Garden Weeds You Can Eat - Pigweed Amaranth
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- If you have a garden and the weeds get out of hand, no problem! If those weeds are Redroot Pigweed Amaranth. Just like many other kinds of Amaranth, Redroot Pigweed is one of the great summertime garden weeds you can eat. Here's how to identify redroot pigweed, with tips on picking, preparing, and preserving your wild greens harvest, too.
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Identification: 1:01
Picking: 2:13
Kitchen Processing: 5:17
Preserving by Freezing: 6:22
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Redroot Pig Weed, Amaranthus retroflexus, Family Amaranthaceae (the amaranth family)
Lambs quarter, Chenopodium album, Family Chenopodiaceae (the goosefoot family)
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My other videos about Redroot Pigweed and Lambs Quarter:
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Our forefathers (and foremothers), knew what greens were good to eat. This gardening culture has been lost over the years. I'm glad folks like you are reintroducing these foodstuffs to new gardeners!
We don't call amaranth weeds in my country. It is very delicious when steemed with onions, peppers, and garlic.
I think you have the right view of the amaranth, Sharda Devi. They are too good to be ignored as weeds, like they are around here. Thanks for describing how you like to cook them, too. It helps other people appreciate how wonderful these plants are as real food.
@@HaphazardHomestead Half cook it and make salad.... add unions tomatoes use Balsamic vinigar etc.... so yummy!!
In Pakistan we also cook them as saag especially there is a most loved one where we cook it with yoghurt or lassi.
We have some red amaranth that comes back every year (once summer heat comes in). They even pop up through grass!!! We just keep topping them and harvesting all the young ones (whole plant) wherever they are in spots we need clear.
@@jukeboxhero1649 I think the person omitted a word before "country" 😂
Here in Antigua, in the Caribbean, pig weed is grown as a food crop. I've been searching for a while to get some online information about this plant. We call it "spinach", that's why I couldn't find it. A few days ago, I was researching "common weeds to avoid in the garden" when I saw Pig Weed. Now I can do my research on it. This plant is used most times as a side dish to complement our meals.
This is a video I was almost embarrassed to post -- there's a lot of garden weeds! But there's some great eating from those weeds, too. At least if I ever have videos about methods to control garden weeds, you will know that they were tested with a lot of weeds! Happy gardening -- or happy foraging -- whichever you prefer! :D If you wonder if your amaranth is getting too old to eat, here's a video that can help you decide: ua-cam.com/video/uhrrw0OZGRM/v-deo.html
Fordening - when foraging and gardening combine! Great video this, thank you.
Don't be embarrassed! You are so knowledgeable! You know how to survive and that's priceless wisdom. Great looking peppers too! Enjoy!
That's a good term, POTPS! Glad you enjoyed my weeds -- and happy fordening to you, too! : )
Thanks, Remnant Few! It could have been worse, I guess. At least my channel name is truth in advertising -- it's not the "I Have Got It All Together All the Time Homestead", lol. It's a good thing that plants like to grow, like those peppers! : )
@@HaphazardHomestead That's why we ❤ yoiur channel so much! The truth is so refreshing and yummy!👌
in vietnamese kitchen...we just simply stir fry these delicious veggies (leaves and the young stems together) with garlic and a sprinkle of fish sauce...for those who finds fish sauce too strong of a taste...then just substitute with salt...
another simple vietnamese dish with pigweed amaranth (again using both leaves and the young stems) is quick boiling in clear broth...non-vegetarians can add a small amount of shrimp or any type of meat...
Thanks for adding how you like to eat your amaranth. That all sounds very delicious! Your directions will other people know how to enjoy this great plant! :D
Vietnamese call Rau Dền..
I absolutely am loving these videos. Nobody covers identification, picking, cleaning, and uses as well as you do! I hope you keep making videos
Thanks for your appreciation of my channel, lovemymatthew2000! Wild food is real food, and I enjoy eating it -- and sharing it, too. Happy spring!
We really like eating this greens in Greece, especially the islanders. We call them Vlitta. We boil them and eat them with olive oil and lemon juice, plain or with zuccini and patatoes, and even make pies with it, instead of spinach in the summer. It's our favorite summer greens and they grow anyway in the garden
Been bingeing on your videos. So awesome. Amaranth= Quelites in Spanish, or quelites de marano. Sauté onion in butter in a frying pan till onion is translucent and sweetens a bit. Add cleaned amaranth and a little dried red pepper flakes(they’re spicy, so...) add a little chicken broth once they’ve wilted down. Serve on a warmed up corn tortilla with a Queso fresco, a mild farmers cheese. So good. Same treatment for lambsquarters.
Thanks for your wisdom, generosity, and sweetness.
I love to boiled or make soup with them, my mom call them "God Spinach". Feel good to see someone appreciate free green vegetable from mother earth :-))
Hoa Truong Hello! I agree with you, Mother Earth provides good, healthy foods, medicine to. I wish everyone in the world knew how wonderful she is, then maybe they’d stop throwing trash on her. Have a wonderful day
Rau dềnh ..
Out of all the videos I was watching this morning about pigweed, this one is the best! Very informative!
This was an excellent video! I am growing a food forest in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona!
If ya have the time.
Try frying up some Pigweed seeds in a pan. Pops and tastes just like popcorn.
😮😮no way...I'll try that
Spent good money on amaranth seeds only to realize, once seeds began growing, this is the same plant that takes over my huge garden and I cut it down. Have mercy🤗
I laughed so hard at your comment, LJ Anderson. Have mercy, indeed! I am sure you are not the only person to have done that! I apologize for laughing, but I am still chuckling. Have a great garden season!
@@HaphazardHomestead And you as well. Thank you.
@@HaphazardHomestead I've got two packs of seeds to throw out with my large patch of wild Amaranth I discovered in our yard that we have "weedeated" for several years now. Tasted some yesterday and discovered it is as good as spinach.
I almost bought a pack of seeds and found some growing in my garden 😂
I've walked past this plant multiple times. We have many kinds of Amaranth around here. I always thought it looked edible and I think I'll try it this spring. I'm excited about it, thanks
They grow wild all over the world and most consider them as weeds, but they are very nutritious and delicious. You can use them as you would spinach.
It will be the best wild spinach you've ever tasted 🙂
Ahhhhhhhh......... My mind just exploded with excitement!
Fresh greens are foundational nutrition, learning what's safe to eat is important. Another great video Holly, wish I had some here. People think I'm weird when thinking of getting some stinging nettles.
Have you ever read
Weeds:Guardians of the Soil by Joseph A. Cocannouer?
It's easily found online.
It's amazing how many great wild edible greens there are. And how many frustrate gardeners, even though some weeds, like this one, can be as tasty as any greens that folks take time and effort to plant. I like having a wide variety of greens from different plant families. That's a good way to keep from eating too much of any one kind.
I hope you do get some stinging nettles, Create Synergistic Transformations! My soil isn't naturally wet enough in the summer, so I have to go forage them. But I've seen the seeds for sale in regular garden catalogs. I'll check out that book. I haven't heard of it before, so thanks! Enjoy your greens -- they are so great!
I want some stinging nettle too. Ive been looking for it. I dont think its weird at all. Unless; of course, you mean magical - one of definitions of weird. Lmao
I hadn’t heard of “ Weeds: Guardians of the Soil” by Joseph A. Cocannouer before but rewrite the name to cut and paste in a search. I’ll have read it soon! Thank you.
If you like greens and ham hock, you'll love boil up. Its a classic, hearty recipe that is popular with Maori. Here's how you make it;
1kg wild pork bones
, 1 bacon hock, salt, 4 medium-sized potatoes, peeled and cubed, 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed,
½ pumpkin, peeled and cubed, 4 *kamo kamo*, peeled, de-seeded and cubed, 1 cup flour
, 2 teaspoons baking powder
, ¼ cup water
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1 large bunch of *wild greens*.
*Kamo Kamo seeds can be purchased from Baker Creek, however you can use any type of large summer squash that has a firm flesh.
*Traditionally you would use watercress and sow thistle, but any type of dark leafy greens will work nicely.
Place pork bones and hock in a large stockpot. Pour in just enough water to cover bones and hock, season with salt and then gently simmer for 1½ hours. Add potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin and kamokamo to the pot.
Meanwhile, combine flour and baking powder and season with salt. Gradually add water to form a dough. Break off small bits of dough and form balls.
Place wild greens and doughboys on top of boil-up and cook until the wild greens are tender.
That sounds really good, Laura Te Aho-White! I'll be posting a Sow Thistle recipe sometime soon, from earlier this year. But I"m looking forward to next spring so I can try your recipe, for sure! Common Sow Thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) is such a great plant, and the Prickly Sow Thistle (S. asper), too. It's one of my favorite greens! And your recipe looks like a great one for the early spring time! Thanks! :D
@@HaphazardHomestead You'll love it
In indonesia, they sell it as vegetable too. We cook a simple soup with shallot and/or garlic, you can also add sweet corn, carot, and young loofah.
You can also boil or blanch it and eat it with peanut sauce.
Thanks for adding how you use this plant, Bee Lover. It helps people who think this is a bad weed to appreciate that it is a worthwhile plant for real good food! Your soup sounds really delicious! : )
In tropical lands this are not weeds but delicious greens
Wè drink the water after boiling:the energy drink is in the water all prats is used in Haiti
I have a "cereal" called amaranth, is it the same thing? Would these plants flower and produce the seeds to be used?
Yes, the flowers turn to seeds and use as a grain substitute
@@sophiejones304 how do you harvest the seeds? My amaranth (we thought it called Palmers Amaranth) is definitely going to seed but some look green and some look empty. I’m so intrigued by foraging in my yard this year! We have amaranth and purslane that have taken up residence. Free food!
@@sarahdrinkwater4563 the flower will die off and fall down then the seeds will start to form. The plant will eventually dry out and die then the grain/ seed will be ready for harvest. You should pick the leaves before everything dries out and can be used as spinach
You are so resourceful! I love this lesson in practical gardening.
Thanks! I see so many folks get frustrated by weeds in their garden, even to the point of abandoning their garden. But some of those weeds are as good as anything they are growing on purpose. I hope you can enjoy some tasty greens around you, too!
Hands down the best video on foraging, sorting, storing & cooking weeds! I love amaranth :)
I make tomatoes stews with my stems. In nigeria we have always used this green. That’s why we are awesome,,,
I used to go wild green picking with my mother, but have forgotten a lot of it. I'm trying to re-educate myself on edible and medicinal wild growing plants, and trying to pass that knowledge on to my grandchildren. I've told them to always keep one foot in nature because in a pinch she will supply everything you need to live.
What an excellent harvest... of weeds! Keep posting these "embarrassing" videos.
It's amazing to me how much food I've eaten from that garden that is just weeds! Here on UA-cam, so many gardeners have such pretty gardens. I should think of my haphazard garden as 'embarrassment of riches' -- rich with edible weeds. : ) Thanks for commenting, Lynnette Li!
Lynnette Li Hello! I second ur comment!!! Have a wonderful day
In South Africs itz a staple food..cooked with tomatoe..onion and served with maize.....
Same in the Caribbean.
Holy moley, I thought lambsquater was pigweed.🤔
So many weeds go by the name of Pigweed -- so, so many! Lambs quarter is one, for sure. And pretty much all the different amaranths, too. And many others. I guess pigs like a lot of different weeds, lol. But this specific plant (along with Smooth Pigweed, Amaranthus hybridus) has that distinctive pink-red root. So a lot of folks call it the Redroot Pigweed. In another comment, April Ray has the Spiny Pigweed (A. spinosus) in their area.
So now you know why I try to use the scientific names in my videos or descriptions, too. There's so much crossover with common names alone.
Where can I find these seeds mam? I always have to order from them india. So happy to see other good people also appreciates my AMARANTH😃
Do you know how many thousands of those I plucked from my garden I always composted them now I'm going to eat them thank you so much absolutely love your videos you look and sound just like my cousin I feel like we're related please don't mind me saying love you cuz
How about putting olive oil, salt, pepper and parmesan cheese on those stems and putting them under the broiler?
Lovely informative video
I normally stir fry with shrimps,
Not sure if I could grow them in the yard In zone 6
This video was so helpful for identifying Amaranth! Thank you! I would love to see more videos like this where you focus on a single plant and show it and talk about the structure, leaves, etc. I've been binge watching your videos and really enjoy them!
One of my favorite greens, I love to stir fry them, or cook it with lentils.
Thanks so much 🌱🙏🇱🇰
This is a wild spinatch.... this is so delicious we like this so match it is gd 4 our Filipino monggo dish.....This is very popular in Philippines.... People who are vegetarian can appreciate this wild vegetables....I've been harbesting this pigweeds every summer , they grow a lot in my garden similar w/ Colitis.... soooh Yummy!!!
Sat down with my lunch, canned lamb's quarters mixed with other cooked greens and there was your video, perfect:) Felt good to be eating the weeds from our garden along with onions and garlic. This time I drained the juice to avoid the oxalic acid that stops the body from absorbing calcium, I never eat salads with them any longer:(.
Sorry to go sciencey about it but was overeating lq and spinach and they wreaked havoc on me last year. Am reading the book Plant Paradox and so far it makes sense what happened. Will continue learning about weeds/vegetables and how to go head to head with their chemicals, lol.
Thanks for the video, I like the way pw comes up in rows, looks great. Our lq makes the garden look like pure weeds :) Take care!
Hey, Tall Cedars, good to see you here! And I'm glad to know you can still eat your Lambs Quarter, if not quite the same way as earlier. I'm all in favor of eating a wide variety of greens, across different plant families, for the very reason you point out. So it's a good idea to preserve big harvest, rather than trying to eat it all at once. By canning some of your lambs quarter, you can have your harvest and eat it all, too -- just over a longer time! Thanks for raising that issue! The wild field mustard (Brassica rapa) is super low in oxalic acid, so it's a good wild green to rotate with others.
That patch of pigweed looked all neat and orderly, just because of how I had set up the garden with no watering except right on top with a drip system. We can go 3-5 months with less than a couple inches of rain -- 95 days with no measurable rain this summer! If I watered with an overhead sprinkler system, rest assured there would have been absolute mayhem!
Enjoy your garden harvest this winter!
I'm new to this but how do you can them?
@@skyangel6336 Pressure can them like domestic greens; kale and swiss chard. Avoid drinking too much broth to keep the oxalates down. Canned lq is quite tastey by itself with butter and salt, enjoy!
In South Africa we call this iMbuya and it's considered a delicacy. Fried with lots of oil chilli and onions. Eaten with pap.
Hi ya Holy! I didn’t know this plant till now, and I’m sure I will rewatch to better familiarize myself with them, with spring just around the corner, I need to know them soon. I hope I get to meet them! I love the way u talk about the plants, the way u describe them, ur definitely not boring that’s for sure, u present the plants here and n other videos in a fun way! I believe n a reply u mentioned u were ashamed, I believe it to be on how the weeds took over the pepper bed, in all honesty, u taught me something, I’m sure others as well, I mean, look at that, u planted peppers, went away and came back to find two free volunteer foods, pig weed and lambs quarters, well, I won’t be pulling any weed out till it’s big enough to recognize, then, thanks to u, I’ll pull to eat or pull to compost 😋👍🏼 Thank u
That’ll are good for edibles names pak kom
Can cook with eggs👍👍
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of this plant as pak nom, Noi McGuire! Your cooking recommendation sounds good! I like to eat them like that, too! :D :D
It’s called Calalloo in the Caribbean. But African spinach or greens in Africa. It has a few names but Africans traditionally eat this. It’s delicious and we commonly eat it with fish.
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I am from Cambodia and we make soups or stir-fry with amaranth.
In Jamaica we call it callaloo. We cook it like we do spinach.
great video ! I wonder if you could use them as one would use beans in dilly beans but use the stalk and pickle them?
I like the tender amaranth stalks as refrigerator pickles. I just save my pickle juice and put the chopped stems of amaranth, wild field mustard, yucca buds, or whatever, in the jar for a few days. It's not for preservation so much, but to make a quick pickle for the flavor. I only use the pickle juice that one extra time, though, to be sure that it's strong enough.
You've got me thinking about the dilly beans! That would be easy, without all the slicing, lol. And they would be like a bean! I'll have to try that! Thanks, Sara Skold! And if you try that, I'd enjoy hearing how they turned out for you!
Well since I do not have a garden I will have to rely on what you make lol
My dad always says, "If you can't grow a garden, grow a friendship with a gardener!" : )
Haphazard Homestead that’s a cool saying ur dad came up with, I like it!
I have this weed growing in between my raise beds and yard. I've been throwing them away. Next time I'll try cooking them. Thank you! ❤️🙏
I hope you have been able to enjoy your amaranth weeds this summer - and your planted garden, too.
I had a friend from work that used to live in Vietnam.The Vietcong put him in prison twice for helping the Americans .Any how he was telling me they fed him and the rest of em a lot of pig weed soup.I couldn't believe people would eat that stuff ,but now i've got to try this stuff out.Does any body have a soup recipe that does not use pork? I had my gall bladder out a few years ago & pork don't agree with me any more.Thank you for this informative video .
My gosh this is informative. I’m pretty sure I have this, but not as sure as identifying lambs quarters and purslane.
Amaranth seems plain and without strong identifying features, until you get to know it. There are a lot of different kinds of amaranths, too, so that can be more confusing. But once you get to know this plant or one of the similar Amaranths, you'll have some good eating. The easiest time to really get to know it is when it has mature flowerheads, with lots of seeds.
Saté with onion and garlic with some cummin seeds and mustard seed. Throw them some rice or pair it up with some roti!! My favourite!!
That sounds really delicious, evi.V!
This is food in Zambia. A few years ago, it was considered a Vegetable for the very poor. But now, this is a vegetable making millionaires of farmers because everyone regards it as a very nutritious vegetable.
Thanks for sharing how amaranth is being used in Zambia, billybanks. I hope the very poor are still able to get amaranth to eat now that it is valued by people with more money.
I sure hope I get these in my yard.
Love learning from you. Thank you.
Folks here in TN know that plant as "careless weed and do not know it is a delicious table green - but not as good asLambs Quarters!
Thanks for sharing that local name for amaranth, Jim S. It's one of my top 3 summertime wild greens, but I'm with you on putting Lambs Quarter at the very top of the list! (Pokeweed - Phytolacca americana - rounds out my top 3 of summer). Enjoy eating your local weeds! :D
Are they still weeds if you plant them?
The thick stems can be sliced and cooked with the top greens and used in stir fry too. Was wondering how would you pickle the stems. . Great video ! Thanks
Great video, and great youtube channel all in all. I am very intrigued about everything you have to show, and want to tell you that you have made a lot of positive changes in my life :)
I see a few people talking about oxalic acid. As for being on the safe side, might want to mention that chemical in the plants. Long term use can cause troubles, so weeds and greens (even stuff like spinach and so on, mostly leafy greens) should definitely be boiled for a small period of time to get that out. Also boiling usually increases the bioavailability of minerals in the plants. But I think you already know that :D
Long comment short, I hope you keep on making these videos for a looooong time :) Cheers!!
you can put that in fish soup., stir fry and etc.
Already "liked" your vid :) I was looking for pictures of "Kalunay" & I happened to see your vid in the search. I'm glad I clicked it, I learned a lot, thanks :) We call this Kalunay in my country and the reason why I got interested in searching for this was because my aunt "planted" this weed (I didn't know it was a kind of weed) and now we've got a lot of this in our backyard. She cooked some one day by adding it to the chicken soup she was cooking and we all loved it. I love Chinese cabbage with our chicken soup but when I tasted this, I immediately concluded that those leaves are a lot better. We picked some and gave to our neighbors and they all loved it too but there's one to whom we have some today told me that those are spinach and so I got really curious to see if those plants are actually spinach or some kind of spinach and I saw this video. Now I know the answer :) Thanks a lot. I like how you took time to even describe the leaves, stalk, etc. Oh, and I didn't know you can freeze leaves :) wow! Now I can tell my aunt how we can preserve the many leaves her garden is yielding with this plant. God bless and may you be able to "teach" more about gardening :)
Correction: There's one to whom we gave some of this green...
I'm from Philippines, by the way. We tried steaming this too and put some oyster sauce on it and it was a hit too :) tried making it into a salad too. I can eat this everyday and in any dish :)
Nothing is a weed!
Thanks for the great info, I've been treating them as weed. Now I enjoy them on the table.
I wondered what that stuff was. Grows like crazy in nebraska.
I"m originally from Kansas and that's where I first learned this plant. I can just picture it growing in Nebraska! I can't picture a farm field or garden without it, lol. I hope you can enjoy eating it sometime! Thanks for commenting, Kirk!
I am so happy I found this, I am dealing with pig weed and lambsquatter at the moment and I'm glad there's stuff to use the. For
What if they have gone to flower and seeds are forming? I used the picturethis app and it said the stemstalks and roots were poisonous aswell as saying its great pig feed and that the leaves are edible
I am so glad you posted this. I didnt think this was an edible weed plant. Has anyone ever dehydrated the leaves? I am wondering if i could do this for long term storage.
I've done research, these are high in iron & calcium, Vitamins A & C. God is good, probably telling me this whole time just use these "nuisance plants" 😅
I've always had very low iron and I'm always looking for food to boost my iron instead of taking over the counter tablets. 🤦🏼♀️
This is good info. I just came back from a 4 day vacation to find these growing all over the place. Now I know I can save them, and it's not a complete waist, so thank you for this video
Good info nicely presented. I especially appreciate the details on identifying the Amaranth as well as the process to freeze it.
Thank you Haphazard. I am digging up part of my lawn for covid 19 survival gardening as soon as the recent snow melts. I am not waiting for the weeds to come. I will be transplanting chenopdium album(lamb's quarters). I have tried them and I know where to look. I hope to find and ID the amaranth. I will look at the root. Chamomile as well. And a weed with a single spike of seeds. Stay safe.
I love. Mix with. Tomate. Chile cilantro. Onion. Garlic. And eggs.
If you space them about a ft apart, they spread out when you cut some leaf clusters...the more you harvest, the bigger the plant gets snd the more leaves grow! Love em...I have some in my yard this season. We call it callaloo❤
we are no dig so... no more pigweed :( might planet it lol
You have a lot more control over what's growing with your gardening approach, MisstressOP! Amaranth greens are delicious and productive enough to grow as a garden harvest, in my view. I put it in the top 3 of summer wild greens: Lambs Quarter, Pokeweed, Amaranth! Hope your garden is doing well this season.
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The idea of saving the stalks is very good!
Great harvest and great tip. I am sure I have those in the yard I will have to look. I was thinking of you the other day. For sometime I knew I had some type of wild onion or garlic growing in the yard..you could smell it when I mowed. I spent sometime researching and found out it was Chinese Chives or Garlic Chives. I pulled some and sauteed them and put over my breakfast of eggs and hash browns...They were a bit past their time..but oooooh so good! Next Year I will make more use of them...I also noticed similar plants growing near buy, but without the onion smell..I did not pick these! What do these Pigweed taste like?
So nice to see you again, Lee! I hope you and your wife are doing well. I learned this plant as a kid in Kansas, so I know you have it around you! We didn't eat it, just lots of hoeing and pulling, lol. But Redroot pigweed is a nice mild green. There's no bitterness at all when it's this stage in its growth. It's not as strong-flavored like wild field mustard or collards or even kale. Amaranth greens won't make your teeth 'sharp' like lambs quarter or spinach or chard. I think it's easily 'company quality' or 'restaurant quality', even just cooking it like I do lambs quarter, a quick 2-3 minutes in a skillet and a little salt. It's easily in my top 10 wild greens list, probably in the top 5 for leafy greens.
Nice work in identifying your Garlic Chives! Any wild chives are such a great addition to our regular food, like your eggs and hash browns. Your point about the importance of the onion smell is a good one, too. It's nice to know you've got one more item in your personal outdoor grocery store! :D
Hi Holly. I am going to be on the 'look out' for this wild edible next year. Are there any 'look a likes' of RED root amaranth? I just get really nervous when trying to identify new to me wild edibles. I like it that these greens are never bitter, nice to know. Thank you for sharing AGAIN. Just finished up my FIDDLEHEADS and GARLIC SCAPES. Soooooooooooo yummy and I owe it all to you with educating me. Thank you my friend.
Hi Lark, so good to see you here! The look-a-likes are other kinds of amaranth -- there are whole guides helping farmers know which kind of pigweed amaranth they have (like this one from Kansas State University: www.bookstore.ksre.ksu.edu/pubs/s80.pdf). Any county extension agent will be able to identify this weed and point it out to you -- and most farmers, too. But they will not say very nice things about it, lol, except maybe that it is a real survivor and an adaptable adversary in their fields!
I'm so glad to know you are enjoying your fiddleheads and garlic scapes. These redroot amaranth are such mild greens. They mix in well with others and are restaurant quality all on their own, too. I do hope you find some -- you are so good at blocking weeds with your chop and drop! ; )
This a regular everyday vegetable in Nigeria its the most common if i say its cheap to buy and easy to grow very delicious eaten in different ways and dishes and alot of health benefits
This is one of my favorite food we call it kalunay. We also eat the roots.
Yes, Kalunay in Filipino.... you can kook this and any kind.... in monggo, sinigang or nilaga so delicious!!!
Omg this is so amazing! Thank you so much for this!!
We live in southern New Mexico, and learned recently that native peoples harvested the seeds to eat as well. I can’t figure out what is seed and what is chaff (I guess?). Do you know anything about harvesting the seeds?
What about the seeds and roots? Is there a way to prepare them?
I'm working on some videos about eating the roots, jukeboxhero1649. They are good! So are the seeds, but prepared in different ways, of course.
You ask what would I do with them .......I'd get on the phone and call you Holly. I'd say "Hey, have you had dinner yet? That's what I'd do!
I love to eat the root. My favourite part to eat. You can fry it, you can make soup and you can cook it with meat. You can cook it like normal vegetables.
We ate those back home in Hawaii. They grew wild. You don't see much growing wild I. San Diego
I WIIIIISH I had this problem lol. I live in Florida and can’t make amaranth grow in my county.
That's too bad! Your Cooperative Extension agent can probably tell you which kinds the farmers are fighting in your county. There's at least 5 different kinds of amaranth weeds that grow all across Florida. Have you tried growing any of the "good" amaranth that the seed catalogs sell, like "Love Lies Bleeding" or "Joseph's Coat"? They are both such beautiful amaranth plants! I hope you can find something for your area! Then you can have a weed problem to eat, too, lol!
somebody mentioned your channel over on Huttons Valley Permaculture and I'm so glad they did. I've watched about five of your videos and subscribed. Thank you for all those neat videos!
this is great! I have been trying to grow some kind of cover crop and got clover and alfalfa seeds from Murdoch’s store, spread them around… no clover. No alfalfa. Just this pigweed! I was like “Doh!”…. But then I read it is amaranth and the chickens really love it…. So that is a plus. Does anyone know what the nutritional content of the greens are? Thank you
Oh,man!!! I love your pepper harvest.
Just LOVE peppers.
I have way of seasoning pigweeds but it looks like you don't like to use too much of extra seasonings. I wish I could enjoy natural flavors like you do.
My thoughts after watching many of your episodes are how can you go through so much of those packed away foods.
I grow veggies and foraging wild edibles and canning/freezing and all,however, I found my self having too much food that I just can't keep up eating.
Nonetheless I do enjoy harvest A lot😜.
Thanks for the fun videos
How edible is Prostrate pigweed (Amaranthus blitoides)?
I'm so glad I subscribed. I live in north central Oregon sandy soil and with my grandmother's green arm I do well. Learnining new from you. Thank you
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I have enjoyed your videos very much, and your pleasant personality !! I hope you will make more videos soon !! Oh, I hope things are going well at your place too !!😊
If you shave the roots a bit to remove their tough skins, they taste very similar to beets minus the sweetness. Makes sense, beets and amaranth/pigweed are in the same botanical family.
Amaranth are not weeds in the Pacific Islands.Its very delicious.
wow what a great presentation...to the point and super practical! TY!!!!!
Where you at ? I buy it for you. I am in Jacksonville Florida message me on my Facebook
I think the amaranth stems could be a good substitute for asparagus.
I need a Refrigerator and a way to boil water now. I am SO FAR behind! ugh I Shall remember this, Thanks!
We use ruth stout so we don't really weed anymore. I'd love to drop some seed balls with them. lol shock the farmers LMAO
Yoish! This is an OUT STANDING video. Thank you for what you do.
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Can you show an example of when the plant is a lot taller? Cause I found this in my backyard an it’s about 4 feet. I want to make sure of what I have before I start foraging. 😞🙏🏽
With the stalk you chop them small and cook them ad you would the leaves. They add a nice crunch and texture to the greens.
My grandpa used to pick this out of the ally, boil then eat & I used to think he was an old kook then he gave some of the juice to my counselor who swore he felt energized! I guess they where right......