I don't believe I just spent nearly three quarters of an hour watching you chop vines. You do have a way with keeping us entertained. -- Love you my brother. Ray Del;bury Sussex County NJ USA
Helpful Tip! I live in Florida and harvested over a 150 of Danny's Cherokee Tan pumpkins last September and some sweet potatoes last October, I turned one of my extra bedrooms into a food pantry with the 5 Wire shelf racks, about 6 of them placed all around the walls of that room! Most of the racks store my canned goods and such but I utilized 2 1/2 of them to store the pumpkins and sweet potatoes! I placed an Indian blanket over the window to keep the room dark during the daytime, and since they are in a controlled 70- 72' A/c environment, that seemed to work good for storing them! The sweet potato's yield was only about 80 Sweet potatoes, and they for lasted me without going bad and eventually the ones that I had left still in early summer started pushing out slips, so I utilized them for making more slips for re-planting, and the Pumpkins, I still have 4 left today and they still are firm! Me and the chickens ate most of the pumpkins, and some I gave away right away last year from the Harvest to neighbors! That was an unexpected harvest from only 5 seeds planted into the deep hole food scrap method of DTG's into a 3 foot circle, which those vines ended up going everywhere up to 75-100 feet from the original circle in all directions, but it also made roots all along the vines as they were growing! Any vine borer's didn't have a chance in stopping those vines! LOL! Would have had over 200, but some horses and other animals had gotten into them and ate some along the way, but I didn't mind, because I could see I was going to get plenty! But any who, enough chit-chat! I hope this helps somebody!
And I thought that we grew some big sweet potatoes this year. Y'all made ours look like peas next to watermelons😂. Thank you Ms Rachel for filming and taking questions. Think the store is machete specialists. Wish I could have watched live. Thank y'all and have a blessed day.
That was great to see. Western Australia here and my beds are ready to plant out my slips, exciting to trying to grow sweet potatoes for the first time. 👍🍠
Last year I threw the vines back on the bed and covered them with mulch. When spring rolled around they all sprouted just fine- I had my doubts. I didn't have to start slips this year and had a great harvest. (Credit to Wild Floridian for the idea) Edit: I think that was a crowned snake
Mounded beds made over cardboard with lots and lots of wet yard stuff from the goat area covered with wood chips from the tree guy and then planted right after with sweet potato slips - oh my - most awesome bed of sweet potatoes by far that we've ever grown over that rock hard clay . . . then the next year we took that same bed and threw in some potatoes and they grew nicely and when that got done I moved all that bed onto cardboard to start a bed to move 1/3 of our strawberries into - probably 1/100th of the strawberries . . . we shall see how that goes. But the mounds grow wonderfully.
I think the blurry-ness is just from less than ideal internet connection, but it’s good enough! Enjoying hanging with you guys even though I missed it live.
Try making 'cassava pone' recipe with a few sweet potatoes...you need tropical sweet potato, pumpkin, cassava & coconut Makes a big sheet pan...for big family & friends🙂
I bought some sweet potatoes at the store and stuck them in the ground and all I have is little leaves about the size of my thumb and seeds. They vine and make a berry looking thing that has a black seed inside. It's everywhere but not a sign of potatoes yet. Great show. It answered several questions. Thank you both very much. Great Job. I live in Arkansas. I wonder about grocery row gardening here?. I'm in all clay here. I dig a bath tub looking hole and throw the clay away and fill up the hole with compost and soil. I have a very small garden. It's very labor intensive to make the beds.
Try just mounding up Compost, leaves, manure, and whatever materials you have available on top of cardboard to create new soil on top of the existing surface. You don’t have to have side boards for a “raised bed” of compost. You can break up a little clay or powder it and stir into water to splash over the new materials like David does in the terra preta experiment videos. Add some of the existing clay mineral content to the new soil forming. Mow it all close first, cover with wet overlapping cardboard like back to Eden method. Create compost and mix with a little existing dirt/soil just for microbes and the earthworms will eventually till it for you. They love the cardboard!
Correction the berry has 3 or 4 black seeds each. I got a bunch of them to look at. I have them drying. This looks a lot like morning glory vines at the river. But no morning glories. Just all these brown berry sized objects with seeds. I got scads of them
Great sweet tater harvest. I arrived a little late to watch it live but am enjoying it now bout half an hour late. I like your terra preta experiment very much. You may be interested in a non gardening channel that I watch a bit of called Below the plains. Guy digs up old outhouse pits for bottles and artifacts. Apparently the old timers threw wood ash in the pits along with their trash glass. Wood ash kept the smell down. If you could imagine the glass as being broken pottery and if there was more bone material in there I think it would be pretty close to terra preta. The soil does appear much darker in these old latrine pits than the surrounding soil.
I apologize for not watching this live. You and Rachel obviously have a wonderful relationship- it's a very nice thing to see in these videos. God bless y'all and thanks again.
Thanks mr. and mrs. good. Sweet potatoes cubed up and well oven toasted with 4xpepper 2xsalt and 1xgarlic powder, coated with olive oil, is pretty good - as is butternut squash, carrots and asparagus.
It was cool hangin out with ya brother. Enjoy your buttermobiles. ...and yeah...share us a moment with that cane-syrup-sweetn'tater-pie when she makes it...yeah :-L..
Make callaloo with the sweet potato leaves & throw in some dasheen bush🙂...coconut milk, okra, (hot) peppers, onion, garlic, thyme & lil pumpkin cook until melded...eat over rice Every Caribbean island makes it slightly different...this recipe is Trinidadian Local Asians & Africans would even buy some of those bundles of sweet potato leaves Rare find in the marketplace
Sadly, morning glorys shave been trying to choke out my sweet potatoes all season. I'm not due to pull them for another couple weeks..planted late. today's lesson for me: wear gloves while harvesting.. I have lots of ants, and spiders. I'm with Rachael..lots of butter. Cows love the vines too. I learned that from Danny at Deep South.
I poke holes in cardboard boxes with crinkled paper, and keep them in a cool dry place. I still have sweet potatoes from last year still. Been eating sweet potatoes casserole all year long.
I can hardly tell your in Alabama vs your old videos on the island right now that's awesome I wish my climate was like that I can't wait to go back home and get out of mizzery
My sweet potatoes were eaten by bunny or deer. I have 3 little plants that regrew. I hope I can get a couple of potatoes. I have a really good sweet potato pie recipe. I’ll email it to Rachel. Maybe she can try it.
The only issue I have with leaving sweet potatoes in the ground, longer than the harvest date is, they start to re-sprout. I'm not sure if that reduces their storage life or not, but I suspect that it does.
You can do a test dig to see if they're getting big. But we plant them after the last frost date, then harvest them before the frost in Fall. That gives lots of growing time.
I couldn’t put my slips in the ground until May they are a Virginia sweet potato it’s the closest I could find to my 6 b zone I grew them last year decent yield it was hot and dry last year. This year not as hot and very wet 🫰🏻
I’ve heard it’s not good to grow sweet potatoes in the same place year after year.. what do you plan to replace them with? Another cover plant or mulch?
We tend to mix up our ground covers. Sweet potatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumbers, beans, etc. Some may end up in the same spots but many will not. I think it works well.
My wife makes Pumpkin bread and her sweet Potatoe bread tastes about the same. It's a sweet bread with cinnamon added. She has also made apple bread.. If you want, I'll hit her up for a recipe. I started using copper tools in my garden. I made a copper sickle, next I need a copper hoe. But now I'm thinking about a shorter copper cutlas machete. I know I can forge that bend.. But the copper itself may cost $40 or more. Copper gets expensive real fast. I made some cool hand forged knives . Some are mixed into my pictures. But the forging with copper was pretty cool.. I misplaced my copper sickle and was worried about it. So I dreamed about where it was. But you should have seen that copper sickle in my dream. It looked WILD.. Gleaming and glistening. It looked like it was sprinkled in fairy dust or something.. I had put it in the tool box of my truck. Relief!
Well, I just checked with the wife. She said no to sweet potato bread. She doesn't like it. She just likes them baked or sweet potato casserole. But her pumpkin bread is amazing.
@davidthegood Sad to hear Sandy your friend died I read Sandy that created the c head toilet Died,is anyone continuing his manufacture Of them? Or where can i buy one ?
Scrubfest PSA: plant trading in the parking lot is prohibited however the nursery will be open and it’s being expanded currently. Plants are very inexpensive there especially the ones propagated there. Looks like I am assigned the task to patrol the parking lot to make sure plant trading is not going on.
@@davidthegood if your selling the white tater slips I'd like a dozen or 2. What's your "store" name and what platform do you sell on? (I'd like a few yam air taters too)
Your knowledge is a blessing.
Your humor is refreshing.
❤
I love how Rachel asked all those questions- I got a lot of great answers today! Thanks guys ♥️
I don't believe I just spent nearly three quarters of an hour watching you chop vines. You do have a way with keeping us entertained. -- Love you my brother. Ray Del;bury Sussex County NJ USA
Thank you.
Helpful Tip! I live in Florida and harvested over a 150 of Danny's Cherokee Tan pumpkins last September and some sweet potatoes last October, I turned one of my extra bedrooms into a food pantry with the 5 Wire shelf racks, about 6 of them placed all around the walls of that room! Most of the racks store my canned goods and such but I utilized 2 1/2 of them to store the pumpkins and sweet potatoes! I placed an Indian blanket over the window to keep the room dark during the daytime, and since they are in a controlled 70- 72' A/c environment, that seemed to work good for storing them! The sweet potato's yield was only about 80 Sweet potatoes, and they for lasted me without going bad and eventually the ones that I had left still in early summer started pushing out slips, so I utilized them for making more slips for re-planting, and the Pumpkins, I still have 4 left today and they still are firm! Me and the chickens ate most of the pumpkins, and some I gave away right away last year from the Harvest to neighbors! That was an unexpected harvest from only 5 seeds planted into the deep hole food scrap method of DTG's into a 3 foot circle, which those vines ended up going everywhere up to 75-100 feet from the original circle in all directions, but it also made roots all along the vines as they were growing! Any vine borer's didn't have a chance in stopping those vines! LOL! Would have had over 200, but some horses and other animals had gotten into them and ate some along the way, but I didn't mind, because I could see I was going to get plenty! But any who, enough chit-chat! I hope this helps somebody!
Very good idea.
It was actually your idea David, and me and my chickens THANK YOU for it!@@davidthegood
Thank you for going live. I really enjoyed it. And all your sweet potatoes.
And I thought that we grew some big sweet potatoes this year. Y'all made ours look like peas next to watermelons😂. Thank you Ms Rachel for filming and taking questions. Think the store is machete specialists. Wish I could have watched live. Thank y'all and have a blessed day.
Same, we have a very similar climate yet mine seem to do nothing :/
That was great to see. Western Australia here and my beds are ready to plant out my slips, exciting to trying to grow sweet potatoes for the first time. 👍🍠
Last year I threw the vines back on the bed and covered them with mulch. When spring rolled around they all sprouted just fine- I had my doubts. I didn't have to start slips this year and had a great harvest. (Credit to Wild Floridian for the idea)
Edit: I think that was a crowned snake
That is awesome
Mounded beds made over cardboard with lots and lots of wet yard stuff from the goat area covered with wood chips from the tree guy and then planted right after with sweet potato slips - oh my - most awesome bed of sweet potatoes by far that we've ever grown over that rock hard clay . . . then the next year we took that same bed and threw in some potatoes and they grew nicely and when that got done I moved all that bed onto cardboard to start a bed to move 1/3 of our strawberries into - probably 1/100th of the strawberries . . . we shall see how that goes. But the mounds grow wonderfully.
That is the way to do it!
I like this 1920’s style gardening .
I think the blurry-ness is just from less than ideal internet connection, but it’s good enough! Enjoying hanging with you guys even though I missed it live.
Try making 'cassava pone' recipe with a few sweet potatoes...you need tropical sweet potato, pumpkin, cassava & coconut
Makes a big sheet pan...for big family & friends🙂
Discovered roasted sweet potato mixed veggies is the tastiest
I sauté the greens, along with other leafy greens, with my eggs too. Delicious. 😀
That's going to be a super nice greenhouse 👍
You work so hard to build your dreams!
Aww poor southern gardener😂... we're so excited that we've had 3" of rain in the last three months! (Western MT) I've hardly had to water this year.
That's amazing. The sand here gets dry fast when it doesn't rain, and the heat was incredible.
The slithery friend looked like a Tantilla... probably Southeastern Crown Snake ;)
Thank you! That is it! They reminded me of the ringnecks we used to catch in South Florida.
I bought some sweet potatoes at the store and stuck them in the ground and all I have is little leaves about the size of my thumb and seeds. They vine and make a berry looking thing that has a black seed inside. It's everywhere but not a sign of potatoes yet. Great show. It answered several questions. Thank you both very much. Great Job. I live in Arkansas. I wonder about grocery row gardening here?. I'm in all clay here. I dig a bath tub looking hole and throw the clay away and fill up the hole with compost and soil. I have a very small garden. It's very labor intensive to make the beds.
Try just mounding up Compost, leaves, manure, and whatever materials you have available on top of cardboard to create new soil on top of the existing surface. You don’t have to have side boards for a “raised bed” of compost. You can break up a little clay or powder it and stir into water to splash over the new materials like David does in the terra preta experiment videos. Add some of the existing clay mineral content to the new soil forming. Mow it all close first, cover with wet overlapping cardboard like back to Eden method. Create compost and mix with a little existing dirt/soil just for microbes and the earthworms will eventually till it for you. They love the cardboard!
Correction the berry has 3 or 4 black seeds each. I got a bunch of them to look at. I have them drying. This looks a lot like morning glory vines at the river. But no morning glories. Just all these brown berry sized objects with seeds. I got scads of them
Hi Goodman family! Long time since we’ve heard from you all!
Get in touch: david@floridafoodforests.com
Excited you will have slips David!!!
Impressive haul of sweet potatoes.
I like mine baked also. The Cambodians cook theirs buried in the ashes of their cooking fire.
Great sweet tater harvest. I arrived a little late to watch it live but am enjoying it now bout half an hour late. I like your terra preta experiment very much. You may be interested in a non gardening channel that I watch a bit of called Below the plains. Guy digs up old outhouse pits for bottles and artifacts. Apparently the old timers threw wood ash in the pits along with their trash glass. Wood ash kept the smell down. If you could imagine the glass as being broken pottery and if there was more bone material in there I think it would be pretty close to terra preta. The soil does appear much darker in these old latrine pits than the surrounding soil.
I apologize for not watching this live. You and Rachel obviously have a wonderful relationship- it's a very nice thing to see in these videos. God bless y'all and thanks again.
You too.
Thanks mr. and mrs. good.
Sweet potatoes cubed up and well oven toasted with 4xpepper 2xsalt and 1xgarlic powder, coated with olive oil, is pretty good - as is butternut squash, carrots and asparagus.
It was cool hangin out with ya brother. Enjoy your buttermobiles. ...and yeah...share us a moment with that cane-syrup-sweetn'tater-pie when she makes it...yeah :-L..
We got the same dry weather/drought in East Tennessee. Still got a decent harvest though.
Thanks for the tips.
Make callaloo with the sweet potato leaves & throw in some dasheen bush🙂...coconut milk, okra, (hot) peppers, onion, garlic, thyme & lil pumpkin cook until melded...eat over rice
Every Caribbean island makes it slightly different...this recipe is Trinidadian
Local Asians & Africans would even buy some of those bundles of sweet potato leaves
Rare find in the marketplace
Oh yeah, I miss callaloo. We made it from taro leaves down in Grenada. In Jamaica, it's amaranth leaves!
Beautiful. I may not have listened to the whole thing... but will you keep, blanche, and freeze the greens?
No, we will feed them to the piggies.
nice haul! this video was satisfying and relaxing.
Sadly, morning glorys shave been trying to choke out my sweet potatoes all season. I'm not due to pull them for another couple weeks..planted late.
today's lesson for me: wear gloves while harvesting.. I have lots of ants, and spiders.
I'm with Rachael..lots of butter.
Cows love the vines too. I learned that from Danny at Deep South.
Crud! How do I keep missing the lives!!
Satisfying video I love digging for taters it's a treasure hunt
Just got my Winning the war on weeds book from John Moody on your recommendation and am looking forward to start reading it tonight.
He is sharp. Lots of good ideas. I really enjoyed it.
Machette tribe! Much love to you all!
I poke holes in cardboard boxes with crinkled paper, and keep them in a cool dry place. I still have sweet potatoes from last year still. Been eating sweet potatoes casserole all year long.
Great sweet potato harvest. Clear video and I an hear you loud and clear! See you next week at Scubland Farmz.
I can hardly tell your in Alabama vs your old videos on the island right now that's awesome I wish my climate was like that I can't wait to go back home and get out of mizzery
Geez, dems some sweet potatoes!
Its fine, not real blurry. Wish the sound was better. Wow on those potatoes.
Thank you Mr and Mrs Good for the video!
Enjoyed the live steam on replay. Thanks!!
You need to make some sweet potato they're delicious
We love treasure hunting with you😁
Love your videos.
I harvested my sweet potatoes last weekend and it was pretty good 1/3 purple, 1/3 white korean, 1/3 American
Love the vids where u are working
lol names and locations have been changed to protect the innocent =blurry potatoes!
Hey,David! Are you watering those canna lilies? They are enormous. I have bunch of 'em but they're not even close
You sound fine to me Rachel.
Hi,David and Rachel.
Any suggestions on how I can grow sweet potatoes on semidesert land?
Sweet potato pie is yum-yum! Better than pumpkin.
My sweet potatoes were eaten by bunny or deer. I have 3 little plants that regrew. I hope I can get a couple of potatoes. I have a really good sweet potato pie recipe. I’ll email it to Rachel. Maybe she can try it.
Mashed with cinnamon and coconut oil is great.
I put slips in the ground back in May. I wanted to see what i had a couple of weeks ago, and i had not a single potato 😢
That has to be disappointing.
Noooooooo!
Me too wonder why?
If you wear gloves, that will protect your hands from the ant bites.
how far down do you dig them? if these near the surface are this large, maybe you could try digging deeper? very nice harvest?
Fun!
Wonderful harvest!
This will be my Saturday task.
@davidthegood
The machete #1 P.T I designed and made is almost redy🎉 I'll be happy to gift it for u to use and review 🌿🍃🌲🌾
It's realy mesy hear, i realy hope i wont need to use it as a wepon beefor it gets to u 😔
The only issue I have with leaving sweet potatoes in the ground, longer than the harvest date is, they start to re-sprout. I'm not sure if that reduces their storage life or not, but I suspect that it does.
Mine just keep growing until we pull them.
That might be a baby copperhead you play with
Good for the immune system.
Do you eat the young leaves, excellent substitute for spinach 😋. Thanks 😊 for sharing.
Actually sweet
Potatoes are related to bindweed I believe.
Yes!
Ok, when will the white sweet potato slips be available? I cook them in soup and stews instead of regular potatoes! Goes great with meats!
We hope to have them ready in the spring.
It's blurry I think because of signal it's not 4k so people think blurry it's like old school tube tv with vhs
SWEET POTATOES!
😊😊💕💕👍👍
Chinese machetes break after a couple of cuts sometimes.
What did u plant your sweet taters in? Mulch? Straw?
Soil, then mulched with old hay and chipped up pine.
Compare to southeastern crown snake? Harmless.
When do you know when to pick your sweet potatoes???
You can do a test dig to see if they're getting big. But we plant them after the last frost date, then harvest them before the frost in Fall. That gives lots of growing time.
I couldn’t put my slips in the ground until May they are a Virginia sweet potato it’s the closest I could find to my 6 b zone I grew them last year decent yield it was hot and dry last year. This year not as hot and very wet 🫰🏻
I’ve heard it’s not good to grow sweet potatoes in the same place year after year.. what do you plan to replace them with? Another cover plant or mulch?
We tend to mix up our ground covers. Sweet potatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumbers, beans, etc. Some may end up in the same spots but many will not. I think it works well.
My wife makes Pumpkin bread and her sweet Potatoe bread tastes about the same. It's a sweet bread with cinnamon added. She has also made apple bread.. If you want, I'll hit her up for a recipe.
I started using copper tools in my garden. I made a copper sickle, next I need a copper hoe. But now I'm thinking about a shorter copper cutlas machete. I know I can forge that bend.. But the copper itself may cost $40 or more. Copper gets expensive real fast. I made some cool hand forged knives . Some are mixed into my pictures. But the forging with copper was pretty cool.. I misplaced my copper sickle and was worried about it. So I dreamed about where it was. But you should have seen that copper sickle in my dream. It looked WILD.. Gleaming and glistening. It looked like it was sprinkled in fairy dust or something.. I had put it in the tool box of my truck. Relief!
Well, I just checked with the wife. She said no to sweet potato bread. She doesn't like it. She just likes them baked or sweet potato casserole. But her pumpkin bread is amazing.
Can you email pics? Would love to see that.
I can't find your e mail address. The Copper sickle? or the sweet tator seeds? I would love to send you some pictures.@@davidthegood
Still can't hear you very well but thanks for the video
I hope it's not too frustrating.
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Gavid the Mr. Potato Head...
Mother Load!!!
Hey David!
Do you get so big batatas because of the cultivar, the climate or something else? I live in Zone 7b in Hungary.
We have a long growing season, which lets them get bigger.
Any ideas about managing wireworms in my sweet potatoes?
I have not fought them before.
I got sweet potatoes that got infested with weave,s . Is there a type that resist weavers?
I do not know.
Hi! I would like to know what is the name of that white sweet potatoes your where harvesting?
I do not know. I got some white ones from a grocery store and planted them.
Oh ok . Btw I really enjoy your videos your videos has inspire me to build my own food forest!!!
Where are you located.
How do you store the excess potatoes
In cardboard boxes and in baskets, after they dry for a few weeks on the porch.
@davidthegood
Sad to hear Sandy your friend died
I read Sandy that created the c head toilet
Died,is anyone continuing his manufacture
Of them?
Or where can i buy one ?
Thank you. He was a great inventor and a good man. I do not think the business has continued.
Your microphone was intermittently loud and quiet, Likely needs cleaning or repair.
💪🏽💯🔥 noice
Scrubfest PSA: plant trading in the parking lot is prohibited however the nursery will be open and it’s being expanded currently. Plants are very inexpensive there especially the ones propagated there.
Looks like I am assigned the task to patrol the parking lot to make sure plant trading is not going on.
That is funny. There are some potential issues with the state if plants come into the nursery from outside. :(
I can hear but you sound under the weather🤧
I am much better than I was a week ago!
Please don't look into the camera that way, you scared my child. 😅
What is the large white type?
It's an unknown type - I bought white sweet potatoes from a local grocery and sprouted them, then planted the slips. It's a keeper.
I would buy or trade for slips next spring if you are interested
@@davidthegood if your selling the white tater slips I'd like a dozen or 2. What's your "store" name and what platform do you sell on? (I'd like a few yam air taters too)
Voice not loud enough!