Five easy leafy greens: Simple hardy and abundant

We all know that eating our greens keeps us healthy and strong, and that the best greens are the ones you eat within moments of harvest.

Summers around here in the subtropics can be a real challenge for growing the standard greens without water stress, sunburn or insect attack.

To avoid the heartache and toil, I simply encourage the perennial leaf greens to flourish in an edible kitchen garden polyculture. These plants need little water, little care and several parts of them can be eaten:

FIVE EASY & ABUNDANT GREENS
These five greens feature in this film:

0:00 Welcome
0:25 Surinam Spinach (Talinum triangulare): shoots, leaves, flowers
1:29 Brazilian Spinach (Alternanthera sissoo): leaves and young stems
2:21 Sweet potato leaves (Ipomoea batatas): stems, young and mature leaves
3:43 Cranberry hibiscus (Hibiscus acetosella): young shoots, leaves, flowers
4:40 Pumpkin leaves (Cucurbita maxima): young shoots, leaves, flowers, plus of course the fruit, the seeds and the skin.

Gardening the simple way with Morag Gamble: Our Permaculture Life (https://ourpermaculturelife.com) and the Permaculture Education Institute (https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org).
RELATED BLOG POSTS
Surinam Spinach: http://our-permaculture-life.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/spinach.html
Pumpkin: http://our-permaculture-life.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/7-ways-to-use-all-of-your-pumpkin-plant.html

Articles about Brazilian Spinach, Sweet Potato Leaves and Cranberry Hibiscus coming soon.

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