The lowly sayote, a vegetable (which is technically a fruit according to Wikipedia) that feels at home in Baguio City, needs little or no care. Just dig up a shallow hole, toss the sayote in it, cover it up, and watch it grow. Of course you will need to create a series of aerial tightropes, or netting to coax the sayote to climb but that is all there is to it. It's so easy to propagate sayote that you don't need formal education to grow it, prompting teachers to tell their failing students to "go home and plant sayote" instead (camote - sweet potato - is also a popular choice).
A lowly plant it may be, but it's my favourite for tinola. Have you tried having stir-fried sayote tops? It's really good.
My wife bought sayote from the fruits and veggies grocer one time. I think it comes from one of the nearby Pacific Islands. One of it started to sprout leaves. We left it in the bag for a week more, and it definitely started to grow tendrils. Spring is in the air, and we thought it might be able to survive the coming months and so I planted it last weekend. Hopefully it will survive and we can have some sayote tops by summer!
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I wonder if they treat the sayotes we buy here with pesticides or something. Because even when I leave them too long, they never sprout for me. And the ones that I just planted without the sprout, just ended up becoming compost for the garden :( Good luck on your sayote!
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