Harvesting THIS MUCH In Winter?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ธ.ค. 2023
- It's officially winter here at the homestead, but that doesn't mean we aren't still enjoying MASSIVE harvests! Join me and @jacquesinthegarden as we pull some of the biggest sweet potatoes we've ever seen, and more!
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Jack and Eric giggling over sweet potatoes totally made my day!
You guys should do an episode where you have local chefs come in and basically do an 'iron chef" type challenge where they use only your ingredients from your garden and see what kind of stuff they come up with!
They should still have an allowance of money for groceries to compliment it, but find a way to make something from the garden the STAR of the dish!
Yeah good point!!!@@h.s.6269
Love it!
Bruh, I had no idea I could be so jealous of two men harvesting sweet potatoes together 😂. I need a garden homie now lol
Great to see a new video from Jack and Eric!!
You can tell it's Eric because he looks slimmer 😊
Joshua is really more of a Jake
😂😅
😂 LMAO 😅
Jacque not Jack
The sheer joy on both their faces at 4:51 is priceless!! Love you two together!
I freakin' love the editing on these videos. The squeaky noise on the not-so-potatoes-potatoes made me giggle.
And illustrating the supposed size of the gopher munched sweet potato too hahaha
The stuff on your hand is probably sap from the sweet potatoes where the roots break off.
Aww the friendship is really shining through in this post-vacation video ^_^ Nice to see the garden buddies back together again and having fun!
Thank you! We definitely have fun together!
Jacques, You might want to try the Hannah sweet potato. I can only seem to find it at Whole Foods. It is a white flesh sweet potato that is only slightly sweet. I prefer savory preparation of sweet potatoes. The Hannah is so lightly sweet and flaky I prefer it to regular potatoes. I use it in soups and stews and it’s great both baked and fried. All the health benefits of sweet potatoes without the cloying sweetness. I think you’ll enjoy.
i feel like pomelo has that individual jewel fun to eat vibe of grapefruit too
I really wish I had a garden friend like Kevin and Jaques
To get savory sweet potatoes slice them and layer under a beef roast. The fat and juices make them delicious without all the sweetness of a sweet potato casserole.
Watching these guys geek out and laugh over how huge their potatoes are, is the most "bro gardener" energy there will ever be. And that's EXACTLY why I'm here. Then they start talking about how their fat and short carrots are not bad.... This video will always be hilarious 😂
This is so much fun 😂 love the dance 👏🏻👏🏻 but most important is you still show how amazing it is to grow in our gardens, some of us in smaller spaces but still grateful, you guys are awesome 😎
The guys losing their minds at the huge finds @5:00 is exactly why you grow root veggies, no matter how cheap they are in the store.
Sweet potatoes! Love growing them. They are best served savory in my opinion: chips, roasted in cubes, made into soups (I've done a thai curry soup with sweet potato base). For those interested, you can also eat the leaves. I lived in a tropical climate and it was a great greens option when I couldn't grow spinach. They make a decent cover crop in a pinch, and the roots can really break up a rough soil.
Also, getting sweet potato starch off your hands: use oil instead of soap/water.
The dark stuff on your hands is the sap from the sweet potato vines
I’m so jealous that you can grow so much still; I’m in zone 8 with only cold weather friendly crops in ground that don’t mature until early spring. 😩👍🏻🤙🏻🤣
6:00 - 😱. The stem is the best part. It’s so sweet!
Garden caviar is why I loved eating grapefruit as a kid and yes they always have that much pith. In my hometown in Florida, oranges and grapefruits was the main industry. They grew in everyone’s backyards. Watching you guys enjoy citrus made me have a moment of nostalgia just then.
You guys are always comedy relief. 😁
Good video of two guys having fun in the garden. Showing everyone how much fun it is to harvest with a friend.
Love how much fun you two have in the garden!!!!
Broccoli - not only the blossoms are edible - but also the leaves (you do have to cook them longer - but they are definitely edible, and my family also peels the stems, and slices them and adds them at the last minute or so to a stir fry - where it tastes sort of like a water chestnut with a similar texture.
You guys display one super important part of the garden - play! The garden should be fun and goofy and it’s best shared with friends :)
It’s so fun to watch you 2 enjoy the garden & the harvest! It’s always a surprise when pulling up root crops. Looking forward to the 2024 season 🍅 🥦🥕
your guy are great together laughing and having fun in the garden. you made me smile thank you
I grew carrots for the first time this year and they did surprisingly well! TBH I only planted them to harvest the tops for my rabbit but there were plenty that grew rather large so we ate some and froze the rest. Nothing wasted 😊
Congrats, Kevin, on the experimental garden plot and pathways. Nice work, Jacques and Paul. I love the repurchased use of an old fence.
I haven’t tried growing sweet potatoes, yet, but I slice and dehydrate them just for my dog.
You guys have so much fun in these videos! I love watching the both of you being silly. 😂
It looks great! Done in time for our expected rain this week! Those look like the Japanese Sweet potatoes which are my favorite! They store really well, I plant two beds full each year. They are great baked, roasted, in soups and stews. I made carrot top pesto this year with mint, garlic, parmesan cheese and it was wonderful. I froze it in cubes to use over the winter in pasta dishes and casseroles. Do look into fun recipes with the grapefruit, I love them with honey and cinnamon a really fun dessert.
Yes, I have those serrated spoons, but I still use a small knife first to section the grapefruit. I grow Red Ruby and I love them!
I love to use the stalk of broccoli for stuffing, it becomes the perfect texture when cooked.
I make America’s Test Kitchen version of sweet potato casserole for thanksgiving. No marshmallows. It’s a pecan topping lightly seasoned with brown sugar, pinch of cayenne and cumin. The sweet potatoes are not sweetened very much either, some brown sugar and maple syrup.
We won’t eat regular sweet potato casserole because we think it’s too sweet.
My favorite sweet potato to use is the Japanese purple sweet potato because then the casserole almost has a cake like texture. I’ve been trying to grow those sweet potatoes for two years now. Hopefully, I have a bigger yield this year.
"There was a lot of pith in there..." as they grimace at the sourness of the citrus.😆
Jaques yeah try them as hash browns with Cajun spice on them. They’re pretty good and then you can just top it with you’re fresh eggs over the top and cook it so you got some spicy add your chopped greens.
You can totally tell they've been buddies for years, from the way they get so goofy when they do videos together😂 This has me chuckling from my WFH office this morning. wishing I was in the garden!!
When you fellas lost it over the jumbos around 5 minutes, it put a huge smile on my face. Same reaction when harvesting potatoes with our son. Thanks for sharing the authentic joy of the harvest.
When I was in high school, a club I was in picked some citrus from trees that were on campus and made them into different drinks - lemonade, limeade, and graprefruit-ade. We were little shits and decided to give a full cup of unsweetened grapefruit juice to our coach to see how he reacted (it was the end of the season and we'd all gotten pretty close). The look on his face was absolutely hilarious! Glad to see y'all are enjoying the citrus bounty :D
Living in San Diego allows you to grow year round here. The climate is very mild in Zone 10 or 10b. It never gets cold or too hot. Many don't know this. We are quite fortunate most of the country is too cold or even has snow. Thats great you can have fresh produce year round and avoid the grocery stores.
So much fun. That Oro Blanco looks like a smallish Pommelo. I love homegrown broccoli, but my favorite part is that giant stem. My mom used to peel and slice it into disks and make a quick pickle. Yum. Hubby, the dogs, and I really enjoy just munching on it peeled and raw.
i grew up in a family where we had a lot of fruit trees, in fact where my mom grew up was behind a walnut grove. there were tons of orange groves around as well. and the thing is, even with a dwarf fruit tree, it gives more fruit then even 1 family needs. so we grow alternating stuff and share it. but we also have cara cara orange. my favorite!
Hello Kevin I hope you had a great vacation. ❤ we missed you and your fun-filled antics with Jack.
You two are so much fun! Loved this video and laughed with the whole way through. Much love for you both!!
The energy in this video was so nice! Love you guys
YALL BRING ME SO MUCH JOY!!!
What a hysterical reunion! You guys are so funny together. I can tell you missed each other, haha! I especially loved the look on your faces when you pulled up those humongous sweet potatoes! Btw, Jacques, yes, they still sell the serrated grapefruit spoons. I have one that I actually use to deseed squash before cooking. It works great!
Merry Christmas ! Thank you
We are very lucky here in California. My tomatoes, strawberries and eggplants are still putting out flowers and fruits here in Sacramento! I also just harvested my salad greens and radishes.
I love all your videos, the homestead, main channel, and Jacque's as well. I have been watching for a few years, and you were my inspiration
to start my own gardening channel.
Thank you for your kind words and support! We really appreciate it. Wishing you all the best with your channel too!
Thank you so much, I wish your channel the best as well, and I shall continue to support you guys, for teaching me what I know today😀🙏
I thought for sure Jacques was going to pull up a gopher, kicking and screaming! 😂
over 40yrs ago, my father, brother and i got to stay on the beaches and camp for many moons, ate iguana, played with the crabs etc.. i don't remember much, we had a house on a tall hill, and a pool way down there with a rock pathway. we would walk barefoot through the bananna forests and suck on sugar cane. i have lots of old item i brought back with us, whiskey barrell ( counter top version) ox cart wheels, wooden bowls etc etc.
I love watching other people harvest while it's winter up here in Canada 🇨🇦. You guys are so funny 😂
Great video as always! And as a Swede, I thought it was extra funny when you talked about the center of the grapefruit, that word has a completely different meaning in Swedish 😂😂😂🙏🤩
Tricia Yearwood's sweet potato soufflé but only use about 1/3 of the sugar the recipes calls for. So good!
Yes, Jacques, there still are grapefruit spoons! I use them to scoop out avocados.
Beautiful! I love watching the citrus and stonefruit hauls. That sweet potato- holy smokies!
I just steam the broccoli stems along with my florets. I cut the stems like medallions and they are so sweet and crunchy. I don’t even peel them.
If you like the caviar 'cellstructure' of grapefruit, you might like pomelo (citrus maxima). I like grape too, but I looooove pomelo and I'm trying to grow them... In Denmark 😅
Yes, pomelo, love it!
Everyone do yourselves a favor and watch back that moment of the basketball sweet potato twins being harvested on .5X speed 🤣 the punch drunk joy in slow motion is 👌🏼
Seeing you two interact is just the best.
Kevin on his own is fun to gain knowledge from, Jaque on his own is just fun to enjoy watching and growing along with him.
Together, it's just one of those special life cliques. I know Jaque wants to move to Bulgaria but man he'll be missed when he does.
Excited for the new crops! I hope you’ll have a berries in containers next season.
Didn't Jacques try grapefruit last year on the citrus picking video? Glad you're back, Kevin - hope you had a great trip! I was excited to see you picked a Cara Cara, because that means they'll be making an appearance in stores here on the east coast relatively soon! They're my absolute favorite orange.
Broccoli stems are great in a broccoli slaw or for stir fries. My garden was a dud this year, it never got warm until September.
You should try baked grapefruit. They are great for breakfast, I'm taking statins so I can't eat grapefruit anymore. I like candied citrus peel as another way to get the most bang for your harvest. I made preserved lemons last year and they are amazing.
Candied citrus peel is highly underrated! I made some a couple years ago, and I was so happy I had tons of leftovers because I used them for everything. Also, you can make preserved Mexican limes just like you would lemons, and they go great in marinated meats.
Jacques i cant believe you dont like sweet potatoes! We make them by cubbing them and covering in olive oil and pumpkin spice spices and salt and then bake for like 50 min at 390° until they are super soft and then i put them in a bowl and mix with some butter and maybe honey if i want it sweeter. They are AMAZING that way
Hot take but i actually prefer the stem core to florets.
I also like carrot tops as they taste like celery but the rest of the family don't like them.
What we don't eat we save anyway as i use it in making veg stock.
The garden bed shimmy tho 😂
So fun gentlemen! And Jacques, maybe take a look at fruit guilds. They use space well with a combo of plants around a central tree that are designed to:
Attract pollinators
Add nitrogen to the soil,
Utilize the overstory, mid, and understory growing spaces,
Bring up nutrients from deep within the soil,
Cover the ground,
Produce edibles and medicinals in addition to the fruit tree,
Accumulate biomass for soil health and moisture,
Aaaaaand deter pests! Amazing!
Amazing harvest! 🤔 Y’all inspire me! Watching this video makes me think lightly charred broccoli, candied walnuts, and mandarin oranges would go great together in a side salad. Also, if Jacques is unfamiliar with Aziz Ansari’s 50 Cent Grapefruit Story, I highly recommend.
Those Oro golds are amazing, I’m so lucky we have a grower who sells them at our farmers market
That's a great winter haul! and JK back to their garden shenanigans❤
Yum! I never pick Meyer lemons before January if I want them sweet. Those grapefruit jewels would go great in a kale salad with some Feta cheese crumbles and shaved brussel sprouts. And I am not supposed to eat nightshades like white potatoes so sweet potatoes roasted with sour cream on top are my go to. Thanks, guys, this was fun.
You both have such fun and make us laugh with you!!❤
Kevin the giant tiptoeing down the pavers. 😂 and that broccoli head is epic.
What variety of hop? Generally you run 3 lines per plant and cut back the rest, cut it right down when it dies off and then add poo over winter.That worked for me when I use to brew beer. It would definitely want to go higher, it will be happy but your not going to get heAps of flower.
Dang, mine isn't even close .... and rats ate my carrot tops ... and now too late, too cool for them to even start
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But carrot tops .... your chickens love them (& bolting cabbages / lettuce)
Cuties in the backseat! 🤣 Oh Lord! 😂🤦♀️
That sweet potato harvest was awesome! Some were huge! 🍠
I never thought watching two grown men digging up sweet potatoes would be so hilarious!, 😂. Merry Christmas guys!
I inherited some freakish lemon tree the first year I moved here I got 3 lemons. The following year I watered it and gave it some fertilizer and forgot it and late in the Fall my neighbor walked over and asked if I could come pick my lemons and trim some of the branches because they were bouncing off the roof of her car and there was so much fruit that the branches were hanging down and potentially scratching her car. Since then I’ve literally had between 100 and 200 lemons. I’m thinking of going into the lemoncello and lemonade business
oh my god, you guys pulling out the giant potatoes is hilarious
I can see you pulling up that whole bed and putting down gopher wire. The stems of broccoli can be awesome if you peel them. It would totally be a bougie Jacque thing.🎉😂
Good morning! I assume you'll compost the broccoli stems, but they're really good if you peel them!
I will definitely use that carrot tip, i break too many of them😅.
Question about pests in the garden for anyone who might be helpful.
We have something that ate up all 4 of our Cara oranges from our new tree, is digging up our currently empty raised beds, and is digging holes next to and under our concrete deck (4-5 inches deep and couple inches diameter?). We do have rats in the yard. They come from everywhere. Neighbors' bushes, old lumber, under storage shed. ETC, Etc... But it seems like it is probably something bigger, because it is seriously digging up the raised planters. Looking for grubs?
Thoughts? Suggestions? What could it be? Any repellents? I do lay down rat traps from time to time with reasonable success, but then I catch a bird and feed sad and guilty and stop for a while. :P
I have sets of the grapefruit spoons. 😊
I’d love to see jaque learn about growing citrus in containers :D
Can't plant anything in my yard without some hardware cloth underneath it. I've got moles/voles/gophers/velociraptors that would go to town otherwise.
I was just in Costa Rica in mid November would have been …epic to run into you there
"Chill the jewels and do some stuff with it"🤣
OK you had me laughing out loud when you pulled up those huge, sweet potatoes!
Such a fun little video to watch. Great stuff guys
Glad to see Eric had a great time in costa Rica 😂
I peel off the pith from the grapefruit by hand. I miss the grapefruit spoons.
a lot of single takes from Jacques as Mr back-from-the-holiday-spunky overwhelms us all. BAU on the Epic Homestead
Welcome back, Eric! That Kevin guy would never be so excited about a giant sweet potato!
😅 😅 😅
The grapefruit looks like a pamelo. Yummy!
I have the same grapefruit with one fruit on the tree. It’s just started turning yellow. How do you know it’s ready? I am so afraid to pick it for fear it’s going to be premature. I can’t wait though. Right now, I’m sitting on my hands trying not to run out back, throw caution to the wind and take a chance it’s ready! 😂
Great harvest!
Thanks! 🧑🏻🌾🧑🏻🌾
NGL... totally thought this was an old Halloween video of you two dressed as Mario and Luigi based on the thumbnail! 🤣
I eat carrot tops every time. They are so good in smoothies. Gives it a fresh parsley vibe. 🥕💕