And she designs and sews?? Lorraine you truly are a jack-of-all trades. Fabulous all around kitchen wonder, best home maker ever and now with the sewing. Hope you share your creations with us.
Hi from the UK. Smallholding for more years than I can remember. Mangalica pigs live in a small orchard, Rhode Island Reds, free range. Veg, all in raised beds which are made from interwoven willow branches. I was born lazy - half fill beds with compost, lay sprouted potatoes down and cover to top with straw. Come harvest, remove straw and pick your spuds, already clean, ready for the pot. Keep the vlogs coming, they are great, many thanks for taking us along.
Seeing Lorraine with a pattern brings back memories for me. I used to sew a lot even making a dress for my daughter to wear to her uncle's wedding. Nice sweet potato harvest.
You are an awesome homesteading family. I must say this is the best planned sweet potato harvest I have ever seen. Starting with cutting the leaves/vines off first. This exposed where the original plants are and also kept the greens cleaner for the pigs. Also you explain and show how you can avoid stabbing potatoes while digging them up. This video is a great 'HowTo' guide. Thanks for this fantastic video‼️
... sweet potatotes a.k.a. "Kamote" in the Philippines. The young leaves are edible, as they blanch them with added sliced tomatoes & green onions, some dash of salt, squeezed lemon. it goes great with meat, fish or poultry. i say it's very, very healthy ! ❤❤❤
Amending soil, whether it's open ground or raised beds, is always a good idea. I think you'll like the high tunnel. I watch some other videos and that have them. They do very well, but again, you need good soil to start with... and ammend every year. Whether you start with the beds or tubs. Whatever you might use. If if you use any kind of manure, especially from cattle make sure there's no weed spray of any kind used on any hay or straw. It will prevent anything from growing that you might plant. Good to see everybody involved in the harvest of the sweet potatoes.
When I was growing up on a farm my dad always planted the Red Puertorican sweet potatoes 🍠 they are so good.. They are not stringy like some varieties they are delicious..
That is so cool about Loraines hidden talent! I am 64 and growing up my mom made almost all my clothes. Some of my favorite memories are picking out patterns! Would love to see what you make!❤
great project for the next few months....high tunnel will be great for you to have. A good place to grow starts for your gardens like you did at your other place. Lorraine had a good set up there. Some of those sweet potatoes are so big it will only take one to feed the family at dinner. Y'all have a Blessed day.
My sweet potatoes are in grow bags. I reached in and harvested a really nice one on Thursday. And the vines are still doing well. Cooler weather coming later this week, I’ll harvest them then. I saved my dog’s leaking pool for potatoe harvesting to dump them in
Our sweet potatoes went wild this year. I grew mine in raised beds, too. They will grow right up to the edge and make massive tubers and I stabbed several. I just trimmed them off and then did all the steps for pressure canning them. Some of our potatoes were as big as a two year old’s head!
We built a 24 x 48 high tunnel last fall that we purchased from Grower's Solution. We have been super pleased with the produce that we have raised in it since then, even in Central Florida. We feared that the vegetables would "cook" in the hot sun, but with a shade cloth, the tunnel actually stays cooler than the outside temperatures. We grew crops all through the summer!
I kno you feed your sweet potato greens to the animals & I would too, they are full of vitamins & minerals. But I sautéed some leaves in butter with garlic & onion & added eggs to make s spinache like omelette- it was GREAT.
I got a good laugh when you mentioned we were nearing the end of the grass cutting season. I too live in NC and the end is always later than I think. The leaves are usually falling when the end of grass cutting season is close.
I was going to study the same as Lorain but I had to get a second job and gave up the school! Oh well, I am not sorry but I wish I knew how to make my own patterns! Fun ! That doesn't stop me but I have not used the sawing machine in a long time and they need desperate attention! One day! Blessings 💕🤗💕
No if sprouts are still attached to old tuber sweet potato will not produce. If they sprout Great but dig up, if needed but detach from the tuber and replant as a slip. with or without roots so long as soil is moist they will then grow new sweet potatoes.
I like sauteed sweet potatoe leaves they remind me of spinach. They sell a side dish of sweet potato stems at the Korean grocery store near me but not sure how they are cooked or marinate I have had them cold as a side dish with rice. It's the stem attached to the leaf, not the main stem, you can find a how to video, looks like they are peeled and blanced look a little like green beans and they and the leaves are very nutritious, first time I grew sweet potatoes I had one weighed 5 lbs 😊
Really awesome homesteading family..it's not easy but you give step by step for the beginner i think.oneday i want try homesteading family.thank you so much
Those tree roots will rot! You don't have to dig them up. Plant a cover crop thickly on the area. In the spring "chop and drop" it. Bring as much mulch into the area as possible, at planting time add compost and amendments and plant. Every year the soil will get better and those roots will be a big help to getting your soil healthy again.
I've suggested before about the product Enviromax it's all natural that will break down compacted or clay soils. Therefore your grass and crops will perform better. It's nit expensive
Not to be the bearer of bad news Lorraine but a freeze will kill off all those sweet potato leftovers and you'll have to start slips again next season. It would be so awesome if they worked like regular potatoes and over winter to make a grand appearance in spring and be so much easier 🤣. If you keep some pieces of those vines you can root them in water and over winter them indoors, even if they've been sitting on the ground pulled out for a while they'll still propagate really easily 👍
Have ever thought about Katahdin meat sheep. 2 ewes and a ram can get your flock started. They cost less to raise than cattle. Easier to manage as well.
We had an old tree stump and I poured gasoline on it and it burned slowly and that how we got rid of roots and 15 year old stump. I would check if there is any natural gasoline near by if you decide to try it. Farm looks great!
Young sweet potato leaves are very good cooked and eaten like spinach before they get tough! Nice and tasty! Don’t jsut give to pigs - use them all season! Very nutritious too!
Why do you guys not eat the leaves? They are delicious. Better than Spinach sauteed. I saute some and then flash freeze it on a cookie sheet, the vacuum seal when frozen. If that is the amount ya'll allot for space to grow them, you could grow them in homemade towers. It is so easy to harvest. Just cut the vines, pull up and tower made of wire and you have a pile of dirt. Takes about 10 min per tower. The farm looks great!
You have a creek you have a big amount of sun energy maybe you may use solar panel and pump and water your plants potatoes and sqash and all the rest water need plants for free👍
Depending on where you live, it may not be. I just planted Brussel sprouts, kale, cabbage, broccoli, beets, collards, lettuce and carrots. garlic soon. Some veggies do better after some frost.
Don’t know why but it’s such a joy from the UK watching a sweet potato harvest. 😃 Like with carrots and parsnips, is a deeper rooted sweet potato easier to harvest if one pushes down first before pulling?
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So, will Lorraine's channel be called "Sew the Land"? Love what you guys are doing! Blessings.
No I didn’t know that Lorraine was a seamstress and designer, that is an invaluable talent! Good on you Lorraine!
Time flies! I did not realize you have been at your property for 1 1/2 years.
And she designs and sews?? Lorraine you truly are a jack-of-all trades. Fabulous all around kitchen wonder, best home maker ever and now with the sewing. Hope you share your creations with us.
Please keep us posted on Loraine 's sewing project!
Great sweet potato haul.
Looking forward to the high tunnel build😊
Digging for treasure and you hit the gold mine!
You had a good sweet potato harvest. I can't believe how big some can get. A high tunnel will be wonderful to have. 💞
Hi from the UK. Smallholding for more years than I can remember. Mangalica pigs live in a small orchard, Rhode Island Reds, free range. Veg, all in raised beds which are made from interwoven willow branches. I was born lazy - half fill beds with compost, lay sprouted potatoes down and cover to top with straw. Come harvest, remove straw and pick your spuds, already clean, ready for the pot. Keep the vlogs coming, they are great, many thanks for taking us along.
Seeing Lorraine with a pattern brings back memories for me. I used to sew a lot even making a dress for my daughter to wear to her uncle's wedding. Nice sweet potato harvest.
It's like digging for buried treasure 😊
I cannot believe the difference between when you bought that land and now!!!! It’s looks so much healthier!!!!
You and Lorraine have always impressed me. The property is looking great.
Yes we need rain, but unfortunately we will have to wait.❤❤❤
You are an awesome homesteading family. I must say this is the best planned sweet potato harvest I have ever seen. Starting with cutting the leaves/vines off first. This exposed where the original plants are and also kept the greens cleaner for the pigs. Also you explain and show how you can avoid stabbing potatoes while digging them up. This video is a great 'HowTo' guide. Thanks for this fantastic video‼️
We r on day 7 of rain. Yards flooded cows swimming😅..wish I could send it to you.
... sweet potatotes a.k.a. "Kamote" in the Philippines. The young leaves are edible, as they blanch them with added sliced tomatoes & green onions, some dash of salt, squeezed lemon. it goes great with meat, fish or poultry.
i say it's very, very healthy ! ❤❤❤
Yum sweet potatoes, I guess I had better get to harvesting.
Amending soil, whether it's open ground or raised beds, is always a good idea. I think you'll like the high tunnel. I watch some other videos and that have them. They do very well, but again, you need good soil to start with... and ammend every year. Whether you start with the beds or tubs. Whatever you might use. If if you use any kind of manure, especially from cattle make sure there's no weed spray of any kind used on any hay or straw. It will prevent anything from growing that you might plant.
Good to see everybody involved in the harvest of the sweet potatoes.
The happy pig sounds! Love it!
Sweet potato leaves taste great. Fun harvest.
That barn roof will have a lot of water shedding you can use! Our farm had a 85’ deep 4’ wide dug by hand well. With hand laden bricks 🧱
Great sweet potato haul!! 👍
Love the sounds of their munching ♥️
When I was growing up on a farm my dad always planted the Red Puertorican sweet potatoes 🍠 they are so good.. They are not stringy like some varieties they are delicious..
That is so cool about Loraines hidden talent! I am 64 and growing up my mom made almost all my clothes. Some of my favorite memories are picking out patterns! Would love to see what you make!❤
great project for the next few months....high tunnel will be great for you to have. A good place to grow starts for your gardens like you did at your other place. Lorraine had a good set up there. Some of those sweet potatoes are so big it will only take one to feed the family at dinner. Y'all have a Blessed day.
Nice Harvest . Those piglets have grown fast.
I'm happy for you guys 💖 may the Lord keep blessing you greatly 🙏😊
It will be awesome when you have your tunnel so handy for other things
We use 55 gallon drums to put some wood in it. the roots will burn down.
You guys do a great job! Keep up the good work
So exited for you guys and how farm your farm has come 🎉🇦🇺
Where I am from, we call that a potato fork and that is what we use it for. 😊
❤ wow love purple potatoes. HEALTHY!
My mom and I used to sew. Good memories. ❤️
we'd love to see more of Lorraine's sewing ventures!
My sweet potatoes are in grow bags. I reached in and harvested a really nice one on Thursday. And the vines are still doing well. Cooler weather coming later this week, I’ll harvest them then. I saved my dog’s leaking pool for potatoe harvesting to dump them in
No, I have seen a lot of sweet potato leaf farmers this year and you have made the score board with your sweet potato harvest.😊
love you guys ,,,just subscribed saw you on the hollars,,,who i also love
Our sweet potatoes went wild this year. I grew mine in raised beds, too. They will grow right up to the edge and make massive tubers and I stabbed several. I just trimmed them off and then did all the steps for pressure canning them. Some of our potatoes were as big as a two year old’s head!
We built a 24 x 48 high tunnel last fall that we purchased from Grower's Solution. We have been super pleased with the produce that we have raised in it since then, even in Central Florida. We feared that the vegetables would "cook" in the hot sun, but with a shade cloth, the tunnel actually stays cooler than the outside temperatures. We grew crops all through the summer!
Would love to see a series of sewing and pattern making or alteration videos, Lorraine!
Which explains the allure of digging for gold!
I kno you feed your sweet potato greens to the animals & I would too, they are full of vitamins & minerals. But I sautéed some leaves in butter with garlic & onion & added eggs to make s spinache like omelette- it was GREAT.
I got a good laugh when you mentioned we were nearing the end of the grass cutting season. I too live in NC and the end is always later than I think. The leaves are usually falling when the end of grass cutting season is close.
It was wonderful seeing the ladies involved in the show. Great work ladies
I was going to study the same as Lorain but I had to get a second job and gave up the school! Oh well, I am not sorry but I wish I knew how to make my own patterns! Fun ! That doesn't stop me but I have not used the sawing machine in a long time and they need desperate attention! One day! Blessings 💕🤗💕
You can burn the roots. Drill a hole in the centre, fill with fuel and burn them.
No if sprouts are still attached to old tuber sweet potato will not produce. If they sprout Great but dig up, if needed but detach from the tuber and replant as a slip. with or without roots so long as soil is moist they will then grow new sweet potatoes.
Get the Rhodes boys a job and their machinery to come over and dig those roots up.
I like sauteed sweet potatoe leaves they remind me of spinach. They sell a side dish of sweet potato stems at the Korean grocery store near me but not sure how they are cooked or marinate I have had them cold as a side dish with rice. It's the stem attached to the leaf, not the main stem, you can find a how to video, looks like they are peeled and blanced look a little like green beans and they and the leaves are very nutritious, first time I grew sweet potatoes I had one weighed 5 lbs 😊
Really awesome homesteading family..it's not easy but you give step by step for the beginner i think.oneday i want try homesteading family.thank you so much
Seems it is the season for huge sweet potatoes, Bri had a huge harvest with some enormous sweet potatoes
You look so happy on that lawnmower.
Blessings
Those tree roots will rot! You don't have to dig them up. Plant a cover crop thickly on the area. In the spring "chop and drop" it. Bring as much mulch into the area as possible, at planting time add compost and amendments and plant. Every year the soil will get better and those roots will be a big help to getting your soil healthy again.
Try planting a cover crop in your raised beds
I've suggested before about the product Enviromax it's all natural that will break down compacted or clay soils. Therefore your grass and crops will perform better. It's nit expensive
The baby pigs are adorable! They sure were going after the sweet tater vines!
You both are doing great job lovey 😊
Your videos are awesome ❤😊
Good job 🕊️
I hope you’re able to get the necessary equipment needed to work the amount of land you have. Tractors are game changers
Not to be the bearer of bad news Lorraine but a freeze will kill off all those sweet potato leftovers and you'll have to start slips again next season. It would be so awesome if they worked like regular potatoes and over winter to make a grand appearance in spring and be so much easier 🤣. If you keep some pieces of those vines you can root them in water and over winter them indoors, even if they've been sitting on the ground pulled out for a while they'll still propagate really easily 👍
I so wish I had outdoor space! Looks so good!
Have ever thought about Katahdin meat sheep. 2 ewes and a ram can get your flock started. They cost less to raise than cattle. Easier to manage as well.
Plus they are more of a forage eating than grass.. your land looks like it might be a good fit
Hello watching from Borneo 👍 👍
We had an old tree stump and I poured gasoline on it and it burned slowly and that how we got rid of roots and 15 year old stump. I would check if there is any natural gasoline near by if you decide to try it. Farm looks great!
Young sweet potato leaves are very good cooked and eaten like spinach before they get tough! Nice and tasty! Don’t jsut give to pigs - use them all season! Very nutritious too!
I love that little truck
Dried Sweet potato leaves n vine can b kept for adding into winter food source
I love your channel! And not just because of your daughter's beautiful name! Make sure she knows the story of Odysseus! ❤ -Weaver
Jason have you seen the green house and how they grow all year on living traditions homestead. It could work for you
Heya, for 3 small rised bad's it's a nice harvest
Piggies liked salad day...😊
FYI the leafs a good to eat.
Why do you guys not eat the leaves? They are delicious. Better than Spinach sauteed. I saute some and then flash freeze it on a cookie sheet, the vacuum seal when frozen. If that is the amount ya'll allot for space to grow them, you could grow them in homemade towers. It is so easy to harvest. Just cut the vines, pull up and tower made of wire and you have a pile of dirt. Takes about 10 min per tower. The farm looks great!
I love your show.
Kunekune, love their kumera.
How’s the basement pantry? This next season will be great to watch , high tunnel , maybe that other small barn rehab - endless
You have a creek you have a big amount of sun energy maybe you may use solar panel and pump and water your plants potatoes and sqash and all the rest water need plants for free👍
I'm surprised that you don't keep the post harvest vegetation (leave &vines, etc.) for compost to improve the soil in your Paddock area.
So sad the growing season is over
Depending on where you live, it may not be. I just planted Brussel sprouts, kale, cabbage, broccoli, beets, collards, lettuce and carrots. garlic soon. Some veggies do better after some frost.
Do consider eating some of the beet greens you grow.
Hoping when you move little boy pig in with Zeek all goes well 😊
That is a good sweet potato harvest for just 2 box beds. Happy pigs😅
You'd have to like sweet potatoes - which I don't. Love golden potatoes.
Don’t know why but it’s such a joy from the UK watching a sweet potato harvest. 😃
Like with carrots and parsnips, is a deeper rooted sweet potato easier to harvest if one pushes down first before pulling?
Sweet potato leaves are so healthy for people to eat. Healthier than spinach!
Nice crop of sweet potato s , we don t grow them here on the West Coast ,
Love those Kuni piglets❤
Enjoyed the video
Our regular potatoes didn't do good either but we had a lot of sweet potatoes that weighed over 2 lbs each.
Nooice!😎 STOC
Hello, Jason. What happened to the trailer you bought and were going to re-finish when you were living at your old property?
10:29 like your truck
I went to buy a tool like that and found that it is called a "potato Fork"
Have you guys tested the soil to see what the amendments are needed
Jason, hire the Rhodes Bros to dig up your roots!!
What zone are you in? I have sweet potatoes for the first time and not sure when to pull them up.
They should be in the ground for at least 125 days before harvest.