EASY to Grow Veggie You Probably NEVER Heard of | Rakkyo
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2023
- In this video, I show you how to grow one of the easiest crops that you probably have never heard of called Rakkyo. We also cover preparing and pickling these mild but tasty onions.
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G'day Everyone, 2 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS - wow, how did that happen! Thank you all for your support because without you watching and sharing my vids it would just be my plants listening to me like a mad old man rambling in the garden... Seriously - thanks. Cheers :)
Absolutely welcome. You'll be at 5M before you know it, mate. Top notch gardening vids.
You are a hero in our house mate, thoroughly well deserved congratulations on your success and your hard work coming to fruition!
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No, thank you Mark! Encouraging us to continue to be self sufficient every single day is not an easy task. Hands down my favorite videos to watch.
Rakkyo = Garlic chive (you can look up recipes)
Don't throw away the green shoots next time!
We make stir fries using the green parts including its flowers! Extra veggies on the plate :)
It's funny I've never heard of these onions but as I was watching the video I was thinking "the tops look just like scallions or fat chives, I bet you could use them the same way." Glad to see my intuition was on the ball.
Dear Mark: My son and I love your videos. But we came up with a BIG philosophical difference regarding your use of the garlic-chive tops as compost. Of course, you can compost whatever you wish. Just suffice to say that we enjoy diced or scissored Garlic Chive greens in ramen, other kinds of soups, salads with microgreens (extremely flavorful in combo with Swiss Chard, Dandelion, Queen Anne Lace, and Thistle microgreens, and/or rough-chopped sweet Pea Sprouts), cheesesteaks and stir-fries, and on top of fried or scrambled eggs, and pizza slices for extra allium aroma. Our Vietnamese and Chinese neighbors grow them in their gardens, and they have begun spreading into other people's gardens and lawns, like mine. I cannot argue about your use of the bulbs, but those greens are extremely edible and delicious, TOO!!!
PS: Keep the Videos Coming!
As others have said i would have chopped and dehydrated those onion chives. What i really wanted to say was last spring i planted starter onions and they didnt do what i wanted so i moved them and replanted in a different area. Something others said dont do. Well all winter and even now i have about 10 left in the garden we have been eating on. Surprise to me they all split into 2 or 3 and kept growing. So pulling and cooking with fresh onions of a decent size has been awesome. You taught me to turn a "failure/ disappointment" into a positive and now i see you doing it again. Rock on.
What a wonderful video, so thorough AND enjoying the comments too! Will b ordering some of these to try, my family luvs onions, I love garlic, good combo!
Rakkyo isn't garlic chives. Garlic chives don't have 'bulb' and have flat slight triangular leaves. Rakkyo is more like onion chives
Your storage is to die for! So beautiful and perfectly labeled and organized!
@@rng8850 what?????? He has another channel? I’m going to have to look for that. Thanks!
Must be his army training
He makes a living making these videos of course it's organized
@@adrianamond8948 I was thinking the same thing.
@@jacquestuber628 Maybe a side income :D
The rakkyo doesn't look exactly the same, but very similar to what we call "multiplying onions" here in the US deep south. These were very common in the yards and gardens of many Southern homes, and are now making a comeback in light of food shortages. I grew some last year and now have a patch in dedicated raised bed. That way, we will always have some onions for cooking, even the the store doesn't!
Thinking the same thing here in zone 9B Central Florida been growing and harvesting multiplying onions for several years eat some plant some onions forever! short day bulb onions are too much time and care whatever?
Where did you source your Rukkyo Mark? I’d love to give them a try.
I remember finding them in people's yards ALL the time when i was a kid in NC running through all the neighbors yards.
I finally actually found some up in Rochester NY too when I moved up there to be near my wife's school. It made me so excited to smell them after all those years. But they never seemed to grow only the tiniest little bulb.
My grandma always had multiplying and walking onions. I had multiplying onions but moved and haven't been able to find any. Sure miss them. They are handy!
Any idea where to find these onions? Are they the same as Egyptian walking onions? Which seem to be sold out everywhere, everytime I go looking...Thanks if you have any info on where to buy these.
pickled rakkyos are so good. I pickled a batch with a basic pickling solution coupled with dill, thai chilis, coriander and black peppercorns. It's the perfect pungent and acidic balance to anything savory and rich.
@ that’s awesome. In Japan we don’t have much spicy food but we put 1 or 2 chilis in a 2 liter jar for pickling or as some people do, just use rakkyo, ice/rock sugar, and vodka.
We make it in June and start eating late July or August.
I messed up once and bought garlic instead but it still tasted OK.
Man, you have the patience of Job. That's a lot of little onions!
i love self sufficient me it's the first ever channel i looked for to start my homestead garden thing
These look like the onions sold here in the markets as pearl onions. I actually have trouble finding them in the markets as most people now don't know what to do with them or just don't want to take the time to peel them. My grandmother used to make creamed onions with them for thanksgiving. I use them in stew or soups. Pickling them looks like a good idea too.
Steaming these chinese onions sounds like such a good idea indeed. :)
Here in Canada they just call them either sweet or just regular pickled onions, but my British Nana used to call them pearl onions, and told me they were quite popular in England. Nowadays nobody seems to know what they are. Their crunch and delicate flavor is unmatched (if you like pickled onions.)
pearl onions are a bit sweeter but rakyo is more shalloty and crispier if that makes sense. They're excellent pickling onions because they maintain that firm snap really well
@@deathpyre42 Very interesting and yup completely make sense and you explained that very well. :)
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Want to say a big thank you to you and your lovely wife for your service to our country. And, importantly but to a lesser degree, thanks for the inspiration to get back into the garden 👍
4am in san diego, cant sleep. Im happy to watch your videos
Mark is a deadset aussie legend and dare I say the gardening equivalent of Steve Irwin 🤠👍
You can never grow too many onions in my opinion. Thanks for sharing this unique variety. Twas a great harvest!
It's great living in the same area as you. It's like having my own personal gardening advisor. Thanks, Mark!
i agree with you there. i live about 1 hour south of mark and he is my go to with any questions about my vegies.
giving you a RAKKYO thumbs up for how much work you put into the onions! Great video Mark!
Love the way you say Rakkyo while posing, made me smile :)
Those onions remind me of the "wild onions " that look similar but remain dormant in the ground all summer here in southeast texas. In the spring they flower and the tiny bulbs are great in stir fry. I think they may be called Egyptian walking onions. I am going to try your pickling method on some, thanks for sharing!!
Oh yeah I love those! They grow in my brother's backyard and the whole place smells like onions back there haha, they are indeed excellent in stir fry, lovely scallion/chives like taste
My 5-year-old son is helping your views on this vid. It's his most requested video and almost on a daily basis. I addition, he's now mad at all animals that eat worms because they are needed for good soil. Loving your content and the influence on my boy!
I'm always a bit jealous of your setup in the garden and the kitchen. I'd love to have that much space and equipment.
As I watched you standing there processing those onions I thought "Hmm, looks hot. I'd be sitting in the shade doing that." Thank you Mark!
I thought the same. I live nearby and thought, "February, hot day, sorting one million and fourteen small onions...that's a back deck job. Probably nearer sunset. Likely with a brew in hand."
Just found your channel a couple weeks ago and I just caught an upload the instant it was up! Been loving it, you're so easy to watch!
Thank you, and thanks for subscribing and pushing me over the 2 million! All the best :)
That pickling job looked very professional. I'm curious about them now.
I like canning purple beet with onion, they are sweet enough it doesn't take much if any sugar.
In a cold climate I use bunching onions. I just scatter the seed in winter on a bed (after I kick the chickens out) and in early spring dig em up and put in rows. I get green tops all summer and small bulbs. They are simular to those pearl onions.
I live in WV in the United States. Watching you helps me get through the non-growing season!
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Can not tell you how happy I am for you!!!!!!
I have heard of them! (But only because I live in Japan and my husband absolutely loves them!) I'm so excited for this. I'm going to try to grow them this year!!
In Japan, they are almost exclusively sold pickled (usually slightly sweetened). They are soooo good, especially when you eat them with something spicy, like curry.
My ultimate therapy is triming the veggies and getting them ready to preserve 😍. I'm going to look for these to give to my girlfriends Asian mom. Nice one Mark! Thank you!
Ginger also adds a lovely layer of warmth and goes wonderfully with the apple cider vinegar.
Years of watching your videos. My family is finally about to build a house on 2 acres. So excited to start growing vegetables fruit and animals!
Picked Onion with Vinegar is much more appropriate Mark, 😋 as it took you longer to pick and wash than it did to process. A labor of love. 💕
I separated a bunch of chives last year to see how they'd grow individually. They're still in the soil, so we'll see how it goes.
Thanks for another great video, and vibrates on 2 million subs!
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That was so lovely to see! I have lived in Okinawa, the tropical southern islands of Japan, where they are served raw with some salt and japanese mayo!
Really could relate to your fingers after cleaning all of them!!
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I'm new here and I must admit I first clicked on one of your thumnail because I was curious to see Ricky Gervais talking about Veggie.
Then I decided to stay beacause of the quality content. ;)
They look like a cross of pearl onion and shallot. Looks great!
I’m loving watching you teach me! 😉 ty for making me a better Gardner.
If those are potato onions, I read in a seed catalog you plant the largest ones from each harvest so they get bigger each year. Awesome harvest!!!
Thank you for this and your other videos. The glimpse of your storage area was a treat.
Mark got these at Green Harvest, online, at Maleny. Hope this helps. Happy growing y'all. This is a wonderful time for gardening/ growing, anything and everything. Interesting times we are living through.
Thank you!
Do you grow onions?
thanks for that. was wondering where he got them from. will place an order with Green Harvest
Haven t had rakkyo since I was a small child in Japan. Made my mouth water when I watched this video. I found some fresh at a Japanese market once but was very expensive
Thank you for showing us the whole life cycle, including the pickling. Looks yummy. Not exactly fast food, but if it can store through summer heat and keep growing, it is a great option.
Putting the greenhouse cover over my beds this weekend! 😉👍
Hey! Just getting into garden and your channel is so helpful! I enjoy your upbeat attitude and knowledge about gardening!
I love the look of the new kitchen!
Your info is always great and clearly delivered + you are a bit of a dag = what's not to love? The climate here in West Wales is a *bit* different to SE Queensland, but I still learn something useful, every single time I watch something of yours. Today it was your pickling recipe. And who can resist a smile when they hear: Let's............... Get into it! Keep up the good work, mate. You also make all us ex-pat Aussies homesick! Lots of love to you and your family. xx
Hey, Southern California, USA here, it is frequently too hot for the onions here in the summer as well, but the idea of those pickled onions has me very interested!!! Most things grow well here, but for three months of summer, it is too hot, and three months of winter are too cold, but we can get most things in at some point in between them. I like those onions! Thanks for sharing!
Makes my mouth water- Great work Mark. Thanks and congrats on 2 million subs.
This seems like a labor of love.....I'm here for it!
Hi Mark! I would love to see a video on what crops you are starting for winter and when you plant them! I'm in the Northern Rivers of NSW and I'm struggling to find growing content applicable for my growing location during this transition period.
Gambate!
That kitchen set up is amazing...
Great vid as always! Whats funny is I have these growing everywhere on my property... Very hardy! At first I though of them as a pest till we ate them! South Central Virginia here and just called "wild onion". They arent really amazing taste or anything to write home about, but they definitely work as utility fresh food. ML and Blessings all! 💪❤🙏💯
Over by Culpeper here. Is that what grows wild in the grassy part of the yard?
It is so good to see a man in the garden.. in this day and age most men don't think it something they should be doing.. I live in Texas where summers can be very dry and hot.. sometimes its hard to even have a garden... but I learn something every time I watch your videos.. thank you..
Congratulations on 2 million subscribers!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Man i am living in an apartment in the middle of a city and i am just watching this because i love listening to Ausies talk. LOL
Thanks for taking the time to show the pickling recipe! They look fantastic!
Do you know how long they are good for when pickling?
i admire you and all that you teach us! you’re like the wholesome, funny dad i never had - but with and accent 😂❤
I live in Japan and do not really like rakkyo but I will try them again and maybe even try growing some of them in my small garden this year. I planted store-bought green onions late last year and they are still alive (under the snow). I just chopped and saved the lower end and planted them. Days later, they started growing the green shoots (this is a part I eat). I think I can do the same with the rakkyo. Your recipe also sounds great. Will use your ideas.
Wow! Your patience and determination to get bigger bulbs sure did pay off! Those onions look amazing! I have heard of "Chinese onions" but have never grown them or seen them grown. Onions are for some reason a very hard crop for me to grow. I think I am going to do less onions but grow them in containers. Maybe transplanting them into my in ground garden beds when they are more mature. Seems like they just do not grow well for me from seed directly sowing them into my garden beds. Thanks for sharing how much effort and patience it can sometimes take to get a crop you want get to the size you want!
It's not you, even LOCAL nuseries can make buying starts, sets, seeds confusing by inventorying improper options of these that will never bulb up. So give these ones a try considering they don't need day cycling to rely on bulbing. :)
Try growing Egyptian walking onions. They are easy to grow, and you can plant any time of year if ground is not frozen. Do not harvest until 2d year and they will come back every year. They are a mild onion, similar to a shallot.
@@ann7318 Neat, thanks for sharing that. I will look into those. :)
Did the jars get heat processed at all? I know the acid will help with food safety, but I'm curious about texture. I've never done a shelf vinegar pickle... Salt ferment, or vinegar fridge pickle, and of course water bath canning so I'm super curious what happened between filling jars and putting them in storage!
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I was born and raised in Hong Kong. I used to snack them what I was a kid. I haven’t had them for a long time and my mouth is watering now.
We have these in our garden. Impossible to kill. Back every year like a volunteer.
Mark I wait and watch all your videos. But this video was the best in explaining. Value of picture and sound and the hole process of picking three different ways and put ezy steps to follow through. I will be saving this as I liked how easy you explained and wrote instructions for the process.thank you very much you have come a long way . Keep up the awesome garden
can't remember the last time I learned so many things in 10 minutes. Loved all the detail!
Hi. This was a good video. We need more like this. Where u harvest and share your canning, storing. Any sites u can share where to buy seeds for planting? I live in Norway, and want to try something new spices and flowers :) Thank you. Regards
I just love how I can feel my heart and mind relax instantly when I watch your videos. I love how your videos make me feel. I aspire to garden like you, but I really admire your character above all else. Thanks for your time and efforts.
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We have wild onions here in the south they're really good to but a small bulb. But they're everywhere. I might pickle some.
Pickled Rakkyo are great to snack on with a beer while yo admire your day’s work in the garden. Quite a few Japanese bars offer them as appetizers. I have some extra space in one of my new raised beds. This looks like a great fit. Thank you for the great idea!
You are a beast bro.. self sufficient is the future. You are way ahead of the pack.
Is that part of your new kitchen!? Got me drooling over here😆 Beautiful!😉❤
Really liked the mixture of music as u worked, great editing. Enjoying from ontario canada. We just got a foot and a half of snow last night
Where can I get these onions to plant - I’m in UK
Thank you for inspiring me to grow my own food.
It helps me a lot to cope up with depression after my estrange wife left me.
It helps me a lot to look forward with my own little garden bed. Greetings from philippines
@_SelfSufficientMe i dont have telegram. I dunno if i can claim it. Im from the Philippines. Thank you for noticing anyways. It makes us subscribers feel there is a human side in you other than these youtube contents. Keep inspiring people. Your doing a lot than you can imagine to others.
Looks like the perfect pearl onion to me. I'll have to try them in my garden.
OK! I've finally pieced all of the parts of how I want to set up a garden and your inspiring raised beds are the final one to add to my (wait for it).... Yakisugi wooden Raised Bed/ Hugelkultur/ Electroculture/ Ruth Stout Garden! Whew! Now to just get the guys to make the time to make 'em. lol ThankQ very much for the inspiration to not give up just cuz I'm getting older! 😊😉
so good to find a gardening expert in Brisbane ! my new fav channel !
Mark, although I'm always looking for small veggies that require a lot of work to process (!), my small onions of choice are Egyptian walking onions. They're perennial, multiply readily, tolerate heat well and produce an edible green top that I harvest, slice and freeze for use over the winter. They're also great pickled with my Thai chilies and snow pea pods.
I'm on the east coast of the US in Massachusetts and it's snowing heavily at the moment, so I do enjoy watching a garden that's productive even during the "winter". Thanks for all your great tips over the years =-)
I'm glad to have discovered your channel. It has gotten me inspired to start Gardening potatoes and the like. Though I'm a complete rookie who hasn't started yet. The only concern is that, since I live in a harsh cold climate I wonder if it would be wise to stick to gardening during the Summer and Fall and the latter of which varies in time from 2 months to 1 before shifting into Winter. I hope you are well and thank you for making so many videos talking about planting, it may become a new means for me to start eating vegetables more often.
I loved hearing you say Rakkyo!! It was said with such enthusiasm!!
1M + 15 - haha. This is the first video I recall being edited with music - it has an uplifting quality. I've been doing ferments lately and using whole or crushed garlic cloves (and lots of spices) and they remain pretty firm. Always good videos from you. Fantastic pantry! I love that you show your quirky personality. You're a very entertaining person and it's so good to see that a simple life brings such abundance to a person and in so many ways. Just lovely.
Rakkyo is a great base for Amsterdam onions. Amsterdam onions are pickled in white wine and vinegar with saffron and mustard seeds.
Rakkyo is also a great base for caramelized onions (in sherry with balsamic vinegar, thyme and laurel). We traditionally use silverskin onions for this but I'd love to get my hands on some Rakkyo to try this.
Hello from NZ, I love watching your videos. Just watched one from a year ago filling up your raised garden beds, hard work 🤪 and spilling your soil from the bucket (bugger alright) 😂😂...so enjoy your sense of humour, have a great giggle, thank you.
I LOVE my husband’s grandmothers pickled rakkyo. But obviously we can’t get it here… or so I thought!! Thanks for the video Mark I am definitely going to try to get a hold of some.
Looks like something I can grow on the balcony, thanks for sharing! The pickling recipes look great as well.
I love your videos! Instructional and entertaining!! Thank you! Never heard of these onions but now I want to grow some!
love your videos / and you are a funny guy .tks alot . keep them comming you are my no 1 gardening show i have learned a lot / tks
Wow, that pantry looks GORGEOUS. It's a beautiful thing!
Mark, you and your garden are a sight for sore eyes! February in Zone 7b is the hardest month. I have started all my tomatoes and peppers indoors, but now I have to wait at least 6 more weeks before I can put them outside.
This is definately one I never heard of. I will have to look into trying it for my garden.
Yummy! Those Chilli picked onions look awesome! Salute from New Zealand.
Interesting - neither I nor my wife had ever heard of those onions before - looks interesting. The pickling looked like a real labour of love... so I hope you enjoy them muchly - it looked like there was a fair chance of that... anyway, a big Rakkyo thumbs up to you and your channel... really good stuff and I am glad to see that you now have a good community and views of your videos happening - that's really cool... keep going and have fun... wear a hat!! 👍😄
"Future Mark, who's just a little bit older than me." Hilarious turn of phrase, I'm gonna have to remember that one.
Finally
You teaching people ,, how to pickle , things ..
Never knew how pickle anything .
Ie tomatoes ,, live Tassie ,, thank you .
It wasn't that long ago you hit 1 Million subs. Congrats on getting over 2 Million subs!
Much love from New Zealand everyone ❤️
Noticeable jump in post processing of your videos Mark. Always loved your channel (especially being Aussie and I can relate)
three-cornered leek
might be a better small onion ,classified as a weed and grows like one.
grows wild all over here in north western California
nice nutty flavor if your going for the bulbs
Allium triquetrum is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus Allium (onions and garlic) native to the Mediterranean basin. It is known in English as three-cornered leek, and in Australia and New Zealand as onion weed. Both the English name and the specific epithet triquetrum refer to the three-cornered shape of the flower stalks
I've never heard of them and I watch a lot of Japanese PBS. When you pulled those up they looked a lot like spring garlic. You used all the green parts back on the beds, but I thought you could eat those to like scallions, maybe in salad. (?) I soooo wish I had a yard. I would love to know exactly where my food came from. I'm just happy I found frozen organic corn. :-/ My next trip to the store I'm buying purple onions and pickling them. It's not cheap, but good. I found some sweet limes and I'm going to preserve them. I HAVE to start cooking all my food because I found out how many allergies I have and some of them are in practically all processed food. It's a real bummer.
Hello from Seattle Washington USA. I just found your channel and absolutely love you!!! I don’t know anything about growing veggies so I hope I will learn a lot watching your channel.😊
Really love your enthusiasm to teach and share and live!
Your Japanese is spot-on!
Looking forward to more!
Cheers!
Awesome...so cool to add a new crop to the garden!
I can appreciate and fathom the amount of tedious work that went into the making of these pickled onions.
Well done for topping and tailing all those onions ! Reminded me of when my mother would hand out nail scissors to us children to top and tail gooseberries for bottling.