Five Common Backyard Wild Edibles
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- My garden is not short on weeds and many of them are editable. Here are five common weeds growing in your garden and they are totally edible and nutritious.
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1) Amaranth
2) Purslane
3) Chickweed
4) White clover
5) Lamb quarter
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yes Lambs quarter is at 12:40 :) love it !! and so do my chickens!!
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Wood sorrel growing all around that lambs quarter and some plaintain popping up in those white clover patches.
The first weed is called calalloo in Jamaica. It more like spinach, delicious with cod fish or sautéed with peppers and onions❤️
Hi I'm from Trinidad and just to let you know the first plant you pulled out we call it spinach in my country. And we cultivate it grow it and sell it as a spinach vegetable. So what y different countries know as wild is not. I am so glad to see your channel. It's educational. Thanks.
That is why it's important to also know the scientific name when comparing plants from other countries -- it helps keep misidentification from happening.
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That is know to some people as calaloo
We all cooked and eat that stuff you showed in the video!! I’m Turkish,Some we make salad some we cook ….I love green stuff very healthy
I wish there were more Australians doing these shows. It’s necessary to learn about your local ‘weeds’ ❤
One thing they are all in common with good for lower the blood pressure, but not suggest having too much or too often for normal body.
Why don't you do it? I bet you'd be great at it 😊
It's funny seeing you call purslane and amaranth weeds. I have both of those plants but growing in beds and pots. I eat them weekly. 🥰 You're blessed to have them growing as a weed.
In Nigeria, they grow as weeds.
Hardly anybody planting them.
I guess I'm blessed too! Purslane, lambsquarter and wild amaranth are common in my garden, and they would happily take over if I didn't pull them as weeds. I eat lots of them too, but I'd become obese if I tried to eat them all!
On a side note, the wild amaranth cross-pollinatees with domestic amaranth varieties, so I sometimes get interesting hybrids with "love lies bleeding" and golden giant amaranth. I grow them mostly as decorative plants, but they are edible as well, just like their wild cousin.
All those plants i eat them all my life vary good for stream or put in scramble eggs
My grandfather had hand-selected "weeds" he would underplant his garden with. Purslane was one of them. He liked it because it grows dense and low to the ground, which helps choke out other, less manageable weeds. Another of his favorite weeds was calendula, partly because it's beautiful, but also because it overwinters well and helps keep the garden from filling up with more troublesome weeds as the ground lies fallow. FYI, the petals of the calendula flower are edible and make a nice, colorful addition to salads, while the leaves can be ground into a paste and applied to mild burns, scrapes and bruises to help speed the healing of the skin.
@@randybugger3006 I'm in agreement with your grandpa! Appropriately, I just finished eating a salad that was mostly Purslane. I Iove the stuff because it's good to eat, nutritious, and gives a salad a different appearance to plain lettuce.
In the garden, I let purslane grow, and I simply plant my garden crops right into it. If the Purslane roots consume some of the soil nutrients and deprive my garden plants, they make up for it by shading the soil, conserving soil moisture in my dry climate.
Today, the purslane in my salad came from a garden bed where I just planted carrots. I can't plant carrots under the purslane because carrot seeds need sunlight to germinate. But I also planted beans, corn and squash this week, and they all went right into the soil under a living "mulch" made up mostly of Purslane.
The first weed that you plucked is a vegetable we call calaloo here in Jamaica very delicious
Purslane. My grandma cooks it with pork, cilantro, tomatillos, jalapeño, Mexican oregano, onion & garlic. I forget what she calls it, but I've eaten it that way, since I was a kid.
That sounds so delicious
All the weeds you share in this video are widely used in Asia as green vegetables,
and we eat them daily. We boil them and dip in the fish sauce or make the vegetable soup.
Someday I will travel to Asia to taste it
In Sri Lanka it called as 'koora thampala'
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Yes, කූර තම්පලා! Delicious! We cook it with lentils💐
In the Philippines we call it in Ilokano NGALOG,just stem it and put some fish sauce and tomato,delicious indeed and nutritional 👍
No. 1 plant is eaten n sold in the market here in Northeast India. They are rich in Iron.
With love from SAM
Guwahati, Assam, India 🇮🇳 ♥️
That’s so good!
Thank you for your knowledge and recommended books. My mother tried introducing these “weeds” to us when we were little. She was a Latvian farm girl before the war drove her from her home. She brought her wise gardening techniques with her and passed some wisdom on to us….watching your channel just reinforces what she was all about!
I grew up in Latvia!
Purslane is also known here in South Texas as Portulaca. Grows wild in the cracks of sidewalks, is sold in hanging baskets, etc. There are organic seed packets online for cheap, too. Flowers are edible, as well. Since it's a succulent, make sure it's in clean soils. It's kinda like a tastier version of nopalitos (cactus) & off the charts in Omegas.
Not the same as purslane. I have both rose moss (portulaca) and purslane. Both are succulents but rose moss really is not for eating. I have nopales too and eat them. Cannas are also eatable, all parts, the flowers, the leaves are used like bannana leaves for tamales, etc. and the root is like a potato
@@maryblushes7189 I'm glad you replied with that info. to clarify. I couldn't remember how to find this video to edit my comment. What's strange & confusing is that I have actually seen purslane being called Portulaca. I always called the other plant Moss Rose myself. Thanks again, Mary blushes.
The one i eat in the Rio Grande Valley is called Verdolaga
Hi there here in Portugal we also know them as Portulacas ❤
@@rebeccacurtis6680 Moss rose and purslane are both in the Portulaca genus. Common purslane is Portulaca oleracea and moss rose is Portulaca grandiflora. Both are edible, though they may vary in nutritional content.
My people (Cambodians) have eaten amaranth and purslane for centuries. Delicious vegetables. Very nutritious. 🙂
That's awesome!
is it bitter or not
I am from Haiti, we eat all of these
@@haslinjas1075 not bitter
In my country in Armenia we eat purslane but not amarath, but I knew some ate it. We had it grow in our backyard as weed and we pulled them out. When we had cows , they would eat them. I had heard it was edible, but wasn’t in tradition to cook them unlike some other weeds which had more specific taste.
Excellent. You also had plantain growing among your clovers
Yes, we use it medicinally
I have a lot of clover ☘️ in my yard right now! We had some landscaping done and somehow my entire front yard is clover. I never knew you could eat clovers. Thank you for sharing this!
I hope your yard is not sprayed with chemicals
Purslane is very common in Iraq, we buy it … yes sadly we can’t find it growing wildly. It’s either cooked as a stew with meat and served with rice or is washed and chopped then blanched then add chopped onions, cucumbers and some garlic to plain yogurt and season with salt, it is the most refreshing summer salad, make it when you are having a barbecue 🍖 it is yummy 🤤.
I used to eat clover leaves often when I was a kid, because I loved the flavor! To me, they tasted just a little bit lemony kinda, just a really nice mild tangy flavor. Good to know they were safe to eat, lol!
Delicious!
Now we know why they've been pushing the weed killers for many years!
That may have been wood sorrel. It looks very similar to clover but the leaves are heart shaped. There’s actually some in the background of the lamb’s quarter segment!
Yum we loved finding wood sorrel to eat tangy and the closed flowers we called pickles
Purslane has tons of omega 3's. Also cute kitty 🐈
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I pick purslane out of my garden every summer and toss it in salads 🥗 🤣 I call the wild edibles free food!
Purslane is packed with omega 3 and is a great food for chickens. Dandelions are 100% edible plus they help prevent soil erosion, help aerate the soil while pulling essential minerals up to the surface to feed other plants.
Thank you for sharing
Yep dandelions are non to pop up in abundance in areas with little calcium in shallow soil there known to pull up calcium from deep soil
Da ki khasi te sngewthuh da phareng ngim sngaw thuh
Purslane is ridiculously low in fat, so don't bother about omega 3...
Yes, good for chicken. I never eat plants so high in oxalate anyway!
I LOVE purslane just discovered it myself last year had it everywhere in the yard since I don’t use traditional fertilizers or herbicides two acres of happiness that I turn into a pesto amazing…haven’t tried chickweed but will search for it this year…thanks for sharing all,of these treasures…stay blessed
Thank you!
I make a purslane fish sauce for fish. My purslane is grown on purpose for using. The ones that have a stronger citrus flavor are saved for seeds for next year's crop.
The first plant is called bhaji or spinach in my country, Trinidad and Tobago...you can also cook young Peppers leave, young pumpkin leave and flowers, young cassava leave.
Let her know that in Trinidad, that first weed is a famous delicacy. Let her know that!🇹🇹
@@michaelpaul2892 smh
Nearby to T &T it's called zepina. It can be cooked as callaloo and is an excellent herb for respiratory disorders.
Same here in East Africa though cassava in more common among the Congolese
@@martharinebiseko1457 we got the recipes from our African and East Indian foreparents/ ancestors too.
The first plant you showed is Bondwe in my country and it's got spinach taste yamiii🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲
Just watched your video. I saw some broadleaf plantain among your clover, too. I like to pick the best delicate new leaves of chickweed, plaintain, verdolaga (purslane) and lambs quarters for our salads or for a simple stir fry. Big handfuls go to the chickens though!
Also saw the plantain and wood sorrel.
the first "weed" you mentioned and showed is to us here in Suriname a nutritious vegetable we call "Klaroen" You just need to harvest the tops and cook them. It will grow more luscious afterwards. Yes, you have the green and the red one.
We call it chorai bhagi in Trinidad just this morning I made stuff bhagi bread
We use them as spinach in rice n other vegetables meals
In Trinidad we also call it spinach. Very delicious.
Thank you so much I have these weeds all over my garden , and now I plan to pic and try them I don’t mind grazing my back yard so to speak as everything is growing around my above ground beds so this will be an addition to my veggies
You do an awesome job describing the plants!! Thank you so much!!
Thank you for sharing this knowledge, I have been uprooting these weeds not knowing they are packed with nutrional benefits, they have been so annoying. I have been reading so much of the comments and I really appreciate the entire family for sharing what they know, may God bless you. South Africa
I am happy to share
TY for the backyard edible knowledge. I live in florida, most these are in my yard as well. I plan on setting up a raised bed just for weeds like these. Please keep passing on your grandmother's knowledge. Have a great day!
So nice of you!
From where I come from, the plant you pulled out calling it pig weed is a real vegetable that we eat. You cook it like you cook green vegetables.
You´re awesome! I love your connection to nature, animals, plants, bees. You have great respect for all life. Thank you.
Thanks for the information! I'm fortunate to have most of these weeds in abundance in my Colorado garden. Several years, I allowed wild amaranth and lambsquarter to grow on my compost piles, thinking that the greenery would benefit the compost when I turn it in. A lot of the seeds made their way into the compost, though, when I didn't turn it soon enough.
When I spread the compost on the garden, I spread the seeds too, naturally. Now I get volunteers growing all over my garden beds, but I don't mind. It's easy to recognize, and easy to pull when small. When it's not in my way, I let it grow and eat it, or use it to make "weed tea." I assume that whatever nutritional qualities it has, they improve when it grows in rich soil.
I also have lots of wild purslane, and I use it in salads all season long.
Now, I'm going to watch for Chickweed. I don't think it grows in my garden, though.
I'll start eating the white clover, which is also common in my garden.
The first one we call it Kulitis in the Philippines, Now I live here in US my Indonesian neighbor gave me some seeds, some I let it bloom left out for the seed to fall for next harvest. Thanks for sharing. Now we have so much rain I have a lot of clover 🍀🍀🍀 .I will try to eat them .😊
I have same weeds in my backyard! Thanks for sharing!
Great video! The Plantains there and Dandelions too. Flowers and leaves.
Yes! Thank you!
Your garden looks rich and healthy
I love, love, your channel ! Thank you for sharing all you know. You are a wonderful teacher😊
Thank you so much!
i have had pica since i was a child and id commonly eat the grasses/leaves in my backyard. when you described the purslane as “lemony” it brought back sone memories. guess my old ways were kind of onto something
Wild plants are very nutritious, however, need to be careful with any possible poisons
Purslane In my earlier age we cook that for one OF our animals. I guess over the Year’s Gone people studied the nutrition contain good vitamin w/C is also good for human!So next time I see that I might try it!😊❤ Thx for sharing your video!
That was very informative, especially the juicing part, great way to get started.
When I " weed " my garden I usually snack on the weeds I pull out as I work in my garden , and many of the " weeds " end up in my salad bowl or in stir fries as Im waiting for my main crops to produce.
That is so good!
Thank you for a very well illistrated showing of edible weeds! I had Lambs quarter and purslane come up voluteer in my tomato tubs from last year, but not knowing how good they were for me, I didn't keep them watered in our drought. I hope they come back out in the fall.
Wonderful!
You do an awesome job describing the plants!! Thank you so much!!. You do an awesome job describing the plants!! Thank you so much!!.
You are so welcome!
A very lovely and informative lesson. Thank you so much.
That's so wonderful
These weeds are so good to know!! Great video thank you 😊
moved in this house 86’, never weeds back then for years, now weeds everywhere.
You deserved a supporter from Philippines maam. This is a great idea that helps me a lot.
I’ve been pulling out the porcelains from my back yard,I didn’t know we can eat it,thank you,now I know.
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The first weed is catalog, very nutritious vegetable we love it in Jamaica
Porcelains is a legumes you can saute' cook them with fresh beans or dry beans and more very common in the Caribbean.
Sounds delicious!
Great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have many of these weeds in my garden and around the house. Never knew they were edible. thank you again.
thank you, I hope you get a chance to include them in your recipes.
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I grew up eating purslane. its very a common dish in Mexico
How did u eat them
@@franci9936 my grandma would fry them up with tomatoes and onions. We also would have them with scramble eggs
Wow! That’s so interesting. I had no idea they were even edible!
Eat the wood sorrel growing beneath the lamb's quarters! Three heart shaped leaves. High in vitamin C and tastes like lemon but does contain oxalic acid like many weeds
Yeah,...It's very delicious
Nightshade has a similar leaf shape when young, but. Amaranth has a pink stem and a white, almost shiny, underneath the leaf. Deadly nightshade has neither
characteristic.
To get rid of kidney stones, add vinegar to diet like salad dressing or lemonade with vinegar.
Chickweed, I heard, has photo (plant) estrogen. I powder mine.
💚💚 Your content is absolutely fantastic and such a breath of fresh air! As someone who shares a passion for foraging and has a small channel in this niche, I find your work super inspiring. Keep up the incredible job and continue making a massive impact 🌿
Greetings from Grenade 🇬🇩🇬🇩
Thanks for sharing. I spotted broad leaf plantain mixed in with the clover l, that's an edible too.
Yes, we have a lot of plain plantain on our property
Appreciate your sharing!! From your pictures, the 5 or 6 kinds of wild vege are well known to us in Asia. We eat them very often, sometimes even daily. Your pictures also show you have other wild vegetables that are also edible, such as 車前草。The first one you pulled out of ground has a rather edible root, is a good herb medicine. If you live in central Florida, come and I will show you more wonderful edible wild vegetables!
I saw the plantain as well hiding in the white clover. Also, in front of the lamb's quarters, there was some dock and there was another small amaranth.
James, I live in NE Florida. If you have the time, I'd be very interested if you post the names of the most common wild edibles in your area, as they probably thrive here as well. I'm trying to learn what I can, but many creators who post about wild food in the US are up north. Thanks!
Wow purslane! i remember it when I was young I always picked those plant for our pigs! There so many here in the Philippines! We consider it as grass that's why people here ignored it!
So , Purslane grows all over my backyard 🤣🤣🤣 wow. I have been saving the dandelions here too as they attract the bees. But I didn’t know of the clover which grows here too when it’s cooler. TFS
I love learning about these eatable weeds and everything that has to do with Homesteading
😃 I have subscribe to your channel
Thank you for sharing your amazing home gardening
Yes, I always eat them since you have said so and I am much more healthear now.
Thanks for saying so
Thank you Luli for sharing your knowledge with us. You are a wealth of valuable information 🌷
Thank you. Glad you find it interesting.
We called that purslane as sekan here in the Philippibes. I like it taste when we cook it taste like bitter gourd, but i like its bitteeness.we cook it together with can sardines.
Wow, never knew any of these were edible, thanks for sharing, this is really useful
This is a great video; very educational and entertaining. However, I would like to see more of your kitty cat. His coat looks so plush and is a gorgeous color 😍
Wood Sorrel growing under the lambs quarters (3 heart shaped leaves) another tasty edible 🧐😊 They both Grow here in Manchester, England too.
Very cool!
The first one is called calaloo in Jamaica I love it very delicious when steam with salt fish and fried dumplings 😊
Good to know!
First second and the fifth are my favorite spinach all the time. I plant them every year in my vegetable garden.
We call that spinach (the pigs tail ) highly nutritional is used to build the blood. It's a common food where I live.
And where on earth do you leave? You are probably my neighbour here in Arusha East Africa
Bees love white clovers keep it
Yes, absolutely!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge ❤
First plans is called bagee , it is considered as family to Spinich.
We are add to dahal curry.
Thank you. I had the Audubon books, but they were stolen. Thanks for reminder. I must replace them. Great books! In our So. CA, yard, we have many of the plants that you mentioned. We also have dandilions that i plan to make Christmas jelly gifts of. They taste like honey!
Oh wow!
Love chickweed, has strong antifungal properties and drank as a tea with Harris and marshmallow, works on inflammation as well
Thank you for sharing
Amaranth help people with HIV, it's seeds are milled and highly recommended to the patients. It's eaten alot by all in KENYA 🇰🇪
Ug and TZ too
Yap..a Kenyan in the house..its called Terere in Kiswahili..
Amaranth is also known as Chinese spinach in some areas of the world. Very nutritious
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Great video giving knowledge of edible weeds . Your voice is very clear.
First and second weeds are found and eaten here in India also . Very glad
To see your video.
Amarath is mom's favourite leafy plant. We call it "Thepe". As for purslane, we always throw it out. I didn’t know that you could eat it. Thanks for the information. I'll eat it next time when i see it.
Um-m. Seeing your kitty walking amongst the clover reminds me of the old warning about yellow snow.
Don't worry, cats dig a hole, urinate, then cover it over.
Watching as I'm eating purslane I just picked, from my overgrown garden, with a little caesar dressing.
Nice!
On 2:10 I called chicken dunk weed in Asia, on 4:47 I called pig weed(Purse lane) I cook that every day for my pig to eat, both were great on animal feed + my self too, white clover, in the u s you have only 3 leaves-in Asia they have 4 leaves clover, you guy eat raw, but in Asia we always eat cooked wild vegetables we never eat raw, thank s for INFO👍👍✋.
Thank you! I actually have pigweed in full bloom! its very beautiful!
Good one! TY Luli Lu😊
Purslane is a vegetable in Namibia.
Amaranth is common in East Africa
In my Country, we call it "bondwe" and is one of my favorite veggies 😋! Quite expensive especially in Summer.
Great collection here. Nice.
I am from the Phil, we eat amaranth called kulitis, purslane or ngalog in my dialect, when we were kids we used to go to the fields to gather purslane for the pigs. I am now in Canada I love purslane and lambs quarters.
I just found a bunch of white clover growing on the garden. I'm hoping it will attract bees and I can eat it also. Yay!
This is a very delicious Spinnage there are many varieties.
Thank you for all this information! I have religiously de-weeded all these plants from my garden, ignorant of all these benefits. Dear weeds please forgive me...
Portulaca can be used in salads with lattuga and cucumber,vinagre,oliva oil.Portulaca is a very healthy plant
You had sorrel(3 heart shaped leaves)next to your lambs quarters also edible. Thanks for the video
Excellent video....thank you for such a useful unique video!
Thank you. I made chicken purslane stew and it came out amazing!
Wonderful I myself is a farmer by profession. I do used some of those herbs.
In India we call this first weed plant is known as kuppai keerai in Tamil language. We are eating this plant . We are use it to produce varies food items
*The second one is called as பருப்பு கீரை Paruppu Keerai. The first two were Spinach verities.*
Saw black jack near the 1st amaranth, itsa very good and delicious vegetable too
Pig weed is very common in the Philippines it is use as veggies on their dish.
Nice informative video. Purslane and Clover is a staple food in Afghanistan in addition to spinach and leek. All are very versatile food.
Amazing how the Good Lord is always trying to feed us, and give us free medicine. And we rebellious humans just spray it with poison and cut it down, all in the name of 'my grass isn't pretty'. Lol. Dandelions , most plentiful, but we need pretty lawns. 😂
Very true!
I saw some plantain there too...right now its been too dry to find a couple of these, guess drought doesn't allow for purslane, and have to wait for fall to gather plantain seeds which are the same as psyllium in Metamucil...lol...keep teaching this, its needed right now...could stave off starvation if things get nuts!