Finally!! So sorry it wasn’t as good a year for them like you had hoped! 😢 As you said they aren’t all bad and I know they will get eaten. I think it is good for us to see when things don’t go as planned and what we learn from those times. I know I’ve had some learning experiences this year myself. I still enjoyed seeing it!
I think that’s really good! This was my first year gardening and I was just happy to get anything 🤣. I planted cantaloupe that didn’t even germinate lol. The squash got attacked by vine borers so I only got one, but it was really nice. The tomatoes were not good, but I still got quite a bit. I just had to cut the bad parts off and freeze them. I got about fifty pounds of potatoes. The cabbage was my pride and joy. They were close to perfect. I got enough to share and I made enough sauerkraut to last me all winter, and I froze some for dinners. I just got this one woman one acre homestead a year ago, and it is so much work and so much fun. Thank you so much for all of your great videos because it’s a real resource for me. I live in northeastern Ontario so we have similar weather. Peace and love. ❤️
I also canned my sweet potatoes last year and probably won't do again. I'm like you , like to bake them. I save my smaller potatoes to make slips for the following year.
Hi Rachel and Todd. You always have interesting videos, whether you hit it out of the park or not. Thanks for sharing all you do. I'd be happy with that harvest. With love from BanDana Gramma
Rachel, I must tell you about my Mom's frozen sweet potatoes. She baked them as normal and let them cool. Then she left them whole (so without peeling) and bagged them in Ziploc bags and stuck them in the freezer. I was still eating them 5 years later...when you got them and thawed, they were pretty wet. But just drain and peel and heat and OMG you talking about good. I promise you cannot tell that they are not fresh. Rachel, if nothing else, just try ONE bag for proof. I promise they are wonderful years later! Linda in Texas.
You are my Daily Happy Fix! You would be my neighborhood BFF. I lived on a 1888 farm setting, it was a wonderful dream come true. A kitchen with 36 cupboards, a large pantry, a very large garden, chickens, cows……I miss it every single second of the day😞 Thank you for being so uplifting 💕
A set of new bedsheets under the tree is still better than a lump of coal in the stocking! Nice spuds, Rachel! Still enough for Thanksgiving and Christmas! Michigan Garden Girl
Even with all that rain, you didn't have splitting potatoes so that was good! Not a horrible harvest. I harvested mine a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised with a good harvest. I've never had success with them before and wasn't sure I'd get one this year with the voles munching.
Sweet potatoes are my last thing to harvest this fall. Waiting on it to dry a bit so I can get out there and see what the Lord blessed us with this year. Congrats on at least 50lbs!
I’m looking at that harvest as a huge success. Life in the high desert of the southwest has challenges and not enough water is the first one. Currently canning sweet potatoes, a first for me but my favorite is absolutely a baked sweet potato.
Actually not a bad harvest at all! One good way of preserving I think is to cut in cubes and flash freeze in a single layer, once frozen put in freezer bags. Take them out and put directly in a hot oven. You basically get the same texture as baking a whole potato and you can use them in tacos or any hash etc. Happy next season!
Last year the moles got a lot of my sweetpotoes. This year I did large grow bags & the vines trellised on the fence. I put 3 slips in each bag. It was a huge success! I used my own compost & the bags were full of sweet potatoes! Next year I'll do more.
This was my first year growing sweet potatoes. I grew them in 17 gallon totes and your sweet potatoes look much better than mine. Thankfully a friend dropped off a 50 lb bag straight from the field so I will have enough to make my mashed sweet potatoes for the freezer. Glad you were able to get more than you expected.
I didn't get as many as I had hoped for either. God blessed me with some and I'll make it enough to get through winter. I have slips starting from last years harvest. A little love for them and next years crop will be a blessing too. I haven't bought any sweet potatoes in a few years. Free food is a definite gift from God. Blessings to you all. 🌻
I figured out a great way to can sweet potatoes and they aren't watered down! I bake them then place the mashed meat in a jar up to 1" head space. Nothing else! I then can them for 30 minutes! It's as close to baked sweet potatoes that I have ever come!
I did my beets A month ago because it’s just me and Husband can’t do much because of his cancer issues and the help that we had just didn’t work out this year so I’m doing everything on top of working yeah it’s a lot of fun but I love my bed and I’m excited we got a Lotta nice big ones and I’ve gotten taken care of for the year
Earth worms LOVE sweet potatoes so that bail was perfect to do a compost area in and just throw your small sweet potatoes in and clearly youll have nice juicy worms. Thats what I do for my worms lol. I literally just throw my tiny sweet potatoes in my compost at the end of the year for my worms
Gorgeous soil from the straw bale gardens.May have to try it next year. I grew sweet potatoes in containers this year (zone5b) they needed at least another 2-4 weeks as they were very small but they did make wonderful french fries. I just washed the tiny ones, left the skin on and a little oil and salt.
Hi Rachel and Todd. You guys did so good on the sweet potatoes. I love sweet potatoes. In baking, boiling; and frying. God Bless the harvest, and you both. Take care. Maria. Happy Holloween. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻☠️☠️☠️💀💀💀💀💀🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Those little ones still taste good. I cut my little ones up and coated them with olive oil and cooked them in my air fryer. So good. I baked 2 of the big ones for lunch today and my hubby and I thoroughly enjoyed.
My sweet potato harvest here in France was also quite disappointing. Mother Nature took charge this year, giving us a cold and wet summer & I'm grateful for what we were given.....😊😊😊
I had 4 sweet potato plants and I got a 5 gallon bucket of sweet potatoes. Always fun to dig. 5 gallon bucket is enough for just me. You had such fun with the big haul in 2019. It will be huge another year for you. I am going to make me some compost with my wheat straw. Thanks for the idea. We got enough rain but not too much. God Bless!
Hi 👋🏽 Rachel I am Addicted to your Channel I have bee watching all Weekend & haven’t stopped yet 5-10-2022♥️ It was a good harvest enough for you and Todd., I love Sweet Potatoes 🍠 and love Beets Especially the pickle ones
With all the weird weather this year I think that was a pretty good outcome, considering! It is disappointing though, to go out with happy expectations and not reach them! This just means that next year will be epic, to prepare for the year of rest! 👍
Mine were small last year but I figured it was I ate too many of the leaves. Plus I only had 2 buckets of them. This year I did not go crazy eating the leaves so I dug those same 2 buckets and they are much bigger this year yet I didn't get any more than last year lol. But some is better than none-like fishing isn't called catching. Gardening isn't called harvesting lol I will be putting them into a raised bed instead of my big 1/3 yard big buckets. But I ended up with over 35 squash.
At The Deep South Homestead they said that too big potatoes may get too firm, the small ones are excellent for stew, and the medium ones have the perfect taste. Not that I know anything about it, they're not grown here where I live:)))
It's a harvest! We had lots of drought here in VA....then rain...wasn't a great harvest of sweet potatoes BUT I will have several dishes! And those are mammoth worms! Love using straw!! Always joys to find in the garden! Blessings! ~jc
We had a very wet summer and when drought was to arrive late, we had even more rain. Nothing grew right here unless it could be protected. Normally not a drop from July to start of September. Your bed looks great. Your potatoes seem average to those others harvested but good staple for the winter. Thanks for sharing. I call it successful😊
Got some decent sweet potatoes, I did about the same. As for the straw bale garden, nice. The last few years we have been dumping all our grass clippings along the bank ( not in the water) of the canal on the back side of our property, mainly was to build up the bank to prevent any flooding. But I decided this year to try planting in it..it was amazing. I planted black bush beans. They did fantastic! The grass clipping look like your straw bales. So now I have and extra 180 feet of planting space..yipee.
I started with strawbales and built raised beds around them. I'm thinking about burying strawbales in my raised beds because of the composting and soil quality you get from them. Somethings have done better in the straw and some better in the beds some do not care either way
Those long skinny ones are the best for starting your own slips! About 6-8 weeks before your planting date chop them into1 inch sections, let the ends dry for a couple days, then place in a shallow dish of soil. The foil baking dishes work great. Cover with an inch of soil, place in a sunny window, and keep moist. Hands down the most robust slips and the biggest yields, because the plant has an energy reserve to get them a head start.
I loved your optimism, take two baskets out to the garden - just in case! Looks like you got a reasonable harvest for your efforts that’s a win win in my book and they’ll taste all the sweeter for not being an abundant crop this year.
Still a nice little harvest for you. I love all your gardening videos and your beautiful soil always blows me away! I am so looking forward to your next year garden and the abundance of the 6th year Jubilee harvest before your 7 year land rest. Thanks for sharing.
I'm trying to garden on a new lot, I'm a trailer park homestead, I couldn't imagine what y'all could do in my area of Pensacola Florida, we could grow year round
Funny I had similar issues this year. Off to a late start, fingerling sized tubers and eyes already establishing. Odd summer. We did have a wet spell also.
Lol OH YE OF LITTLE FAITH!! That was a great harvest :) But freeze your skinny kumara/sw. potatoes they are SO delicious roasted when you are doing a family roast :) Especially if they get roasted IN the fat/juices from the meat :) xxx
Been waiting for your sweet potato harvest! Enjoy watching you two uncover them! It was fun even though it wasn't as big as years before. I plan to plant some next year!
Thats a pretty good harvest. I think our climate might be to cold for sweet potatoes, tried to grow them a few times with very small tubers unfortunately.
So this was the first year I tried growing sweet potatoes and the vines hardly grew and we ended up with like 4 finger size potatoes, I was so excited after watching all the videos on how easy they are to grow...Thank you for posting this it makes me feel like not a complete failure.
Everyone I watch has had a disappointing sweet potato season. These look great compared to one gal I watch from wa. She had 3 beds and straw bales. The hay did OK but her others were radish sized. She was bummed.
Migardener may have info on raising sweet potatoes in the mitten state. I am 50 mile or so west of you and raised a great crop one year, it was a very hot year. Haven't tried since then, just don't have a good way to store them and they take up lot of room in the garden.
I had a terrible sweet potato year as well. From MN and between the early heat and dry summer neither our potatoes or sweet potatoes did well. Definitely not exciting digging them up this fall. Those big worms my daughter calls “grand daddies” and she loves to give them to our chickens.
I dug our first sweet potatoes today. Very small potatoes, just a few good sized one. Also several of mine were intertwined with each other. We did ours in towers but I don’t think that was worth all the dirt bc the bulk of them were at the bottom and crowded together.
perhaps some pea size gravel mixed in with soil. The gravel or coconut husk mixed in with soil. Its too rich wit too much moisture In my opinion they are tropical tubers from South america it does rain a lot in tropics but the soil does not hold that much..because the sandy and gravel like texture of the rainforest. These are morning glory family, so perhaps if you can find temperate morning glory and see what type of soil they grow best in, and use that as a example.
This year our sweet potato harvest was awful. And we have always had really good harvests! I am thinking sweet potatoes were just not good for many this year. Even the flavor is disappointing. *sigh Try again next year...
at 3:56 is what I got but I am much further north than you. I've been too busy to pay attention but I think we didn't get much rain this summer.I'm not sure of much outside of work out of the home. It's complicated because I work for someone I love and share bloodlines with....it sucks to have to pick a lane and go with it even if it means ignoring my own ambitions and interests. It would be nice to have a crystal ball to tell us where to focus our best efforts wouldn't it? We got our first snow this morning and all I can think about is the roots and herbs I should have harvested but didn't have the energy to harvest and put to use. I can still harvest as this snow will melt today...I guess I'm just feeling very overwhelmed by being spread so thin?
I was hoping this video would have been more informative for Northern growers - when did you harvest? What time of the year is it? Late sept? Late October? What is the soil temperature? What has been the consistent lows in temperature leading up to this harvest?
Pam says- If they have eyes, take them in and pot them for the house. You get fresh greens all winter.
Finally!! So sorry it wasn’t as good a year for them like you had hoped! 😢 As you said they aren’t all bad and I know they will get eaten. I think it is good for us to see when things don’t go as planned and what we learn from those times. I know I’ve had some learning experiences this year myself. I still enjoyed seeing it!
I think that’s really good! This was my first year gardening and I was just happy to get anything 🤣. I planted cantaloupe that didn’t even germinate lol. The squash got attacked by vine borers so I only got one, but it was really nice. The tomatoes were not good, but I still got quite a bit. I just had to cut the bad parts off and freeze them. I got about fifty pounds of potatoes. The cabbage was my pride and joy. They were close to perfect. I got enough to share and I made enough sauerkraut to last me all winter, and I froze some for dinners. I just got this one woman one acre homestead a year ago, and it is so much work and so much fun. Thank you so much for all of your great videos because it’s a real resource for me. I live in northeastern Ontario so we have similar weather. Peace and love. ❤️
I also canned my sweet potatoes last year and probably won't do again. I'm like you , like to bake them. I save my smaller potatoes to make slips for the following year.
Every potato is a Blessing no matter the size lol
I love to peel the small sweet potatoes and fry them in a little butter when almost done sprinkle brown sugar I like to slice thin
Such gorgeous, rich, black soil. Fabulous!
Hi Rachel and Todd. You always have interesting videos, whether you hit it out of the park or not. Thanks for sharing all you do. I'd be happy with that harvest. With love from BanDana Gramma
Rachel, I must tell you about my Mom's frozen sweet potatoes. She baked them as normal and let them cool. Then she left them whole (so without peeling) and bagged them in Ziploc bags and stuck them in the freezer. I was still eating them 5 years later...when you got them and thawed, they were pretty wet. But just drain and peel and heat and OMG you talking about good. I promise you cannot tell that they are not fresh. Rachel, if nothing else, just try ONE bag for proof. I promise they are wonderful years later! Linda in Texas.
I totally forgot to say that I think you had a great crop after just one year! Congratulations!
You are my Daily Happy Fix! You would be my neighborhood BFF. I lived on a 1888 farm setting, it was a wonderful dream come true. A kitchen with 36 cupboards, a large pantry, a very large garden, chickens, cows……I miss it every single second of the day😞 Thank you for being so uplifting 💕
A set of new bedsheets under the tree is still better than a lump of coal in the stocking!
Nice spuds, Rachel!
Still enough for Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Michigan Garden Girl
Even with all that rain, you didn't have splitting potatoes so that was good! Not a horrible harvest. I harvested mine a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised with a good harvest. I've never had success with them before and wasn't sure I'd get one this year with the voles munching.
Sweet potatoes are my last thing to harvest this fall. Waiting on it to dry a bit so I can get out there and see what the Lord blessed us with this year. Congrats on at least 50lbs!
Nice , maybe not what you hoped for but still a harvest . Straw bails definitely make the nicest soil as they break down light and fluffy goodness .
I’m looking at that harvest as a huge success. Life in the high desert of the southwest has challenges and not enough water is the first one. Currently canning sweet potatoes, a first for me but my favorite is absolutely a baked sweet potato.
great sweet potato harvest!
Actually not a bad harvest at all! One good way of preserving I think is to cut in cubes and flash freeze in a single layer, once frozen put in freezer bags. Take them out and put directly in a hot oven. You basically get the same texture as baking a whole potato and you can use them in tacos or any hash etc. Happy next season!
Last year the moles got a lot of my sweetpotoes. This year I did large grow bags & the vines trellised on the fence. I put 3 slips in each bag. It was a huge success! I used my own compost & the bags were full of sweet potatoes! Next year I'll do more.
Hey even the little ones are delish! So glad you got
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This was my first year growing sweet potatoes. I grew them in 17 gallon totes and your sweet potatoes look much better than mine. Thankfully a friend dropped off a 50 lb bag straight from the field so I will have enough to make my mashed sweet potatoes for the freezer. Glad you were able to get more than you expected.
I love sweet potatoes 🧡🙏🏼
We experimented in 7 gallon Gro Bags and had great success! Made for easy harvesting too!
I'm jealous, my sweet potatoes were pitiful
Nobody I know had good sweet potato harvest..I live in Idaho...
I tried potatoes this year for the 1st time and just canned them for the 1st time. I want to try sweet potatoes next season!
The size you got are the good eating size! That’s great!
I didn't get as many as I had hoped for either. God blessed me with some and I'll make it enough to get through winter. I have slips starting from last years harvest. A little love for them and next years crop will be a blessing too. I haven't bought any sweet potatoes in a few years. Free food is a definite gift from God.
Blessings to you all. 🌻
Still a good little harvest not your big daddy tatters but still blessed.. love the straw beds that is really rich love that.
I figured out a great way to can sweet potatoes and they aren't watered down! I bake them then place the mashed meat in a jar up to 1" head space. Nothing else! I then can them for 30 minutes! It's as close to baked sweet potatoes that I have ever come!
I did my beets A month ago because it’s just me and Husband can’t do much because of his cancer issues and the help that we had just didn’t work out this year so I’m doing everything on top of working yeah it’s a lot of fun but I love my bed and I’m excited we got a Lotta nice big ones and I’ve gotten taken care of for the year
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Considering the conditions weren’t great I don’t think you did too bad. This was definitely a different year for sure.
Pretty good. Out of 10 plants, I got like 15 small sweet potatoes. Not a good year
I'm so glad it wasn't a bust like you thought it would be!
Earth worms LOVE sweet potatoes so that bail was perfect to do a compost area in and just throw your small sweet potatoes in and clearly youll have nice juicy worms. Thats what I do for my worms lol. I literally just throw my tiny sweet potatoes in my compost at the end of the year for my worms
Gorgeous soil from the straw bale gardens.May have to try it next year. I grew sweet potatoes in containers this year (zone5b) they needed at least another 2-4 weeks as they were very small but they did make wonderful french fries. I just washed the tiny ones, left the skin on and a little oil and salt.
Hi Rachel and Todd. You guys did so good on the sweet potatoes. I love sweet potatoes. In baking, boiling; and frying. God Bless the harvest, and you both. Take care. Maria. Happy Holloween. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻☠️☠️☠️💀💀💀💀💀🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Way better than harvesting none. Very pretty sweet potatoes, and happy that you were able to get some after the rough start you had. 🍀
Those little ones still taste good. I cut my little ones up and coated them with olive oil and cooked them in my air fryer. So good. I baked 2 of the big ones for lunch today and my hubby and I thoroughly enjoyed.
I'm really glad you got a few, even if they weren't record-breaking. 🥰
Yessss! I’ve been waiting for this!!!
Well… not too bad. Looks like you had a better harvest than Kevin and Sarah did!
It was a rough year too, but I did get a few sweet potatoes. I just harvested them this past week.
My sweet potato harvest here in France was also quite disappointing. Mother Nature took charge this year, giving us a cold and wet summer & I'm grateful for what we were given.....😊😊😊
I had 4 sweet potato plants and I got a 5 gallon bucket of sweet potatoes. Always fun to dig. 5 gallon bucket is enough for just me. You had such fun with the big haul in 2019. It will be huge another year for you. I am going to make me some compost with my wheat straw. Thanks for the idea. We got enough rain but not too much. God Bless!
Hi 👋🏽 Rachel I am Addicted to your Channel I have bee watching all Weekend & haven’t stopped yet 5-10-2022♥️ It was a good harvest enough for you and Todd., I love Sweet Potatoes 🍠 and love Beets Especially the pickle ones
With all the weird weather this year I think that was a pretty good outcome, considering! It is disappointing though, to go out with happy expectations and not reach them! This just means that next year will be epic, to prepare for the year of rest! 👍
Mine were small last year but I figured it was I ate too many of the leaves. Plus I only had 2 buckets of them. This year I did not go crazy eating the leaves so I dug those same 2 buckets and they are much bigger this year yet I didn't get any more than last year lol.
But some is better than none-like fishing isn't called catching. Gardening isn't called harvesting lol
I will be putting them into a raised bed instead of my big 1/3 yard big buckets.
But I ended up with over 35 squash.
Oh I cooked the small fingerling sized ones and they were very very yummy. Size isn't everything 🤣
At The Deep South Homestead they said that too big potatoes may get too firm, the small ones are excellent for stew, and the medium ones have the perfect taste. Not that I know anything about it, they're not grown here where I live:)))
I know the feeling! Look at that! No, you did not get skunked!😂😂. Nice size worms. That was still a nice harvest. Enjoy!!
The sweet potatoes I sent you photos of on facebook, were grown in hay bales:)
I grew them near cattle panel trellises
I find your Ruth Stout gardening so interesting. I don't have straw very available around me but I have been looking
It's a harvest! We had lots of drought here in VA....then rain...wasn't a great harvest of sweet potatoes BUT I will have several dishes! And those are mammoth worms! Love using straw!! Always joys to find in the garden! Blessings! ~jc
I planted only 2 sweet potatoes to try and haf a small harvest but oh boy they are the best i ever tried
We had a very wet summer and when drought was to arrive late, we had even more rain.
Nothing grew right here unless it could be protected.
Normally not a drop from July to start of September.
Your bed looks great.
Your potatoes seem average to those others harvested but good staple for the winter.
Thanks for sharing. I call it successful😊
I'm impressed as I didn't grow any this year. I would be soooo happy!!!!! Awesome for you!!!!
Much better harvest than I had, all my plants died early on. Maybe next year,
I have 6 boxes so far and the vines grew out everywhere so will be digging for a while yet. Sure did get a lot of rain this year
If they already have eyes, then they were in the ground a little too long, weather wise not timing wise. Glad you got several to out in your belly!! 😁
Got some decent sweet potatoes, I did about the same.
As for the straw bale garden, nice.
The last few years we have been dumping all our grass clippings along the bank ( not in the water) of the canal on the back side of our property, mainly was to build up the bank to prevent any flooding.
But I decided this year to try planting in it..it was amazing.
I planted black bush beans.
They did fantastic! The grass clipping look like your straw bales. So now I have and extra 180 feet of planting space..yipee.
Love cubing and dehydrating. They make great hash and you can’t tell the difference!
I started with strawbales and built raised beds around them. I'm thinking about burying strawbales in my raised beds because of the composting and soil quality you get from them. Somethings have done better in the straw and some better in the beds some do not care either way
Looks like a blessing to me!
Those long skinny ones are the best for starting your own slips! About 6-8 weeks before your planting date chop them into1 inch sections, let the ends dry for a couple days, then place in a shallow dish of soil. The foil baking dishes work great. Cover with an inch of soil, place in a sunny window, and keep moist. Hands down the most robust slips and the biggest yields, because the plant has an energy reserve to get them a head start.
That was a pretty good harvest Rachel. Of course not your average huge haul but still good. Great job!
I think I had a good year. You inspired me and I started mine and planted 12 slips. I got 45 pounds. Some were funny shaped and one weighed 2 pounds.😂
I remember 2019 and the beautiful harvest but next year it will be way better. Still a great harvest
Not a mega harvest, but that’s at least 4 months of sweet potatoes! Well done!
I loved your optimism, take two baskets out to the garden - just in case! Looks like you got a reasonable harvest for your efforts that’s a win win in my book and they’ll taste all the sweeter for not being an abundant crop this year.
Hi Rachel 👋
I see the long ones are want to be carrots, LOL. Great harvest. TFS
Still a nice little harvest for you. I love all your gardening videos and your beautiful soil always blows me away! I am so looking forward to your next year garden and the abundance of the 6th year Jubilee harvest before your 7 year land rest. Thanks for sharing.
That was a good harvest. Your always so positive even though it wasn’t like last year’s harvest. That’s why I love to watch your videos. 🙂
Nice job! Dang so odd u got so much rain and we struggled to get any rain....I enjoyed ur video ☺️
I'm trying to garden on a new lot, I'm a trailer park homestead, I couldn't imagine what y'all could do in my area of Pensacola Florida, we could grow year round
I like the smaller ones better. They are yummy!
Funny I had similar issues this year. Off to a late start, fingerling sized tubers and eyes already establishing. Odd summer. We did have a wet spell also.
Seems alot of people are having small sweet potato crops this year, mine included,,But that soil!! Its awesome!!
Lol OH YE OF LITTLE FAITH!! That was a great harvest :) But freeze your skinny kumara/sw. potatoes they are SO delicious roasted when you are doing a family roast :) Especially if they get roasted IN the fat/juices from the meat :) xxx
Been waiting for your sweet potato harvest! Enjoy watching you two uncover them! It was fun even though it wasn't as big as years before. I plan to plant some next year!
Fingerling sweet potatoes!
Thats a pretty good harvest. I think our climate might be to cold for sweet potatoes, tried to grow them a few times with very small tubers unfortunately.
So this was the first year I tried growing sweet potatoes and the vines hardly grew and we ended up with like 4 finger size potatoes, I was so excited after watching all the videos on how easy they are to grow...Thank you for posting this it makes me feel like not a complete failure.
Everyone I watch has had a disappointing sweet potato season. These look great compared to one gal I watch from wa. She had 3 beds and straw bales. The hay did OK but her others were radish sized. She was bummed.
Migardener may have info on raising sweet potatoes in the mitten state. I am 50 mile or so west of you and raised a great crop one year, it was a very hot year. Haven't tried since then, just don't have a good way to store them and they take up lot of room in the garden.
Much better than mine!
I had a terrible sweet potato year as well. From MN and between the early heat and dry summer neither our potatoes or sweet potatoes did well. Definitely not exciting digging them up this fall. Those big worms my daughter calls “grand daddies” and she loves to give them to our chickens.
Going to check out your Ruth Stout playlist 👍🏻 Thanks for sharing! And those sure are some fat and happy worms 🪱😁 Happy harvest!
I dug our first sweet potatoes today. Very small potatoes, just a few good sized one. Also several of mine were intertwined with each other. We did ours in towers but I don’t think that was worth all the dirt bc the bulk of them were at the bottom and crowded together.
I'm in Michigan and most of mine were small also
perhaps some pea size gravel mixed in with soil. The gravel or coconut husk mixed in with soil. Its too rich wit too much moisture In my opinion they are tropical tubers from South america it does rain a lot in tropics but the soil does not hold that much..because the sandy and gravel like texture of the rainforest. These are morning glory family, so perhaps if you can find temperate morning glory and see what type of soil they grow best in, and use that as a example.
sweet video 👍💖
i wish i could do ruth stout or straw bale gardening here in N TX, but fire ants love them.
You ok, I would use the small pie or something.
So awesome to see your outcome. Was it just the rain being an issue or was it a combination of things? Would you use your compost slurry again? 😊
This year our sweet potato harvest was awful. And we have always had really good harvests! I am thinking sweet potatoes were just not good for many this year. Even the flavor is disappointing. *sigh Try again next year...
at 3:56 is what I got but I am much further north than you. I've been too busy to pay attention but I think we didn't get much rain this summer.I'm not sure of much outside of work out of the home. It's complicated because I work for someone I love and share bloodlines with....it sucks to have to pick a lane and go with it even if it means ignoring my own ambitions and interests. It would be nice to have a crystal ball to tell us where to focus our best efforts wouldn't it? We got our first snow this morning and all I can think about is the roots and herbs I should have harvested but didn't have the energy to harvest and put to use. I can still harvest as this snow will melt today...I guess I'm just feeling very overwhelmed by being spread so thin?
Mine were puny. I was bummed. I cooked them up and ended up freezing a couple Pyrex bowls.
Had a lousy summer BUT I kept back some vines so they're ready for next year 😜
I was hoping this video would have been more informative for Northern growers - when did you harvest? What time of the year is it? Late sept? Late October? What is the soil temperature? What has been the consistent lows in temperature leading up to this harvest?
You did much better than I did. How do you cure yours with this cold Michigan weather? I was considering using my egg incubator 🤷♀️