In this video, I show how I refurbish a raised garden bed and then how to plant a potentially dangerous vegetable called Jicama or Yam Bean.
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I thought he was gonna say devil's lettuce
Jicamagig
12:23 for the jicama jiggle
Hi mark how would you keep the birds and other animals away so they don’t die because of the plant being poisonous.
chili powder and lime thats how we eat it
He's in Australia where the snakes, sharks, crock, bugs, toads and even the male Platypus is poisonous, and he gets some crazy dangerous veggies for his garden. Paradise!
Why such tall garden beds? So you don't have to kneel? Is that a june bug? Are Australian june bugs poisonous ?
Jicama is DELICIOUS!!! LOVE IT!!!
Mark, I enjoy your video s so much! You are so up beat , funny, and interesting! You encouraged me to start my very first veggie garden this spring!
Having the time of my life!
Thanks Peg
My neighbor gave me a load of cow manure about 8 years ago. It was loaded with Bull nettle. Now I have a yard full of bull nettle. I stopped gardening because of it. This stuff would sting through even latex gloves. my husband bought me a heavy pair of leather gloves just to weed the garden.
2:10 turkey
Hi, i eat Jicama before i was a kid is just snak of us go up mountain back home is great when we do not have water just eating one is like you just drink water is cool..
Never knew russel crowe had a garden lol. Love the channel. Learning a lot from it and getting a lot of ideas for my own veggies to grow
They do my head in as well good sir
People on Keto, like me, use jicama in many ways. One is to slice paper thin, season and dehydrate for chips. Thanks!
did anyone notice the turkey that walked thru the background!?!?!?!
2:04
It's spanish pronunciations, that's why it doesn't make sense in english.
2:07 the turkey in the right corner
Damn was hoping he was gonna grow Cannabis
I might have to grow me some Jicama this year!! I love how it tastes. Like an apple-cucumber-potato
you could eat Yams?
any follow thru with this crop Mark?
Actually, the Jicama is spelled correctly. It is a Mexican vegetable with a Mexican name. It is pronounced exactly as it is written, in spanish.
Here in Indonesia we called yam bean "bengkuang". We mostly used them for snacks. The most common is a west java dish called "asinan" aka pickle where we mixed sliced yam bean with sliced cucumber, cabbage, and bean sprouts doused with this spicy brine made from water, hot chili, sugar, salt and vinegar. We added grounded roasted peanut too to the mixture sometimes. We ate it right away it's so refreshing in a hot mid day.
The other snack called rujak buah aka spicy fruit salad. Sliced jicama, raw mango, raw papaya, starfruit, pineapple, literally every sweet and sour fruit can be added and even sweet potato. Just dip them in palm sugar sambal.
The sambal ingredients are hot chili, salt, one cup palm sugar, a dash of tamarind juice or lemon, a sprinkle of roasted shrimp paste (this is optional because people either love or hate shrimp paste), and a handful of roasted peanut grinded together until it form a thick paste.
Now my mouth water and I'm gonna get myself a bowl of rujak lol.
I love it, peel it then chopp it into 1 inch pieces then sqeeze a fresh lime over it, let it sit for a few minutes the enjoy. They are refreshing, lightly crunchy and the lime squeezing add sweetmess
Jicama reminds me of what a potato and an apple offspring if crossed would taste like. Not just taste but the texture and not really sweet. Nice crunch though! I enjoyed it sliced thin into a salad.
I used to eat jicama from my young age and never knew it's poisonous?
Which country are you gardening?