I have grown these for some years & you really need to keep them in check. You also get more fruit that way. they make great pickles , good steamed with salt pepper & butter. A lot of people don:t like them because they think of them as "poor peoples food " from the depression but I like them. I give most away at work as Phillapino people love them & my Indian neighbors would take them to the temple for their feasts. One vine gives me hundreds & no special care needed. When you cut the vines down they go great in the compost.
Those look nice. Those grown off the fence when I was a kid were drier and yellower green. They weren’t appealing, but then we’d never heard of stir frying in those days. They usually got the cricket bat treatment.
I have grown these for some years & you really need to keep them in check. You also get more fruit that way. they make great pickles , good steamed with salt pepper & butter. A lot of people don:t like them because they think of them as "poor peoples food " from the depression but I like them. I give most away at work as Phillapino people love them & my Indian neighbors would take them to the temple for their feasts. One vine gives me hundreds & no special care needed. When you cut the vines down they go great in the compost.
How nice to be taught about the rarer things growing. Thank you.
I like this bloke. I like his delivery.
That was super useful information about an unusual fruit that tastes savoury. Fantastic!!
They used to be used in canned pears as well.
Thank you. I learned everything I needed to know about chokos 👍🏻👍🏻☺️
they come in a white variety also...we grow both...delish 👌
You need to go to Darjeeling mate during the Northern Hemisphere summers. Choko is every where.
Those look nice. Those grown off the fence when I was a kid were drier and yellower green. They weren’t appealing, but then we’d never heard of stir frying in those days. They usually got the cricket bat treatment.
Excellent video
Wondering when they fruit in Aus and when you should cut the vine back plz?
Wow
Can you eat the vine leaves? I would assume so if you can eat the shoots.
Yes.
Now if only I could find one to buy so I can let it shoot.
Sweet like broccoli? Where y'all getting your broccolis 👀
Haha! Must admit i thought the same!
Chayote originates from Peru.
Ok
I got given a choko and it was spiky
Some varieties have smoother skins. You probably got a wild variety, at least I assume the spiky ones are wild.