In this video, I show you how I grew Taro and Arrow Head in a muddy, boggy raised garden bed, and we harvest the crops to see how much food we get!
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36 Comments
this guy is living the life
Also those last words: Im quite happy with this minimum harvest. I´ve learned heaps. Inspiring
I love the ASMR when you chopped the taro and arrow heads with light relaxing classical music background!
Everything round here is bog, don’t need any special constructions! If it ever stops raining maybe it might be necessary. I’d like to grow wasabi, but it’s very persnickety.
I consider that a success. Coming from a gardner that can't grow 2 carrots to save her life.
Some kang king might go alright in there. I grew some last year in a swampy section of yard and it was great to have for tender greens
Awesome
Let the water settles and throw some guppies in there. No feeding required and will be less mosquito too.
Is the Arrow the same as arrow root that you can use as a corn starch substitute in baking?
Have you tried growing watercress or papyrus?
I'm going to try rice, job's tears and toro..I found a cheap plastic baby pool for $8..
I watch some Japanese channels and one was growing Taro the same way they were growing sweet potato: In mounded rows. They covered the sweet potato rows in plastic. I did not see that same treatment with the taro. They had a very interesting way to cleaning the taro and seemed to use it pretty much like potato or sweet potato. If i ever get enough sweet potato to grow, I will try taro, although sweet potato leaves are super easy to eat, so it is difficult to give up the space. I have a tiny yard.
I think I’ll try it next spring!
awesome, what does taro taste like and how are you suppose to eat it, just boil?
This is really cool 🙂
Do you get mosquitoes where you are? They would love to grow in there.
Hi Mark. Thanks for this. I enjoy Asian dishes most days so this very useful info for when I get some acreage. I'm in the city but there's something soothing about hearing your chickens cluck away in the background. I'm sure they are living the good life!
Aha-ha! Good old solder just fkdup one more garden! ))) Mate, I am following you on my yellow garden. Chickens looks great! Bakken and egg what you can wish more ?!
I didn't know elephant ear was taro!😲
Raised bog 🙂 i cant believe i didnt see the first one!
My favourite way to eat taro is boiled in the liquid remaining after boiling a chicken. Boil until soft, and eat with bully beef either warmed or straight from the tin. Coconut milk can also be added if you want.
Roasted taro is also popular in the Pacific, but it's too dry for my taste. Perhaps warmed through in coconut milk would be ok? Some varieties of taro are better than others.
Taro leaves are also eaten as a few of the comments have already stated.
I just realized that I've crossed over from "casual watcher" to "actual fan." It wasn't when I hit Like on just about every video, nor was it when I subscribed. It was when I did the thumbs-up exactly in time with you, Mark, as you said "Let's… get into it!"
Didn't know it was called arrowhead. We call it Malanga here in Puerto Rico. Growing some right now and we harvest at the 6-8 month mark. I have the purple variety, you know because it has a purple dot on the leaf where the stem is. We grow it on somewhat loose soil making sure it doesn't dry up but not in bog conditions. I think that increases the size of the tuber. It can also withstand the dry season it's a very hardy and almost effortless plant (at least here). We also have Yautia (arrowleaf in English I think?) easily confused with Malanga but the difference is in the leaf. Malanga leaves look more like an M and Yautia leaves look like a Y. M for Malanga, Y for Yautia. The flavor profile is different too. Yautia also comes in white, yellow and purple varieties. I'm growing some purple yautia too. Great video.
Aloha from Hawaii. Have been lurking on your channel for a couple of years, but this is the first time I'm commenting. If you're ever planning a visit to Hawaii please let me know. Would be happy to show you how many different types of taro (known as kalo here) we have in Hawaii. I have about a dozen or so different ones growing in my garden. There are different colors (green, red, purple, white), some with stripes, and some with spots. Truly a beautiful plant and great for eating. On top of each type looking different they also taste differently.
I wanted to offer you some advice for trying next time : when you cut off the corn be sure to leave a tiny sliver attached to the stem (that's where it'll regrow from). Also cut off all of the leaves (and if you happen to get flowers cut those off too). They'll grow healthy ones once they're settled (usually in a week or two). If you cut the corm to regrow let it dry for a day or two so it gets a "skin" on the outside. The "skin" that forms will help to keep it from rotting in the dirt. As long as they get a consistent source of water or they are watered well every day (or at least every other day) they will grow fine. Pretty resilient plants and easy to grow. Set and forget. Good luck with your next crop. Really enjoy your channel. Aloha 💖🤙🏻🌺
Audio is panned hard left again. I'm sorry, but this is becoming annoying.
We grow taro straight in the garden, no boggy water. It thrives, and, even though we're in the north of NZ, we have had success in growing the tubers. We really only grow it for the leaves, to make luau, which is the leaves, filled with onion and coconut cream, then cooked.
I think you might have more success growing the taro straight in the ground. I've never seen it in a bog, or heard of it being a bog-liking plant.
Oh and it will even regrow from the piece off the root end, most of ours have grown from that piece off a bought taro.
In fact, they're kind of like weeds, grow anywhere, from any part of it, almost.
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Mate, the audio in this video was a torture.
Those taros need more sun, i grow dozens of them in full sun for fast and large growth. Chop the top 1cm off the top of the taro, chuck it on some moist ground and it will grow, 100%. It's a delicious weed. Chop the bulb, boil, add can of coconut cream and dollop of honey, and let's get into it 👍
Arrowhead is best sliced and deep fried. It’s better than chips!!
Great project, very interesting and productive results 😊
hi Mark .. have you anyone else in australia used the Searls premium potting mix from bunnings on your vegie beds please…. and if so is it any good…
Looks like dasheen
Cool
taro leaves pickles taste good too
Hoping to see a good harvest of taro in the future. There should be no problem with growing them on the raised bed. My grandfather used to plant them on dryland/upland without needing to water them. He would dig a hole about 1 foot diameter and 1 foot deep, then plant the taro at the bottom of the pit. Everytime it rain, the water would gather in the holes and would retain the moisture for the taro plant.
Give Cassava a go it is also a tropical potato substitute.
Love the backround music during the timelapse!