The Secret to Healthy Eating: Eat Your Bolting Garden Vegetable Tops

[@growingyourgreens]

Jump to the following parts of this episode: 00:22 My favorite way to use Bolting Brassica Tops 01:33 How to determine what length to harvest 03:25 Harvesting Kale & Cauliflower Tops 04:33 Harvesting Bolting Mustard Greens 05:25 More Bolting Tops Grow Back 06:14 Harvest Bolting Tops of Brassica, 06:58 Ingredients being used in this recipe 08:04 Recommended Way to Cook Your Food 08:33 These can be eaten Raw but can be strong 09:57 Add Rosemary to Minimize Oxidation 10:25 Food Cut and Prepped 11:08 How to Layer in Food into Instantpot 12:21 Adding in Precooked Beans in Tetrapack 12:50 Ultimate Batchelor Cooking Device 13:34 My meal is done cooking 14:42 Adding Herbs & Spices to Meal 18:07 Finished Meal and Taste Testing

[@johnman559]

Hi John, I live just north of you in Las chewako wawidaho, what's the best way to maintain humidity around my USA plants?❤😂

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

I was working in the garden and was glad to get in to watch this premiere ❤️thanks

[@gardengirl7446]

Eating my bok choy bolting tops now ❤ they taste like asparagus and broccoli!

[@juneramirez8580]

So happy to see this topic since most of my lettuces and plants now in the low Arizona desert Zone 9B. I didn't know they were still edible.

[@ChristaFree]

Nice. I don't know why I have never thought of that.

[@pesto12601]

HOLY GARLIC POWDER.. that is a lot of garlic!!!

[@palmtreeleebythesea]

you look so amazingly young. it seems your lifestyle has helped you so much. thanks for sharing your wonderfulness. I love purple potatoes raw with Himalayan pink salt !

[@cutegalnv]

Hi John, I live in North Las Vegas. To get rid of the pill bugs I use the small cat food cans. I place the rim at dirt level and put them around the garden. At first they were full of pill bugs when I would check them in the mornings. It cleared up the pill bug issue so fast and now after a few years I never see them.

[@lizzzarduh]

You place the cans upside down?

[@Drew_Hurst]

I don't understand either

[@cutegalnv]

@@lizzzarduh you dig a hole and place them in the hole at dirt level and they fall into the can. So right side up.

[@cutegalnv]

@@lizzzarduh right side up so they fall into the can and cannot get out.

[@cutegalnv]

@@Drew_Hurst you dig a hole and place them in the hole at dirt level and they fall into the can. So right side up

[@asamusicdude]

MY thing is there's cultures who have grown and cooked these foods for thousands of years and were way more healthier than the healthiest raw vegan nowadays. Is it the ground? Because we have more options nowadays to make super soils full of nutrient and minerals. Does cooking food really make it unhealthy?

[@carlac.8316]

I read they were edible and harvested them the wrong way, they were so fibrous, thank you John, now I know.

[@marlenejarrell5955]

A homestead channel I watch has been taken over by Army worms and so have many other farmers. Have you heard of this and do you have any thoughts about this invasion?

[@onedazinn998]

So glad I watched this John - it's my first season growing and my seedlings indoors bolted...I had no idea the flowers were edible! so I composted them but next time I'll be ready to eat them :) Thanks!

[@ingevankeirsbilck9601]

I made the same mistake a few years back. I believe most flowers are edible, but some are not. Always check ;-)

[@Alaytheia]

🎶 This is how we do itttt!!🎶 lol YEAH Alright John enjoy and thanks for sharing! Love my insta pot, anything with quinoa or rice is is fine with me. 💖✌️😁

[@yeevita]

People already eat young bolting tops, called Broccoli and Cauliflower. They just have to see that all those florets exist for other brassicas as well. I graze the garden during early spring. I especially love chard and kale tops. The purple kales have these beautiful, delicious fluffy florets. Sprouting broccolis are also amazing. Mustards do not seem to do that well in my garden. They take too long to grow their big leaves and then are attacked by everything. They make good trap plants for me. They are also a bit too spicy for me, so yep, good trap plants. In May now and the brassicas are mostly over. They have a hard time in the high desert and mostly have seed pods or have dried out already. I should have plenty of seeds and volunteers in fall though.

[@Gkrissy]

Learned something new. I never thought about eating those flowers. I usually just leave them for the beneficial insects. Cool video.

[@bendingo6]

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[@palmtreeleebythesea]

back to nature food channel

[@Drew_Hurst]

Thanks for the inspiration

[@America-zh6rv]

Super good Super fresh Super cheap Super fast Bravo John you knocked it out the park again ...Thank you !

[@williammaxwell1919]

The "pepper mix" I like the best is a blend of black pepper (predominantly), some white pepper, native Australian pepper seeds and chile flakes

[@davecphotographyuk]

Do you eat the fig leaves? I notice they have a coconut smell to them, but i'v never eaten them.

[@figtree393]

The young one taste good. John mentioned that on one of his episodes. I tried it he was correct.

[@lizzzarduh]

This recipe looks so good! I love that cutting board. Yum I can only imagine all those deep flavors from the green salt and soy sauce and balsamic. Need to check those oht

[@johnmiller3159]

Thanks again

[@michaelbooher612]

Thanks John. Over here in bullhead city az. Close to you. Cool i got onion tops like that flowering one.. Thanks Perhaps i will pop some off tonight

[@daphne7897]

❤

[@williammaxwell1919]

The bolting greens make really good pesto, which (depending on how you preserve it) can be saved for a long time for use when greens are scarce due to climate

[@lovinglife3954]

Ha ha I'm not the only one that overstuffs the Instant Pot 🙂 What potassium salt do you use? I'm having trouble finding it without a bunch of other junk in it. Thanks John.

[@lindamorgan2678]

Oh boy John is this timely just noticed my pak choy is bolting and starting to flower. NOW I know what to do with them. So much helpful to me I was going to just chop it down and ferment and hope for another plant to come out of the stalk Thank you. PS I love my multi cooker too but no way would I fill up any pressure cooker to almost the top. I am an old gal and been using a pressure cooker for decades and decades .. that could clog the pressure valve you know and it is a safety concern. Have had one of them blow the lid right off a longostina and they replaced it for me very strange incident and have no idea what happened

[@MichaelMyall]

Hi John. I am a Brit living in Thailand with my Thai wife and daughter. Soon we will build a house and I will retire on a small piece of land in my wife's hometown. Your videos are a great inspiration for how I want to spend my retirement and live my life in the future. Thank you so much!

[@nancymarquino697]

Hi John, Can you tell me where I can buy kale seeds that are HEAT tolerant so I can grow year round.

[@Perseverance4477]

This video was awesome John! I've really been wondering how good the instant pot is in terms of keeping the nutrients during the cooking process. I was under the impression that it gets too hot and causes the nutrients to be lost. You're saying that's not true? Thanks for the response! I would love to see more videos like this showing what and how you prepare and cook your harvests

[@roselavender2222]

Very healthy. Please do more meal prep content.

[@LittleBear88111]

just subbed happy i found your channel love this ❤

[@middle-agedmacdonald2965]

Is that one of Josh's sweet potatoes?!?!? Cool, I hope it is and they worked out for you.

[@Steve197201]

That looks delicious! I'll have to try that myself.

[@guycleveland5946]

Great post and presentation. Love you go into the valuable part in preparation of greens

[@darlafoster9553]

This was helpful. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@HealthyBites247]

"Eat well, live well: Secrets of healthy eating."

[@skeeterburke]

arugula tops are my favorite, they're great on salads

[@dwardodwardo643]

I think I told you about my 4 year old broccoli. :)

[@ontherocksinthesoilmichael6739]

I harvest the tops of brasicas like broccoli raab.

[@Sweettomatovine]

I will try this awesome recipe

[@sethcat6232]

You want some greens with that sauce?

[@lmclrain]

seems really tasty, lots of good food

[@ionechisholme7552]

Thanks showing us to cook

[@Thagardengnome]

What size is that instant pot??

[@pagevpetty]

Do you have a recipe for Red Russian Kale? I planted a lot of it because I thought it was pretty, but I'm not loving the taste. I guess I could make kale chips. Anything tastes good with olive oil and seasonings.

[@OliviaLovesPugs]

My favourite kale recipes are kale chips of course, and also kale stir fried in olive oil and seasoning, alone or with other veggies and meats, is really good. Kale also hides well in a fruit smoothie; you won’t really notice the kale at all! You could even just juice it and hide the juice in a fruit smoothie if you reaaaally don’t like the taste.

[@pagevpetty]

@@OliviaLovesPugs OK, thanks Olivia! :)

[@hihi9674]

Good stuff!

[@roberthofmann8403]

Great content

[@rebeccawatson9284]

Do you use the arugula tops this way? I ate some raw. Whew! 😂

[@growingyourgreens]

Yes!

[@BulletCRG]

I'm in Las Vegas too and I love growing Amaranth because it takes the heat pretty well and you can overplant them. That you can thin them out as they start competing with each other. Then I eat what I thinned. I have to admit that I am still having a bit of a hard time not worrying about bugs in my food though because I often go out and kill caterpillars on them ha.

[@gazellecarlson6543]

yummy

[@carvertmmy]

Thanks for the video. Are the tops bitter?

[@growingyourgreens]

No, to me brassica tops are not bitter. If you harvested them younger, the are less stronger tasting. Miustard greens & arugula can be more strong. When lettuce bolts, it is more bitter.

[@pagevpetty]

Mmmm... another reason to use my pressure cooker. Thanks, John

[@christineborgatti3760]

Great tips. Mine haven't bolted yet.

[@ragheadand420roll]

Thx john