The HAPPIEST Garden Harvest | Growing Sweet Potatoes with Ruth Stout Method
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- This is the day I have been most excited about all garden season! Last year I attempted growing sweet potatoes for the first time and haphazardly threw some slips in some left over hay and those were the only ones that grew. So being super excited to find out I could grow sweet potatoes up here in Michigan, I decided to go for it all out in my Ruth Stout Garden and it was a grand success.
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I love to see gardeners excited about their harvest! Congrats!!
I couldn't contain my excitement!
Yes i agree... your excitement made me laugh out loud... sweet potatoes are my favorite thing to grow.
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You seriously need to learn that all those greens are delicious. Don't toss them.
Your enthusiasm is infectious!!! I love sweet potatoes, so many ways to enjoy them!! Todd is so caring of your adventures in gardening, it’s lovely to witness. Thanks for yet another sharing video 💞 Catherine from Canada 🇨🇦
The Ruth Stout method worked for me in a positive way. I harvested ordinary potatoes, far more than i can handle, from an area just a fraction in size to what you have there. I live in Melbourne suburbia.Nice to see you reaping the fruits of your labour.........so satisfying.......Best Regards.
We're going into year #3 of Ruth Stout this spring, can't argue the results!
I get so excited like you when I dig up my potatoes too. Glad I found your channel, someone who has a similar growing zone as me. I am in Northwest NJ
Welcome aboard!
ME ENCANTA EL BONIATO ME ENCANTA QUE LO HAGAN EN FAMILIA. BESOS DESDE URUGUAY.
I live up in Emmett, Michigan but I’m from TN. Been here for 5 years now. I didn’t start gardening until 3 years ago. I just LOVE gardening and preserving food. This year I have 100 tomato plants, 70 peppers, and a bunch of other stuff. I’m slowly learning how Michigan weather affects growing. I just wanted to
Say I love your videos and you guys are so inspiring! I’m learning so much from y’all!
Nice crop and garden - If you plant the sweet potato in raised containers you can increase your yield and size in less space.- farm on
Potatoes to me are like Christmas presents; you never know how big or small till you start digging in! They are m favorite thing to harvest.
Me too that and carrots
I will see all your videos, because I love them and to take advantages to practice and improve my English. Hugs from Nicaragua.
Careful we don't speak very grammatically correct sometimes 😆
Its really big surprise underneath
It's 5.30 am here in Portugal and you made me laugh. So happy about the fatty's Lol
Love it! Will try sweet potatos with the Ruth Stout method.
potatoes leaves are very delicious
Great haul of sweet potatoes! 👏👏👏👏 We grow our in towers and use slips poked in from the sides. Soil is super loamy and light. Harvest is soooo easy… no digging needed. We had a terrific harvest. Happy for you & Todd.
Susan
I feel the same way about sweet potatoes, I didn't do nearly as well as you but still super thankful for what Gob blessed me with. Nice harvest:-):-)
She is so excited! I must subscribe.
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Nice Harvest..
leaves are edible.... don't throw it all.. sweet potato tops are good too.. you can cook what u want
** steam
** strir fry with onions or garlic then add lemon juice.. so gOod😋😋😋
Excuse my grammar, English is not my native language.
I love watching sweet potato harvesting video. Mostly US and Britain is what I watched on TH-cam. My mom used to plant sweet potatoes when we still had our farm. But she plant them differently though. She uses the runners cut them in even foot and a half length then coil the bottom end and bury it few inches deep into the ground with few inches sticking out of the ground. Then when it's ready to harvest, she only pull the big ones out or just enough to boil for snacking in between our lunch and dinner. She leave the rest to grow bigger. The variety we have here that is common is the purple and white skin orange flesh ones and the Japanese variety. I really don't know the specific name of the ones we have here (Philippines). And did you know that the runners will have more potatoes too if you let it grow longer even if you already harvest the main roots? My mother still harvesting more sweet potatoes for months after her first harvest. But I guessed it's because we kinda have summer all year long except the rainy season which is your summer season :) but it doesn't hurt the plant because it's planted on the hillside.
I missed gardening.
love this.
This is so awesome. Congratulations on your harvest. Lots of meals here. Yay.
Good process yall have going
Thank you
Can’t wait to dig my sweet potatoes! Going to be like digging for treasure!
In Philippines after harvesting the sweet potato. We just cut the vine for something half size of the ruler then we plant it again not a leaves.and its easy to grow if you plant the vine.. And the young leafs of sweet potato we make it salad with tomato,onion,salt,ground pepper, ang a little bit of soy sauce with chili hmmm 😋.thank you for sharing your vegetable garden. I love it❤
i really enjoy watching you guys , i feel happy seeing you harvesting, i love gardening.. nice meeting you both
Glad you are here! Very nice to meet you as well!
looking forward for more videos soon, have a nice dau
@@rosearangcon7843 Usually 3-4 per week published. During winter, we do slow down a little.
Sooooooo....just found you. Love this! I'm also from Michigan, and you are wearing a sweatshirt from the place that makes THE BEST CHOCOLATE MILK IN THE WORLD, and now I'm thinking maybe we actually live by each other.
Probably, our daughter worked there through high school
Those potato tops can also be boiled or steam as a salad..just add some tomato with a lil soy sauce and lemon is so delicious...
I have been watching your channel when I get the chance which is usually late night and caught this episode and I must say I am gonna plant sweet potato next spring just to get as happy as you when I harvest them! LOL That and I seen the episode with the farmers market you all went to (wondering where it was at since I am from SE MI myself) Our Farmers Market are not as nice as this one...or maybe I just need to get out more LOL
Awesome 👍. The farmers market was up by the airport on Middlebelt and Eureka. It's called blochs.
If you can grow them in Michigan, surely I can grow them in Washington state. They are on my list for next year to conquer.
I wish you even more success than I had!!
Thank you. But I will be happy with enough for our thanksgiving dinner. We are doing Ruth Stout potatoes for early spring next year. I appreciate you sharing your success with this crop.
Those look good.:)
I was super pleased!
You all are so cute, I love your enthusiasm!
😃 you'd think it was Christmas morning for Rachel 💙
Just found you. This is one of the very best TH-cam videos I have ever seen!
And I absolutely love the music you use. Thank you so much!
So happy you found us! There are lots of fun videos out there. Hope you come back for more 🥰
Do you have a video on curing sweet potatoes?
That's cool, nice video
Thanks for watching!
watching from the Philippines and I love your garden😍😍😍
That's so Awesome! Thank you so much ❤️
You can eat the sweet potato leaves as well
Wow sweet potatoes😯
Woohoo 😁
Awesome harvest and so fun to watch. Can you share with us where and what kind of garlic you are planting? I need to plant some too.
I will I'll try to get that video up by Wednesday
@@1870s Forecast calls for frost tonight in Ottawa County. its coming your way next.
Omg, I love sweet potatoes
It's basically earth candy!
love your garden.
Just an advise, when harvesting potato or sweet potato, you need tool. A fork to dig properly into the soil. Great video tho 👍
Actually you don't, but I am sure it would make it easier. The only harvest I use a tool for is my garlic, everything else I harvest by hand
Do make that sweet potato ice cream. We had some in Malaysia and it was amazing! When you do make it, let us know, please!
The sweet potato leaves can be eaten too, just select the young tender leaves from the tip of the vines and u have your free asian green
Our exchange student from Vietnam was telling us they love to eat the leaves, almost more than the potatoes themselves.
Wonderful! Next year, try the greens! They are delicious raw or cooked and even more nutritious than the root veggie!! In other words, you can eat the whole plant!!!
Ok Judy I will!
Wow!Santa is a Gardener also?😂😂
Only when you're on the "good list" 😃😇
Congratulations 🎉
Thank you 😊
👏👏👏
Wonderful 🌸
Hey Rachael! Seeing this video was so exciting! Y'all got a great haul! We'll be doing sweet potatoes in a RS bed ourselves this spring. Just doing some research ahead of time... How did y'all plant your slips into your Ruth Stout bed?
Go to 1:46 of this video, I demonstrate exactly how I planted them
@@1870s Don't know how I missed that! Guess I'll have to watch again! Oh darn! ;)
You can also cook the young leave of sweet potatoes. Saute with garlic and onion add a pinch of black pepper and a little bit salt. Very healthy and delish.
You can also plant those stems again
Didith Acosta you a filipino?
We have a frost and snow here so there is n way I know of to preserve these vines until the next growing season. If you are in hot temperatures you are right though.
Lu Jitsu
Just bring some cuttings in the house and let them grow over the winter. In the early spring, cut the long vines into pieces and root them. When frost is done, plant them out.
Leaf = one Leaves = more than one Leave = to go, to exit
Wow just ran across your video, great harvest. I have a small garden in FL I don't know if I can grow sweet potatoes. I heard that black widow spiders love to be in the ground with sweet potatoes did you find any?
That truly looks like Christmas for the fact you really don't know what your getting till you uncover it.
Oh I would be more that pleased to get that crop, so happy for you.
We don't have black widows fortunately here
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@@1870s Oh yes, thank you
Ok, I am very impressed, but I tried using bermuda hay and the seeds sprouted and I almost never got rid of the bermuda grass in my garden ! How do you overcome that?
Dig a little bit more, there's alot more i promise.. Watching from Philippines.😊
There wasn't did and only found one tiny one
That's a fatty!! LOL.. I will be smiling the rest of the day. Beautiful sweet potatoes.
😁
I really enjoyed this video. Did you do a video when you worked the soil and planted these sweet potatoes? If so how can i watch it? If not can you tell me what you did to prepare the soil and how much straw did you put on the ground after planting? I grow sweet potatoes every year in my garden and i put a lot of work into them, especially digging them and i never have a good harvest. That is why i am asking these questions. I love sweet potatoes !!! Did yo udig them all by hand ? It looked like they came out of the ground very easily !!!
No I didn't but I did demonstrate how I planted them in this video
Hey you. Hope you well. May I please ask. When you plant or sow do you take the moon fases in consideration at all. Or do you just plant and sow whenever whatever. TIA
I don't but I really should, I'm too impulsive 😆
Woohoo beautiful harvest I am definitely doing it next year. I don’t want all the nasty sprays want healthy eating
Awesome 👍. Food freedom is everything
How deep was the hay?
How do you keep the weeds from taking over ?
The heavy mulch works really well and high intensity planting
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Rachel, IF THIS VIDEO had a place for a 10x thumbs up I would have given it. I love your excitement and the joy that comes from growing your own food. Bless you girl, and hope to see some recipes from these awesome sweet potatoes.. Thank you for sharing..
Such a fun harvest! I was laughing and celebrating with you 🥳 Party in the potato patch!
It was so fun! Probably my favorite day ever in the garden!
Rachel, you're the only person I'm aware of that can get THAT excited about sweet potatoes!! Awesome!! You go girl. God bless!
I simply couldn't control my happiness 😂
I would have to disagree with that statement
This was such a fun video to watch. Your excitement, Rachel, was so true and honest and it was so refreshing. I really appreciate your videos and this was one of my favorites. Thank you!
That's what I sounded like last year, it was my first time planting sweetpotatoes.My neighbors were asking if something was wrong and my husband had to tell them it's just me getting excited about my very first gardening experience.
The sweet couple harvesting their sweet potatoes
your excitement is so contagious!!! I was rooting for you as you were pulling them up. My husband wanted to know what was going on! Keep up the great work, I love watching your channel!
Thanks for rooting for me 😊 and thank you for your support and encouragement ❤️
Twice as sweet when grow them yourself.
They sure are
FYI: sweet potato plants are edible and taste delicious!!
Rachel, try to eat young leaves of sweet potato.. very healthy.. you can blanch it for several minutes.. i love how your garden can produce such as those sweet potatoes . 🥰
I love this video and I love sweet potatoes. I grew some in 20 lbs buckets last year and I got 60 lbs of sweet potatoes from 6 buckets, it was pure bliss. I'm growing them in buckets again this year, I really enjoy growing them this way.
Aw Awesome 👏 thanks for sharing this I’m so happy for you both 🥰😋🤩
"Come to momma"...Now, momma's going to eat you!
Awe you are soooo cute! Nothing more fun then seeing the excitement of someone seeing what they have produced through their gardening! I would be as tickled pink as you were too! I don’t blame you one bit for showing all your enthusiasm, I was wondering if you did try to dig down any further with a shovel and if you found any more further down or is that just the nature of sweet potatoes they grow closure to the top? I’ve never grown them before and I only remember seeing the traditional white potatoes that my great uncle used to grow and we had to use a pitch fork to turn over the soil to find the potatoes and some were down very deep below the mound of dirt that he had pushed up around his potato plants. Also I was wondering if you can grow your own “slips” for next year by just taking cuttings from the sweet potato vines and putting them in water? At the moment I’m trying to grow my own stevia plants by putting in small cups with potting soil and dried coconut substrate (the outside brown bark from a coconut) and I took and stuck my clips into some rooting hormone and put them in the little cups and then put each individual cup into a ziploc bag to create a little mini greenhouse environment for each one...this way I can open and close the bags when I see a lot of humidity forming inside the bags I can open them up throughout the day and close them over night to keep them warm and moist. Fingers crossed it’s going to work with my stevia. Just wondered if the same method may work to grow sweet potato slips?? 🥰🤞🇨🇦
Wow... very awesome harvest!!!
What a beautiful sweet potato HARVEST!! I love the excitement in your voice! Lol. I'm looking forward to growing potatoes next SPRING/summer season!! Happy FRIDAY! Happy gardening❤🌽🍁🌿🍂🍠🍓🍅🍆
pitchfork all along the sides of the rows - my dad was a farmer and he used to do that to loosen the soil
I LOVE sweet potatoes and I will be just like you were here during my first harvest (next year). ❤️
It was so fun!!
Yea. Sweet potatoes. So many ways to cook them. They were my late, sweet mother’s favorite vegetable. She grew up having them as a treat after school. Grandpa would put raw ones on the hearth and they were soft by the time she and her siblings got off the bus.
This made me happy too! I live in a apartment. I have a small garden. So watching these types of videos makes me happy. Thank you for sharing ❤️
Awesome I'm thankful to be able to share my garden with you
Your excitement when you pulled that huge one out made my day! xx
I couldn't contain my excitement, I nearly had tears of joy
Nice! Our local county seat Gilmer, Texas has a yam festival mid October called the Yamboree. Enjoy it every year. Basically its an old style County fair honoring a local staple, Texas sweet potatoes. Pies galore, fancy cows and gospel singing. Love it.
Oh u think that sounds like Heaven's front porch!
Country people with big smiles, barn dances, funnel cakes and local produce. Yeah its pretty nice.
Oh how I love sweet potatoes! Your harvest was great. I picked up some old harvesting baskets yesterday at a thrift store $4! I am so excited to use them next year!
Awesome, I love thrift store scores
Awesome harvest! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Greetings from Northern California
You can sauté sweet potato leaves like you do for spinach. They are edible....
And delicious!
Here in Philippines,we're more like eating the young leafs of sweet potato than its fruit ..anyways,,, i really love ur garden... New subscriber here... God bless..
Im so happy for you :) All the best from Norway
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I'm a huge garden nerd too!! I get excited too, soooo rewarding & healing. You guys are great, spring will be here before we know it.
the greens of sweet potatoes (not Irish) are awesome stir-fried
I like to boil them and dip it in sweet and sour sauce. SO GOOD!
Your excitement is great!
Your excitement is so nice. You need a little spade to dig them out. Great harvest.
I love your sweet potatoes, I do potatoes in a laundry basket ,
Great beautiful harvest of your sweet potatoes Rachael! I was told by an old lady that you can eat the leaves of the sweet potato plant and that they are delicious ! She said you can eat them in salads , stir fries, or cooks like you do other greens and fry the leaves with a little oil and butter like you do fried cabbage or boil them like you would collards , turnips or mustard greens ! She said they have a slightly sweet taste and are very delicious ! She also said sny little potatoes left behind will regrow plants and make sweet potatoes next growing season !! I thought it was great info especially with our food shortages were now having ! God bless and I love your videos ! ❤️🙏✝️🙋🏻
You are so adorable, and it’s not just your fancy chicken boots (I have those too!). Sweet potatoes are one of the easiest crops to grow. Did you know the leaves are edible?
I’ll bet your harvest this year will be even better with your experience.
Blessings...
You're doing such a great job at showing everyone the way you see the world! Thank you for this!
Been sweet potato for several years thisvyr did the purple one we r in s TX so we do need to water lol. Usually we go 70days of no rain in summer. That was a good havest be proud
My family is from Conroe so I definitely understand the need to water in Texas
Beautiful harvest and the greens are delicious...and nutritious too
I saw 12 bitter people who dislike this video I'm kind of thinking why...? Are they eating too much bitter gourd? Lol.. Well, I really enjoyed watching, I love planting and of course the most fun part is the harvesting. That's amazing sweet potatoes!!! Love it too
You Can also make sweet potatoe cakes...
Ice cream
And chips😋😋
Hiya neighbor over lake Michigan!! We live in southern Wisconsin, and sweet potatoes grown the typical way grew did not do well>> however this year I will add them to the mulch garden we started. What kind of sweet potatoes did you succeed with?
I am jealous of your garden. I will definitely do Ruth Stout method. Thanks for sharing. From the Philippines here. Salamat po!
Why didn't you eat the leaves and stems of the Sweet Potatoes. This vegetable is packed full of Vitamins and Minerals. The whole plant is edible. Also, you should plant and try Amaranth. This plant is also packed with all the Vitamins necessary for good health. You can use the seeds as Flour substitute. Another plant you should try is Jerusalem Artichoke. This plant grows tubers like the potato. Smaller in size. It will reduce blood sugar which helps with Diabetic problems. You should try Ground Cherry's, Polk Salad, Passion Flower. This plant produces a fruit that makes a fine edible. It's leaves can be used as a Sedative and are edible too. A money crop you could grow that most people think is a weed is Dandy Lion. The entire plant is edible. You can dry the roots. Chop into small pieces then roast and grid into course or fine grounds for a wonderful cup of Coffee substitute. If you would grow some Chicory, you could do the same and add this to the Dandy Lion which in my opinion enhance the flavor. Dandy Lion roots are bring around $7 to $ 12 a pound the last time I checked pricing. There are so many more edible plants that people are scared to try, like Purslane, Plantine, and others not mentioned here. I know you did not ask for advice. I was just wondering why you and your family didn't try this edible out? Thank you for your time in your mini doc.