EASIEST To Grow Root Crop in Florida // Pro-Tips and Harvest with Josh Jamison @ HEART Village

"Cassava" or "Yuca" grows very rapidly and is extremely dense in calories! It's very easy to propagate and grow Cassava, especially in Florida. It's amazing how much food can be grown on one plant. Josh Jamison with HEART Village, shows us how he harvests and propagates this crop along with an abundance of helpful information!
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[@zuhairzainal]

I'm Malaysian and here we call it 'Ubi Kayu' ... cut it up into thick fries, coat with a little tumeric and salt and deep fry till its darker than golden brown. The best ubi kayu are the really fluffy ones when deep fried. Goes really well with luxurious spicy sambal as a dip.

[@Okorokanze2000]

That’s why it’s grown on mounds to make harvesting easy

[@Okorokanze2000]

We grow it on mounds back in Nigeria and that also makes harvesting easy too.

[@lorenrenee1]

Could you plant a longer piece on its side in a trench to get more nodes without getting too deep??

[@Okorokanze2000]

@@lorenrenee1 you want to leave some nodes about ground. Which make sprouting easy and everything buried can cause the cutting to rot.

[@studywithme7707]

We also eat the young leaves of cassava. While it is still growing. We cook it with coconut milk, garlic, onion, salt and fish. But you have to cook it well.

[@vanessaduldulao7194]

How long do you cook it for?

[@wesfredricks2543]

I'm just going to throw this out there: Pete + Josh = best videos ever!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

🙌

[@freedomforever45]

Your an absolutely excellent instructor.This is the best plant explanation in detail I've seen in one take video on KZbin yet for any edible plants.

[@pamelanaylor6283]

Thanks Pete & Josh! I cut yuca into cubes, boil, and then sautee it in garlic, butter, olive oil, lemon, salt & pepper...I'm going to have to start growing it!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Awesome!

[@backyardtropicals1157]

I grow it! Nice and starchy! really good with butter! Also a survival crop

[@LazyHollowFarm]

Great video Pete! Thank you Josh for your continued contribution to teaching food production!

[@danielmartin3479]

I love yuca dishes,from fritters,yuca con mojo,fried yuca(grandma s favorite) Tainos native Caribbean made Cassavetes bread out of them Still around in some Caribean markets Oh I forgot,grandma use to make starch for ironing out of boiling them

[@naomiwaqawai6494]

I freeze my peeled cassava . From the freezer into the pot. Taste as good as a fresh cassava.

[@allanturpin2023]

Josh was like a magician pulling a rabbit out of the hat on the fifth try. That thing was a monster though. Thanks to you both.

[@gcxred4kat9]

Hey Pete, Gary from St. Pete. How cool is it to get so much response/feedback from people that grow it in other countries! So cool how you're able to reach so many far flung people and that so many people from such obscure places tune in. You're doing God's work and touching so many people. You're doing a great thing by trying to get people back to the land. Keep up the GREAT work!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Much love Gary! The channel has become more than I could have ever expected🙌

[@she-surrendered1234]

Hi Gary, I’m in Largo. Any ideas of where to get good affordable organic soil?

[@ChefDwight]

Used in Jamaica to make Bammy that we eat with fry fish

[@jarmor24]

or some callalo and saltfish....feel for some now

[@theresadailey5809]

Great video Pete, I learn so much from Josh when you do a video there, thank you 🙏

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Glad you enjoyed 🙏

[@blissbackyard7052]

Another malaysian here! pay attention to the comments from Asian viewers...we know our cassava. Not only we eat the tuber but the young shoot as well. We only harvest what we need... if we have too much, then we make deserts out of it, or fermented it, something i havent heard discussed much in youtube.I can still recall my aching arms from having to grind up cassava using the rotating stone grinder. I guess i must have reached an old age, since everything old becomes new again..

[@elderberryjamz3654]

Bliss Backyard when you say young shoots do you mean the growth that eventually becomes the trunk or the leaves? I’m Caribbean and we eat the leaves with stewed meats

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

I have a follow up video coming out today with the cooking process.

[@udinudin2546]

Pete, anda seorang pembicara yang sangat baik dalam memberikan informasi,, 👍

[@BoydGilbreath]

Really nice work! So much info and attention to detail. That Josh must be a teacher.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Seriously! Thanks

[@SueLall1008]

I love boiled cassava, with ripe plantains and dumplings...

[@sarah_farm]

You work so hard to build your dreams!

[@eltoncarvalho9456]

It's so cool seeing people abroad planting mandioca, cassava, there's a lot for you to learn about how to harvest it, but I'm amazed. Something cool about this plant, before it was domesticated it was a vine in the forest, and when it grows under the sun it grows those big roots. Here in Brazil we have a variety that can be eaten raw and it's sweet, I'm trying to get it but it's quite rare

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Wow! Raw and sweet sounds unreal 🙌

[@zachariahstillwater]

Let us know when you get it! We want cuttings!

[@ube4856]

Do you know the name of the raw variety?

[@eltoncarvalho9456]

@@ube4856 I don't know its scientific name, but it's called "mandioca de indio" or "macaxeira de indio" and it has several other names, here's a video of it kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqLUXoamrNqqarM

[@danielmartin3479]

Smart Josh He mixed beans with cassava so beans naturally fertilize the cassava

[@gladyrose21]

I'm native from the Dominican republic leaving in the state. And dreaming green to one day move back and learn from my oldest relatives there whom from years being using this method of growing things is they lifestyle. I'm so grateful that this was my lifestyle as a child. Just this pass weekend my brother there just planted some Yuca and some lemon trees and our property. Thanks so much Pete for having this video available to us. And so nice of Josh's to welcome you there. God bless you guys and be safe.

[@tolewas_world]

Qp

[@cirleneluz4486]

Ok! look for videos on agroforestry. and the cassava plain. Brazil is a major producer of cassava. here everyone has mandica at home. keep a little more of the stem. support your feet open and go pulling and swinging.

[@angelwings2113]

Cassava freezes well unpeeled in the freezer for a very long time...just a tip from the caribbean.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks for sharing 😊

[@maxitupacademy]

great video

[@mathusvaiaoga9787]

This was extremely informative. Thank you

[@akmaristify]

No need to stake up n keep em tall. Grow in loose soil mounds. Keep it short n bushy. Eat the young leaves.

[@nancyfahey7518]

Thank you for that great demonstration.

[@hannahrosefl]

I three the Green parts into my compost and now I have yucca growing in there. I strongly believe that every part of the plant can be used as clippings

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Oh definitely!

[@DiscoveryDuo]

Josh, you rock! 👍🏻

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

For real! 👊

[@toddgiffin6587]

I would love to come take a tour. Your place looks awesome man

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

They offer tours

[@dlife.4575]

Cassava is common here in the philippines, it grows anywhere,and you can make a lot of it like, cassava cake, steam cassava or aripahol, alope it wraps with banana leaves and boiledb it or linupak.

[@ameisherry]

That’s why I grow in the bucket All I need to do is flip the bucket over 😝 easy harvest

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Well played! 🤣

[@ameisherry]

Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL 😂 😝

[@johnsaintvincent8406]

Very good cangre of yuca. The name of all the yuccas together in the plant is called in Spanish cangre.

[@kelly51757]

I love cassava you can steam or you can make cassava cake 🍰

[@joannarii7377]

Cassava cake so delicious...with coconut milk

[@zachariahstillwater]

Recipe please!

[@foziahramli3001]

Over here we call it "ubi kayu" becos of its woody trunk (kayu)...ubi is tuber.....we have various way of cooking the tubers...yummy.

[@foziahramli3001]

"Ubi kayu"....in Malaysia.🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

[@davidiriarte95]

Ohh mandioca en America! Es deliciosa para acompañar carnes

[@jayviz]

thank you for this great content. I have a relatively small yard, but I would like to plant some yuca along my fence line. Will the tubers continue to grow underground after harvesting? I don't want it to travel across my yard and destroy my foundation or become invasive.

[@yellowbird5411]

Would it be possible to harvest just one or two of the roots at a time? That way it would be easier, the plant would still survive, and the other roots could remain fresh in the ground until needed. Can the plant also be left in the ground for the following year, and would it make more roots?

[@zachariahstillwater]

Good idea and questions

[@victorialynn4251]

Great video!

[@jeff6899]

Fascinating. We have some wind events, but they are worse north...and, of course, no hurricanes. Wondering how this might do in our arid climate here in Phoenix...I like the vertical element...

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Part two comes out today. I would think you have a long enough growing season in Phoenix. That Togo variety is a little quicker

[@hgils]

OK😊 I THINK I KNOW WHAT THAT IS ! Yup I'm a Florida guy... Can't wait to see what's happening on your broadcast.

[@SCOTTBULGRIN]

I've always liked yucca fries at Pollo Tropical and now I know how to grow my own!😀

[@rutico12]

any fertilizer needed? if yes how often? thank you.

[@AIS.FarmResorts]

You can shorten your maturity time by cutting the stem up into single Nodes and nursing them for 2-3 weeks before transplanting them to their final planting space. Your method of planting will take too long to mature because most of the Nodes will have to die before the viable Nodes start germinating. If it takes 8 months to mature, just use the method I'm teaching you and you'll harvest you cassava within 4-6 months. Good luck

[@Dheeidjdndbd]

This is really interesting. I’m going to try this with my Togo Yuca. I have about a dozen planted now, all by this method in the video.

[@AIS.FarmResorts]

@@Dheeidjdndbd good luck

[@bradsuarez2683]

Now imagine trying to get that beast out of clay soil!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

That sounds brutal! You would definitely need a pry bar.

[@dougveganparadisebuilder5808]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL Will it even grow in pure clay soil? I doubt it. My neighbors grow it in clay rich soil but when it is moist it is easy to work with and that's when they prefer to harvest. When it is dry though it is hard.

[@thomasranjit7781]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL man put it in rocket stove fire and eat it, in India some guy got 40 kg on a plant with organic way in Kerala state. U can google it

[@thomasranjit7781]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL please google kerala topica recepies, U will love it. Lot of recepie from.kerala state

[@lorenrenee1]

Could you not plant it at an angle in a trench so that most of the nodes are underground??

[@zachariahstillwater]

David the good says yes in his book

[@jerricroft937]

Try soaking the plant with water before you pull it out that's how we get tree stumps out

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Good tip! Thanks

[@steveanthony3178]

Where all my Latinos at in Florida ✊🏼✌🏼🙏🏼 yuca pastelles all-day 💯

[@jarmor24]

yes sah love cassava....have you tried bammy?

[@maxitupacademy]

I am Cuban.I've planted casava twice. The tuber was so delicious and huge. But the are so hard to harvest. It is very very difficult to get out of the ground.

[@RoderickGMacLeod]

The Indonesian name is singkong.

[@cirleneluz4486]

in Brazil it can be mandioca, macaxeira and aipim. be careful, there is mandioca brava (toxic)

[@newcatvideos3306]

Also "ketela". Im from indonesia

[@kyaumrungthung2390]

Montagnard Jarai we eat cassava leafs cook or fry it’s Jarai traditional food and the root too

[@milagrossantiago1508]

Would like to order a variety of yucca, where can I order?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Hello! We’ll be shipping fresh cuttings again in spring.

[@gnarlytreeman]

Where can i get starter tubers? And is it illegal?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

We sell starts on our online store, it’s definitely not illegal.

[@gnarlytreeman]

Cool, i will take a look.

[@georgecarlin2656]

It's legal if you don't get caught.

[@Detroit-gx5nd]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL you are now under arrest

[@wilmorris4225]

Where can I find cuttings?

[@ChefDwight]

Hey Pete " what's growing on" 👊🏾

[@Perseverance4477]

Will a plant grow from some of the broken roots in the ground?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Normally you need to replant a section of the stalk.

[@Youngstomata]

Hey Pete, will you be selling more moringa starters soon? I seen your website had them when you did your quarantine vid...

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Hey Tyler! Out of everything we ship that one definitely does the worst. We thought it made sense to remove them and just sell seat because they grow so fast. I’ve had to replace a lot now.

[@jayviz]

How far will the roots travel? (I don't want it to take over my whole yard)

[@jamesa3127]

I wonder what you use for fertilizer

[@Something2ShowYou]

at certain ages you can hurt your back just sleeping

[@rohanthesmith]

Casava!!! Yuca!!!

[@gracedodson3599]

can this root in zone 7 ga.

[@emmamiller8189]

Where I come from, you “dig” cassava, not pull them. You use a machete and dig around the plant. If any is left in ground, then you pull on the stump. (West africa)

[@edenhomestead5382]

Another great video Pete! We're growing here at Eden Homestead, and I may have waited too long to harvest ours! Josh mentioned fermenting it. Is this part of the normal process of harvesting it, or is fermentation used for preparing it in certain ways?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks! The second video will be out today with the entire cooking process 😊

[@janemack8852]

How do you know if it's ready to harvest? I have wild tapioca (here called manioc) in the yard.

[@happycustomer3448]

Ok. Mr. If I plant it in a 32 gal. Plastic containers. Can i get a good size?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Maybe. They need some space.

[@happycustomer3448]

Thank yousir

[@matthewcain2880]

I don’t have a rhizome to plant, can I just put the tuber in the ground to start? Ty

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

No you need a cutting from the stem.

[@christianmistieburris7931]

What information do you guys have on proper prepping to avoid cyanide poisoning?

[@djbarre74]

it will be easier if you wet the area to soften it , but good job

[@gabrielag9846]

Very informative!

[@alisonrahn9873]

Can it grow in sandy conditions or needs shade and lots of water?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Yes it can take sandy conditions! Does like regular water, but can handle short amounts of drought

[@Southerngrower]

Hi Pete, I was considering buying some of the pruners you recommended and I have seen some negative reviews due to the revolving handle. Have you encountered any issues with this? Thank you for the great content!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Hey Luke! I’ve been very happy with mine. Not sure my handle is revolving...

[@slametriyanto9107]

kasava di indonesia yang mulai rusak tak lagi segar dikeringkan dan masih bisa dijadikan bahan makanan ,dan fariasinya sangat banyak,cobalah cari tau pengolahan kasava di banyak negeri asia tenggara.

[@videosaala]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽pleeeeeease... send me cuttings to north Alabama. I spent a fortune, only 2 hv leaves after a month

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

We have cuttings available on our online store.

[@tico28]

Pete - any advice where to get shoots or tubers of the Tainung 64 sweet potato mentioned on 5/4? (HeartVillage stated they cant sell theirs), and cant find any other sellers online.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Are you local?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Email the office. I have some some cuttings I got from Josh. [e-mail]

[@nalhazirah906]

Young leaves are edible.....

[@danielmartin3479]

Pigs love eating it

[@ModernPioneerHomesteader]

How can I get some to grow? I live in Lakeland FL

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Plant it in spring

[@vanessaduldulao7194]

Are variegated cassava edible?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Some say it is, others say it is not edible.

[@michaelbrawner4754]

Can you go to a store and buy a root and throw it in the ground like a sweet potato?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

No, you need a cutting from the plant.

[@StatmanRN]

So pigs can eat it raw?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Pretty sure yes

[@jmanteb]

Don't cut the trees and dig the soil around the root, so you can pull it easily. That is the way we harvest cassava root in Indonesia. We also eat the cassava root leaves as a vegetables. Cassava root leaves can be a herbal booster to increase your hemoglobin.

[@faletavitatalafaaoti8960]

manioka in samoan

[@scottycarver5186]

If you like to eat it then try to grow it

[@nancyfahey7518]

A black cat crossed your path. That's good luck for believers.

[@pronouncedseven652]

$60 for a 3 gal Avocado on your website? Wow dude

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Cevan Triplett That is for our online store. The rates are different for local pick up and delivery.

[@alexcontreras6103]

hey pete do like a raffle with the comments to get a chance to win some free plants

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Good idea!

[@soulseeker42388]

I notice yall fail to mention that it must be cooked right because of cyanide content or haven't even given a warning to the content of cyanide

[@christianmistieburris7931]

Yes, it's actually something I'm trying to find more info on. I read something about soaking for 6 days then roasting? Wish they touched on that more

[@kemosabikeemanart]

Rootn Tootin Dirty P.D.s All Round

[@freetheafricans]

Hey Pete I’m Ethiopian 🇪🇹 we call it boiye pronounced (boy-yay) lol

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Cool!

[@mathusvaiaoga9787]

This was extremely informative. Thank you

[@renatamm1960]

Another great video! In the Northeast of Brazil people call it Macaxeira. In the South Mandioca. Waiting for tomorrows Live!!!

[@godzillaeatsushi4979]

We eat the leaves too

[@FruitFloridaFarm]

Got to add some Cassava TOGO cuttings to the store!

[@amandabernabe2970]

This was a great video! Thanks. 😊 We are here in Florida trying to learn how to grow gluten free crops for our family. Then I can then in turn make into breads pasta so forth. Would you consider adding to this video? How long for example will the root verses the flour so forth last with the waxing he is talking about, also I would appreciate learning how to make things with cassava, I know these roots are toxic without cooking and or preparing them right into like a tapioca starch. Could you show some videos on that process like how to make into the flours specifically for me cassava verses tapioca and starches, I think making boiled and fried yuca is a bit more obvious. Thanks ahead I really enjoy your videos. Living here in central Florida and I am interested in learning more from you and coming out to get plants in the future. We have an acre and have some fruits tree, and garden with some success but not nearly what we know is possible so we are looking into growing in a food forest permaculture base. We also just recently added chickens. 🐓

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Glad you enjoyed! Great idea and best of luck with your new Food Forest