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alright! this is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com,today we have another exciting episode for you. coming at you from my front yard garden,and as you guys can see, it’s december time, end of december, and my garden is still ragingnow yes, i did have to pull out things like the peppers and some of the other crops ihave, but one of the things i like to grow as a perennial vegetable is right up front,i planted it in the second bed probably about
Horizon Nj Health Provider Directory, a year ago or so now, and in the front bedmaybe just like six months ago. so what i’m going to do in today’s episode is actuallyharvest the ashitaba seed, the plant has fully matured and has gone to seed in about oneyear, and i want to show you also the understory growth of the young ones, and also what i’mgrowing underneath the ashitaba that is going
to seed so i can produce more food in thesame amount of space, so let’s head up to the raised bed and i’ll show you guys what’sgoing on. all right, so what we’re looking at nowis my ashitaba greens or the plants that are growing. these were planted probably beginningof summer, and in this bed i planted them when they were young, but i also planted somecrane melons that produced quite well, but the crane melons kind of like, all the leafmatter overtook the ashitaba, so until i cut out the crane melons, this ashitaba reallydid not start to take off. now that the crane melons are gone and have been eaten, theseguys are coming back full force, so you know these guys i plant about every one foot, that’sreally tight planting i would probably recommend
more like 18 inches to give them some spaceto spread out a little bit but i wanted to try to fit as many as i could in there andthese guys tend to overlap a lot and really shade out the ground when planted this closely.now, these are all the greens and i want to stop there for a second, i mean many of youguys may have never heard of ashitaba you’re thinking “ashiwhata?â€. ashitaba. ashitabais known as angelica keiskei, it’s from the hashigo islands in japan, so it’s arare version of angelica, and actually i have another cool variety it’s like new zealandvariety of angelica. tastes like crap though man, seriously. they look cool. it’ s alsoedible but this one is my favorite, literally i could just pick leaves like this, take themand eat them like a salad. now to me, and
your guys’ taste buds might be different,i mean i’m really used to eating a lot of greens, like i just had straight dinosaurkale juice with cucumber juice this morning, and it was mostly like dinosaur kale juice.this kind of tastes like lettuce to me with like celery leaf overtone, so it’s likelettuce with celery leaf overtones. for me this is a really mild green although i didhave a friend about several months ago in the garden. she tasted this and she’s like“that tastes bitter.†i don’t get that at all, and of course your taste buds mayvary. but the greens, i like to just eat them young and tender, of course i also like toharvest out the young little shoots as they’re coming up, that is actually my favorite partof the ashitaba to eat. in addition you can
also juice these nice long celery-like stemshere through the juicer to basically get all the nutrients out of the ashitaba, so therehas been a lot of study on ashitaba and it’s like really antioxidant rich, they have alot of studies showing that it can be helpful against may different common diseases of today,and i want to encourage you guys to always, not to look at any one particularly healingplant whether it’s ashitaba or cannabis or gynura procumbens, or okinawan spinach,which they say is good for lowering your cholesterol, as like “the cure†right, to heal youfrom certain diseases in the body, like i have a more holistic approach. instead offiguring out what’s going to heal you, why not figure out why you got the problem inthe first place and stop doing what you’re
doing that caused the problem in the firstplace and that’s where i think eating the foods out of your garden primarily, fruitsand vegetables are the best thing on the planet to eat, and in my opinion other things thatyou may be eating, especially processed foods, junk foods, too much of animal products mayclog you up and cause health challenges. so that’s why i advocate the greens, and tome, the ashitaba is definitely one of my top five healing greens in the whole wide worldbased on the research, based on how it tastes, and of course in the stems you also have thesethings called chalcones. let me go ahead and rip a stem off here for you guys to show youguys what i’m talking about. so i just ripped a stem off and we’re goingto go ahead and wait a few minutes, because
in a few minutes we’re going to see thisreally predominantly. and what we’re looking at, you guys can maybe see that close up onthe video camera. if you guys look real close at that, it’s actually bleeding like a yellowsap. we bleed red, the ashitaba bleeds this yellow sap. this yellow sap is known as chalcones,and this is one of the main reasons why i believe the ashitaba is so healing, it’sthese chalcones that are not present in any other plant. and i think it’s also importantto grow your ashitaba in the most nutrient rich soil, so that the genes of the ashitabaplant can fully express themselves. i mean it was grown in an island in japan, volcanicisland with really rich minerals, and it is said that ashitaba grown in other places didnot have the properties that it does in where
it was originally found and grown in. andwhile climactic conditions may be one factor, i believe strongly another factor is simplythe nutrition that you’re dumping in the soil. if you’re just putting mpk, or somecow manure, you’re not going to have the full range of phytochemicals and phytonutrientsthat the ashitaba could have because it’s not getting everything it needs from the soil.so what i like to do is i like to put in 70 to 90 different trace minerals in the formof sea solution, or ocean minerals and also in the form of the rock dust. all right yeah,so this is getting a little bit more yellow there as you guys can see, and this is reasonwhy i like it, i’ll just take the stems, break it off, mmmm, and chew it. to me thistastes kind of like sweet, kind of like celery,
but like sweeter. mmmm, i could just eat thisstuff all day long. kind of has like a, i don’t want to say minty but it’s kindof like a minty celery flavor. it’s quite good growing in this climate now, i am samplingthese now in the winter time, and many plants in the winter time tend to produce more sugars,which the sugars protect them from the frost. so they may be sweeter at this time. theseguys are probably going to grow maybe another six to eight months before they go to seed,and as you guys can see this is the immature flower pods, let me go ahead and do a close-upfor you guys to show you guys what the immature flower pods, and as they develop and theni’ll show you guys fully mature flowers that have turned into seeds.all right so as you guys can see here’s
basically the flowers, they’re startingto bloom, i think they’re going to open up very soon. and once they bloom, then actuallythe next step is they’re going to turn into these little seed pod things that are green.and it’s very important you know, ernest and julio gallo said “i would drink no finewine before it’s time,†and i like to say i don’t want you guys to harvest anyof your seeds before they’re fully mature. especially if you’ve not grown this beforeyou might think “oh man these are ready.†and “oh it’s going to frost soon,†andwe need to leave these guys on the plant to fully mature and develop and dry on theirown before harvesting. of course some of these guys are going to have some challenges, likeif the plant’s stressed out, like right
over here in this bunch basically these seedpods, there’s a few maturing on here, but it looks like many of these guys are justnot going to mature properly. so next i want to show you guys a plant that actually probablynot going to mature and make proper seed pods and why.so here’s an ashitaba that i planted about six months ago, and it’s already going toflower, setting seeds. it’s pretty much stopped making any edible leaf matter forme to eat. i’m going to leave it in to see what happens. now, if the plants are stressedout, and maybe they don’t get enough water or whatever the reason is, then they’regoing to want to try to reproduce as quickly as they can, even though they might not befully mature, it’s kind of like a ten-year-old
having a baby, right? i think that reallyhappens these days unfortunately. they’re just not ready to have a baby, although theirbodies physically can, and i believe that’s due to maybe improper dieting, too many hormonesand processed foods and junk foods. the plants while they’re younger may reproduce andmake seeds, it may turn out or it may not. we’re going to just let this guy grow andsee what happens. it looks like it might turn into fully developed seeds and some may not.and this guy is probably two and a half feet tall, and the ones right behind as you guyscan see are towering six feet, and they’re all in different stages of growth, so it’seasy for me to come out and see “oh these seeds are ready and these are not.†i’mgoing to harvest only the seeds that are fully
mature and ready, and just keep letting theother ones hang out on the plants and grow and develop at their own pace. next i wantto show you guys some fully developed and ready seeds to harvest and more importantly,the reason i know why. all right so as you guys can see i’m sittingunderneath some of my ashitaba plants right here, and we’ve got some seeds that areready to be harvested. how do i know? well there’s one bunch that actually droppedoff the plant, and check it out. we’re going to show you guys these carefully, check itout. you guys can see that? these guys basically dropped off on this little ledge here, it’sbeen raining a lot so it basically got wet. and these guys sprouted and are starting togrow into new plants. so i’m probably going
to take these and transplant them into a bedto allow them to grow up. i think i’m going to dig them out and transplant them laterto little pots or to where i want them. they do tend to transplant very easy, and i wantto let you guys know that the ashitaba are very resilient plants. i had some friendswatering when i was away, and they forgot to water a little bit, and most of my plantslost their lives except for the ashitaba, it even went bone dry and of course i havegood soil and water holding capabilities with things like coconut koyer[?] in there. theashitaba lived. this is one strong plant, it can handle some light freezes, it doesn’tlike a super heavy freeze, and more importantly it can handle 114 degree weather in the desertwithout a problem. so this is a very useful
and important food crop, but more importantlythan food crop, also medicinal crop. next i want to show you guys a close up on theseseed pods that have actually dried on, and a more close-up of what one of the ashitabaseeds look like. all right so as you guys can see, we got allthese ashitaba going to setting the seed here, and a lot of these seed pods are not yet ready,and in addition some actually are just starting to produce some new flowers. but here’sa bunch that’s ready, and i want to give you three indicators that they are ready tobe harvested. number one, it looks to me like the stem basically turns brown and dries outwhen it’s ready. that lets you know that the seed is dried. another thing i like todo is just flick it. whoa did you see that?
when i flicked it i lost a lot of seeds man.that’s value right there. but yeah if you flick it, and the seeds come off readily,that means the plant’s ready to spread those seeds, so i’m going to take these guys andspread it. i love spreading seeds, especially the ones i make myself. and these are someof those, so we’re just going to go ahead and take this and clip this off, oops we losta couple more seeds. i think i just heard two indicators that the seeds may be ready,number one, the stem turns brown, obviously the seeds are also brown, two you flick itthey come off easy. another indicator that i’ve noticed just by observation becausei’ve never harvested these guys before, is that they’re going to get droopy. soinstead of being erect, it’s kind of like
you after a night with your girlfriend. andthey kind of get droopy, and that’s when you know they’re droopy and they’re readyto be taken out. so these guys instead of standing erect they’re drooping down, andthat’s another sign that your ashitaba seeds are probably ready to harvest.all right so now i want to share with you guys what these ashitaba seeds look like upclose. basically, i was looking at these, if you guys look at them really closely they’rereally a trip. i don’t know if you guys can see that on the camera there, but to methese guys look like little miniature sunflower seeds. kind of like how sunflower seeds look,and there’s a little coating on there, and you remove this coating and the seed is attachedto the inside. i have heard that these can
be hard to germinate. you know simply they’resitting on the ledge there, it got wet, and they germinated for me, so i’m going togo ahead and try to germinate some of these guys so i’ll have a second generation rockdust grown high nutrient content ashitaba for me to eat and enjoy, and more importantlyto spread out these seeds to people. now i want you guys to be aware, this is one ofthose things like lettuce, right? lettuce has been hybridized a lot by man to have traitsthat we want, whether that is an iceberg lettuce which will store for weeks, which in somecases is good because i like to enjoy some iceberg lettuce that’s nice and crunchy.but this is more of a wild food that’s grown and not hybridized as much as some domesticatedeveryday vegetables you eat, and i want to
encourage you guys to eat foods like the ashitabaand other wild foods, especially when they taste good like the ashitaba to better yourhealth, and also, this is one of the most resilient plants that i’m growing in mygarden, and it also happens to be the healthiest. so this is definitely one of the ones youwill want to grow if you’re considering it. be sure to check my other videos for otherepisodes on ashitaba, and be sure to give me a thumbs up if you liked this video. alsobe sure to subscribe to me if you’re not already. and be sure to check my past episodes.i have over a thousand episodes now covering all ranges of edible fruits and vegetablesand things that you guys can eat and more importantly grow at your home so that youcan increase the health of you and your family
to live a more healthy, happy and vibrantlife. once again my name is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com, until next time, rememberkeep on growing.
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