Good afternoon from Indonesia. Hello best friend. I really like your content. THE ATMOSPHERE IS REALLY COOL. It's really impressive. Thank you for sharing a very good, interesting and inspiring video for all of us. Hopefully we can all be better, healthier, stronger, successful, happier and always under God's protection.
My colcasia just got frost bit yesterday, it did very well considering it was from Uganda 😅 I've been growing outside for a few years now, because I love cooking with the leaves ( careful because every part of the plant contains Oxalate, its causes kidney stones) one must steam or boil it thoroughly before consuming. I'm in Warwickshire, Coventry. Midlands. I lost my avocado tree this year also it was eight years old grown from seed, it died because I moved it this spring in more sunny position. 😅 Thanks for sharing your video. I've been searching before, 👍🏼🙏🌱🌱🌱🌳
Hi, great to hear your experience with Taro 🙏 and super cool that you are growing it in the midlands too 🙌 it’s great how we can create favourable environments for plants and make it work- so glad you enjoyed the video, we hope to share more as our taro growing journey unfolds 💚✌️🌿
Hope it was what you hoped for 🙌 We were pretty happy with the results and there is defo good potential to improve it we feel. I LOVE it in curries and we made it into chips the other night too ... Whats your favourite way to cook Taro Nneka? 💚✌️🌿
The one you prefer is the type I’m familiar with. I found some earlier in the week. Love them either boiled or roasted with tomato/onions and fish sauce. Happy to eat it with a side of spiced beans 😋.We also use it a lot in soups.
Really nice to see that eders can be grown here, growing up in a west indian family this was a vege we enjoyed, all the west indian islands grew this vege, all the best. from the UK
Not bad, I grew a couple this year. No taro root but I pickle the stalk for food . Do you tried to grow cassava? They are good harvest in south America ,where I grew when I was child.
@freedomforestlife try the markets. I brought mine from England to Ireland, where I live now. My Tania is doing well in a large pot/tub and I have only realised that it clumps. So I decided to pot it up into a huge, and I mean huge, tubs keeping them in the sunroom until the spring. I may plant them outside or hopefully, in the tunnel which is yet to be purchased. The area is being prepared for it. So excited to see your wonderful harvest. Very well done to you both. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I intend to grow sugarcane next year. My edoes did not do that well, but it was mostly my fault But my Chinese yam seems to be doing well. It is a very hardy plant so will do well in our temperate climate. I am also looking forward to Harvesting the ullucus. I picked four just to try it, but I am waiting for the foliage to die down to allow the tubers to grow bigger.
@@joanflemmingkendrick1107 thanks for you lovely message and ideas too 🙏 great to hear what you are trying over in Ireland too 🍀 where abouts in Ireland are you? I’ve only just this year had my first visits and I just LOVE it there 💚🙏✌️🌿
The brighter green (single stemmed) variety that didn't produce many ʻohā would have probably produced more if you let it grow longer. At 12:00 in the video you can see keiki starting to grow from the sides of the corm. You can actually replant those if you take them off the corm carefully enough. Iʻm pretty sure that variety needed at least another couple months of growth and you would have gotten larger corms and a handful of keiki to replant.
Hi, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge about this - super helpful. We managed to over winter some plants this year, so hoping that will have given them the extra bit of growing time it sounds like they need. We will let you know how it goes later in the year 🤞 Appreciate you watching & commenting 🙏✌️🌿
Living in Queensland Australia,we are lucky to be able to grow things like arrowroot,jicama and other varieties,we actually grate them up and make hash browns out of them,you have never tasted a better hash brown 🙏❤️
I love you guys I get lots of ideas from your site thank you I’m in Gloucestershire I have a small Garden grow a lot of food in pots I also grow the Jamaican 🇯🇲 Dasheen also known as Coco yam family of the Taro it is bigger and also produces tubers first time growing it outside appeared to be doing well we had a frost last night happy growing
Hi...im from sri lanka..we use this to make some curries and making savoury bakes to alternative for potatoes ....this called "Kiri ala" here...its make thick curry when it cooked...soft texture gives nice flavor ...congratulations to your harvest and ur channel ...good luck ❤
Hey Vanessa, we just bought a variety from different counties from Asian food stores, for next season hopefully now we will be able to use our own 🙌 glad you enjoyed the vid/music 💚✌️🌿
We just brought the Corms from Asian Food Stores - We are going to be trialing dotting it all through our Sweet Potatoes next year - Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
I love growing taro in the PNW, USA, zone 8 ❤❤❤ They make beautiful houseplants, too! Much cheaper than buying elephant 🐘 ear, which is an ornamental relative. I get my corms from Asian groceries.
Hi, Great to have you with us 💚 Do you add flavours to the the boiled taro or eat it on its own? And what are you favourite things to add to it please? Would be great to know 🙏 Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
Looks like a good harvest. Have you tried eating the leaves? They are good to eat but must be cooked thoroughly. And whilst on the topic of leaves: have you ever eaten sweet potato leaves? Maybe you've already spoken about it in a video that I've not seen. They are quite tasty and I really value a crop that has duel use. Have you come across the taro variety "pink china"? It has been bred as an ornamental, so I don't know how good it is for eating but it is regularly stated as being the most cold hardy colocasia. Not grown it myself but plan to in the future. If I'm recalling correctly I've watched/read of people successfully overwintering it outside in the ground in some parts of the UK.
HI, yep we are pretty happy with the harvest for our first try 🙌 We haven't tried the leaves yet, but will do sometime, Dan learnt of eating the sweet potato leaves from his time in Borneo, they only grow them for a leaf crop there 💚 We do have a Pink China that we are bring on as an Ornimental (or for leave harvest) as Dan seems to think that this variety doesnt form corms for harvest. Excited to see how it goes - they are such beautiful plants! Thanks for watching/commenting 💚✌️🌿
@SamoanFarmer Hey, thanks 🙏 stoked you’ve watched our vid 🙌 we would LOVE the 4 month variety … a lot of red tape this end to be able to import though … we’ll work it out sometime though 💚 learning different ways to cook with the Taro now, defo hope to grow more next year too 😋✌️🌿
Hey, how was that curry you made with it? What does taro tastes like? I have seen people dehydrating it and turning it into flour, too, but I have never actually tried it. Really curious what you think of it.
Hi, we LOVE taro and the curry was amazing - it’s a great starchy filling food source. Cooked in curry, which I tend to slow cook, the texture ends up similar to cubed potato, slightly spongier, but holds its form amazingly…. It doesn’t have a strong taste or anything it’s self, but it takes on flavours very well, a bit like how courgette/zucchini does, but it’s much more substantial 😋 thanks for watching and commenting 🙏💚✌️🌿
I've watched the video twice, but was wondering if you had any of the eddoes variety growing outdoors, as I was hoping to compare the harvest between the polytunnel and outdoor harvest of the eddoes variety. Reason being, I plan to grow eddoes next year but they will be in 30L containers, as I don't have in ground space to grow them. If you are planning to cover the comparison of indoor and outdoor harvest in another video, then I'm happy to wait 😊 if not would you mind sharing your thoughts the whether there were differences/ similarities please. I have already bought some tubers, got them end of Sept, with the hope they will break dormancy by the end of the year. ✌ & 🌿
Hi, we only grow the Eddoes in the polytunnel this year as we only had a couple of the corms, we will be trying them inside and out next year though as we do think they could work outside as well, especially if we do manage to overwinter the whole plants that we have saved to replant for the headstart 🤞 Thanks for watching (twice) 😃 💚✌️🌿
Yes, agree, unfortunately they had to come out because we had frosts due which I don’t think they will withstand - we are hoping to get a head start on them next year if we can over winter the whole plants we have saved, where as last year we started with just a dormant corn in the spring where it was our first year growing … hoping to hone our growing technique for this climate as we learn 🙏💚✌️🌿
Hi, we got ours in Asian or African super markets last season, its prob not the most relaible source for germinating from and means variety names/types unknown, this year we are hoping to overwinter enough to regrown from. We have ordered a few new corms, to continue to try different types from a company called 'Big Plant Nursery' online, but can't yet confirm how well they produce, the plants have looked really healthy though on arrival. Happy Growing 💚
Hi Maria, Its got a slighly spongely potato texture, with a similar taste, but also feels slightly coconuty to me!! It takes on flavour very well though, hence good in a curry 😋
We don’t eat those, they’re too small . The ones from the South Pacific like the Hawaiian style is bigger abou a pound each. Those we usually feed them to the pigs.
Hi thanks for sharing your advice and experience- were favouring the smaller ones purely because our growing season here is short, seems not long enough for the big ones to fully mature like you say. Some of those ‘small ones’ were bigger, but we’ve saved the biggest for replanting this year and only kept the smallest ones to eat this year so we can expand our stock ✌️🌿
Brother you need to remove the babys Taro from the mother Plant and Let mother Taro to grow for 5 Months before harvesting time the Taro rot 10:3310:33 you can boil it to eat
Year 2 should determine whether its a viable & productive perennial plant in the UK. For the space & time it takes, swedes/turnips/beet/parsnips/carrots would all give a better return in UK - & taro/eddoe is nothing special anyhow ! First eat some bought from an Asian veggie shop to see if you like them before committing your efforts to a non-native crop ?
That was very interesting seeing how you started and lm sure after a few seasons taro will climatise. I look forward to seeing the 2nd generation!
Glad you enjoyed it Margaret. We'll harvest fairly soon I expect - stay tuned 💚✌️🌿
You can also eat the leaves and stems by steaming great in curries also 😊
I didn't know that you can eat the leaves too,mum used to dried the stem or pickle them.
Awesome we will try this next time 💚
Thats awesome - what would you compare the pickled stems too?
Good afternoon from Indonesia. Hello best friend. I really like your content. THE ATMOSPHERE IS REALLY COOL. It's really impressive. Thank you for sharing a very good, interesting and inspiring video for all of us. Hopefully we can all be better, healthier, stronger, successful, happier and always under God's protection.
Glad you enjoyed our video - thank you for taking the time to say so 💚✌️🌿
My colcasia just got frost bit yesterday, it did very well considering it was from Uganda 😅 I've been growing outside for a few years now, because I love cooking with the leaves ( careful because every part of the plant contains Oxalate, its causes kidney stones) one must steam or boil it thoroughly before consuming. I'm in Warwickshire, Coventry. Midlands. I lost my avocado tree this year also it was eight years old grown from seed, it died because I moved it this spring in more sunny position. 😅 Thanks for sharing your video. I've been searching before, 👍🏼🙏🌱🌱🌱🌳
Hi, great to hear your experience with Taro 🙏 and super cool that you are growing it in the midlands too 🙌 it’s great how we can create favourable environments for plants and make it work- so glad you enjoyed the video, we hope to share more as our taro growing journey unfolds 💚✌️🌿
My most anticipated harvest this year. Thanks for sharing.😊
Hope it was what you hoped for 🙌 We were pretty happy with the results and there is defo good potential to improve it we feel. I LOVE it in curries and we made it into chips the other night too ... Whats your favourite way to cook Taro Nneka? 💚✌️🌿
The one you prefer is the type I’m familiar with. I found some earlier in the week. Love them either boiled or roasted with tomato/onions and fish sauce. Happy to eat it with a side of spiced beans 😋.We also use it a lot in soups.
Really nice to see that eders can be grown here, growing up in a west indian family this was a vege we enjoyed, all the west indian islands grew this vege, all the best. from the UK
Not bad, I grew a couple this year. No taro root but I pickle the stalk for food . Do you tried to grow cassava? They are good harvest in south America ,where I grew when I was child.
Glad you enjoyed watching 🙏 Pretty happy with the results 💚✌️🌿
Hi, we've not tried Cassava yet, might be pushing it a bit here, we have tried to source it before too, with no luck - maybe one day though 🙏✌️🌿
@freedomforestlife try the markets. I brought mine from England to Ireland, where I live now. My Tania is doing well in a large pot/tub and I have only realised that it clumps. So I decided to pot it up into a huge, and I mean huge, tubs keeping them in the sunroom until the spring. I may plant them outside or hopefully, in the tunnel which is yet to be purchased. The area is being prepared for it. So excited to see your wonderful harvest. Very well done to you both. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I intend to grow sugarcane next year. My edoes did not do that well, but it was mostly my fault
But my Chinese yam seems to be doing well. It is a very hardy plant so will do well in our temperate climate. I am also looking forward to Harvesting the ullucus. I picked four just to try it, but I am waiting for the foliage to die down to allow the tubers to grow bigger.
@@joanflemmingkendrick1107 thanks for you lovely message and ideas too 🙏 great to hear what you are trying over in Ireland too 🍀 where abouts in Ireland are you? I’ve only just this year had my first visits and I just LOVE it there 💚🙏✌️🌿
The brighter green (single stemmed) variety that didn't produce many ʻohā would have probably produced more if you let it grow longer. At 12:00 in the video you can see keiki starting to grow from the sides of the corm. You can actually replant those if you take them off the corm carefully enough. Iʻm pretty sure that variety needed at least another couple months of growth and you would have gotten larger corms and a handful of keiki to replant.
Hi, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge about this - super helpful. We managed to over winter some plants this year, so hoping that will have given them the extra bit of growing time it sounds like they need. We will let you know how it goes later in the year 🤞 Appreciate you watching & commenting 🙏✌️🌿
Living in Queensland Australia,we are lucky to be able to grow things like arrowroot,jicama and other varieties,we actually grate them up and make hash browns out of them,you have never tasted a better hash brown 🙏❤️
That sounds like a really good idea - thanks, I will try it like that 🙌✌️🌿
What is arrowroot, tapioca, cassava ?
@@esitajohnson6251 it’s a tuber which you can use instead of potatoes
Wow, so exciting!
Thanks Jan 💚
I've been waiting for this - what a great start to your taro growing adventures! 🙂
Thanks Karen - Glad you enjoyed the video - Taro chips currently in the oven 🙌 😋 💚✌️🌿
I love you guys I get lots of ideas from your site thank you I’m in Gloucestershire I have a small Garden grow a lot of food in pots I also grow the Jamaican 🇯🇲 Dasheen also known as Coco yam family of the Taro it is bigger and also produces tubers first time growing it outside appeared to be doing well we had a frost last night happy growing
Hi - loved reading your message, so glad you enjoy our channel 🙏 and great to hear you are growing these too 🙌 Did you harvest your before the frost?
Great job
Thank you 🙏
Very informative ❤
Glad you think so Ross - any cooking ideas you can through out there? 💚💫✌️🌿
Hi...im from sri lanka..we use this to make some curries and making savoury bakes to alternative for potatoes ....this called "Kiri ala" here...its make thick curry when it cooked...soft texture gives nice flavor ...congratulations to your harvest and ur channel ...good luck ❤
Great to know your watching from Sri Lanka 🙌 just learning different ways to cook with it now - thank you for the tips - very helpful 💚✌️🌿
Very interesting. Where did you buy your corms from?
And love the music
Peace and plants 😊
Hey Vanessa, we just bought a variety from different counties from Asian food stores, for next season hopefully now we will be able to use our own 🙌 glad you enjoyed the vid/music 💚✌️🌿
An Old Samoan guy told me a long time ago to grow Taro in raised mounds as the Taro tuber will grow longer and bigger
Where did you get the corms? Think my sweet pots would like some company next season…!
We just brought the Corms from Asian Food Stores - We are going to be trialing dotting it all through our Sweet Potatoes next year - Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
I love growing taro in the PNW, USA, zone 8 ❤❤❤ They make beautiful houseplants, too! Much cheaper than buying elephant 🐘 ear, which is an ornamental relative. I get my corms from Asian groceries.
Hi great to hear from you 💚 we got our corms in Asian stores too, now saving our own hopefully 🤞 what’s your favourite way to use Taro? ✌️🌿
I am Indigenouse Montagnard I eat taro roots boiled today
Hi, Great to have you with us 💚 Do you add flavours to the the boiled taro or eat it on its own? And what are you favourite things to add to it please? Would be great to know 🙏 Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife I didn't add anything
If you like add with ice cream it's taste good like deserts
The young leaves are so good, cook them with coconut milk, onion, salt n pepper. If you like we add meat to it.
Thanks for the tip! 💚
Looks like a good harvest.
Have you tried eating the leaves? They are good to eat but must be cooked thoroughly. And whilst on the topic of leaves: have you ever eaten sweet potato leaves? Maybe you've already spoken about it in a video that I've not seen. They are quite tasty and I really value a crop that has duel use.
Have you come across the taro variety "pink china"? It has been bred as an ornamental, so I don't know how good it is for eating but it is regularly stated as being the most cold hardy colocasia. Not grown it myself but plan to in the future. If I'm recalling correctly I've watched/read of people successfully overwintering it outside in the ground in some parts of the UK.
HI, yep we are pretty happy with the harvest for our first try 🙌 We haven't tried the leaves yet, but will do sometime, Dan learnt of eating the sweet potato leaves from his time in Borneo, they only grow them for a leaf crop there 💚 We do have a Pink China that we are bring on as an Ornimental (or for leave harvest) as Dan seems to think that this variety doesnt form corms for harvest. Excited to see how it goes - they are such beautiful plants! Thanks for watching/commenting 💚✌️🌿
Great work guys. Absolutely love it. Really need to get you guys our 4 months varieties...job well done ❤❤❤
@SamoanFarmer Hey, thanks 🙏 stoked you’ve watched our vid 🙌 we would LOVE the 4 month variety … a lot of red tape this end to be able to import though … we’ll work it out sometime though 💚 learning different ways to cook with the Taro now, defo hope to grow more next year too 😋✌️🌿
Hey, how was that curry you made with it? What does taro tastes like? I have seen people dehydrating it and turning it into flour, too, but I have never actually tried it. Really curious what you think of it.
Hi, we LOVE taro and the curry was amazing - it’s a great starchy filling food source. Cooked in curry, which I tend to slow cook, the texture ends up similar to cubed potato, slightly spongier, but holds its form amazingly…. It doesn’t have a strong taste or anything it’s self, but it takes on flavours very well, a bit like how courgette/zucchini does, but it’s much more substantial 😋 thanks for watching and commenting 🙏💚✌️🌿
I'm Native Hawaiian I h I give you people credit to grow Taro😊
I've watched the video twice, but was wondering if you had any of the eddoes variety growing outdoors, as I was hoping to compare the harvest between the polytunnel and outdoor harvest of the eddoes variety.
Reason being, I plan to grow eddoes next year but they will be in 30L containers, as I don't have in ground space to grow them. If you are planning to cover the comparison of indoor and outdoor harvest in another video, then I'm happy to wait 😊 if not would you mind sharing your thoughts the whether there were differences/ similarities please.
I have already bought some tubers, got them end of Sept, with the hope they will break dormancy by the end of the year.
✌ & 🌿
Hi, we only grow the Eddoes in the polytunnel this year as we only had a couple of the corms, we will be trying them inside and out next year though as we do think they could work outside as well, especially if we do manage to overwinter the whole plants that we have saved to replant for the headstart 🤞 Thanks for watching (twice) 😃 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlifethanks for replying.
I think you need to leave them on the ground a little longer, the one stem one are not ready to harvest.
Yes, agree, unfortunately they had to come out because we had frosts due which I don’t think they will withstand - we are hoping to get a head start on them next year if we can over winter the whole plants we have saved, where as last year we started with just a dormant corn in the spring where it was our first year growing … hoping to hone our growing technique for this climate as we learn 🙏💚✌️🌿
Hi where would you recommend getting some Taro in the UK from im interested in trying growing this too. Thanks
Hi, we got ours in Asian or African super markets last season, its prob not the most relaible source for germinating from and means variety names/types unknown, this year we are hoping to overwinter enough to regrown from. We have ordered a few new corms, to continue to try different types from a company called 'Big Plant Nursery' online, but can't yet confirm how well they produce, the plants have looked really healthy though on arrival. Happy Growing 💚
@@freedomforestlife Thanks il look into them, I've found a few sellers on etsy who look promising
What does it taste like?
Hi Maria, Its got a slighly spongely potato texture, with a similar taste, but also feels slightly coconuty to me!! It takes on flavour very well though, hence good in a curry 😋
We don’t eat those, they’re too small . The ones from the South Pacific like the Hawaiian style is bigger abou a pound each. Those we usually feed them to the pigs.
Hi thanks for sharing your advice and experience- were favouring the smaller ones purely because our growing season here is short, seems not long enough for the big ones to fully mature like you say. Some of those ‘small ones’ were bigger, but we’ve saved the biggest for replanting this year and only kept the smallest ones to eat this year so we can expand our stock ✌️🌿
Brother you need to remove the babys Taro from the mother Plant and Let mother Taro to grow for 5 Months before harvesting time the Taro rot 10:33 10:33 you can boil it to eat
thank you brother, i heard u guys like to grow one big corm
You don’t have to dig the whole thing you just hold one taro the main it will come up itself
Year 2 should determine whether its a viable & productive perennial plant in the UK. For the space & time it takes, swedes/turnips/beet/parsnips/carrots would all give a better return in UK - & taro/eddoe is nothing special anyhow ! First eat some bought from an Asian veggie shop to see if you like them before committing your efforts to a non-native crop ?