Vegetable Gardening: Growing kang kong – easy leafy greens
Kang Kong is an easy leafy vegetable to grow on your balcony. Growing Kang Kong provides a healthy vegetable harvest year round. Phil Dudman the Garden Guru shows you how to grow. http://phildudman.com/
My mother in law brought some over to make sinigang or something. She threw the excess out in my garden bed to compost (I guess). I picked one out and stuck it in a plastic water bottle with some tap water. 3 days later I have roots growing all along the stem.
I am thinking about growing it in a 2L soda bottle of water with some worm castings mixed in to add nutrients.
I find your leaves infested with something… Tiny holes are visible, otherwise they look healthy. How are you related to one of us Filipinos? 🙂 you might want to consider adobong kangkong, or just put on boiling water for around 30 seconds and eat with bagoong.
KANGKONG https://www.tagaloglang.com/kangkong/ EDIBLE AQUATIC PLANT. This particular plant save the lives of tens of millions of Asians, especially in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation and looting of everything edible. Fortunately the Japanese troops at that time ARE IGNORANT OF IT! BECAUSE MOST THE JAPANESE TROOPS ARE DRAFTED KOREANS IMPRESSED BY THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL EMPIRE TO BE FORCED TO BECOME SOLDIERS FOR THE JAPANESE MILITARY AND 80% TO 90% OF MILITARY ATROCITIES WERE COMMITTED BY THESE KOREANS WORKING AS SOLDIERS IN THE JAPANESE ARMY AND THAT IS ONE PARTICULAR PART OF HISTORICAL FACT MOST FILIPINOS ARE BEING KEPT AWAY FROM! Scientific name: Ipomoea aquatica Fresh Kangkong Leaves & Stems Kangkong is a semi-aquatic tropical plant that’s a popular vegetable in the Philippines. The word kangkong has been translated into English as swamp cabbage or river spinach, but those names don’t reflect what kangkong really is except for the fact that it grows where there’s a lot of water. It has also been called “swamp morning glory” because of its flowers. In French, it is called liseron d’eau. Kangkong Dish The tender hollow stems of kangkong are used in cooking as well as its leaves. It can be stir-fried, steamed, boiled or lightly fried in oil. A popular dish is adobong kangkong. To prepare kangkong adobo-style means to cook it with vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, onions, a bay leaf and optionally some pork. Pinalutong na kangkong is a dish in which this vegetable is cooked to a crisp. Sometimes also written hyphenated as kang-kong. In other languages: kangkung, tangkong, 空心菜
It should come back. Mine comes back every year never disappoints me. Every year I thought it look died but it shockingly come back early summer. Great plant 👍🌱
I love kangkong cook in dried shrimps and chllies. I just bought some today and I am going to try and grow them . Might have to grow them in my sun room.
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@Stella Astute sorry you are wrong because I lived in the Philippines and Kangkung is used in soups and I loved it!
Yes, you can use KANGKONG as a soup or used as SALAD. For SALAD, blanch or STEAM kangkong, YOU can't eat raw.
My mother in law brought some over to make sinigang or something. She threw the excess out in my garden bed to compost (I guess). I picked one out and stuck it in a plastic water bottle with some tap water. 3 days later I have roots growing all along the stem.
I am thinking about growing it in a 2L soda bottle of water with some worm castings mixed in to add nutrients.
i planted my kang kong plant in my building and it was in good condition and it had a flower too and it was in winter too
I find your leaves infested with something… Tiny holes are visible, otherwise they look healthy. How are you related to one of us Filipinos? 🙂 you might want to consider adobong kangkong, or just put on boiling water for around 30 seconds and eat with bagoong.
Is this similar to Morning Glory?
Can it grow in the shade?
link does not work, please advise updated link. thanks
KANGKONG https://www.tagaloglang.com/kangkong/ EDIBLE AQUATIC PLANT. This particular plant save the lives of tens of millions of Asians, especially in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation and looting of everything edible. Fortunately the Japanese troops at that time ARE IGNORANT OF IT! BECAUSE MOST THE JAPANESE TROOPS ARE DRAFTED KOREANS IMPRESSED BY THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL EMPIRE TO BE FORCED TO BECOME SOLDIERS FOR THE JAPANESE MILITARY AND 80% TO 90% OF MILITARY ATROCITIES WERE COMMITTED BY THESE KOREANS WORKING AS SOLDIERS IN THE JAPANESE ARMY AND THAT IS ONE PARTICULAR PART OF HISTORICAL FACT MOST FILIPINOS ARE BEING KEPT AWAY FROM!
Scientific name: Ipomoea aquatica
Fresh Kangkong Leaves & Stems
Kangkong is a semi-aquatic tropical plant that’s a popular vegetable in the Philippines.
The word kangkong has been translated into English as swamp cabbage or river spinach, but those names don’t reflect what kangkong really is except for the fact that it grows where there’s a lot of water. It has also been called “swamp morning glory” because of its flowers.
In French, it is called liseron d’eau.
Kangkong Dish
The tender hollow stems of kangkong are used in cooking as well as its leaves. It can be stir-fried, steamed, boiled or lightly fried in oil.
A popular dish is adobong kangkong. To prepare kangkong adobo-style means to cook it with vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, onions, a bay leaf and optionally some pork.
Pinalutong na kangkong is a dish in which this vegetable is cooked to a crisp.
Sometimes also written hyphenated as kang-kong. In other languages: kangkung, tangkong, 空心菜
Montagnard indigenous we called hla djam puan you don’t need to plant just throw them in swamp they grow like crazy.
mmm. i love Kang Kong…
Hi Phil it was inspiring.. I also did that on my Video.. God bless and more power..
Great presenter
Nice job 👍
It should come back. Mine comes back every year never disappoints me. Every year I thought it look died but it shockingly come back early summer. Great plant 👍🌱
Thanks
I grew up calling it kang kung in Malaysia .. Hmnnn first time hearing it as Kang Kong.. Lucky, he didn't call it as King Kong.. 😅
Wow. Six Weeks? That's pretty good for ongoing food. Thanks for the video 🙂 Will go out and get me some.
I love kangkong cook in dried shrimps and chllies. I just bought some today and I am going to try and grow them . Might have to grow them in my sun room.
Thank you….don't tell people this is a perennial…I live in the deep south and it does not like the cold at all…. I have to take it indoors
Love kangkong..with sambai chilli balachan stir fried..
Hi will it grow in a pot in a pond ceeers
great video on kangkong phil , thanks
I love that vegetable! I grow it every year