Eat The Weeds: Episode 123: Ivy Gourd, Tindora.
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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A cultivated vegetable in warmer areas of the world, the Ivy Gourd (Coccinia grandis) is an escapee that is quite tasty. It has vitamins A and C and is high in beta carotene when ripe. (Recipe is on my website.)
These videos are great. Foraging and growing food are two interests that have been lost in culture and these episodes should be on TV
I grow up eating now I miss it
If you made Eat The Weeds shirts with different plants itemized on the back, would be so cool.
Love all your channels. I have been watching for years and learn something new every time I revisit your sites. I am a serious weed hunter, but the Ivy Gourd has been one plant that has eluded my search. Live in Sumter County, FL. Search back roads, parks, farms in my county and surrounding counties. I have even searched many back roads in GA, SC & TN on trips to visit my kids. This plant just doesn't want me to find it. With beautiful red gourds should be easily seen along roadsides. This so-called invasive plant is either being eaten by all your subscribers or like other wild edibles being eradicated by the government, like Amaranth in Georgia. (was shocked when I read how there is all out war against Amaranth by farmers in Georgia) Anyone in Central Florida area growing Ivy Gourd plants wanting to sell cuttings or seeds please contact me. From the comments looks like a lot of us are searching for these little beauties. Mr. Green Deane thank you for sharing with all of us weed hunters.
I have a lot of this in my yard. I am north of Tampa. Feel free to send me a PM on my channel page.
Thanks for posting. I just learn that there are 2kinds--sweet and bitter Ivy gourd. In my little garden, I allowed it to grow as I thought it was a specie of cucumber. Earlier I Googled it and found videos at UA-cam to satisfy myself if it is really edible. Now, I felt more confidence to cook and try it as u said it is rich in Vit. C and good for Diabetis.Your video contains a more in-depth presentation. Kudos, brod! God bless...
So I'm just watching this video and i like your personality. Thanks for showing us Tindora
I love cucurbits. They are my favorite plant family. I'm growing one of these for the first time. Can't wait for the fruits. So pretty! They do look like watermelons. I didn't know there were two kinds. I hope mine is the sweet kind because I don't like bitter. If not at least it will make a pretty ornamental. I didn't know they were in the wild down here. Cool. I've never seen one.
Learn the Indian tindora fry recipe and ull never fail to fall in love with this recipe
3 varities are there.thin and little longish,plump n more rounded and the wild variety which is bitter n onle birds r eating the ripe fruits.the tender 'gourds'of the domesticated varieties are cooked n eaten.very popular on west coast of india.goa,canara and kerala,perticularly.
Awesome video, nice to know about the Ivy gourd! Will try to propogate it here in SoCal and see how it goes!
@vidaripollen I mention varities on my website. With every video there is a larger and more expansive article.
I bought the plant at an exotic plant sale and just love the green unripe fruit. I had no idea you could eat the leaves or the red ripe fruit. I am going to try it! Thanks for the great video!
idk how these plants started to grow in my place. we didn't even know these are edible lol.
BTW, thanks so much for your video's Dean!! You've no idea how much help you've been in my decisions on what plants to include on my property. If it's not edible or in some way usable then I don't want it ;)
Great video!! Here, in Thailand, we never eat the fruit raw. Young leaves are very good for soup with pork.
Interesting... in season I ear the green fruit raw every day. I cook the red fruit.
It's a bit bitter, isn't it? My mother used to make me hot curry with the green ones. She soaked them for some time to make them less bitter.
There are two varieties, one bitter, one not. Mine are not bitter at any stage.
That's it. So, I guess the one found in Thailand belongs to the bitter variety. Thanks you.
It was in Thailand, l learnt about this curious plant..thinking at first it was poisonous. I have it on my fencing now. It does not ever die.. be warned.
@AhnkoHonu Usually with the bitter variety only the tips and leaves are cooked, the fruit being too bitter. So, proceed carefully.
So glad I've discovered your channel. Great video, Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Keep these coming!
Nice hat! You always have such great taste in style. Thanks for the great videos :D
even from unripe seed, from my experience...they are very prolific, they can be cut down to the root, and still regrow. If you have too many, just pull them up and break the root in half before composting. I have pulled them up without breaking the root and they will re-root on their own..
Live & learn, Thank you for sharing this awesome educational information ℹ have this all over the backyard and will definitely try them. ❤😊
Tindora or ivy guard is a vegetable we eat a lot especially in south India.
Yes❤tindora fry is my favourite 😍 😍🇮🇳
"invade my tummy!"
haha yea it's only invasive if we don't use it.
saw these little mini-cucumbers around and was wondering if it was edible, thanks!
Just found one of these growing up a fence at the corner store, awesome! Thanks Dean
Yes, they will grow from seeds.
Its called Pak tum lung in thailand. You can eat the young leaves aswell as the fruit. Our vines have been growing over 20 years.
So glad to see you and this ...I can grow this in my yard..warm wishes from Miami...=)
Thanks so much for this very informative video! I was shopping in an Indian market last night and purchased tindora. When I was at the checkout the cashier asked, what do want to buy this for? I said, I've never seen it before and I thought I'd try it. She said it needed to be fried and that it would shrink a lot ... if the store wasn't closing I would have grabbed more. Now that I know it can be eaten raw I'll do that this time around. I tend to love bitter flavors and veggies so I think I'll like it although since covid my tastes have changed and sometimes bitter things are unpleasant. I'm hoping this isn't the case with my new find. If I like it raw I'll definitely return to purchase more and start experimenting with recipes. I love Indian pickles so maybe I'll start there. Thanks again!
These are quite weedy here in Thailand, good to know they can be eaten like a vegetable though!
The locals use them in soup for medicinal purpose, but many believe they can not be eaten or that they are just for the birds.... Thanks Green Dean for the cooking lesson :D, I'll give them a try.
Dude - you're pro, no doubt about that. Subscribing to your channel was perhaps the best move I've made on youtube.
I'm an Indian here we cook tindora fry as a side dish . I have this as a main dish mixing with rice. this tastes ammaaazing when cooked properly that I'll eat 1kg myself. Learn Indian recipes of tindora and do try guys. Ull fall in love with this amazing fruit
Wow first saw them being propogated on David the Good youtube channel. Thought it was an invasive vine weed all my life. We call it lizzard food here cause lizards & birds love them. Thanks for the info instead of destoying it i will replant it on a trellis & try cooking it.
I heard somewhere that it's bad when you eat the ones that turned red. Can someone confirm?
Texas and Florida
I want to get some plants and put them in my backyard in Nevada
@teeninja323 To my knowledge, no. But, you can take cuttings from the root and replant them.
@TheIncredibleYeti Sure, start them inside. You can try B&T Seeds. But I would think to make sure you get the bitter kind you might want to order the seeds from an Indian company (or.... he said sneakily... go to an Indian market near you, find the kind you want and use those seeds. I've done that a few times with plants from Chinese maarkets. )
@NorthSouthSurvival You can start them inside and grow them until a frost.
This is exactly what I've been looking for to take over the back of my chicken coop! I've wanted ivy, but just haven't gotten any starts yet. Thought about passion flower, but really wanted that on the front fence. This is perfect, now to find some!! Found it on TopTropicals, but apparently they are out :(
I wonder of the flowers are edible too.. I don't get it to fruit yet. Does it need anything to grow fruit?
Awesome video, really enjoyed it
Hello Sir, I see many wild Ivy Gourd fruits in my garden.People around me say wild Ivy Gourd is not edible and is poisonous.
Please help me clear my doubt on this.
Thank You!!
brilliant.. Thank you.. ;9)
subscribed and will be watching more..
fun and detialed looking forward to the previous 122.. and the rest..
You collect the seeds from red ones for planting.
Your videos are great! I've seen this while at work wish I knew it was edible then. I think I have the foraging fever I wanna find it all!
Thanks so much 👍👍
Thanks alot, ive been seeing these around my area and ive always wondered what they were. Had no idea they were actually edible lol i might try one out.
Where did you get your hat ? Ps : This thing is growing all over my trees 😢
Ivy gourd is highly medicinal, which is useful in controlling blood glucose level and lowers cholestrol as well.
really ? how do you take it ? and how do you know its helping ?
Thanks for the info. I wonder how these would taste when canned like home made butter pickles?
@wanderinggibbon No, there are several ways to spell it, 'cause it is going from one language to another. Ghinbora et cetera.
Great video ...Thank you !
love your info always, question: Can you recommend a good book or two? I want to homeschool my kid and botany/Wild Edibles are on the list of To Learn's.
Are the butter ones edible ? Are they poisonous ?
Great videos, always superb!
@EatTheWeeds ok.thank u.
I'm growing this plant and have the problem that it is only making female flowers. I know most cucurbits have male and female flowers on the same plant like pumpkins. But is this an exception where I need a male plant? Or is my plant just messed up? Usually the male flowers are first but all my little fruits just die. I have yet to see a male flower.
@b1gje55e Yep, it's getting a publisher interested that is the issue.
Very interesting your explanation.
Have you thought of writing a wild edible book? Something along the lines of a Peterson's Field Guide?
It's definitely in Houston, Tx
@teeninja323 Hmmmm. Mine don't tates like banana peels but there is a tad of astringency to the rine than could be thought of that way.
Homeboy put his video to RuneScape music. I feel like I'm in Al-Kharid.
Great video.. will look for this one.. thanks for sharin'
Trying to grow this plant again this year. Two years ago I had the problem my plant only made female flowers so the fruits never grew. Are there male and female plants or is it like most cucumbers that should have both flowers and I just had a mutant?
Ivy Gourd has three sexes Male, Female and hermaphrodite. If you grow Male or Female plant you will require the other sex plant also to set it to fruit. But the hermaphrodite is self fertile so only one plant is required. In large scale cultivation hermaphrodite are grown from stem cuttings.
Thank you for sharing this vedio sir ❤
Do they grow in St Lucie County me brudda from another Mother ?
i'd like to know what is aval. in northeast lower mich. do you have a book on differant areas? love the info. thnx for making ur vidios
In India we eat them by either deep fried or curried
@hydrobell Also, what was that citrus tree behind you? Kind of looked like a pummelo.
I would love to try to grow this plant. Do you have a source for the seeds? I've found a ton of neat recipes online for it.
Thanks,
Marie
I think Green Deane kicks some serious wild foods ass. Nobody else is doing it. Nobody else is riding a PC800 either. Only bike with a standard trunk. I bet that holds a lot of wild greens.
We cook the leaves in soup.
Well, these should spread, like cucumber seeds, tomato seeds, tamarillo seeds, kiwifruit seeds, opuntia seeds, etc, through human faeces. When they empty septic tanks out, all of those seeds are wont to sprout--if they aren't too decomposed. I think Adam and Eve and Steve must've spread quite a few fruits around the Garden that way!
How dose the seeds looks like
Dean where can I find those ivy curd????
Is this the same as Mouse melon?
Thanks! That's helpful!
Where can I get some seeds???
Yummy! Another Great vid Deane! Awesome :)
would love to get some seeds are they available anywhere dean thnx in advance
These plants refuse to die in Trinidad
Where can I buy some seeds/tubers?
I winder if these grow in central south dakota? lol LOVE your videos
i love your video bud
how does it taste?
Midea Naomi its test like banana n kiwi..
Crunchy cucumber
@antifoundational Thanks... if those mini-cukes are less than an inch long they might be Melothria pendula
Where can I find the cutting of this plant. I have been looking for a very long time but no luck:(
@@mehtajignasa They grow best from roots. And make sure you are getting the non-bitter variety.
Where can I find roots of this plant. It’s been a while and I haven’t found it anywhere. I live in CA
What do you do with the ripe ones?
Personally I fry them but in other places they make sauces and candy.
You should do a video on Buffalo Gourds. There everywhere in Texas. Not sure about Florida tho.
that invasive in the philipines to
Great vid.
I grow up eating them. I was wondering where can I find in USA
Frozen veg section of desi grocery stores.
great vid. thanks for the info. waves~~
where can i get seeds or plant of this veg. please? Im in the UK.
Free health food!
I have but it is very bitter
There are two kinds, bitter and non-bitter.
Where is this plant located? I'll come pick em! We love tindora!
I know some spots about Orlando.
Maybe the squirrels would like them so much they will stay away from my loquat fruit.
Invasive = sustainable.😊
This is very common in India
You covered this fruit in great detail.
Please don't intentionally plant invasive species in your garden!
i found ivy gourd here in philippines and it is sooooooo bitter. tried to cook ... i just dont like it
DIuretic, I had to stop eating them.
The leaves are used in India to lower blood glucose.
That taste so bittery