 2 separate products that you bought. I have also seen on TH-cam and one of my plot holders use blue pipe MDPE and debris netting with stakes that you put up the blue pipe and the debris netting clicked on to the pipe as ready made mini tunnels for pest control purposes so i have bought the pipe (from screw fix) stakes (from Amazon) and the debris netting is also from Amazon. I would use either plant based bacon and vegan cheese which is a suggestion for any vegan, vegetarians or those on a plant foods based diet.
You've got baby tomatoes too! I was so excited to see my tomatoes (sungold and aperitif) I planted super early (January) had some baby fruits today 🙌🙌🙌 I'M SO EXCITED FOR SUMMER 😬
AGAHHhhhhhh! Me toooo! So excited! Yep, teeny tiny tomatoes are are appearing!!
Yummy lunch!😋
😄 thanks Sarah!
oh my goodness its a choko those things grow wild :O They are a great fruit though for savoury dishes especially asian style dishes and also some companies (including Maccas) use it as an apple pie filler as they take on any flavour you add to them. Good luck with it :D
What you are calling chow chow, I call choko,
The seed in the middle is the most delicious part, it's mild and nutty when cooked.
The choko is an excellent filler, it has a mild neutral flavour and texture when cooked, it can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes, you can add it to any cooked fruit as a mild filler, eg in an apple pie.
Choko is very good in savoury dishes, that has some sort of flavour because choko doesn't have much flavour of its own
eg curry, though it can be added to pretty much anything as a filler.
Thanks Jessie - another good vlog!! Perennials and recipes , my favs Xxx
My Chinese plot neighbour gives me a a plant she calls choyote. I think it’s the same as Chow chow. It’s a heavy feeder and produces loads when happy.
I grow chayote as well, and it is the same as chow chow. It has a neutral flavor really. It is used a lot in Mexican cuisine. Seed is edible but needs to be julienned. Root is also supposed to be edible, but I have not tried it. Leaves are good stir fried. My two plants did not survive the artic freeze though.
I know it as chayote too, growing the prickly one this year!
We call it Chayote, Merliton or Indian pear squash. It loves the heat and humidity. It used to grow all over around here on fences before hurricane Katrina took quite a few out and they have not come back. We eat ours as squash or lightly cooked like potatoes. They are quite delicious. In New Orleans they are best known for being stuffed.
@@angelpaul211 I am in Giustin. Oddly enough Rita, Ike, and Harvey did damage but my plants survived. It was the freeze in February that did mine in. However, I am still having plants like katuk come back.
Autocorrect is dumb: Houston not Guiston
❤❤❤ looks amazing
Excellent, Cobra beans are amazing and you will pick for ever
Ah, good to know! I have high hopes!
Loved this one too. The lunch..was excellent...seed to plate..yumminess
Thanks Tamarr! 😄
Loved your lunch recipe Jessie, it’s great to get have a different spin on the usual uses 👍🏼
Think what you have is call a coyote squash, vegetable Pear, Marliton as people in Louisiana call it. It is a vining plant. I smother it with onions, bell peers and can add shrimp, or ground meat, or even chicken. Can cut them in half and roast in oven until tender, take the inside out and mash and season and shrimp or crabmeat, or both if you wish, put bread crumbs on top, put back in oven until top has brown. Let cool and eat delish. This vegetable is.very hard and takes a while tenderizer. Just a couple of ways people in Louisiana cook the veggie.
Ooooh, fantastic Cathy, thank you! That all sounds fab. I’ve saved your comment for future reference!
Jimmy Nardelo is a red sweet long pepper Good flavor. I sowed my beans about 6 or 7 weeks ago (inside) and now they are climbing up the strings outside, the Greek ones which I thought might be a bit tender are climbing faster than the rest, Firestorm runner beans germinated well but Moonlight was slow to get going. Thanks for the Video Jess
Ah, thanks Graham re the nardellos. Yeah the Greek beans grow like their on steroids don’t that! Interesting about moonlight being slow, I’ll keep an eye out.
Love the recipe. Going to try this. Thank you
Ah great, thanks Hannah!
Great episode, loved the culinary interlude, perfect!
Mmmmmm yum, your lunch looked scrummy! THANK YOU! 🙏🍴
When I seen chow chow, I thought you had got a dog 😂🙈
Have a fab week Jessie......cheers 🥂
Really great video, Jessie. Recipe sounds yummy - will give it a try. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills: you're so positive and your enthusiasm rubs off! As for the Sambuca - oh boy, you can never stop at one !!! Warmest wishes to you and your mum. Take care. Jan x
Thanks Jan!
Yeah, Sambuca... was a bad move! 😅
Brilliant timing for the asparagus knife, early bopday pressie for me 🤣🤣
Hahahah! 👌
Really love the new feature of recipes! Lovely video too!
lovely video
Thanks Steven!
Loving that filled jacket potato recipe! Deffo trying that! 👌
Your meal looked absolutely delicious!! 🤤
😄 thanks Rita!
Ooo that looked tasty, I’m going to have to give it a try 😋 thanks for sharing 😁
Love your videos Jessie, you make them so interesting and funny and I'm a veg grower so always picking up new tips. More recipes too please!
Was wondering why you were going to bring a dog to the plot! I have never heard of that plant either, but I'm sure it has another name I might recognize. I was excited to hear you are growing Brad's Atomic grape tomato. I too have sown them although they got a very slow start. Once I put them outside they are looking a whole lot better! Love the lunch, too, Jessie, I need to eat more green stuff and that looked delicious. More please!
Hahahah! I seem to have cause a bit of confusion on the Chow Chow front. 😅 I now know it’s also called a Chayote.
I’m really looking forward to trying the Brads Atomic and interesting you say they had a slow start because mine did too!
I tell you what Joan, the stuffed potatoes are such a great way of getting more greens. You can fit so much in a little skin and they taste fab!
Jess. Thank you for the bean info how many you plant for your arches. I bought my arches so will give them a try come spring. Sorry your weather is so bad over there, I hope we don’t follow suit next year. Will you video the planting out of your beans when time. Thanks again
It is called a Chayote and is from Columbia it is a Squash taste like cross between cucumber and squash texture of a jicama (which is really good)
Wonderful, just magical really. Big love Rob.
Thanks Rob!
Lovely lunch just my sort of thing. Not that I can have asparagus at the moment, other side of the world. But did do jacket potatoe the other day but I must say never thought of putting in silverbeet or chard. What a great idea. Thanks so much for your videos I really enjoy them when having lunch
Thanks Diane. My technique at the moment is ‘chard with everything’ 😂
Wow I loved the lunch.🤗 odd weather but great for growing , hard to keep up.😊
Thanks Helen! Yeah crazy weather but like you say - the plants are loving it!
Another great vlog Jess, the lunch segment was fab, definitely going to be cooking that at some point. Thanks again for your inspiration
Hi Jessie. Lovely video as always. Loved the cooking, I'm drowning in chard!! So will definitely try your recipe. Thank you xx
Greatings from Holland, just discoved your vlogs and loving it!
Hi nice to more cooking well done from ground to plate 👌 what more can you ask for we’ll done
😄 thanks Trevor!
Enjoyed the cooking and eating Lunch part! I need to make those stuffed potatoes! Yummms
Thanks Betty! 😄 Those potatoes are so handy for cramming large quantities of leaves into when you’re inundated 😅
We call your Chow Chow a Choko in Australia. I haven’t grown or tasted one myself and I think they’re a bit maligned here. I’ve heard they are quite bland but take on the flavours of the dish they are in. Apparently chickens really love the leaves and usually the fruit. Ladybirds also love them as a breeding place.
😋 yummy
I do use root trainers myself and have had some for a good few years, at least 8 I think. I planted out those yellow podded mangetout a few weeks ago and they are climbing up the wire mesh trellis supported by some bamboo canes.
Yeah, if you’re careful with them they can last a good long time can’t they! Nice, the peas are loving this weather!
Yummy!
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That chow chow is going to take over that entire area,its best you put it up a tree...it fruit alot.and overtake anything in its part.chayote it's called in other places check out videos on TH-cam
Ohhh nooo. Where are the yellow boots? 😃😃😃🤣🤣
Hahah!
Your videos are great, thank you for posting them. You come across as a really nice person too - ever thought of teaching kids about growing food? I reckon you'd be brilliant at it and the knowledge you could give them could literally be life changing for both them and yourself. Keep up the good work and thanks again :-)
Hahah! Thank you! I tried a little scheme for kids a few years ago but dealing with the parents put me off 😂
Maybe one day! 😄
@@JessieatPlot37 Haha! Yep, I know what you mean with that - is there a way you could bypass the parents by doing it through a school maybe? Or possibly looking into something with the so called government? (News today says they are planning on paying off older farmers in order to get a new wave of younger farmers involved) - maybe you offer courses to teach the teachers, sort of like a franchise thingy, and that way your extremely valuable knowledge gets passed on. Also one of those online learning courses (Skillshare etc), might be interested in paying you for similar to what you are already doing on youtube? Anyway, just some of the constant stream of ideas that leak out of my brain, please dont take it as trying to tell you what to do with your life!! :-)
Keep up the excellent work and I look forwards to your next vid.....summer soon, woop woop!!
I hope you have luck with the artichoke, I LOVE them! I have tried to grow several over the years, never had one make it to 2' tall, produce anything or live through a winter. Last year, at last my first and only tennis ball sized globe, and the plant actually lived through the winter under a caged fleece and plastic wrap. But the spring here in my part of the far Northwest US has been horrible and the growth is a fraction of what it was last year. Looking forward to seeing how yours gets on!
I love them too! But ditto, never had much luck with them. I’ve got unfounded high hopes for this one though. 😅
Hi, great vlog. Love cooking and new ideas.
Why does your mum have her knife and fork in the wrong hands? Puzzled me.
Good luck and happy growing xx
Lovely lunch - looked delicious! We already have a our beans planted in the ground - perhaps a bit early but we also love beans so couldn’t wait. The slugs / snails seem to have enjoyed our borlotti though so have some more seeds planted up waiting to germinate as insurance as it looks like the growing points have been consumed. We’re they dahlias in your greenhouse? Looking amazingly healthy plants - we have dahlias fro the first time this year and are a bit unsure how to plant them out. Wee have them in pots with some healthy shoots but then what’s next - just transplant to a bed like any other plant? Be interested to see how you do it - perhaps something for the future! Have a “thrilling” week ;-) and definitely keep away from the sambuca - never a good idea! Cheers!
Hi Ashley! Bloody slugs! They’ve taken the tops off all my zinnias too.
Yeah, they were dahlias. I won’t plant these ones out, they are just the ones I keep in pots. I have a whole bed of them under the tulips and they are all just sprouting now. I’ve also go lots in the ground around the edges of the plot but no sight of them yet!
But if you want to transplant them yeah, just stick them in same as usual.
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It's not coffee OR hot chocolate.
It's hot chocolate in your coffee.
Hahah, that’s only on special occasions.
When I saw that lovely cat I thought: that isn't a Chow chow! I clearly misunderstood the title. It seems to be called chayote in the Netherlands and a lot of other countries.
Hahah! Yeah, Chayote I’ve been told a lot!
the banana peppers start green, then turn yellow then red as they ripen
Nice, thanks Alexander!