My oldest brother was raised by my grandparents in Alabama. He used to tell stories of him picking muscadines as a child. One of these days I’ll taste a muscadine.
Your cattle were so happy to get that hay! I have a momma dexter cow named Daisy Joy, and her son steer Chuckie. I love when they yell at me, they are surrounded by quality grass, but they want us to give them something either hay, a cookie, or something fresh from the garden. Love the sweet potatoes, one year I have to try growing it. Not sure if our season is long enough, but perhaps long enough to get some size of mother potatoes.
We dug ours this afternoon. We had one row about 40' long and got about 2 bushels and there were a lot of huge ones! Our ground was sorta muddy, so we're letting them lay in boxes to dry and cure. We did "spear" some, though.
I seen a poke weed plant when you were digging sweet tatters, I planted a bed of poke weed that I propagated from seed, I keep them watered and now I have greens all summer to eat.
My mom found some growing along a fence row down the road from them. When it was getting about time for them to be ready, she’d keep an eye on them. She used to fix them with scrambled eggs. So good. I don’t like mustard greens, turnip greens or collards, but I do like poke salat & love spinach.
vmorganbogart I cook mine the same, scrambled eggs, poke and onion. I have it wild but now I plant a bed of it in the garden and keep it watered. I can get about 3 harvest from it and if you cut the top out when you harvest the first time it bushes out and produces more. Grow poke spring and summer and spinach in fall and winter. Poke is easy to propagate from seed. Blanch and freeze greens and you will have greens all year.
Thank you for showing how you dig sweet potatoes. I live in central Florida and I believe I will give them a try this year. I really like the way you explain all about what you’re doing. It’s very helpful to a new gardener. 👍
How long would it take you to pick all of those Sweet Potatoes Danny and Wanda, That was so cute when Dexter was answering you Wanda about him digging in the dirt, real pretty cows you have, thank you for the sweet potato find that was fun, have a positively positive Day!
I just recently found this channel. What a blessed life you have! I was thanking the Lord for your sweet potatoes harvest and I don't even know you. I can't grow a thing but I am very envious of your life and how nice you speak to each other and work as a team. I will keep watching. So interesting and I also enjoy your porch talks.
I dug a couple of messes about the size you call perfect. It's so hot out I'm putting off digging the rest for another few days. I'm hoping the fire ants don't get to them before I can get them dug. I enjoy watching you and Wanda work together. Your lifestyle is how mine was growing up and we always slept good because we were so tired at the end of the day. When I married and had my children I raised them to be pretty much self sufficient in meat, eggs, lard and vegetables. We did have to buy flour, tea, sugar and coffee. God bless y'all to keep teaching a younger generation how to do homesteading the right way.
That was funny! Those bulls are like little kids! I loved that! They like Danny and Wanda! That is a good sign of a healthy happy homestead! Thumbs up Deep South!
Nice video guys! I love your gentle ways with the cattle, Wanda; you guys are good to your animals. Thanks for the tutorial on sweet potatoes Danny. Yup, I learned something and plan on growing some next year. Blessings.👵😊🌱🌱🌱🌸
did ya eat any of the greens??? One of my sweet potatoes decided to start growing after all - I had kept them in a large pot in sil and they did not move, so I had it and just put them in 2 different corners of the garden, well one was willing after all, never had seen the blossoms before, they are beautiful!!!!
Miss Wanda those cows sure love you and Dexter he's a trip. Those sweet potatoes sure look good, wish I had room to plant those. God bless you all . Thanks for a wonderful video
Debbie-Texas. Looks wonderful. Our first year for sweet potatoes. Ours showed be ready in a couple of weeks. Didnt have your book when we started so made a few mistakes. But the book is wonderful folks!! Highly recommend it!!
I love my cows! We have 3 black angus ( 1 steer and 2 heifers ) and a Jersey Bull. My Jersey is the sweetest bull. I bottle raised him since he was a day old. He loves to be pet and hugged. We decided that the goats are going to have to go to auction this or next week. We might keep just a couple of goats that will be hard to part with. We plan on buying a pig and raising it for pork. Living on a homestead is a lot of work, but very rewarding. Watching the animals graze and play in the evenings while sitting on the back porch is so relaxing and peaceful.
I'm glad you are kind to your cows! Sounds like you are blessed with land! Loving to hear tidbits from happy folks. Sweet it is during these trying times.😊🌸
@@apachetrail6232 I know there will probably be a day when my jersey is no longer safe to be around. Right now he is about 2 years old and still gentle. He definitely is the most gentle of the cows we own.
My goodness, there goes your clean dining room floor next week! I hope my DSH SPs yeild with abundance, too. Love the cows and wish I could show them some love. Thanks for sharing!
Just dug mine up yesterday and they are soooooo small. Looked like baby carrots. I grew them in a large planter. I almost threw them away ,watched this just in time.
I dug up my first sweet potatoes a few days ago and was disappointed that they were way smaller than what I had expected but from seeing this ......mines are what you’re calling perfect sm/med potatoes !❤️
It was a great day to be a King cow. ❤️ Loved watching you dig the sweet potatoes. That’s something I have zero exposure/experience with. Nobody I know, including my dad, has grown them. I am so anxious for mine. I have Georgia Jet, Beauregard, and Vardaman. Thank you for sharing this video.
Awesome test dig on your sweet potatoes Danny and Wanda! It looks like y’all are set for another bumper crop of sweet potatoes again this year, y’all really inspire me to continue to garden and grow the things that we love to eat here the most. Blessings upon y’all and your homestead!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I did mine just like you taught from the beginning. Mine are a full month later in but I have plenty of time. Did not know you could eat the stems.
That's interesting- thanks for sharing the knowledge. My neighbor came by to get some grape leaves to put in with their canned dill pickles. There's more food coming up than we would ordinarily think.
@@buffalopatriot grape leaves are for crispness. We have found theres alot of edibles we used to throw to compost or chickens. Glad crops are doing good for ya, may God continue to bless you with them.
I hope you Gave some of the old vines to your cows....that'd be a wonderful nutrition boost for them....I mean, if yall don't eat the greens...they're considered a delicacy in other countries.
My dad just bought some cows for his farm...he just put up a barndominium he hasn't yet started finishing out yet once he got laid off because of the lock downs....I'm super pumped he listened to me about the coming food shortage. No one else does. Course my dad is a former marine....but still he doesn't want to acknowledge what's coming I think because my younger sister who are in their early 20s are off messing around in life not remotely prepared. Have a feeling the same story applies to everyone's family though. Congrats on the ponds btw. Super exciting to be able to go fishing in your own fish tank for sure. Wish my dad's was a bit clearer to go float in it, but we dug out huge dig channels for his catfish last year....too depending now. Awesome harvest on the sweet potatoes they look delicious. Sweet potato fries are my family's favorite. Wish more people would try them. Good morning btw
I tried to warn my grown kids yesterday and they started making comments about how being isolated has affected my mental health. It’s so stressful realizing how few people that I love are taking any precautions at all.
Thank you for showing us all the what and how and when to dig the sweet potatoes, they really don't go very far down in the ground. Could these be grown in a raised bed? I'm making raised beds as bending down is really hurting my back and my knees are so bad I can no longer kneel on any surface. So I'm building platforms to put raised beds up on. I'm not real partial to sweet potatoes but since it's a super food and I'm getting older I want to incorporate them into my diet a little more. Much love from So.Cal.💟
Do they stay pretty much in the surface and not real deep growing !! I mean Danny hasn’t really had to dig down too deep lol he just told me sometimes they are deep!!! Thank you I want to plant some next year but have no idea how to start the slips!! Looks like I have some research to do!
It looks like you’re going to have a really nice crop of sweet potatoes this year. That was a pretty good haul for just 2 or 3 plants. I think those two were the biggest ones I have ever seen. Can’t wait to see if you find any bigger than them. I love sweet potatoes baked & then put honey cinnamon butter on them. Yummo! I just recently learned about the leaves being edible & tasting a lot like spinach. I’m gonna have to try that. I just love your cows. They are so friendly & pretty, and that includes Dexter. Another channel, Cross Timbers Bison, has a bull named Dunbar. When they put out a new round bale of hay, Dunbar loves to sling it around with his horns. It looks like Dexter likes to do the same thing. The little rascals. I just love your channel & all that you teach. Y’all are a real blessing to so many. 🙏Philippians 1:3🙏 Blessings, Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸👍❤️🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wow! “Them thar is sum sweet taters”, as my relatives used to say!! Loved seeing your cows. Nice that they have treat coming with the sweet potato vines and a few sweet potatoes. Can’t wait to see you can them, Wanda!! Your shelves of canned vegetables looks like something from HGTV!! So pretty. ❤️❤️❤️
This yr is my first try at growing sweet potatoes they r going well i have more time to wait still im so impatient 😛😛 best part is i dont have to share lol nobody else eats em i didnt plant very many lol👍👍👍😍
I'm growing them first time this year too(the lime green ornamental ones don't count lol) Several people mentioned that the leaves are edible and thats both raw and cooked. I don't care for them raw but cooked. Oh my they do taste a lot like spinach. I've been putting them into all types of things as my hubs and I love spinach. And while I hope to get potatoes, so far its been wonderful as a spinach/greens replacement. I was worried taking leaves would stunt the growth but to tell the true if I didn't I think its fixing to take over that corner of the garden!
@@JaneDough23 if you have a smart phone do what ive been doing this year. Take a photo when you go back and check your photos (on my phone at least galaxy note 9) you can scroll up on the photo and see when it was taken. Ive even learned how to put notes on the photo itself by hitting edit and hitting the capital T. I always used to use a notepad but would forget it or end up watering it etc.. my son teaching me to photo document things is a game changer since my current recovery. I find my "I'll remember that" skill is very lacking lol.
I'm hoping to get a few sweet potatoes but have been really enjoying the greens. I personally have only found one intact arrow head on my property but there is an area that we find the chip of chert/flint and every so often a broken arrowhead. The neighbor who lives at the bottom of the hill by the creek has many he's found over the years in big cases. Last I knew he had lent the cases to our local small museum. I can deal with the off and on dog barking cuz something ran through the yard and once my dog or her boyfriend in my next door neighbors yard make the alert bark you can hear all the dogs in the area do the quick bark bark bark in unison with them but its not all day, its them doing their doggy thing. But like I mentioned on another commenter post the hunting hounds across the river bark just uncontrolled for several hours in the evening. I being the nosy person I am did go for a drive last year when it first started up and its a hunting dog breeding compound that breeds big coon dogs of some type. Beautiful animals but while they are loved and its obvious they do take care of them they are a business and the noise at least is buffered by distance. I think I'd complain if they were closer to me. Oh it is not a puppy mill there is a huge dog/hunting culture here in our area and they go for big prices and its a big business. I was assured that they do not breed willynilly.
20 some odd years ago, I was curious about sweet potatoes. The store had two varieties, one like you’re digging now and the other was a white skinned one the size of a large softball. I picked the white skinned one to try. I tried cutting it in half with a butcher knife and I couldn’t get more than a quarter of an inch into it, it was that hard. So I took a hammer to the knife, that didn’t work. Then I took a hatchet to this thing, that didn’t work. Finally, I threw it whole in the oven and roasted it for about two hours, that worked. Once it was cooked, it really wasn’t worth the effort, so I never tried sweet potatoes again. Until I started watching your videos and I realized that that probably was not a sweet potato, I never did find out what it was.
Love seeing the cows. Dexter is like a big dog that wants to play. lol Your sweet taters look wonderful!! Y'all are gonna get a mess of jars from them if even half have a "mother potato" under it. Much love and blessings!
Years ago when i was a kid my dad and i accidentally killed my horse with corn stalks. He horse ate them and they balled up in his belly and killed him. Since then i will only feed any animals chopped up stalks. Just an FYI
Danny, I want to send you two Black Angus Breed Heifers, and start building a herd over the next 10 years 50/50 cow calf lease. What do you think. I live in colorado
I enjoy watching y'all. You have such a good variety of food stock. So, cross pollination.. OMG!! But, it'll still be good. Have y'all thought about starting a hybrid vine of the species.? Danny is good in that tractor. Me.. Some cows moving to slow.. Lol. That's why I'm not allowed to drive any farm equipment.. Thanks for sharing. And again, sorry for the loss.. Peace
Danny you are making me feel lazy. You digging all those by hand and I put in two 26ft rows of Georgia Jet's and I dig them up with JD with middle buster. That is a high yield sweet potato.
sweet potatoes will not grow here, i wish they would as i love them, and to buy them in the stores they are like $4.99 a pond. our grow time is to short. i dont know why so many you tubers can potatoes, every year out of my 7 100 foot long rows i get over a 1000 ponds of Yukon golds. i put them in the root cellar after the sit out and dry for a week, and in the spring. they are just the same as the day they were put in the root cellar, in fact i have to take the potatoes out of the root cellar that i will use for seed in mid March so they will start eyes by end of May for planting, come fall, there still potatoes in the root cellar from the year before, and again, they are just like the day they were put in, in fact they still the same well into the next winter until there gone. i have had 3 year old potatos in the root cellar that were just like the day they went in..
My underground root cellar still reaches 80 degrees in the deep south In the summer time. Potatoes only last about 3 months here and still be edible. It would be nice if they would last.
@@DeepSouthHomestead gees thats not good the ground heat up, here my root cellar year round stays at 36 to 38 some times mid summer it may hit 40 degs at the worstfor a shot time but 99% of the time its at 34 to 36 . i can hang and adge my beef and pork in it for 10 to 14 days even at 40 below out side or 60 above, witch is about the hotest we ever get, but very short lived. what if you put it much deeper into the ground? i built mine in a very step clay hill side, the roof is 6 feet under ground with 4 inchs of foam on top. all built out of 8x8 ceder timbers, with stone and 4 inch drain tile
@@arnoldromppai5395 The problem here is when it's over 100 degree's outside the air being pulled in through the fresh air vents is so hot it overrides the coolness of the earth. And with it comes humidity so the temps and humidity cause it to stay warm from June till October.
@Prepsteading With Disabilities all my years growing up mom and dads house witch was my dads home when he was a kid, we had 2 cold rooms in the basment that were solid pour cement walls. there house is in town, but it was not town when my dad was young. they had cows pigs and a 3 acer garden. they still have that house and land to this day. when i was home every thing grom the garden as well as wooden drums of salt pork were in these cold rooms. every thing kept cold in there 3/4 of the year, potatoes never sprouted or went soft. i dont recall how cool it was in them 2 rooms that were on the out side walls was but i hated going in them as a kid to get stuff, as it was cold. and big heavy door to open. in the fall dad would hang his moose in there
Please Ms Wanda don’t pet your cows by putting your hand thru the fence!! If he snatch’s his head up fast and you can’t get your hand out in time it’s not gonna be good!! When I was boy a friend was fattening up a bull for slaughter and the kids thought it was a pet and was petting it through a metal gate.”City folk”. Needless to say the bull raised up and the boy couldn’t get his arm out fast enough .
What are your go-to sweet potato varieties? This is my first year growing them here in Central Kentucky. I want with Georgia Jets, Beauregard, and Porto Rico’s to trial them to see what grows best in my garden. I planted in mid May, and the vines look outstanding. Hopefully that translates into a good harvest. I have 2 60-foot rows. By they way, I purchased your sweet potato manual in PDF format this past weekend, and it is a good read. I recommend it to anyone.
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Wow! Nice sweet potato crop!
The cows are beautiful! They gonna love them sweet potatoes and vines y’all sharing with them!
Ol Dex reminds me of uncle George on the little rascals, yum,yum, eat em up.
Thanks for all you share
Nothing better than Mississippi sweet potato 🍠 they grow best there as flavor goes
Can you make a video of you canning them please? I always look forward to seeing what you folks are up to. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the video! I purchased your Sweet Potato manual a few weeks ago and am growing them for the first time this year. ~ Stephanie
Looks Ike a great day!
My oldest brother was raised by my grandparents in Alabama. He used to tell stories of him picking muscadines as a child. One of these days I’ll taste a muscadine.
They're so delicious.
Your cattle were so happy to get that hay! I have a momma dexter cow named Daisy Joy, and her son steer Chuckie. I love when they yell at me, they are surrounded by quality grass, but they want us to give them something either hay, a cookie, or something fresh from the garden. Love the sweet potatoes, one year I have to try growing it. Not sure if our season is long enough, but perhaps long enough to get some size of mother potatoes.
We dug ours this afternoon. We had one row about 40' long and got about 2 bushels and there were a lot of huge ones! Our ground was sorta muddy, so we're letting them lay in boxes to dry and cure. We did "spear" some, though.
I seen a poke weed plant when you were digging sweet tatters, I planted a bed of poke weed that I propagated from seed, I keep them watered and now I have greens all summer to eat.
They come up everywhere here.
My mom found some growing along a fence row down the road from them. When it was getting about time for them to be ready, she’d keep an eye on them. She used to fix them with scrambled eggs. So good. I don’t like mustard greens, turnip greens or collards, but I do like poke salat & love spinach.
vmorganbogart I cook mine the same, scrambled eggs, poke and onion. I have it wild but now I plant a bed of it in the garden and keep it watered. I can get about 3 harvest from it and if you cut the top out when you harvest the first time it bushes out and produces more. Grow poke spring and summer and spinach in fall and winter. Poke is easy to propagate from seed. Blanch and freeze greens and you will have greens all year.
Thanks for the video. This is my first year for Sweet Potatoes as well. It will be September before I can dig them up.
Thank you for showing how you dig sweet potatoes. I live in central Florida and I believe I will give them a try this year. I really like the way you explain all about what you’re doing. It’s very helpful to a new gardener. 👍
Im catching up on y'all's videos. Dexture is halarious and looks spoiled. I love sweet potatoes. One of my favorite vegs
I’ll be testing my sweet potatoes next week.
I really enjoy your channel! So much information!
I use the leaves like collard greens.
Love sweet potato fries, fresh not frozen. God bless ya'll.
Im no where near your level but I do enjoy these videos.
How long would it take you to pick all of those Sweet Potatoes Danny and Wanda, That was so cute when Dexter was answering you Wanda about him digging in the dirt, real pretty cows you have, thank you for the sweet potato find that was fun, have a positively positive Day!
Y’all find many intact arrowheads on y’all’s place? Always interesting because of the history behind each one found.
Yes I have several.
I just recently found this channel. What a blessed life you have! I was thanking the Lord for your sweet potatoes harvest and I don't even know you. I can't grow a thing but I am very envious of your life and how nice you speak to each other and work as a team. I will keep watching. So interesting and I also enjoy your porch talks.
Thank you Deborah.
Use the number 3large potato’s for baking pies
I dug a couple of messes about the size you call perfect. It's so hot out I'm putting off digging the rest for another few days. I'm hoping the fire ants don't get to them before I can get them dug.
I enjoy watching you and Wanda work together. Your lifestyle is how mine was growing up and we always slept good because we were so tired at the end of the day. When I married and had my children I raised them to be pretty much self sufficient in meat, eggs, lard and vegetables. We did have to buy flour, tea, sugar and coffee.
God bless y'all to keep teaching a younger generation how to do homesteading the right way.
Gonna have a good crop I see
I love to hear Danny talk. He sounds like my Daddy, he lived in Tippah County MS
Morning Y'all , sure looks like some good eating, thanks y'all for sharing your lives with us, sure enjoy it !!! 😊
That was funny! Those bulls are like little kids! I loved that! They like Danny and Wanda! That is a good sign of a healthy happy homestead! Thumbs up Deep South!
Nice video guys! I love your gentle ways with the cattle, Wanda; you guys are good to your animals. Thanks for the tutorial on sweet potatoes Danny. Yup, I learned something and plan on growing some next year. Blessings.👵😊🌱🌱🌱🌸
well hes a happy cow now love to watch u guys
Very nice sweet potatoes 🍠
did ya eat any of the greens??? One of my sweet potatoes decided to start growing after all - I had kept them in a large pot in sil and they did not move, so I had it and just put them in 2 different corners of the garden, well one was willing after all, never had seen the blossoms before, they are beautiful!!!!
I have in the past. But now just feed them to the cows.
Probably be digging mine in another 3 weeks 😊
Miss Wanda those cows sure love you and Dexter he's a trip. Those sweet potatoes sure look good, wish I had room to plant those. God bless you all . Thanks for a wonderful video
Thank you for making videos on how to start your slips. This is my 1st year to grow my on slips and the y are looking good.
Debbie-Texas. Looks wonderful. Our first year for sweet potatoes. Ours showed be ready in a couple of weeks. Didnt have your book when we started so made a few mistakes. But the book is wonderful folks!! Highly recommend it!!
I love my cows! We have 3 black angus ( 1 steer and 2 heifers ) and a Jersey Bull. My Jersey is the sweetest bull. I bottle raised him since he was a day old. He loves to be pet and hugged. We decided that the goats are going to have to go to auction this or next week. We might keep just a couple of goats that will be hard to part with. We plan on buying a pig and raising it for pork. Living on a homestead is a lot of work, but very rewarding. Watching the animals graze and play in the evenings while sitting on the back porch is so relaxing and peaceful.
I'm glad you are kind to your cows! Sounds like you are blessed with land! Loving to hear tidbits from happy folks. Sweet it is during these trying times.😊🌸
I don't befriend bulls. Ever. When they get big, they still want to play, and that is dangerous
@@apachetrail6232 I know there will probably be a day when my jersey is no longer safe to be around. Right now he is about 2 years old and still gentle. He definitely is the most gentle of the cows we own.
@@Laurie_Tinsley gentle bulls are better than mean bulls. But they're still bulls. And that's why I never befriend a bull. Ever :)
I love to see and hear the cows....need more of that.
My goodness, there goes your clean dining room floor next week! I hope my DSH SPs yeild with abundance, too. Love the cows and wish I could show them some love. Thanks for sharing!
Yes it is going to have sweet potatoes both red and white in it for a while now. LOL
I love sweet potato fries
Just dug mine up yesterday and they are soooooo small. Looked like baby carrots. I grew them in a large planter. I almost threw them away ,watched this just in time.
I dug up my first sweet potatoes a few days ago and was disappointed that they were way smaller than what I had expected but from seeing this ......mines are what you’re calling perfect sm/med potatoes !❤️
P Bee I’m afraid to pull mine up too
What a blessing to have such a gentle bull! Love Mr.Dexter
It was a great day to be a King cow. ❤️ Loved watching you dig the sweet potatoes. That’s something I have zero exposure/experience with. Nobody I know, including my dad, has grown them. I am so anxious for mine. I have Georgia Jet, Beauregard, and Vardaman. Thank you for sharing this video.
Awesome test dig on your sweet potatoes Danny and Wanda! It looks like y’all are set for another bumper crop of sweet potatoes again this year, y’all really inspire me to continue to garden and grow the things that we love to eat here the most. Blessings upon y’all and your homestead!
My soil is rich and deep. Last year I found them ten inches under the soil, they were growing deep.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I did mine just like you taught from the beginning. Mine are a full month later in but I have plenty of time. Did not know you could eat the stems.
VERY GOOD
oh my word how sweet
I live in N. Cal where it never rains in summer. I can't even imagine gardening without irrigation.
Dexter is going to be a good size. But such a baby lol
I enjoy seeing the cows and how you look at the harvest. Noticing how the different sweet potato look like eggs or carrots.
That is going to be a LOT of sweet potatoes!!!
good morning
Were canning pumpkin leaves and sweet potato leaves mixed this year for the nutrients, vitamins, and minerals
That's interesting- thanks for sharing the knowledge. My neighbor came by to get some grape leaves to put in with their canned dill pickles. There's more food coming up than we would ordinarily think.
@@buffalopatriot grape leaves are for crispness. We have found theres alot of edibles we used to throw to compost or chickens. Glad crops are doing good for ya, may God continue to bless you with them.
I hope you Gave some of the old vines to your cows....that'd be a wonderful nutrition boost for them....I mean, if yall don't eat the greens...they're considered a delicacy in other countries.
We feed all the vines to our cows.
Silly me of course yall know that lol. Made that comment when you were showing the cows
My dad just bought some cows for his farm...he just put up a barndominium he hasn't yet started finishing out yet once he got laid off because of the lock downs....I'm super pumped he listened to me about the coming food shortage. No one else does. Course my dad is a former marine....but still he doesn't want to acknowledge what's coming I think because my younger sister who are in their early 20s are off messing around in life not remotely prepared. Have a feeling the same story applies to everyone's family though.
Congrats on the ponds btw. Super exciting to be able to go fishing in your own fish tank for sure. Wish my dad's was a bit clearer to go float in it, but we dug out huge dig channels for his catfish last year....too depending now. Awesome harvest on the sweet potatoes they look delicious. Sweet potato fries are my family's favorite. Wish more people would try them. Good morning btw
I tried to warn my grown kids yesterday and they started making comments about how being isolated has affected my mental health. It’s so stressful realizing how few people that I love are taking any precautions at all.
Deer loves to eat the vines.
Yes they do.
I do believe that's the first time I've seen a cow throw a temper tantrum!! He's fantastic!!!
Thank you for showing us all the what and how and when to dig the sweet potatoes, they really don't go very far down in the ground. Could these be grown in a raised bed? I'm making raised beds as bending down is really hurting my back and my knees are so bad I can no longer kneel on any surface. So I'm building platforms to put raised beds up on. I'm not real partial to sweet potatoes but since it's a super food and I'm getting older I want to incorporate them into my diet a little more. Much love from So.Cal.💟
Yes you can.
Thanks that just made my life a whole lot easier. I'm going to order a manual from you as soon as I can afford it. Actually several manuals! 💟💟
Do they stay pretty much in the surface and not real deep growing !! I mean Danny hasn’t really had to dig down too deep lol he just told me sometimes they are deep!!! Thank you I want to plant some next year but have no idea how to start the slips!! Looks like I have some research to do!
I have a book I wrote on our Etsy store that tells all about Growing them. Deepsouthhomestead.etsy.com
Will the dry ground suck the moisture out of the sweet potatoes?
No
Love sweet potatoes , what variety do you have , we use grow Puerto Rican reds but lost them, we grow beaguard now
Mine is a very old variety not sure what it is.
If you cut the green parts of the plant will it re grow?
It looks like you’re going to have a really nice crop of sweet potatoes this year. That was a pretty good haul for just 2 or 3 plants. I think those two were the biggest ones I have ever seen. Can’t wait to see if you find any bigger than them. I love sweet potatoes baked & then put honey cinnamon butter on them. Yummo! I just recently learned about the leaves being edible & tasting a lot like spinach. I’m gonna have to try that. I just love your cows. They are so friendly & pretty, and that includes Dexter. Another channel, Cross Timbers Bison, has a bull named Dunbar. When they put out a new round bale of hay, Dunbar loves to sling it around with his horns. It looks like Dexter likes to do the same thing. The little rascals. I just love your channel & all that you teach. Y’all are a real blessing to so many. 🙏Philippians 1:3🙏 Blessings, Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸👍❤️🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Just had a mess of sweet potato leaves the other day. Tender tender
Wow! “Them thar is sum sweet taters”, as my relatives used to say!! Loved seeing your cows. Nice that they have treat coming with the sweet potato vines and a few sweet potatoes. Can’t wait to see you can them, Wanda!! Your shelves of canned vegetables looks like something from HGTV!! So pretty. ❤️❤️❤️
This yr is my first try at growing sweet potatoes they r going well i have more time to wait still im so impatient 😛😛 best part is i dont have to share lol nobody else eats em i didnt plant very many lol👍👍👍😍
I'm growing them first time this year too(the lime green ornamental ones don't count lol)
Several people mentioned that the leaves are edible and thats both raw and cooked. I don't care for them raw but cooked. Oh my they do taste a lot like spinach. I've been putting them into all types of things as my hubs and I love spinach. And while I hope to get potatoes, so far its been wonderful as a spinach/greens replacement.
I was worried taking leaves would stunt the growth but to tell the true if I didn't I think its fixing to take over that corner of the garden!
My first year growing sweet potatoes also. I wish I could remember when I planted them.
@@JaneDough23 if you have a smart phone do what ive been doing this year. Take a photo when you go back and check your photos (on my phone at least galaxy note 9) you can scroll up on the photo and see when it was taken. Ive even learned how to put notes on the photo itself by hitting edit and hitting the capital T. I always used to use a notepad but would forget it or end up watering it etc.. my son teaching me to photo document things is a game changer since my current recovery. I find my "I'll remember that" skill is very lacking lol.
The chip from arrowheads are lithics.
Yes the process of chipping away.
Yum sweet potatoes
Show us your arrowhead collection that yall found on your land
We've been talking about doing that.
Do leaves and vines re grow ?
Love sweet potato fries. Don't care much for them any other way.
Mud protects from bug bites.
Dexter does have a little temper.....
He's spoiled rotten.
Hi curious, how long does a roll of hay last the 🐄
Around 3 weeks
I'm hoping to get a few sweet potatoes but have been really enjoying the greens.
I personally have only found one intact arrow head on my property but there is an area that we find the chip of chert/flint and every so often a broken arrowhead. The neighbor who lives at the bottom of the hill by the creek has many he's found over the years in big cases. Last I knew he had lent the cases to our local small museum.
I can deal with the off and on dog barking cuz something ran through the yard and once my dog or her boyfriend in my next door neighbors yard make the alert bark you can hear all the dogs in the area do the quick bark bark bark in unison with them but its not all day, its them doing their doggy thing. But like I mentioned on another commenter post the hunting hounds across the river bark just uncontrolled for several hours in the evening. I being the nosy person I am did go for a drive last year when it first started up and its a hunting dog breeding compound that breeds big coon dogs of some type. Beautiful animals but while they are loved and its obvious they do take care of them they are a business and the noise at least is buffered by distance. I think I'd complain if they were closer to me.
Oh it is not a puppy mill there is a huge dog/hunting culture here in our area and they go for big prices and its a big business. I was assured that they do not breed willynilly.
20 some odd years ago, I was curious about sweet potatoes. The store had two varieties, one like you’re digging now and the other was a white skinned one the size of a large softball.
I picked the white skinned one to try. I tried cutting it in half with a butcher knife and I couldn’t get more than a quarter of an inch into it, it was that hard.
So I took a hammer to the knife, that didn’t work. Then I took a hatchet to this thing, that didn’t work. Finally, I threw it whole in the oven and roasted it for about two hours, that worked.
Once it was cooked, it really wasn’t worth the effort, so I never tried sweet potatoes again.
Until I started watching your videos and I realized that that probably was not a sweet potato, I never did find out what it was.
That doesn't sound like a sweet potato.
Do you have any rabbits? They mowed our sweet taters down this year.
No I've killed them out.
Love seeing the cows. Dexter is like a big dog that wants to play. lol Your sweet taters look wonderful!! Y'all are gonna get a mess of jars from them if even half have a "mother potato" under it. Much love and blessings!
Years ago when i was a kid my dad and i accidentally killed my horse with corn stalks. He horse ate them and they balled up in his belly and killed him. Since then i will only feed any animals chopped up stalks. Just an FYI
You do have to be careful with horse's.
Dexter just needs a little mud mask to keep his face nice for the girls. 😉
Danny, I want to send you two Black Angus Breed Heifers, and start building a herd over the next 10 years 50/50 cow calf lease. What do you think. I live in colorado
No I'll stick with my Dexter's.
@@DeepSouthHomestead Big Smile
I enjoy watching y'all. You have such a good variety of food stock. So, cross pollination.. OMG!! But, it'll still be good. Have y'all thought about starting a hybrid vine of the species.? Danny is good in that tractor. Me.. Some cows moving to slow.. Lol. That's why I'm not allowed to drive any farm equipment.. Thanks for sharing. And again, sorry for the loss.. Peace
I have never seen these little fruits you are picking, and talking about. Never even heard.....
They are scuppernongs.
Mr.Danny could you do a video on “banking taters”. My grandparents would bury them in straw, then dig em in November.
How do you can your potatoes
We have a canning playlist. Type Deep South Homestead canning sweet potatoes
Hy denny..?
May i ques..?
Plis tell me diference carpenter and woodworker...
I like your vidio frame is verry good for pple
Thx wanda and danny...
Carpenter's build structures. Wood workers build projects
@@DeepSouthHomestead ok...
Thx god bless u
I wish he would wear ear protection. That tractor is LOUD.
WHAT VARIETY OF SWEET POTATOES WERE Y'ALL DIGGING?
This is a very old variety I don't really know.
Danny you are making me feel lazy. You digging all those by hand and I put in two 26ft rows of Georgia Jet's and I dig them up with JD with middle buster. That is a high yield sweet potato.
"Bossy" cows!
I see you now have a Kubota tractor? What ever happened with the blue tractor you had so many problems with? Do you have a video on it?
Sold it
Why do you need the bull?
To keep raising calves.
Beef tv is almost as entertaining as chicken tv.
Ya the Dems are hitting your videos in the advertisement like crazy
Well I don't like them but I guess they are trying to bribe me. Won't work LoL.
I luvvvvv me some sweet taters, Lord have mercyyyyy
sweet potatoes will not grow here, i wish they would as i love them, and to buy them in the stores they are like $4.99 a pond. our grow time is to short. i dont know why so many you tubers can potatoes, every year out of my 7 100 foot long rows i get over a 1000 ponds of Yukon golds. i put them in the root cellar after the sit out and dry for a week, and in the spring. they are just the same as the day they were put in the root cellar, in fact i have to take the potatoes out of the root cellar that i will use for seed in mid March so they will start eyes by end of May for planting, come fall, there still potatoes in the root cellar from the year before, and again, they are just like the day they were put in, in fact they still the same well into the next winter until there gone. i have had 3 year old potatos in the root cellar that were just like the day they went in..
My underground root cellar still reaches 80 degrees in the deep south In the summer time. Potatoes only last about 3 months here and still be edible. It would be nice if they would last.
@@DeepSouthHomestead gees thats not good the ground heat up, here my root cellar year round stays at 36 to 38 some times mid summer it may hit 40 degs at the worstfor a shot time but 99% of the time its at 34 to 36 . i can hang and adge my beef and pork in it for 10 to 14 days even at 40 below out side or 60 above, witch is about the hotest we ever get, but very short lived. what if you put it much deeper into the ground? i built mine in a very step clay hill side, the roof is 6 feet under ground with 4 inchs of foam on top. all built out of 8x8 ceder timbers, with stone and 4 inch drain tile
@@arnoldromppai5395 The problem here is when it's over 100 degree's outside the air being pulled in through the fresh air vents is so hot it overrides the coolness of the earth. And with it comes humidity so the temps and humidity cause it to stay warm from June till October.
@Prepsteading With Disabilities all my years growing up mom and dads house witch was my dads home when he was a kid, we had 2 cold rooms in the basment that were solid pour cement walls. there house is in town, but it was not town when my dad was young. they had cows pigs and a 3 acer garden. they still have that house and land to this day. when i was home every thing grom the garden as well as wooden drums of salt pork were in these cold rooms. every thing kept cold in there 3/4 of the year, potatoes never sprouted or went soft. i dont recall how cool it was in them 2 rooms that were on the out side walls was but i hated going in them as a kid to get stuff, as it was cold. and big heavy door to open. in the fall dad would hang his moose in there
@@arnoldromppai5395 That's living there.
Please Ms Wanda don’t pet your cows by putting your hand thru the fence!! If he snatch’s his head up fast and you can’t get your hand out in time it’s not gonna be good!! When I was boy a friend was fattening up a bull for slaughter and the kids thought it was a pet and was petting it through a metal gate.”City folk”. Needless to say the bull raised up and the boy couldn’t get his arm out fast enough .
Y'all got you a dressage bull🤣 when he was chasing that hay, he was side passing with the best of them💛🐎
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What are your go-to sweet potato varieties? This is my first year growing them here in Central Kentucky. I want with Georgia Jets, Beauregard, and Porto Rico’s to trial them to see what grows best in my garden. I planted in mid May, and the vines look outstanding. Hopefully that translates into a good harvest. I have 2 60-foot rows.
By they way, I purchased your sweet potato manual in PDF format this past weekend, and it is a good read. I recommend it to anyone.
The Porto Rico's are good for the red one's. The Nancy Halls for the white ones. I hope the manual helps.