Do YOU Want to EAT? Sweet Potato Harvest and TIPS

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  • Danny digs a few sweet potatoes to check how they have grown. Do you want to eat? It takes controlling the wildlife, in order to harvest a good crop. We discovered a rat problem in the sweet potato patch.
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  • @melindalemmon2149
    @melindalemmon2149 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How I love you two. I had fully intended to visit and/or lend a hand prior to covid, and simply waited too long. Bless you two.
    Always great to visit here. I so appreciate all you do!

  • @patriciabush7082
    @patriciabush7082 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Starting to dig my potatoes too.

  • @lorrismith7366
    @lorrismith7366 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2nd time Ive listened to this video. I love listening to you both you have so much knowledge!! Wish I was closer I would love to help you dig the potatoes. Its one of my favorite things to do. Like a treasure hunt! Have a blessed day!

  • @homesteadaquarius
    @homesteadaquarius 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful harvest so far!

  • @Latebloomershow
    @Latebloomershow 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want lemon grass!! I'm going to use cattle panels for my peas next year, what a tangle everything is.

  • @marjoriedanley6131
    @marjoriedanley6131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Wow. I had no idea how much y’all had to deal with to get a successful crop, especially the sweet potatoes. A lot of different factors to it. I enjoyed the learning experience you guys shared. Thank you both!

  • @homesteadaquarius
    @homesteadaquarius 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You have to deal with predators fast, its your food or theirs.

  • @squeeze3566
    @squeeze3566 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    rural folk understand. There is a reason every farmhouse has a rifle at the door. Its those that dont know that dont understand

  • @Dunlap-uj5zl
    @Dunlap-uj5zl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍

  • @trenaoquinn753
    @trenaoquinn753 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @debraflanders3931
    @debraflanders3931 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello

  • @1hollig1
    @1hollig1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s too bad your neighbors don’t put a couple of pigs in rotating paddocks for a permaculture area to control the critters, the weeds, till that soil, and raise some good ham. Maybe you could ask them if they would allow you to do that?

  • @HeyJudeDistributing
    @HeyJudeDistributing 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Glad we are like minded! I am always getting rid of oppossums, RACOONS, ground jogs (those things are as big as the largest coons). We do have a feral cat colony, well I feed them birth control because they are hard to shoot.
    Their numbers are falling. They kill Any snakes or rodents. Gardening is my life.

  • @joycelong8651
    @joycelong8651 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We had rats so bad , they moved in my chicken house and killed 8 of my peeps . I had to move the chicks and piison for weeks to kill them all .. what a mess . I finally sucessed . Praise God

  • @kramitdreams
    @kramitdreams 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    We dig our sweet potatoes right before Thanksgiving in Ohio or first frost. 😋 This was the first year we successfully grew our own slips in the dirt from our sweet potatoes last yr. Becoming more free from the system 🙌🍠🍠 Last yr we also had a vole problem but still was able to save potatoes, can potatoes and eat fresh all thru the winter 😋😀 we harvest a wheel barrel full of sweet potatoes every year for our family of 7. Same with Yukons!

    • @joannc147
      @joannc147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well done! Enjoy your abundance❤

    • @christinewyzer3121
      @christinewyzer3121 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What variety. I’m I’m Michigan

    • @jollyranchers516
      @jollyranchers516 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We're in Ohio as well. This was my first time growing sweet potatoes. Any tips?

    • @kramitdreams
      @kramitdreams 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jollyranchers516 try and let them go as long as you can, check a plant now to make sure you don't have a vole problem 😉, if grow good then dig them up the day you get a first frost, light frost is OK but if it's a lower frost dig them up. If you have a vole problem you may want to dig them up earlier or you could loose alot of the crop, that happen to us last year but we still did ok😉

    • @kramitdreams
      @kramitdreams 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@christinewyzer3121 the Beaugaurd, Georgia Jets and Jewel, ..I may have had Covington in there to but it's been so long I can't remember.

  • @ginagraham3554
    @ginagraham3554 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I love how respectfully y'all talk to each other while filming. I'm learning so much. Thank you for the dedication this project requires. Y.'all are a blessing in my life. God bless and God speed!

  • @shelly936
    @shelly936 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Danny & Miss Wanda, if I lived closer I'd be happy to help you harvest your taters! So many long vines it's like you're fishing for taters!

  • @thenewyorkredneck4735
    @thenewyorkredneck4735 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My buddy sets live traps for the rats, pops em in the head with his bb gun, runs a knife down the middle and throws them into his chicken coup.
    They go crazy over it.
    Within minutes you wouldn't even know there was one thrown in there

    • @lissa755
      @lissa755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My husband does that with the mice we catch.We have a pig for the first time and I have been nervous about getting rats.I dont like two things rats or snakes.

    • @delphine88313
      @delphine88313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lissa755 especially can't stand rats.yuck! Filty!

  • @lauraklein6405
    @lauraklein6405 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    For the first time in 6 years growing potatoes, at least 80% of our potatoes had been chewed or partially eaten. There were tunnels all over the potato bed. It was heartbreaking!

    • @sammia4227
      @sammia4227 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So very sorry this happened to you!

    • @Emeraldwitch30
      @Emeraldwitch30 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I didn't have issues in the garden as someone gifted me with a momma kitty and she had 3 babies. They are not house cats but not quite feral either but goodness they've cleaned my garden right out of voles and squirrels.
      But I have my new crop of French fingerling potatoes in the bin and saw that something in the house nibbled on one.
      So I've got the traps all reset and baited. It wasn't a lot so ill just cut it off but ugh. I really don't like them in my house.
      But 100+ farm house you just can't seal it up enough.
      Here's hoping maybe a neighborhood cat will come getvyour critters this year.

    • @flora7682
      @flora7682 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I lost about 1/2 of mine the same way

    • @ny-gardener4380
      @ny-gardener4380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I had that issue last year. found the problem, voles. This year I put a coating of coffee grounds in my beds and I only lost 10% this year. I read voles don't like the coffee grounds. Maybe try the coffee or use a large container. Hope this helps you.

    • @onedazinn998
      @onedazinn998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ny-gardener4380 thanks for the tip :)

  • @fourdayhomestead2839
    @fourdayhomestead2839 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great video. Taking notes to add to my sweet potato manual (thank you for writing it Danny). Continued Blessings ✝ for you both & DSH.

  • @rebeccarice1140
    @rebeccarice1140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It’s been a bad garden year for our family this year, from cattle getting in gardens to drought, and flooding, still feel Blessed,watching from Eastern Kentucky

    • @Peaceful-resistance1
      @Peaceful-resistance1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Seems like you build fence from dawn till setting sun, but the fence work is never done. Keep at it, it gets better year by year 👍

  • @seekeroftruth9900
    @seekeroftruth9900 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Interestingly, sweet potatoes lack nightshade alkaloids that are found in regular potatoes, which have been linked to allergy-related symptoms. Some dietitians even recommend switching from regular to sweet potatoes to help with inflammatory joint-related conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis. In fact they are not a nightshade at all.

    • @kd5499
      @kd5499 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Nope, they are morning glory family

    • @dianehand1396
      @dianehand1396 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am struggling with this food issue. Could you recommend a book?

  • @lesliea.m.5392
    @lesliea.m.5392 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I had a mole and chipmunk problem this year and found out that they can’t digest gum so a person on utube recommended juicy fruit gum and IT WORKED ,! I bought a bunch and I keep putting it in the holes I find 👍

    • @mandiegarrett1706
      @mandiegarrett1706 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If we have ducks, chickens, cats and dogs, etc..will they eat gum and would gum hurt them? Thanks.

  • @culdesacgrocerygarden
    @culdesacgrocerygarden 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The vines are really good sautéed in butter or ghee with fried eggs too! Your cows are so sweet. I love watching them.

  • @MsLippy
    @MsLippy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Help is coming to dig sweets, like my four little slips I planted. So much knowledge, and that’s what DSH offer’s ❤️

  • @heavenboundhomestead126
    @heavenboundhomestead126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I guess I'd better be checking mine. I was going To keep them in the ground as long as I could. But now I'm nervous.
    Dehydrating the leaves and making green powder.
    Blessings And safety to you both

  • @Loretta318
    @Loretta318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good morning family 🌞
    I hope your day is blessed beyond measure, Mr Danny and Ms Wanda
    Thank you for all you do, I truly appreciate you both 🕊️🥰

  • @Latebloomershow
    @Latebloomershow 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My weed is Asian copper leaf.

  • @Latebloomershow
    @Latebloomershow 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't feel so bad. Think I see some weeds in your sweet potatoes!

    • @DeepSouthHomestead
      @DeepSouthHomestead  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah we don't mess with the weeds once the taters get going.

  • @brettfox6816
    @brettfox6816 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had that LONG talk with the wild rabbit's here. I told them if they Fk with the garden they would be on my plate with what ever was left of the Garden. I have not seen any even come close to it lQQl.

  • @GrainFreeHomestead
    @GrainFreeHomestead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Man you all have the best sweet potatoes. We have learned a lot from watching thank you

  • @maryloomis8075
    @maryloomis8075 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If I have to get up early to work outside , I take an afternoon nap to get up at 4 or 5 a.m.. Hope your sweet potatoes are salvageable. Take breaks and stay hydrated! God bless!

  • @sherriegreenwood9313
    @sherriegreenwood9313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful taters, and the cows gonna be in buffet heaven.

  • @thestonehousefarm1942
    @thestonehousefarm1942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love y’all’s team work. If you ever try the Puerto Rican Sweet Potatoes they have the sweetest smell you ever. It’s like smelling a honey comb while digging them. Very disease resistant. Enjoyed the video. Again message all your friends and let’s get deepsouthhomestead to 250k subscribers this week. Wealth of knowledge. Take milk jugs cut three v vents in top of it put some moth balls and fill with water it will deter field rats and snakes. I have used this for a few years and it really works. Mr.Als sweet potatoes look exactly like the Puerto Ricans we grow. It may not be them but same size and color

  • @sammia4227
    @sammia4227 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I thought I’d be happy if I owned nothing lol. Thank you both for showing us your potatoes and sharing your knowledge. God bless.

  • @harmonic3350
    @harmonic3350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice harvest! 🍠🥔 I saw I guy that was killing every rodent on his property with no poison using 50/50; cornmeal/baking soda. Cornmeal or flour is the bait and baking soda kills them since they cannot pass gas. 🐀🚫

  • @stevephipps9305
    @stevephipps9305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Have always said A good groundhog is a dead groundhog

  • @jrobison1454
    @jrobison1454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's certainly been a tough growing season all over the country. Doesn't matter what level of expertise, it's just hit us all. 😓

  • @vickieboudwin7781
    @vickieboudwin7781 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I feel the same way you can not feed the wildlife and the wildlife will reproduce more and come back. It is hard to grow a garden and see pest eating your hard work and there will always be pest

  • @judyvaughn761
    @judyvaughn761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You know we seniors rise early in the morning for me I'm usually up around 3: 00 and always enjoy watching Danny and Wanda

  • @norton750cc
    @norton750cc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mix plaster of paris with some kind of meal, set it out with a rain cover, the rats will die fast, the plaster gives off heat as it hits their stomach and gets moisture. Then it sets solid, you can figure the rest!

  • @gainingmomentum5392
    @gainingmomentum5392 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've got several small patches going here (south central Florida) but also three 25 gallon containers with sweet potatoes growing in them that I have Vining over my cattle panel tunnel trellis. I harvest those stems and leaves to eat. No dirt and very tasty 😋

  • @TeamD2012
    @TeamD2012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love Dolly’s expression…whadda ya mean there’s no sweet potatoes mom? 🤣🤣🤣

  • @littlekentucky2294
    @littlekentucky2294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Been outside working came in, getting warm outside, if I have time to sit and rest then I’m watching this channel… people who might think Danny’s way of thinking on this subject is harsh, they have never had to Fight for their food! Here in rural Kentucky, such true words EVERYTHING is out to get your garden food and your livestock, it’s taken me years to learn, and I’ve had a pack of Coyotes, bobcats get my chickens… bears after our honey bees honey… had to put up a electric fence around them, it truly is all about Survival and eating well, some people have No idea about the daily struggles to just eat on a homestead. I ❤DeepSouth Homestead for keeping it Real❤😊

  • @catherinefrye7269
    @catherinefrye7269 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good Morning Brother Danny and Wanda. I agree Danny growing a garden is a job and it draws a lot of wild animals and you have to radiate them so you can have crops/food to eat. If you don't get rid of them you won't have any food to eat.

  • @daisytaylor1610
    @daisytaylor1610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm growing sweet potatoes for the first time this year. I saw one peaking through the ground with some little hair roots. I'm gonna pull them today. Thanks for the tips!

  • @markplowboygreen1295
    @markplowboygreen1295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My potatoes still got about 20 days to go , finishing up watermelons , zipper peas , then hopefully start pulling corn and cutting sorghum grain first of Oct

  • @plantaseednotlitter2260
    @plantaseednotlitter2260 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well done, loyal and faithful servants I pray that Lord sent ya'll some helpers to pick the sweet potatoes harvest. Happy Eating God Blessing

  • @cindyjo9093
    @cindyjo9093 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You might find that you're about to get some rain! Have fun picking! Also, it looks like the Atlantic is starting to crank up for weather systems off of Africa.
    Jack Russell Terriers are good! They'll love your critters !

    • @DeepSouthHomestead
      @DeepSouthHomestead  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nothing major showing on the ensemble yet for hurricane's. Just small ones till late September looks like.

    • @cindyjo9093
      @cindyjo9093 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@karendiggs3052 got one.

  • @hidebehind2604
    @hidebehind2604 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a youth my best bud and I headed to Maines potato fields, I swear those rows were a mile long.
    In the morn they handed us a potato "spud fork" , tags and pencils, and each 3 100 pound gunny sacks roll of hemp twine and awl to sew bags.
    We had one nose bag with bologna and sometimes bread and cheese chunks, we had canvas water bag.
    We got 1 or 2 cents per pound for every sewn bag come quitting time.
    Bud and I lived right next to farm , along with whole family's in tent shelters.Fa had some houses shacks but charged two bits a day rent that we could not afford, so we could get water to drink and clean up at days end.
    Bud and started even before false dawn in cool air,digging hard and fast until we had dug a swath and figured a gunny sack full then we bagged and tagged, until once again spud em up bag and tag.
    Worked until sunset, got cleaned up and mostly ate Cambell chicken and noodle soup and fried or buried in coals baked.
    Nearest store 10 miles away but no work on Sundays and on Saturday we quit early to catch rides with men headed to pubs and saloon for us to get to IGA before closing to buy soups a 4 or 5 pound bologna roll cheeses, couple candy bars and six pack Nehi or Coca colas.
    End of harvest, hitch hike home, give our folks half our earnings.
    I learned more about country and its people for these migrants came from all over and all races, learned far more than any school learning.

  • @gerhardbraatz6305
    @gerhardbraatz6305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All I know is if it messes with my groceries, it's done for.

  • @mpedals
    @mpedals 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i harvest those greens and stems also, they are delicous with our stir fries, i start eating the greens when i dont have the spinach cause its to hot for spinach, happy harvesting, thank god you planted alot, better to have more to share than have none

  • @richardrybicki749
    @richardrybicki749 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mary on Richard's phone in Florida my experimental plot last year was totally eaten by the rodents and I am in the city coyotes ate the feral cat that was keeping them down.

  • @weathermanplus
    @weathermanplus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good morning brother!

  • @dsmith6868
    @dsmith6868 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dogs left me a surprise one morning on the back porch. Two big dead rats lying neatly by the door...and they sat there looking at me just as proud as can be as if they were saying, "Look what we brought ya". Before I even knew it was a problem and without any kind of training. I hadn't even trained them to fetch or sit. They were better than cats...
    Some food for thought:
    Exodus 23:10-11 KJV "10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: 11 but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard."
    Psalms 50:10-11 KJV "10 For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: And the wild beasts of the field are mine.

  • @scoop2591
    @scoop2591 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey you two sweeties! To get rid of your rat problem go to Pine Meadows Hobby Farm on utube ...his episode "Kill Rats Dead with Cornbread Mix and Baking Soda" ...cheap and works and it seems they don't come back.

  • @kellycastles5159
    @kellycastles5159 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I only just found your TH-cam channel, Fantastic, I love it, Love from Australia. I love Sweet potatoes

  • @johnndavis7647
    @johnndavis7647 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Trapping is about self defence.
    Havahart traps baited with fish will catch possums and coons.
    If you're catching house cats use
    Fruit for bait.
    Raccoons will go for a golden delicious apple.
    Traps work 24/7 .

  • @katrinagarland5219
    @katrinagarland5219 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have a suggestion to get rid of the rats/mice that has worked great for me. Go to Dollar General and buy yourself a box of cheap cake mix. Mix it together 50/50 with Baking soda and put it out for the rats. They love it but they have one big problem... they can't burp. The blow up like a balloon, crawl off and expire. Give it a try.

  • @HoneyHollowHomestead
    @HoneyHollowHomestead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just lost a goat that I was nursing back to health to a rat. It had mutilated her so bad the only thing for me to do was to put her down. I then caught the rat and put it out of my misery. That was the first rat I've had here. I doubt it will be the last. I have 2 good mouser cats but I have started helping them by putting out traps. I catch mice everyday, sometimes twice a day. I feed them to the chickens. If the problem got too bad I would do poison, but I am hoping if I stay on top of it I won't need to go that route.

    • @delphine88313
      @delphine88313 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      When you find them KILL THEM .They have big litters so you better believe its more around somewhere.That had to be a HUGE rat to do that.

  • @ericwitt4586
    @ericwitt4586 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow them sweettaters look soo good them on a plate candied up I could eat them everyday y’all I wished I had a place to do it when I retire I’m gonna go to my cabin on one side I think I can but I gotta be there mostly all the time we got bears hogs and deer everywhere lol but I can do it I’ve been watching y’all’s videos and picking up on stuff from y’all and I really appreciate it thank y’all so much 🙏🏻😀👍🇺🇸

  • @monaholling8614
    @monaholling8614 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's called survival of the fittest. You have to protect what's yours because nobody else will. This may sound cold hearted, but it's necessary.

  • @dholman1953
    @dholman1953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for all the information. Thanks to you I raised my own slips this year and look forward to harvesting them in a few weeks. I am in upper east tennessee area.

  • @anj3595
    @anj3595 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love them! I had to give up regular potatoes. I par boil, slice, and freeze to pull out for my meals. I just sprinkle olive oil and put in air fryer. They are wonderful!

  • @christinewyzer3121
    @christinewyzer3121 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rat burrows. Get a grip on it right now. Every 20+ days 20+ babies. Danny please get poison down.

  • @americanrootsfarm
    @americanrootsfarm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am having a rat problem in Arizona and they are living in the aloe vera plants. The dogs are not letting up and this explains where the other half of my peppers are going!

  • @CC-lv1ox
    @CC-lv1ox 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    @deepsouth Are the potatoes safe to eat if an animal chewed on ut? Thank you.

  • @altonguis8870
    @altonguis8870 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    For Rats try baking soda and jiffy corn mix, mixed together and then put out in containers, kills them stone dead

  • @Jules-pu8zd
    @Jules-pu8zd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You need some farm cats to kill the rodents but then you wouldn’t want the cats to get into poison.

  • @kathylane5934
    @kathylane5934 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Danny I love you but this is what I do. I have a lab. He has a wireless collar on. He watches my containers. too old do full garden he has caught snake. rat. possum. Racoons. Then we have electric fence on rest. I saw 20 deer yesterday

  • @sandihelman2301
    @sandihelman2301 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in town and have wood chucks, chipmunks, mice you name it. I cannot get rid of them. They will not eat the poison and are getting tame.

  • @lovefalcon1111
    @lovefalcon1111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love potato harvests!! 🥔🥔🥔I tried planting potatoes for the first time this year in a 15 gal grow bag. 🌱 I got 2 cute little potatoes.Too small to eat but I was so excited that something was actually in the bag:) So I will try again. Your harvest is beautiful!!!! Love ya’ll!!!💘💘💘

  • @dontaylor8451
    @dontaylor8451 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Got to looking at my sweet potatoes and found a gopher mound.... GRRRRRRR.....

  • @ambersykora352
    @ambersykora352 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    There is an organic poison for rats I bought my mom at tractor supply because the rats were eating and snagging all her baby chicks.

  • @Waltzonthemoon
    @Waltzonthemoon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have LGD , barn cat, stable cat, chicken house cat. They all do what they suppose to for most part. Even a turkey that made himself home with the chickens. The LGD even sleeps under pear tree, he cant stand critters getting his pears, yes the low pears are his!

  • @GypsyBrokenwings
    @GypsyBrokenwings 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hate rats! I have one getting on my porch at night driving my dogs crazy. I'm so sleep deputies right now. Time to make a treat trap.

  • @holdmybeer2955
    @holdmybeer2955 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Danny it's a choice of you thrive OR the animals thrive on your crops.

  • @beverlymichael5830
    @beverlymichael5830 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I went out last night and a deer was standing under my pear tree. My pears had been disappearing. Now I know where my pears went. Only ones safe is what it can’t reach.
    I have not dug my sweet potatoes yet. Hope to have the success you are having.

  • @midway27272727
    @midway27272727 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Our biggest problem now in South Florida are the Iguanas. Impossible to have an open garden. I have been trapping and shooting them, just so many of them.

    • @homesteadaquarius
      @homesteadaquarius 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I can not imagine having to deal with those iguanas. However.... many people eat them. I would want to try and iguana farm operation and let the problem become a solution. Do you have a big operation or a smaller backyard sized garden?

    • @tollytucker2348
      @tollytucker2348 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’m in east central Florida and I’m hoping they don’t migrate!!!

    • @midway27272727
      @midway27272727 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@homesteadaquarius I have a small backyard operation. They refer to Iguanas and "Chickens of the Trees" many ways to cook them. Some places get as much as $15 a pound for the meat ! I have no problem with eating them, just need to find a balance with growing a garden. I'll figure it out at some point :)

    • @midway27272727
      @midway27272727 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tollytucker2348 I think it may be to cool for them during winter months up your way. If we get a cold snap this winter it'll set them back.

  • @traviskelly5480
    @traviskelly5480 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A tiller behind a tractor is useless all they do is create a hard pan you would not believe and most definitely doesn’t have a place in potatoes or a corn patch. Those are some nice looking taters y’all got there

  • @barbaragaspard1989
    @barbaragaspard1989 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just be careful with poisons and your water sources. Runoff!

  • @pepper24able
    @pepper24able 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Goodness we had a rat plague here in Nelson NZ. I found a couple of them caught sharing our puppies food at the same time from the same bowl! We bought many of those walk in bait traps. We were vigilant. We got rid of them, but the property stunk from rotting rats lol! We now put them out every season. No racoons, etc here. Just possums, rabbits and rats.. our dogs keep the first two away.

    • @teenadamron7654
      @teenadamron7654 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      How did you get rid of them. For the first time I have them

    • @pepper24able
      @pepper24able 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@teenadamron7654 I bought all manner of traps, including an electric one. They were too smart for that! The one that worked is a bait station. You put bait in it. Lock it and they go in to eat. Safe for pets. The bait is a one meal kill. I live in N Z so not sure what you have available in the US.

  • @thanos6345
    @thanos6345 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the sweet potato videos do sweet potatoes have to be in full sun I have a spot in my yard we're I won't to grow potatoes but it only gets 3 maybe 4 hours of sun?

  • @HealthyDisrespectforAuthority
    @HealthyDisrespectforAuthority 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's a shame there are not rat terriers and barn cats to borrow for the rodent problem.
    I have seen chickens try and play rugby with a mouse.

  • @frogfoothollar5349
    @frogfoothollar5349 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really enjoyed this video. The animal pressure has been bad everywhere this year I think.

  • @thatcrystallady_donna
    @thatcrystallady_donna 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I battled rats last year. Tried traps but that didn't get them all. Finally, bought the plastic enclosed traps with the poison, because we have a dog, and that took care of the problem. I will just leave it out at all times. I'm not sharing my food.

  • @chriswinger7881
    @chriswinger7881 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There's lots of tators don't overdo it in the heat . God has blessed you 🙏.

  • @honeybee6674
    @honeybee6674 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What was the purpose of planting lemon grass in fron of your green, was it to protevt the bean from snskes or pest?

  • @jerriscollins-ruth9019
    @jerriscollins-ruth9019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for sharing. I have tunnels under my plants also.

  • @potpourrioflife
    @potpourrioflife 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Harvested tomatoes today. Not sure what took a nibbling to two tomatoes I was hoping to bring in this morning, but geesh...they take just enough so you wonder why they didn't eat the whole fruit. Lost two, but brought in a few others.
    I agree, if they are going to reduce the food harvest, it is time for them to go. In one day, 13 squirrels disappeared like magic. LOL Yes, they can be cute, but they are so destructive, often times hurting my roses as well. That's when you decide that they are NOT cute.

  • @carmenhebert2765
    @carmenhebert2765 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I use rat stations with my poison so I can dispose of them so the chickens and cats don't eat the poisoned rodents. I do put rat poison directly into the holes when I find them. If they eat the poison in their burrows they don't seem to leave their burrows to die. The other plus to using rat stations is you can put them in the area their destroying.

  • @MynewTennesseeHome
    @MynewTennesseeHome 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The long red looks like Georgia Jet and the other red looks like Beauregard? I have field rat problems also.... I've tried to get rid of them but they won't really eat the poison except in the winter.

    • @DeepSouthHomestead
      @DeepSouthHomestead  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We have a poison bar here that they love. Not sure what's in it other than warfin a blood thinner.

    • @MynewTennesseeHome
      @MynewTennesseeHome 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DeepSouthHomestead Thanks I'll look into it.

  • @tambrasmith9707
    @tambrasmith9707 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yep ... I’m getting pretty good with my 20 gauge...rabbit was eating my corn...and Tom cat was stalking my chickens..

  • @leslierm.6732
    @leslierm.6732 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good morning, what a beautiful garden you both have!!!!! Gods blessings 🙏

  • @gertiemae54
    @gertiemae54 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I use baking soda and a cornmeal, mix equal amounts and I have gotten rid of my rodent problem, I put it in a cheap plastic container with a hole in the side and they love it. You could add a little sugar to it but it's not necessary.

    • @elizabethjohnson475
      @elizabethjohnson475 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rodents can't digest the mix and the gas it causes, so the rodents die from gas.

    • @gertiemae54
      @gertiemae54 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I will sometimes add a little quick krete (sp) to it...that really gets them stopped in their tracks

  • @ginagraham3554
    @ginagraham3554 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I used hair my local hairdresser was willing to collect and saving for me. I made a boarder around and mulched throughout. It works on underground burrowers.

  • @joannc147
    @joannc147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I could not explain why I find this video so enjoyable. I learned a bit, I got excited about the harvest results…and then I was saddened when you examined the beginning harvest issues. An emotional roller coaster ride full of twists and turns. There’s always quite a tale to tell at DSH❤. I’m new to veg gardening and the results were a surprise to me. I’m now excited to harvest my sweet potatoes (some grown from potato slips that I started - thank you, Danny). Looking forward to my fall harvest as well. Young hens are now laying and the meat rabbits are old enough to be bred in a couple of weeks. I’ve changed my entire life in 2022. I guess an “old dog” can learn a few new tricks after all. 😄

  • @steveswartz2063
    @steveswartz2063 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you still eat a sweet potato that has been chewed by a vole if you cut the chewed part off?

  • @summerrose4978
    @summerrose4978 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Didn't get any in ground, buying 50lbs to can up

  • @alivewithhemp4989
    @alivewithhemp4989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sweet potato leaves are edible and delicious!