Harvesting & Cooking Sweet Potato Leaves

[@LaureneAE]

This is now my favorite recipe for Sweet potato leaves !! So good - thank you!

[@wendiland]

Such a pleasure to hear! 🤗

[@nurunkhan2366]

After watching this I can't wait to harvest the leaves of my sweet potatoes which I just randomly plant coz it was growing in my kitchen.Thank you Windy!

[@maggygraham2218]

Thank you, going to try this tonight. My neighbor at our community garden just gave me a bunch of sweet potato leaves, and they are all clean now and ready to cook.

[@wendiland]

Can't make it any easier. Hope you'll like it :D

[@jacquelinefoster233]

I grew lots of sweet potatoes this summer, from which I have tons of leaves but I’ve never tried cooking or eating them. Thanks for sharing this video, I’m definitely gonna give it a try.

[@wendiland]

You can flavor it however you like -- like your spinach!

[@cheryllannchersflair8519]

Thanks for this. The sweet potato vines in my garden are overflowing. I had no idea they were used as a stir fry. Love the idea of adding garlic and miso. I will try this.

[@kristinkulman3221]

Thanks Wendi, yesterday I didn't know that we can eat the sweet potato leaves, now I can't wait to try your recipe. Thanks for the recipe and the tip about rice wine vinegar and miso. That's so great. (My sweet potatoes sprouted, and now I know what to do).

[@Rosalinda626]

I started following you because I love the part of how you cook and prepare your harvest. What to add to it. How to do it. More like this would so cool. It’s so simplified and down, ready to eats.

[@Whoofwhoof444]

I agree. The nutritional info she shared was also appreciated!

[@joyfulsoul1702]

Wow! Thanks for posting this video. My Mom & some other nature folks used to tell us about sweet potato leaves, but I never learnt how to prepare them. This makes so much sense, there's good nutritious foods all around us, if only we paid closer attention.

[@solfeinberg437]

Super informative - I've got sweet potatoe vines climbing everywhere - it's the only thing rocking in the garden. I figured there were some potatoes under there, but I just learned that the greens are edible! So stoked. I can have steamed greens probably every day for a month!

[@AshleenWoods]

This looks so tasty! I wasn't paying attention at the grocers and grabbed yam/sweat potato leaves instead of spinach. What a pleasant surprise to see how easy it is too cook these up! Thanks for sharing this video :3

[@wendiland]

Pleasant surprise - those are the best! Hope you’ll like it. :)

[@dobson777a]

My wife and I started a pretty decent sized garden this year and one of things we planted was sweet potatoes. I've never heard about eating sweet potato leaves so this video is quite a find. I'm going to go out and right now and pick some leaves and cook them up tonight. We love eating collards and other greens like mustard greens so I hope it's a very similar. thank you.

[@pluckingtheinterwebs970]

Did you try this yet? If so what did you think of it?

[@dobson777a]

@@pluckingtheinterwebs970 I think we must be towards the end of the season here in northeast Georgia because we haven't really had any new growth where we have the darker leaves available. Maybe we're getting close to where it's time to harvest the sweet potatoes. We just trimmed the ends of the vines where they were growing way outside the beds. Mas ybe this will spur new growth otherwise this might be something will have to wait and try for next year.

[@THEGLASSMANSWORLD]

I recently just learned we can eat the greens of sweet potatoes and they are extremely healthy and beneficial for us! I'm so glad I found your channel and video on how to harvest and cook them! I plan to share this new knowledge on a LiVE Stream in a few minutes when I show our sweet potatoes growing in an aquaponic system on top of our 10 gallon fish aquarium! Thanks for sharing! ❤️

[@wendiland]

Awesome! Sow what you learned 😄👍

[@JeePnoY1]

Jus planted my 12 slips 2 weeks ago, using your videos on sweet potatoes 🍠 thank you! Can’t wait to Harvest both tubers and leafs 😋

[@Esperalzi-Esfaral]

Delicious! I love sweet potato leaves. I planted cuttings 2 weeks ago from a bundle of the veggie that I bought at the wet market. Getting bushier now, soon harvestable. I normally stir fry or cook as a watery soup or cook it in creamy coconut milk. When stir fry, I stir fry the leaves in pounded garlic-onion-chili-dried anchovies (or dried shrimp)-shrimp paste. These stuff coarsely pounded. As a watery soup, boil water till boiling, add salt, sugar, stock cubes (beef or chicken or fish), onion, garlic, chili and finally the veggie (I seperated leaves from stems and leaf stalks, add the stalk/stems first, then leaves). For coconut milk gravy, just add the coconut milk to the watery soup.

[@markusgorelli5278]

I want to thank you for this video. Yours was the first one that I came across a few years ago where I discovered that you can eat sweet potato leaves. This year I have a great many patches started and I'm going to trim back some vines tomorrow as some are creeping over their borders - and I came back to remind myself how to cook a big batch lol. I have the ones with the more ornamental leaves - they look so pretty.

[@wendiland]

sounds fun! enjoy them! i imagine you can blanch then freeze them like spinach.

[@martysgarden]

Just planted my first Sweet Potato crop for the season, and looking forward to giving this a try once they start growing! Thanks for the video Wendi! Happy Gardening Marty Ware (from Australia)

[@woody3307]

You're the greatest! Been years since I grew SPs, but they are on the list again. Thanks for the love, wisdom and inspiration!

[@federicosagun8243]

filipino cuisine boiled and add ginger chop onion pepper and vinegar as side dish salad.

[@leonardpearlman4017]

Hey, that sounds good, too. We need some variety here, once these vines get rolling, there's a lot of leaves!

[@iiomqhxney6710]

Federico Sagun YESS,

[@sureshrao9012]

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[@markanthonymercado1195]

And dipped with bagoong or alamang 🤣

[@beatricewoods8377]

Yes my filipino friend fix for me very good.

[@robynwilliams7326]

Hi Wendy, I tried these greens once. They were greasy and spicy, I didn’t like them but still wanted to try growing sweet potatoes. You’re recipe looks amazing and I can’t wait to try it! It’s great to know I don’t have to waste my leaves!😋🌱

[@letsCOOKwithELLE]

Ooh wow, this is cool, we eat this in Congo 🇨🇩 as well , we call it Matembele 😊

[@aurelioandrade1141]

letsCOOKwithELLE Awesome :) I got to try :)

[@shoukathali4482]

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[@MomsSelfReliance]

I never knew u could eat it. thanks

[@leonardpearlman4017]

Hey, a celebrity visitor! I learned about PONDU from your channel. I'm growing cassava... and there are so many leaves! So now I'm growing sweet potato... good old KZbin! How would we know about this stuff otherwise? Nobody I know thinks cassava leaves are edible, you know?

[@salomebahati5862]

@@aurelioandrade1141 Vraiment

[@aboutashow]

Thank you! We eat these leaves in Liberia too. It's my first time having fresh ones at my disposal, but I had no idea how to harvest them

[@rbbiefah]

UP DATE : THIS WORKS with sweet potato leaves or moringa leaves : Cook field peas in a pressure cooker remove from heat and let cool a little > turn them into gravy with a commercial stick blender > add RAW sweet potato or fresh (or frozen RAW moringa leaves) > use the stick blender to fine grind the leaves into the gravy > grate fresh ginger over the gravy stir the ginger in and eat >>>you will feel very strong and energetic !!!

[@mangofever4681]

I tried growing regular potato on Oahu, but they got blight and died. However, I didn't have any problems with Molokai sweet potatoes. Also, I bought some 11 inch fruit bags for my beef steak tomatoes and it worked. The fruit flies couldn't sting them, so I got a good harvest.

[@wendiland]

Glad you found something that works in your area! :D

[@nunyabiznes33]

Also wanted to plant all those potatoes that sprout in the kitchen but I'm in Manila which is very tropical and they just died here. The sweet potatoes though, they just grow like crazy, even in pots.

[@mangofever4681]

@@nunyabiznes33 We have a problem with a tomato stunting disease called Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus, so I bought some tomato seeds with this resistance and I am hoping I can over come this problem. I also ordered some silicone grafting clips to graft heirlooms on to these resistant type of tomato plant clones.

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@mangofever4681 you covered the heirloom tomatoes while waiting for the plant they'll get grafted on to grow? Did you tried to replant potatoes or the blight contaminate the soil and you can't grow potatoes for some time?

[@mangofever4681]

@@nunyabiznes33 I only grow sweet potato, nothing bothers the sweet potato in my area. Also, my chicken loves to eat the leaves, so I don't want to grow regular potatoes, since their leaves are poison.

[@tkmccoywv]

Hello Wendi, and thank you so much for this video. Thanks to you, I've been enjoying my sweet potato greens all summer. I love them! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@diversitylove5460]

I swear I can smell it’s delicious

[@bobs5596]

i ate mine first time tonight. it was sooo good! i wish i had know about this my whole life, the vines are so easy to grow huge amounts.

[@ross-smithfamily6317]

Love the simple recipe! I have a suggestion for prepping sweet potato leaves ... I cut them into strips so it's less awkward than eating long strings of leaves.

[@janyskitchen9335]

It is amazing that you have so much in your garden. Sweet potato leaves are packed with nutrients!

[@evlynealeshire5850]

Unfortunately, the whole plant is high in oxalic acid. Oxalic acid is cumulative and quite toxic. ☹️

[@madeleinecornwell4746]

I just harvested my okinawan purple sweet potatoes and snapped off the leaves. Looking for a good recipe, I came across your video. Thank you so much! I might doctor it up a little more, but definitely will be adding the miso... best stuff in the world!

[@nancywells5626]

I am going to try this soon, since I am growing sweet potatoes in a little raised bed in the back yard.

[@fatherofchickens7951]

The lighting when you prepped the garlic!❤️😍

[@ashwinihonnatti3180]

Yummy looking... I also grew sweet potato when it germinated after I had left it uncooked. Put it in a huge pot and the vines grew wild. I made a delicious south Indian curry. I never knew till then that even the vines of this plant are just as great... Thanks for sharing your recipe

[@roses9339]

I have been cooking leaves but will now look for the Miso ingredient, I am not vegan but really don't enjoy red meat so leafy vegetables are a good replacement adding citrus which from my research allows the iron etc to be absorbed into the body. I will now look at your videos just found you which is great. I'm 65 and still experimenting. Thanks Rosemary

[@Syoma]

try it with coconut milk and kelp.

[@solfeinberg437]

In addition to not enjoying red meat, you can realize that it causes cancer and heart disease and is even insulinogenic, whereas greens reverse these issues.

[@fishingpinky3165]

Sweet potato leave are now my favorite crop to grow in Central Florida. I even add the stems to my fried Okra in bacon grease.

[@brazilian-lady9175]

Great video! I did not know we can eat sweet potato leaves.. I need to try. Looks ymmy

[@rbbiefah]

Just put 12 oz water in blender add some Frontier herbs tomato powder and throw in a couple of handfuls of moringa leaves pack with a carrot No nausea tastes meaty good protein boost I feel wonderful strong and ready !!! BTW Wendi is wonderful 🙂👍

[@soverealma]

Looks so delicious! I do my potato leaves same as your recipe, but for the miso, I use anchovies paste, delicious. Try it. 😀

[@janiceb4679]

Love that cute sweater! I have two different sweet potato plants (leaves differ in shape). I think this is because I've started plants from random potatoes that sprouted in the pantry. Are they all edible, or only certain strains of sweet potatoes?

[@zhandymakesit1014]

Thank you for the wonderful recipe! I have a question, I am growing sweet potato leaves using a sprouted sweet potato from Costco (Nature's Pride). I noticed the leaves are a bit different than the ones presented in your video...do the evangaline variety also have edible leaves? I read somewhere that the seeds and possibly the stems could contain an LSD-like compound, but I can't find much information on which specific varieties are safe! :/ Thanks Again! :)

[@comitatocentrale2022]

2:04 Olive oil is actually much better for high temperature cooking

[@lauriewestenhaver284]

Thank u for sharing. I will be trying my sweet potato leaves soon as they're ready to harvest. Yum. But my leaves aren't a dark green. Lighter/brighter. I wonder why? They are plentiful ,look healthy. They were planted 2 months ago.

[@gardeningwithaloha5573]

Omg that looks delish! I've had sweet potato shootz blanched with tomato onion patis & opai it is so delish my mouth is watering thanks for the awesome video👍🏼

[@wwsuwannee7993]

Very good...sweet potatoes are amazing plants...they have saved people around the world more than once. Thanks for the vid Wendi.

[@acoupleofpreppers]

Thank you for also sharing the nutritional value, good to know

[@WonderfullyMade_Lex]

Relatively new to your Channel but I'm LOVING IT!! Potato Leaves Are AWESOME. Think I may try your recipe. Thank you for always providing good content.

[@redsky7238]

Thank you! I just got several bags of sweet potato leaves from a neighbor and was wondering how to prepare them.

[@ljacree5764]

Oh boy! I'm going to try that recipe! Thanks!

[@norwoodzomboy]

I was going to ask about the texture, but you answered that...textures! There are now a few varieties of Sweet Potato that will grow in the shorter growing seasons of Canada, so I'll try this. Question: can you harvest a few leaves from each plant while the Sweet Potatoes are growing or is it best to wait until they are mature?

[@seshadrisrinath]

You have cactus and banana trees ? Southern US I presume, Zone 8 or 9 ? How does your cactus turn out ? I have found it wild in SC (Zone 8) but its dry and stringy. Store bought ones are softer and juicier. In the wild it also was grown in non watered and dry locations. Would it turn up juicy and not stringy if I grew it in a wet location. How does your nopales turn out ? And what soils and water do you grow it in.

[@livelearn664]

Great video i just startedsome today trying to get sprouts. Looks delicious definitely getting miso paste

[@theresecornelius812]

Never heard of this-awesome to learn!

[@nengobuilder1378]

i am 42 years, and always wondered why do white peoples chose to ignore this stuff. i was raised on this stuff, i dont even get a common flue lol :)

[@deborahthompson5041]

Should you harvest the leaves before the potato are ready to harvest. I have so many leaves. Do you have to wait until the potato are ripe?

[@JhunM69]

Hi there! I just started planting and in the back of the house, I planted a couple of Hannah Sweet Potato. But I am not sure if all types of sweet potato leaves are edible, is it? Right now, it has green and dark purple leaves growing.

[@JodBronson]

We usually eat the " Heart Shape ones... Green or Purple ", but it has Heart Shape.

[@nancyfreeman733]

Thank you so .much for explaining exactly how to use them!!!

[@cobbytowngirl]

Thank you for this video, it was very informative and I'm going to look for these greens when I'm visiting Florida [I'm from Canada]. Also I'm wondering, can these greens be used in a tossed salad, or do they need to be cooked? Thanks!

[@UniversalDust]

She did say they have higher amounts of oxalates than other vegetables/ leaves so cooking will reduce that amount. If you only sprinkle some fresh leaves on top of a salad as a garnish I suppose but it's probably best to cook them. Oxalates are somewhat controversial but they say that too much causes stones.

[@jibrilsaneko3969]

try cooking with the purplish variety. It tastes better..

[@GalaxyJ-vm2rn]

I am growing sweet potato this summer, very exiting! On balconies..☺

[@ronhartwell4725]

Can you pick the leaves at any stage of growth or just when harvesting the potatoes

[@wendiland]

Any stage of growth is fine! Just don’t cut more than 40% of the plant. It still needs it for energy to develop tubers.

[@Whoofwhoof444]

Thanks so much for sharing what you do! I have a ton of sweet potato leaves in my yard and just learned that I could eat them! :-)

[@michelineh4752]

Thanks for all the info. I'm excited to plant my sprouting sweet potato in a large pot. Are the flowers edible too?

[@beachlife8367]

Thank u for this video. I had heard you could eat these leaves but it was only after I had already fed them to the chickens last year. This year, I want to cook and try them out. Question: have you ever frozen these and, if so, did you cook them first and then freeze them?

[@yakoodki]

Hi! So you can eat the leaves and their stems BUT can you eat the vine part as well? I do not want to waste any part of the plant if I do not have to. I read something about it being poisonous?

[@michellefurst4985]

Hi, Ive been harvesting a lot of my leaves as well, but wondering if the tubers will still grow well. Or should I grow in different beds, one for the leaves and another for tubers where I dont harvest the leaves?

[@phoebefreely3666]

What kind of potato that I choose buy to plant because I see at farmer market have orient potato it is purple color and regular potato orange color. Please suggest. You cooking look yummy my mouth watering and want to buy to plant.

[@wendiland]

Phoebe Freely grow the kind you like to eat. Mine is called Purple passion.

[@milesandcoffee]

Hmmmmm...I'm growing sweet potatoes and wasn't sure if the beautiful leaves were edible. VOILA! I found your channel and now I am looking forward to stir frying those leaves when it's time to harvest the sweet potatoes! 🌱Also, thanks for demonstrating how to do that! 👍🏾

[@dsmith6868]

I wonder if this would be good with some lemongrass?

[@babyblue8820]

Hey Wendi, that was delicious!! I used Okinawan sweet potato shoots and added some Mahi Mahi to my miso before I cooked them, and added a dash of crushed Hawaiian chili peppers at the end... besides that I stuck to your recipe and have a happy belly! Thank-you for your hard work on presenting this video/recipe👏💙🌼🌊🌅🌈

[@GerardGibney3]

Sounds BANGING. Good stuff!

[@cyrilmircovich7559]

BabyBlue 88 all kind sweet potato can eat them leave? i wana try to grow up them but i saw in market have color purple an orange. so i dont know wich one can et leave

[@susanvitolo4345]

Can i cut back the leaves before harvest time for the potatoes?

[@GizmoaGames]

I love the leaves more than the roots. Do you know of a good kind to grow to get more leaves? I live in the north, so I have a limited growing season.

[@wendiland]

+GizmoaGames All sweet potatoes grow a lot of leaves. You can make cuttings from the stems and plant them closer together. Cut the stem and sit it in water for about a week and you'll see roots starting to grow.

[@MaryHernandez-db6ol]

Amazing. Didn’t know the leaves were edible. I shall try cooking this, thank you.

[@wendiland]

Hope you’ll like it! :)

[@judem81]

Thank you for sharing! So excited to try this!😁

[@nunyabusiness863]

Thanks for this. Timeless info.

[@mytzjohnson2560]

I love sweet potato leaves just blanch it and put some fermented fish,onion,ginger,hot pepper and vinegar hmmm yummy...thank you for this i will try this recipe

[@taraknapp7730]

Never seen sweet potato leaves in stores where can I find tbem

[@GraceJoubarneHypnotherapy]

Can this be done with any specie of potato, such as white potatoes?

[@aureliarizon47]

Wendi is it possible you have seeds on your sweet potato

[@gulfcoastgal_]

There are do many types of sweet potatoes! Which have the best leaves?

[@lars5174]

Hey is it possible to harvest sweet potatoes and their leaves as well? I've only read so far that you will have to wait until the leaves begin to turn brown in october to know if the potatoes are ripe....I live in Germany but I have eaten sweet potatoe greens in Malaysia and I love em.

[@tkmccoywv]

Definitely need to try this!

[@zareentanvir7052]

wow such a nice way of explaining and so simple just I want to ask about the sause you used which I can't get may I use mustard fermented sause ( kashundi ) .

[@wendiland]

That sounds delicious too! Anything with a punch would be great with sweet potato leaves! If you don't have sauce, just sauteing with garlic is just as tasty!

[@zareentanvir7052]

Wow thanks for your reply

[@pozucina]

Hi Wendy! at the end of your video, I can see on the back banana trees, is sweet potatoes at it’s bottom???

[@hackit9578]

Hi , thank you for sharing your recipe. I was wondering is this shoots are from regular sweet potatoes(red outside and white inside) or only the purple sweet potatoe shoots can be eaten? I've been growing regular store ones.

[@vincevoland7056]

I add water chestnuts and bean sprouts and bacon chunks with a Worcestershire sauce. One of my favorite summer salads

[@wendiland]

That sounds really good!

[@RayH-]

Do different varieties of sweet potato leaves taste different. I like spinach and was hoping these leaves would be a good substitute since I have so many but they are very bitter? I am growing the Japanese variety with the red skin and white inside.

[@wendiland]

SP leaves shouldn’t be bitter. Certain varieties have thicker or thinner leaves, but taste is very similar. Good substitute to spinach plus u get tubers!

[@RayH-]

@@wendiland They initially taste like spinach but are bitter. Third year no tubers just a lot of root. You can see some tubers starting to form but they are at best 1/2" thick. There's a lot of very healthy vines.

[@superwomanofjax838]

Hi Wendy what kind of sweet-potato plants that the leaves are edible ?

[@BrittanyDaine]

I enjoy miso so I definitely want to try this. Now, I'm not sure if I got this correctly, but did you say only to take the younger leaves and leave the older ones? Also, I'm wondering how many leaves I can harvest without negatively affecting the root production?

[@marck453]

Can I cut off leaves before the sweet potatoes are ready to be harvested? Would that affect the growth of the potato?

[@GrAsSMoPer]

Cool that’s how we stir fry our leaves too 👍👍👍

[@GlobalLeadFormula]

Very cool. I have never heard of eating sweet potato leaves. I love sweet potatoes, but have never grown them. Do you just get a sweet potato and cut it up and plant it in the garden?

[@puricaro6738]

What other leaves you prepare?

[@rilynzzz]

It's good in any sea food soup, especially pampano soup. I jus toss it right on top of the soup right when it's done cooking.

[@diemvolz4311]

Are the green color leaves of ornament sweet potato vines edible too?

[@IAMgagnez]

Great video. Thank you. Will be doing this, this fall.

[@lovetawanaya2544]

Please where can I get some of these leaves ?

[@onthego41]

I am planting a red yam in the big pot. It is sprouting like crazy now. Can you eat the red yam leaves? I noticed that your plant have green leaves and not very pointy. Mine is reddish, purply and pointy.

[@catalinababy6068]

Could u juice them or use in green smoothies

[@MrSkullz92]

Can you eat sweet potato leaves from all types, examples being the purple as well as the orange.

[@Nattiieee968]

I really enjoy watching your videos because you're very calming and sweet and you give off such positive and happy energy. It really makes me happy =)

[@ishsaw1]

Gaaayyyyyy

[@emanueladavis1885]

Love your video's thanks for sharing, I had no idea you could eat sweet potato leaves, to think I used to throw them in the compost......cheers

[@nunyabiznes33]

We eat them but I've never thought of using the flowers as garnish before.