Eat The Weeds: Episode 102: Begonias

http://www.eattheweeds.com/begonia-bonanza/

Learn about wild food with Green Deane. In this video, we'll look a plant grown around the world as food and an ornamental, begonias. It is also a plant mistakenly maligned on the Internet.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• bushcraft
• edible
• wild
• foods
• Foraging
• herbs
• medicine
• permaculture
• plants
• raw
• begonia
• cucullata
• wax
• survival
• survivalist

[DarkSeraphane]

You are a remarkably skilled fellow when it comes to plants. Very impressive. I study wild edibles in my combination training..I thought I knew alot (sixty-five plants) but you..you likely know three times what I know. Well done! I very much enjoy your show btw, it's much better than most on t.v. infact! Your show (and others like it) makes having an internet connection worthwhile! Thank you!

[EatTheWeeds]

@DarkSeraphane Thanks... now if I can just convince TV of that.

[Raistlin49]

Dinos, do you know of a good place to get organic begonias around here (Central FL)? I don't want the pesticides and chemical fertilizers but also don't want to try to grow from pelleted seed. Any ideas? As always, thanks for the videos!

[EatTheWeeds]

Do you mean buy or collect them?

[EatTheWeeds]

Go to the Environmental Studies Center - 2985 Osprey Trail - Longwood, Florida 32750. Park, follow the bike trail east. It dog legs south under powerlines. From there to the creek, all kinds of edible begonias grow in the swail on the east side of the bike trail (and west.) Put cuttings in a plastic baggie with a little water, Seal. Keep in warm spot with light but out of sun. They will root. PS: Go to my website, my teaching schedule is up for Feb and March.

[sazji]

I see...dead people!

[EatTheWeeds]

Dead people? I don't even see live ones in the video...except me...

[Nekomouse]

Thanks for this video Deane. I certainly learnt something new!

[pastorgeorgec]

hmmm Begonias and Marigolds?  My potted plants just became lunch!

[Raistlin49]

Thanks again!

[Raistlin49]

Collect = free so that's totally my top pick! If you can tell me a place I can obtain some I'd be thrilled! I will however settle for purchasing some organics.

[EatTheWeeds]

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