THE Sweet Potato Harvest | Y'ALL IT'S INCREDIBLE!!
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2020
- This is the day I have been most excited about all garden season! Last year I had my first ever successful crop, but grew them using the Ruth Stout method. can I be as successful in a no till earth bed? I'm nervous and excited for both of us to find out the results.
Thank you all for watching my gardening videos, they are some of my favorite times to share with you all. My garden is my happy place!
What are you harvesting in your garden?
What's growing in your garden?
Harvest Sickle (for slicing vines). I could no longer find the exact model I purchased. But this one is same price, and comes with a wood handles instead of plastic: amzn.to/2ZJh7fd
Last years harvest video, for comparison: • The HAPPIEST Garden Ha...
____________________________
That 1870's Homestead
P.O. Box 179
Newport, MI 48166
____________________________
Affiliate Links & Discount Codes:
Everything in our AMAZON shop, is something we own and use here on our homestead. Prices are exactly the same as it would be without the link, but we get a small kick-back from Amazon to help support our channel. No coupon code required, just use this link:
shop.1870shomestead.com
OLIGHT Flashlights
Get 10% Off non-sale items by using coupon code: shop1870
bit.ly/3z6daku
Green Stalk Vertical Garden Planters
Get $10 Off your order, when you purchase a vertical planter. Use coupon code: shop1870
lddy.no/kpa6
____________________________
Our Instagram: / that_1870s_homestead
Our Facebook: / 1870shomestead
Our Patreon: / 1870shomestead
____________________________
#sweetpotatoes #sweetpotatoharvest #growingsweetpotatoes
![[Watch Party] APL 2024 รอบ 8 ทีมสุดท้าย ไทยต้องแชมป์ !](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/NctOkvaex-Y/mqdefault.jpg)
![Turn ONE Sweet Potato Into 100 LBS Of Sweet Potatoes By Growing SWEET POTATO SLIPS! [Complete Guide]](/img/n.gif)
I’m in my 70’s and digging potatoes is still such a thrill!! Glad your harvest was so AWESOME!
God bless you
I,m from the Philippines and we eat sweet potato leaves but we use only the ones close to the tips as the leaves are not so wide. Place them in boiling water and take them out right away so not to overcook.Add salt to taste and sliced tomatoes sliced onions if you like and lemon juice.They're so good and nutritious
I chop them and cook with my eggs. Very tasty!
Do you blanch the leaves and add the other vegetables to be eaten raw or do you add the other vegetables and cook them together?
listening to Rachel's genuine excitement and delight and Todd's giggles was a lot of fun!
Okay I LOL’d when the squash was eaten and you said “rude”😂 I absolutely love you excitement and enthusiasm with the sweet potatoes. This was a fun video.
I did too that was too cute!🤣
Janet’s Ways Lol it is rude! We do the labour and they take the profits. Also often they dont stop at one! My tomatoes had one single bit on 4 or 5 of them in a row. Instead of just eating one whole one, they ruined a lot of them.
I get it countryrose763 I’m constantly fighting the visitors to my fruit trees. It was funny the way Rachael offhandedly said it, totally made me laugh because I get it.
10 cups chopped green tomatoes, 1 cup white vinegar, 1 cup sugar, 1 large chopped onion, chopped red pepper for color. Salt and pepper to taste. Grandma's green tomato relish.
Donna here! When I was a little girl, we were facing an early frost. I helped my mom pick all of the tomatoes out of the garden! It was so cold! Then we took newspapers and wrapped up each tomato up and put them in the hall closet. We still had ripening tomatoes until Christmas that year! Good luck with your tomatoes!
I remember going to my grandparents home as a child and they did the same wrapping with newspaper. A much better way to ripen tomatoes than setting on window sills.
hi, i'm from Australia, and "down under" we are advised to remove the tomato plant WHOLE with the roots intact, take them into a shed and hang them upside down and let tomatoes ripen naturally , if possible
julia sparrow I have a huge tomato with yellow blooms. It’s still in the eighties here in TN. We aren’t expecting a frost anytime soon, but if it does, I’ll try that. Thanks! 👩🌾
I have done that for years if a heavy frost threatens that I can't manage with covering
Hey Julia where about are you from? I'm in nsw (south coast) my tomatoes are already starting to bloom (I got an early start on them this year, but I don't get a heavy frost till they've finished up for the season. I'll keep your advice in mind if I ever move to a more frost zone
@@Kangaroojumper Hi Kangaroo Jumper i'm in Victoria, was going to put them in last week ,but soooo glad i didn't after today's hail and the temp is predicted to fall back down below 12 degrees celsius this week, hope you don't get our weather honey xx
You should harvest some of the seeds from the squash.
When I was a child, (I'm 68 now) my Paternal grandmother ALWAYS had baked sweet potatoes any time we visited. She baked them in a wood burning stove...one of my most favorite memories. I'm trying to grow them this year for the first time in containers. Great video.
Got down to 33 in Colorado a week ago. I took off a lot of unripe tomatoes and peppers. I didn’t lose a single plant. Even my zucchini is still producing. I wouldn’t begin to worry at 39 unless it’s very extended. We are back up into the mid to hi 80s. Now I’ve got counters and a table full of veggies to do something with.
I bring the tomato vines in with green tomatoes still on. They ripen naturally indoors by continuing to use the nutrients in the vines. It's also a fun kooky decor effect for a few weeks - and 'supposedly' the tomato vines repel spiders from your house.
You can try covering all producing vines with thick sheets of tarps in the evening and they should protect your plants from cold night temps. Remove them in the mid morning.
I’ve even used old sheets to cover my strawberries & vegetables. Some people use newspapers also.
I use tarps and if really low Temps coming a string old older incandescent Christmas lights under it.
The weather here in michigan is weird. I only live maybe 3 1/2 hours from detriot/lake eerie and while its dropping cold at night no predicted frost yet 😅
But I have a deep low area on 2 sides of my yard. Frost pulls down there first so it really helps.
Very nice sweet potato haul.👍
Nothing better than green fried maters. You can make green tomato ketchup and green relish too! Nice haul of peppers. The sweet potatoes are incredible. You got some huge ones. So exciting guys, kudos for being low key, but there was such more potential. You gave it your all even though you were tired.
The look on your face when you dug up that big Sweet potato was priceless! 😂
Watching Rachel’s reaction to her sweet potato harvests are becoming my annual “video to look forward to”
I live in the deep south. I have red clay a few inches below the top soil in my garden. So I built a 12" deep raised bed for my sweet potato bed. They grow so well in it because the soil is much looser.
My grandparents used to wrap their green tomatoes with newspaper and put them in their basement and as they wanted tomatoes they would bring a few to the kitchen and would ripen in couple days . Had homegrown “ maters” in December!
"I'm low-key not too upset about this." Love it!
I just love Todd's laugh! I thoroughly had a blast watching you guys harvest! How exciting! Fun! Fun!
I have never heard Rachel as animated as with sweet potatoes. So hilarious!
You enthusiasm is infectious and I 100% get the bitter sweet feelings of the garden season coming to an end.
End of the year is hard, but most of us are so tired, that we're ready for to put the garden to bed. Awesome sweet potato harvest!!
THE BEST sweet potato harvest ever! Your excitement and gratitude makes the whole experience worthwhile. There were so many parts where I literally laughed out loud. Love it!!!
Everytime you pull out a bunch I just feel so happy!
I do love ur canning vids but that was by far the best video of yours! Lol. So much fun. Thanks for making me smile ☺️
I’d LOVE to see your process from beginning to harvest of Sweet Potatoes. I don’t know of anyone who grows them in Montana. I absolutely LOVE them. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Rachel. I have truly been enjoying your videos.
Now we know what Rachel was like on Christmas morning when she was a little girl. ☺️ I often see comments on other channels where people clamor about why didn’t someone save it or eat it. There’s only so much food preservation that a person can do, and it’s never a waste if your livestock can eat it.
I'm in New York, 5B, and I grew purple sweet potatoes. I can't wait to see whats under the ground!
Now you know that you need a deeper bed for you sweet potatoes. Add more soil now so your ready for next year. Great videos. I'm in the southwest Michigan. Hello neighbor ☺️
I got so tickled, you guys sounded like you were harvesting diamonds at a Christmas party.
It's fun watching this girl garden. Next year it's Sweet Potatoes for sure, Thank You
We cover plants if it gets down to 33 degrees. If we cover they survive.
I will, I can't wait to grow. So much fun just to watch you guys dig that sweet potatoes. It like treasure hunting!
Honestly, these sweet potato harvest videos sustain me during this triple digit heat we have here in the southwestern United States. Your excitement is infectious!
I LOVE sweet potatoes too!! So much fun watching your JOY as you harvested
We ate only the young sweet potatoe vines. The mature vines we fed to the animals. You guys are so cute!
after watching your video, it makes me more excited to harvest mines in a few months! Love your guys expressions 🤣😂🤣😂 You guys make it hella fun to harvest!
I love Rachels reactions to sweet potatoes.
Looks like your bittersweet turned into more SWEET with that potatoe harvest!! Congrads, you deserve it!! God is Good
All livestock loves sweet potato leaves and vines.
I felt your enegrgy and was happy for you when the sweet =potatoes dug upgot bigger and biugger well done both of you.
I am currently growing the sweet potato slips, to see how far I get in the growing process in the UK for next year,. I hope i get some at least big enough to eat , now I would be excited too.
Love watching you in your beautiful garden. Yes God is saying you worked hard now it’s time to rest. 😊
It really did get cold fast here in Michigan. Beautiful sweet potatoes!
Well how fun is that?..beautiful sweet potatoes. It was fun listening to your excitement and Todd’s giggle.
Wonderful sweet potato crop. Wish my husband liked them.
Looks like you got some nice pumpkins also.
I'm new to gardening this season and have learned so much from your videos and even canned for the first time this year, too. My two sons (3 and 1.5) love helping in the garden and my oldest was watching this video with me. He was shouting "Puull! Pull! Pull! Way to go!" Just like he was spectating a sport. Can't wait to see what you make with all of those potatoes!
I'm in Canada zones 3A and sometimes I don't have a choice but to pick stuff early or I cover it with a tarp or old sheets that's what I've been doing to my squash because my squash are only just developing now for some reason and I hope I get SOMETHING
uskitin. We are in your area. We had our first frost September 3 this year. It didn’t kill everything, I am still covering tomatoes and squash. 😊
My squash and watermelons are just developing. I'm in 6a. Weird year
@@TheCowEmporium I have a couple acorn squash trying to grow and I'm getting more flowers now than ever in the year so I'm really annoyed because we're going to get Frost soon I'm sure I've been watching the weather though
Yea still got the tarps out on my bean fence but everything else is kaput. frost got the corn and the taters and the short green beans first week of sept. Mother nature waited long enough that we didn't have to cover the cucumbers
What a fun video. Uou both were like kids at Christmas. Beautiful bounty. I just live your enthusiasm with your garden. You make it fun and educational at the same time.
Y'all are a TRIP!!! I LOVE ❤️ THE EXCITEMENT!!!
I didn't know that tip about tossing vines! I grew sweet potatoes for the first time last season and noticed my vines re-rooted and the sweet potatoes were really small. An "Ah-ha!" moment for me. I know that excitement digging in the dirt like that. I grew Jerusalem artichokes/Sunchokes last season and had a great harvest. Lots of fun digging those up!
Rachel I love your excitement; I love watching your videos. You did even better this year with the sweet potatoes 🍠. Keeping it Low-Key.
I love that kind of sweet potatoes
This is my favorite video of any one's here of late. The pure joy you had pulling those sweet potatoes!
Lol absolutely nothing like pure joy over simple things lol. Good job guys!
Loved this video and your sweet potato excitement! Todd's giggles were cute too! Lol
I'm in Edmonton Alberta ... way north ... we haven't had frost yet in my yard but we went down to 2 degrees Celsius last night ... i cover with remay cloth ... there is always a few days that threaten the whole garden when the weather will be fine thereafter ... remay cloth or garden cloth can provide 5 to 7 degrees protection ... tomatoes do fine for me and we are not warm climate .. i harvested a hundred pounds yesterday but left as many on the fines .. my tomatoes definitely continue to ripen well below 50 degrees Fahrenheit... but they slow down for sure .. but we are going back up to between 8 and 12 C for the over night Temps... ill leave mine to ripen ... i also cover with the remay and put a few light bulbs underneath if its going to actually go below zero .. between the heat given off and remay cover I can easily withstand several degrees below zero .. centigrade .. 💜
Sitting here clapping like I hit the jackpot😁
Oh Yeah !! If you had made that deeper , those Sweet Potatoes would have been HUMONGUS !!!!! I can't even begin to imagine how big they would have gotten !! Cause the spiral ones you have right now are great !!
Our tomatoes and peppers have been down to 38. Just water them well.
usbpphillips My peppers have white blooms on them & still getting fruit. I have a yellow one in a flower pot on my patio I planted late, it has 2 big ones on it. It’s in the eighties here in Nashville. Don’t know when it’s supposed to frost. Happy gardening! 👩🌾
Just found you my fellow Michigander ❤️❤️❤️ I live in Gladwin County. I grew sweet potatoes like 15 years ago and fortunate to find some plants again this year. I'm planting them today, June 18. Getting my garden in really late because of weather and I was in the hospital for 8 days. Still recuperating but got to get her done. I'm 61 years old and working from a wheelchair but I need to make sure I have some food for my son's family and 2 great grandchildren. ❤️❤️❤️
You could make green tomato jelly with the green tomatoes 👍
19:04 what is that giant thing?
One of them, is a full meal.. WOW!
If you make soup out that big one, Todd is right it can feed the two of yous.
Don't forget to weigh that entire Potato harvest, to compare to next year.
I hope you keep a ledger of how much you harvest every year
If you do keep a log of what you harvet, it will help you calculate the monetary value of your work and figure out what you need to plan better to get better harvest.
Very impressed by your sweet potatoes, almost scary how big they are
You're right if the soil was softer depth wise, they would grow strait down and maybe even bigger, more weight
PS your ledger or log can be on an SD card so you can use your iPad Smartphone or PC to work on it
I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your videos!! A pleasure to watch.
You guys had a great sweet potato harvest. Yeah, I remember this time of year we would be down in the garden with daddy doing the same. Mom never had to buy sweet potatoes or russetts. Dad grew them all. Miss my childhood. Now if I could have any wish granted. It would to take me back t age 5. And relive those innocent years.
Your reaction to your sweet potato harvest is priceless! And that’s why you garden! Do you like sweet potato pie? Yum
Look at your sweet potato harvest. Wow! So many different recipes to delight the palate with those beauties. Enjoy!
Really nice harvest of sweet potatoes. You obviously appreciate your garden so much and I am sure that translates to good care and therefore a good harvest. And you have a good sense of humor. All that together makes for good TH-cam videos.
I was just at Blocks this morning and I bought a couple of those bushel baskets that you are using. They are so cute and perfect for harvesting! ❤ I was just showing my sister your channel today and I was telling her that I wish you guys were my neighbors! We would become best friends! Lol
That's all we used when I was a kid , it's all we had , plastic five gallon buckets were not as popular as today .We got peaches and apples in them .
Your channel popped up in my feed and I just had to see the harvest. I'm 55 and love gardening. I was so impressed with your garden and personality that I just had to subscribe. I hope you will continue to produce these awesome gardening videos.
Oh there are tons from the season, the garden is wrapping up for the year, so not many more left
I love watching you guys harvesting your sweet potatoes.thanks for sharing your video.
I put my green tomatoes in a brown paper bag in a dark place. they ripen slowly and perfectly.
Sweet potatoes have so many good properties for healing in them. You had a wonderful haul of so many veggies. Great job!!!
Great Video! It always feels like Christmas when I harvest my sweet potatoes :) This year I have realized the importance of worms in root vegetables. I have about 2 million worms that i farm in my barn for castings, but as I breed more, I am putting them in my sweet potatoes in the garden. This year I had the most unbelievable harvest! I believe it is due primarily to the worms composting, loosening & aerating the soil. :)
Is there any way you could cover some of the crops during this cold front? Also your tomatoes. Pick them and put them in a paper bag rolled up good and stick them in a dark closet. They will ripen in a week or two depending on the stage of growth they are at. I did that and they ripened great! I hope this might help!
I am so very happy your sweet potato harvest and the garden in general this year was a wonderful success. I understand the exhaustion of late summer/early fall gardening, being just done and over it. Sometimes I cover plants I'm not done with to squeeze another week out of them but mostly I do like Elsa and "let it go".
Row covers of a heavy weight/grade and old bed sheets are great, I use them. 39F isn't something to worry about unless the dew point gets down to 32F and below during the night, then you'll get frost. Weather Underground is a great site that shows you when the dew point will be at it's lowest every day of the forecasted week, so you can plan ahead of time.
It was heart warming to see a couple enjoying the fruits of their labor like you two are doing.
Those small ones like that are really good. We’re just washing real good and baking them. You can eat them skinny all with butter. They’re delicious. I love sweet potatoes that are small and slim.
great crops
I am Vietnamese but I really like your videos and hope you will produce more videos like this
I wouldn't miss your sweet potato dig for the world. You two are the cutest getting so excited over the size of them. I saw your last years video as well. You made me smile today. God bless.
You guys were so cute harvesting those sweet potatoes. I enjoyed this.
Don’t be upsed! You can put the green tomatoes in salted water and let them turn into pickles.
All I kept saying was Wow! Wow! so happy for y'all
I pull the entire tomato plant out of the ground and hang it upside down in my garage to let the tomatoes vine ripen... works pretty darn well!
What a fun video! Love your excitement. Mine won’t be ready to dig for another 6 weeks!! I’m so excited to see what mine did!! My soil was a bit heavy, but I’m still hoping they did ok!!
I spent my high school and college years in St. Joseph, MI. This is where I began to become a vegetable gardener. I remember the rich dark soil in my parent's back yard. (vintage 1975) I grew almost everything there, but especially cucumbers which I sold to the neighborhood for 5 cents each. I graduated from MSU in 1980 and left Michigan for Oklahoma. I now grow many vegetables although the conditions are much tougher due to soil and long hot summers. I'm interested in growing sweet potatoes next year. I've grown Kennebec and Red Pontiac potatoes from seed potato for many years. Sweet potatoes seem to be a bit different. Anyway, I'm interested in how it's done, so I'll be watching closely. Thank you
I’m 22, and hearing you say low key, had me hollering 😂
I've got several young 20 yr old children so the lingo creeps in 😜
Love your reaction to the sweet potatoes. Brought a smile to my face :) I’m now excited to get some plants in.
Ohmygoodness! Few things in the garden are as exciting to harvest as root crops! That's so wonderful! I have one more month for mine here in Texas.🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
It’s still hot here in Tennessee. The lows are in the seventies at night. I dug up a few sweet potatoes over the weekend, I have turnip & turnip greens (2 rows). I have several eggplants full of fruit, lots of different varieties of peppers too. I have 33 tomato plants. Just picked 4 cantaloupes.
So excited for you with your massive sweet potato harvest.
Sally in Mississippi here, so jealous. I wanted to plant some, even grew my own slips... but I ran out of room in the garden. I had even double the size of the garden. Oh well there’s always next year.
I would definitely look into having the bed deeper next year. It looked as if they ran out of room, the dirt was hard so they just grew however they could.
No problem eating them. Wash them good, then cut where the crooks are. Would make awesome sweet potato chips, candied sweet potatoes, boil them as is for Thanksgivings and make sweet potato casserole 🥘
... Did I tell you I am jealous of all that goodness 😉😋
going to tarp my raised beds and bags, I still have about 20 lbs of tomato's that are green, all my greenbeans for fall and peas that haven't produced yet. I'm exhausted but I"m not willing to give it up yet! I want sweet potato bed also will have to convince the husband for another raised bed, he just put one in for red onions. We are running outta room.
Love your sweet potato harvest. That was my first introduction to your great channel last year. You are like a kid on Christmas morning. Love it.
Love, love, love it!!!
Your excitement makes me feel happy and encouraged. I hope to beat you next year 🤣🤣🤣
You two were like kids on Easter with your excitement. I love it!
It is so much fun to watch both of you digging sweet potatoes, that sure make up your early day upsets,yes try stir fry the young leaf of sweet potatoes with garlic, very tasty and full of nutrients.
I really look forward to your videos. This is where I'm at in my garden. Glad its done! Always looking forward to more canning and recipes to try. God Bless 😊
i love Todd's laugh :)
If you want straighter tubors, add more inches of soil/compost to the row before you grow. I call the curly cue ones....Art. Mother Nature's Art. Beautiful!