Don't Throw away your Sweet Potato Leaves
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2020
- Sweet potatoes are "the ultimate emergency food".
In this video we show how to harvest the parts of the sweet potatoes that grow above ground to produce a constant stream of high-quality food during the hot Summer months.
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Cooking video: th-cam.com/video/pL0do7XRqNk/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for this video, it is literally the ONLY one I found on the complete edibility of the leaves and stem. Everyone is just talking about the leaf so this was great information.
You are welcome.
I totally agree!
Your review is why I watched this video
Thank you 🙂
I had no idea the tender stems were edible too. Great video!
Thank you very much.
Can you do a video showing your recipe for cooking the leaves & the stems?
We just did the video this weekend. Should be able to release it some time during the week.
Also had no idea you can also grow it from cut greens. Great info!
Not the greens but the stems. So you can eat the green and plant the stem. It is like having your cake and eating it.😂
We love the leaves and flowers, so healthy
I cook the flower with the leaves as well. I did not sweet potatoes have flowers until I moved to the farm.
I love sweet potatoe leaves stir-fried! I cooked sweet potato leaves yesterday...
Welcome to the sweet potato leaves fan club.🤠
Thank you ! I'm growing my first batch primarily for the greens. They are delicious!
So the secret is out! Welcome to the club of sweet potato leave eaters.
Very good. An excellent explanation. I have eaten sweet potatoes and the leaves many many years. Thanks for sharing what so many people don't know.👍🏽
Delbert Poole thank you.
Wonderful video, thank you. It made me realize I've been doing it right like cooking the leaves and starting new plants from rooted cuttings. The leaves and sprouts are good with garlic, onions and fish sauce.
That is my favorite recipe as well: garlic and fish sauce. Yummy.
Hello fellow Fort Worth neighbor!
Hello, neighbor! Welcome to our channel.
In Vietnam, those leaves are a great food source. Boil them, dip them into some meat juice or some saucing, eat with hot rice, some pork/fish/tofu
I love Vietnam food. Interesting, I never saw sweet potato leaves in the Vietnam restaurant dishes. Maybe it is because I only had American Vietnam food. 😂
@@EastxWestFarms It's kind of local food but very popular. It's very good for our digestion system
Thank you for sharing! Have my purple starts in the ground now and an earlier planting is almost ready for harvest!
Best wishes for a large harvest. Have fun and enjoy.
Very nice explanation, thank you
You are welcome. Glad that you liked it.
Thank you for sharing. This is my first year growing sweet potatoes. I love to try to learn more to be a better gardener and forager.
Thanks for watching. Happy Gardening!
This video was excellent. I recently discovered you could eat the leaves but didn't really know how to harvest them. I watched several videos but yours is the absolute best for me. Thanks for all the helpful tips.
You are welcome. I am glad the video is helpful.
I use my sweet potatoes leaves in a sauteed dish ... great with some jasmine white rice
Dan Permaculture Food Forest that sound delicious
I am not even all the way thru this yet and WOW! THANK YOU for this very detailed about how to harvest for the leaves, use all of them.
You are welcome. Glad that you found it informational. We have sweet potatoes sprouted in the ground by themselves this year. Should be able to do a video on how to cook sweet potato leaves soon.
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You are welcome. Happy Gardening!
Really cool video. Just looked up after I planted some old sweet potatoes from the kitchen and they started growing like crazy. Only recently understood that the leaves are edible.
Thank you for watching. Enjoy.
Great information. Thank you.
You are welcome.
I grew sweet potatoes for the first time this year from my own slips. Looking forward to trying the leaves. Thank you for sharing!
Congratulations! I am sure you will like it.
Excellent teaching, thank you!!!!!
You’re the best!😉
Thank you. Glad that you liked it
Excellent video.😊 Can you eat the leaves raw, like in a sandwich or salad? Or do they have to be cooked?
Never tried eating them raw. Here is what one website says “The greens are edible raw, but are a bit strong in flavor”. If you do not like sauté, blanch it might also work.
Great tips, thanks for sharing
Thank You, Great Video!
You are welcome. Thanks for watching.
Very informative. I'll be trying some of mine now.👍
You are welcome. Enjoy!
Thank you ExWF. Great job. Good info. God bless you and your family.
Thank you very much, Ward.
Thanks for your video. This it's help me a lot
You are welcome. Glad it is helpful.
Thank you for your video. this is really useful. can you let me know the differences between trimming the leaves and not trimming the leaves? would trimming the leaves affect the growths of the sweet potatoe? I love eating potatoes leaves, too! this is such a good idea
I did an experiment comparing two plants. The one that I trimmed the leaves gave me some small tubers but the one I did not gave me none. The garden was first year with native soil so the soil was not that great. Now that the soil is conditioned enough, I may do another experiment next year.
this was so helpful, thank you.
Noémie Messier-Guimont thank you very much, glad to be of help.
Wow thank you so much for taking the time to make this the short, clear and comprehensive video . I am saving this and will watch it again now before I go harvest leaves ! I am subscribed to your channel , I am only subscribed to a couple of gardening channels that have been so helpful 👌👌👌I hope you will make these videos for a long time to come. From deep in the heart of a fellow grower who grows what she eats and eats what she grows thank you so much sister! 🤗❤️
Thank you very much! Happy Growing!
Thank you for a wonderful video!
I am glad to hear that this is useful.
Much appreciated information.
You are welcome. 🙏
Another great video my friends. It’s amazing how you can take what you already have growing and double the amount by simple propagation methods.
KBL Texas Homestead it does not that a lot of money to get started either.
super cool!! I had no idea! (Also have never grown sweet potatoes) lol Thanks for sharing !
Old Redding Farm thank you. We practically live in sweet potato leaves during the hot summer months.
Thank you so much! 🪴
You are welcome. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for a great informative video !
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You are welcome. Thanks for watching
Thank you so much for this info
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Many Thanks!
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Excellent, thank you very much!
Thank you. Welcome to our channel.
Awesome video. Great information.
Thank you very much. Glad to hear this is useful.
Best info ever, I am very grateful, 😘 greetings from Holland!
Thank you much. Glad that you like it.
I'm growing sweet potato here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia specifically for leaves, I eat the leaves as vegetable
This is awesome. My understanding is that sweet potatoes are native to Central and South America. Even so sweet potato leaves as food is almost completely unknown in the United States. We grow them here as drought resistant landscaping plants but nobody eats them.
@@EastxWestFarms Sweet potato plentiful in Malaysia, both tubers and leaves. Very easy to grow, just bury tubers in soil, in few weeks you will have abundant supply of leaves and eat them till you get tired! Haha! My sweet potato leaves are grown from tubers that I bough at market.
THIS WORKS with sweet potato leaves or moringa leaves : Cook field peas in a pressure cooker remove from heat and let cool a little > turn them into gravy with a commercial stick blender > add RAW sweet potato or fresh (or frozen RAW moringa leaves) > use the stick blender to fine grind the leaves into the gravy > grate fresh ginger over the gravy and eat >>>you will feel very strong and energetic !!!
Thank you very much. Will give it a try.
Thank you
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Amazing, thank you
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Great job👍🏾👍🏾❤🙏🏾
Thank you!
Thanks
You are welcome!
We have plenty of sweet potato vines. We will do as you suggest. Thanks.
buffalopatriot let us know how it works.
Rabbits or goats love all those parts as well!
I can image that they like them. When I grew up, the farmers would collect the vines and chopped them up. They would then cook them with other feeds for the pigs. Not sure if they are still doing it. The white juice coming out of the vine actually have starch and sugar in them.
Very informative video. Thanks
Thanks for watching.
very helpful, cannot thankyou enough
I am glad to hear that this is useful.
Recently started eating sweet potato leaves. I just ate the leaves not the stems. I will definitely trim them. I have some yellow leaves.
Nice. You must be at a place that is warmer than us. Our sweet potatoes are not growing vigorously yet
@East x West Farms yes I'm in South Africa. We are on our way to winter now. In the spring and summer, the weather is 35°/45° Degree Celsius. I will definitely try the stems out tonight. Will try and stir fry them.🥰
@@lavenderloco pick the younger ones. Hope you will enjoy it.
Good info thanks😁👍👍👍❤️
Thank you!
lola ko mahilig mag tanim nyan
What language is this? Vietnamese?
what a great video ... thank you so much for sharing all of this info ... i wished you make a video to show us how you cook too but i guess that ll be too much to ask for ... thank you again for sharing :)
Thank you. Yes, I plan to make cooking videos but our outdoor kitchen has been delayed. Now that the weather is warm, I hope I can finish it in a month or so.
@@EastxWestFarms Good luck :)
This was very helpful! Thank you for all of your tips and suggestions. I did not know about the white substance turning black. I don't need black fingernails 😄
You are welcome. I thought black fingernails was a fashion at some point.😂
@@EastxWestFarms 😄😄😄😄😄
Thank you so much. God bless you.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching.
Hello, I’m a new subscriber. I enjoyed your video. I have never tried eating the leaves or the stems. I must try them soon. I have some sweet potatoes that are currently vining. 😊🌱
ClausenWorld thank you for subscribing. We practically live on sweet potato leaves during summer.
East x West Farms I am growing Japanese sweet potatoes in some garden bags...I hope I get tubers. I’m going to try the leaves this weekend. Thank you again for the information.😊🌱
Great video, I really appreciate the information. I just subscribed and will be looking forward to more great content.
Thank you. Just subscribed to your channel. Chris does a lot of woodworking. I am sure he will enjoy your videos.
@@EastxWestFarms Thanks so much and keep up the great work!
Thank you for the video. I'm growing I thinks it's called Japanese sweet potato? It's kinda purple potato. I eat the leaves with fish. And my chameleon loves the leaves too.
That’s what we grow as well. Very yummy.
I just got a batch of those slips… cant wait to see them grow!
Hello! Thank you for the great video. The patch that you didn't harvest the leaf, do you get more potatoes? I'm very greedy, I would like both the leafs and potatoes. But I'm not sure if van
Wonderful
Thanks for watching.
Thank you! I harvested my leaves today and was wondering about the stems. This is great, it really increases the volume of the harvest! I am going to try growing some greens hydroponically (Kratky style) from the stems. This would expand the variety of vegetables we can grow inside during winter (we get a lot of winter sun).
Interesting. Let us know how it turns out. Sweet potatoes are a summer crop for us and they do not like cold winds.
Wow, I am going to have to plant me some sweet
Potatoes. There is some much that you can use off the plant. When you cook up the vines and peppers and the meat can you make a video of that?
Thanks Haiying and Chris for the great videos.
Lyle Z we’ll do some cooking soon. The plan was to do it all in one video but the we realized we have not published a video in a while. With the outdoor kitchen operational, cooking has become a lot easier.
@@EastxWestFarms thanks, I can hardly wait
If the leaves had holes but no bugs, are they ok to fix or only the perfect leaves??
I would not worry about it. Surprisingly I do not see any bugs that eat sweet potato leaves. Some times a heavy rain will damage the leaves but rarely from bugs.
I just found you! How did the harvest compare, cutting leaves vs not cutting the leaves off?
Welcome to our channel. We did not see much differences.
Thank you so much, loved your video, very informative 💕
Thanks for watching. Almost time to plant sweet potatoes
Thanks for watching. Almost time to plant sweet potatoes
@@EastxWestFarms I'm planting sweet potatoes today, we going into winter here in Durban, South Africa but our winters aren't too cold so hope they'll still grow well, thanks again
@@homesteadinginthecity nice. It should be ok as long as the temperature is above 10degC
Hi Zelda fellow SA here from the North coast. Just learning about edible sweet potato leaves
Are they still edible when they are flowering? Also I am growing several varieties of sweet potato and was wondering if all have edible greens.
I had some when they were flowering and I did not taste any differences. The same goes with different varieties. I had at least three different varieties and they all tasted the same.
Very healthy living
Thank you very much. Yes, we try to live healthy.
Did you find a difference in tuber harvests between the plants you harvested the leaves and the one you left as is that year?
Did not see much difference. The one we cut actually had more smaller tubers. We do not get bigger tubers here because of the hot summer.
Thank you very much for your time and video. It's very informative, however, l want to clarify if the vines grow 1-2 feet per day or 1-2 inches per day.
I never measured it but they can grow real fast in summer. My estimate is that they can easily grow 1-2 ft per week.
That's wonderful, so where can we get recipes for the leaves and stems
Here is a cooking video: th-cam.com/video/pL0do7XRqNk/w-d-xo.html. You can sauté the leaves like other leaf greens and cook the stems in stir fried dishes. I usually do not cook with a recipe.
I feed the leaves to the chickens.
Our ducks love them too. We have to compete with them for the leaves. 🤠
Very educational ...Thankyou for this valueable information ..waste not want not! ...Now how do you cook the leaves in a delicious way?????
We usually just saute the leaves with some fish sauce. You can also saute with minced garlic o or miso sauce or bacon pieces. Many different options.
@@EastxWestFarms
Awesome thankyou so much for that! Yum
Thank you for this video! I’m going to try this! How did the experiment turn out? Are the tubers bigger on the plant that you didn’t cut the leaves?
Thank you. We have not harvested the sweet potatoes that we cut the leaves yet. Here in Texas, the summer is too hot so the plants go into about two months of summer hibernation. If the sweet potato was planted too late in spring or from cuttings, we may not get sweet potatoes at all. Most time we will wait until the first Frost to harvest the sweet potatoes so they can get as much growth as possible.
@@EastxWestFarms oh ok. Look forward to your harvest video. I'm really interested to see the results!
@@SaphsContainerGarden here are the results: the one I did not cut does not have any sweet potatoes. The one I cut several times has a few small potatoes. Both of them were from cuttings and the soil was pretty bad. Consider all other variations, it is safe to say that the cutting did not hurt the tuber production; it might have helped. I will do a similar experiment on slips next year and see if I have different results.
@@EastxWestFarms Thank you for the update! Very interesting as I expected the uncut one to produce better tubers.
So happy I found this video, my sweet potatoes are about to be harvested and I fixed my first leaves for supper last night.
Details please on how you prepare the leaf stems to eat, I was wondering about fermenting them since they may not turn to mush. Any help will be appreciated.
What’s a recipe for cooking them?
Hi Rose, the easiest way is to stir fry the leaves with a little olive oil and a dash of salt. We have a quick demo here:
th-cam.com/video/_rienTSmsMk/w-d-xo.html
Excellent!! Very well done!! I can’t wait to go outside and harvest! But how do I cook?
Lightly sauté with crashed garlic. 1) put some oil in a pan, add crashed garlic; 2) wait until the garlic is light brown, then add sweep potato leaves; 3) switch the heat off after the leaves get slightly withered, add a pitch of salt or some fish sauce. 4) it is done, enjoyed it. The entire cooking should take just a few minutes.
@@EastxWestFarms I generally save some of this after it's cooked and I add it to omelettes or frittatas, just like spinach. Great informative video! Liked and subscribed!
@@dovey6259 that sounds so good. 👍
@@EastxWestFarms It's wonderful!
Hi, may I know can we eat the leaves first and last tuber from the same sweet potato plant?
Yes, you can harvest the leaves while the tubers are growing. You want to make sure the sweet potato has enough leaves to grow. Usually this is not a problem because sweet potatoes grow vigorously.
uh in china they are favorite. very good stir fried.
Yup. Never tired of them in summer.
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Thank you for watching!
Will the stems you plant grow sweet potato roots or just greens?
If it has enough time, it will grow tubers.
Sourdough patch of sweet potatoes, that you cut off, Did you have a bigger harvest than the ones you left the stems on?
Hi Rick, I don't really see a difference between the wines I cut and the ones I let grow. Maybe the cut branches send out more branches and the uncut ones grow longer in a straight line. I'd say the leaves are just about the same either way.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. How do you cook the sweet potato leaves and the stems?
Lightly sauté the greens and cook the stems like carrot or daikon javelins. Here is a cooking video: th-cam.com/video/pL0do7XRqNk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=WP-1DzRBMOqJTwwA
Hi just came across your channel, thank you. Just wanted to know, my sweet leaves are purple and green, the vine is purple and the back of the leaves is light purple, and the top is green. This from the orange sweet potato. Is that okay to eat. Yours look all green. Thanks
Hi Cynthia, I see purple sweet potato leave as landscaping plant in Dallas but we never tried them. I assume they are just like green sweet potato leaves but I don’t know.
A bit if googling leads me to this academic study by a group of researchers in Taiwan. They investigate the effect of PSPL (purple sweet potato leaves) on the human immune response.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4479675/
Frank roo!
Do a cooking video showing how
Sweet potato leaves are out of season now. Will do one next year. Stay tuned.
Can I get to buy
Hi Rose, you can buy sweep potato leaves at any Asian supermarket.
Aunty, the leaves cost more than the sweet potato.
Yes. That is why I grow sweet potatoes for the leaves not for the tubers.
Oh my god her accent is so thick!!!
Thank you for watching even though you may not understand my accent.
Really? I would not call this a ‘thick accent’ at all.
The videos in this channel are well articulated, authentic, clear and to the point.
And your point is?
She does not have a thick accent! What does that has to do with anything????