When I was a child, we needed to grow at least 700 kg for family of 4. We ate potatoes every day, there was no dinner without them. Every day potatoes and meat, and soup, veggies often were optional.
You're living my dream! ❤ I hope someday I will be able to dig my own succesful "gold" like you hehehe. Harvesting, cooking, and eating anything from the yards is such a good, peaceful feeling...
Potatoes, if you can store them properly, can be used almost in any way! They can be used in stews & casseroles; like she said roasted, boiled, fried, canned and a LARGE _baking potato_ can be a meal by itself! This is why the 'Irish' left Ireland during the 'Potato Famine' for greener pastures, this STARCH is essential in a SHTF situation when _all you have to eat is what you can still grow!_
Yes we have but in other areas like the compost. We till the ground once a year so when we do that we’ve found some that way. I’d like to get to a point of not tilling but our soil is so hard
Dawn dish soap for sure. I mix it up in a 1 gallon sprayer - dawn dish soap and water. Spray it on this young bugs while they are still soft, kills them every time.
Just found your channel and subscribed!! How did you amend your soil for the potato bed? My soil is far too heavy. Thank you in advance! Your garden looks great. The dawn dish liquid is a great idea. I just ordered some from Amazon.
Thank you so much! Our soil is heavy too. And in half the garden about 6-8 inches down it’s clay. So for the potatoes we bought some soft composted top soil. $40 for a huge truck load so once the potatoes came up we hilled with the compost. I have a shorts video if it 😊
Thank you. We did side dress one time with 13-13-13. Then the last time we hilled the potatoes we used a loose compost soil, kinda like a raised bed mix that we buy in bulk for a great price and that mix also had fertilizer in it.
Those bugs on your squash you are spraying with dawn are young squash bugs. They will just get big and you will get more. The best way to deal with them is to hand pick them off and drop them in a jar of soapy water or gas or alcohol.
We are located in alabama on the gulf coast. There is some sand and also clay about 6-8 in down in some areas. Florida is VERY sandy! We are about 45 min from the beach
We don’t mix sand in the soil but there is some sand. There is also clay. I’d love to learn how to improve the soil because it needs some TLC. For the potatoes we did add a good amount of loose composted soil that we bought in bulk
We live on 1/2 an acre and my grandmother lives on half an acre too. Together it’s a whole acre and the fruit trees are in our yard and we put the garden in her yard since she gets more sunlight! The garden itself is 50x50
We do have moles etc. some potatoes do have damage from the moles. In my raised sweet potato bed we put hardware cloth on the bottom so nothing could get through except worms. But as far as the regular potatoes, we don’t do anything
Nice harvest I might sound like an ass for saying this but please next time don’t have your littles ones walking over the potatoes next to those weights super dangerous as a dad myself it gave me mild anxiety 😂
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I love your garden! ❤
That's a HUGE potato harvest!
Donna
Coastal Georgia
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
You are a hard worker, hard to find in today’s world.👍 I plant 250 lbs of potato seeds and can most of them for my extended family members.
Wow you sure do plant a lot! That’s amazing! It’s so fun being able to share our abundance with others ❤ thanks for the nice comment 😊
Wow, so much harvest and money that was saved
Hello 🎉
When I was a child, we needed to grow at least 700 kg for family of 4. We ate potatoes every day, there was no dinner without them. Every day potatoes and meat, and soup, veggies often were optional.
You're living my dream! ❤ I hope someday I will be able to dig my own succesful "gold" like you hehehe. Harvesting, cooking, and eating anything from the yards is such a good, peaceful feeling...
Great harvest, Kristen! 😊
Potatoes, if you can store them properly, can be used almost in any way! They can be used in stews & casseroles; like she said roasted, boiled, fried, canned and a LARGE _baking potato_ can be a meal by itself! This is why the 'Irish' left Ireland during the 'Potato Famine' for greener pastures, this STARCH is essential in a SHTF situation when _all you have to eat is what you can still grow!_
And I can also imagine, that if one has early varieties, one could get two harvests a year of them.
Thanks for sharing
I love forming work 😊🥰😊
Wow too many sweet potatoes harvest i really love that
Congratulations! Great work! They look gorgeous.
The Almighty is so generous plant one get five or so. He is so wonderful he gives all sizes.
Enjoyed the video
Johanna is so cute!
Thank you ♥️
nice harvest!
Well done on the potatoes
Neem oil is good for bugs.
Potato math, love it❣️
Very fertile plantation, thank you for sharing
What a nice harvest!
Thank you!
Well done!
Love me good potato harvest vid!
Awesome love the gardening videos keep it up 👍
Excellent potato harvest🎉🎉
Thank you!!
Wow!!! That’s amazing! I’m now one of your subs. ❤❤
Thanks for following along ♥️😊
Beautiful garden and nice harvest
Love y'all. Beautiful garden. Do y'all ever miss a potato and end up with a new plant?
Yes we have but in other areas like the compost. We till the ground once a year so when we do that we’ve found some that way. I’d like to get to a point of not tilling but our soil is so hard
July 5th i pull mine up. I cannot wait!
I store my potatoes in dry shavings it works well if you keep them cool and dark
Great idea!!!
because your family is beautiful, ma'am, I immediately subscribed to your channel... the sweet potato is delicious, fried sweet potato with sugar
Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoy everything 🙂
Just found your channel and subscribed.......
Awesome! I hope you enjoy 😊
Wow! Great harvest
thank you❤
FYI you never wipe the dirt and you need to cure them before you store them.
Yes! BT is great! We use it on broccoli. Your garden looks excellent!
Thank you! Now that summer is in full force and it being 100+ degrees it’s looking a little sad but soon we will be planting for fall 😁😁😁
Nice harvest!
That had to be a rotten seed potato. Lol.
All the time
one way i deal with clusters of garden pests is to get my shop vac out and suck them up! doesnt harm plants and its instant joy...lol
Haha I’ve heard of that!!! I would definitely do that!
Your potato is good.
Nice 👍🏾 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
At 3:05, I believe those are squash vine nymphs, in other words, the babies that have hatched from those eggs.
😖😖 I sure hope not! But if they are they got to go somewhere else haha
@FavoredAcreHomestead the Dawn spray will help take them out😊
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Dawn dish soap for sure. I mix it up in a 1 gallon sprayer - dawn dish soap and water. Spray it on this young bugs while they are still soft, kills them every time.
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Interesting how the soil looks so moist and then when you get down to the taters it’s dry.
Just found your channel and subscribed!! How did you amend your soil for the potato bed? My soil is far too heavy. Thank you in advance! Your garden looks great. The dawn dish liquid is a great idea. I just ordered some from Amazon.
Thank you so much! Our soil is heavy too. And in half the garden about 6-8 inches down it’s clay. So for the potatoes we bought some soft composted top soil. $40 for a huge truck load so once the potatoes came up we hilled with the compost. I have a shorts video if it 😊
That's a good harvest of potatos do u use feed cause I'm having problems with mine this year
Thank you. We did side dress one time with 13-13-13. Then the last time we hilled the potatoes we used a loose compost soil, kinda like a raised bed mix that we buy in bulk for a great price and that mix also had fertilizer in it.
Those bugs on your squash you are spraying with dawn are young squash bugs. They will just get big and you will get more. The best way to deal with them is to hand pick them off and drop them in a jar of soapy water or gas or alcohol.
What an awesome harvest. A new subscriber here.
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I burn them with a long handle lighter so I don’t have to touch anything either.
may i suggest you wash potato in big vat of water and then put out to dry. cloth cleaning is very much time.
Thank you! ☺️
If you grow Armenian yard long cucumbers the squash bugs leave them alone. They are a melon that looks and tastes like a cucumber.
Interesting! I’ll have to try those!!!!
Lisa I was wondering why mine weren't being attacked..
@@sunshinedayz2172 I think it’s a blessing!
What did u fertilize with? N yes to DE alive that stuff here in North Texas ❤
We fertilize with 13-13-13 and also added a soft top soil to the top and hilled with that!
Impressive haul! Is that sand mixed into the soil?
Sandy soils are really common in Florida. Not sure where they are located.
We are located in alabama on the gulf coast. There is some sand and also clay about 6-8 in down in some areas. Florida is VERY sandy! We are about 45 min from the beach
We don’t mix sand in the soil but there is some sand. There is also clay. I’d love to learn how to improve the soil because it needs some TLC. For the potatoes we did add a good amount of loose composted soil that we bought in bulk
how many acres do you have ??
We live on 1/2 an acre and my grandmother lives on half an acre too. Together it’s a whole acre and the fruit trees are in our yard and we put the garden in her yard since she gets more sunlight! The garden itself is 50x50
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Just curious, how come?
How much dawn do you mix with the water?
I didn’t measure but for that bottle maybe just a teaspoon worth but I only filled it with water half way up
How did you get rid of rodents??
We do have moles etc. some potatoes do have damage from the moles. In my raised sweet potato bed we put hardware cloth on the bottom so nothing could get through except worms. But as far as the regular potatoes, we don’t do anything
@@FavoredAcreHomestead okay👍
Nice harvest I might sound like an ass for saying this but please next time don’t have your littles ones walking over the potatoes next to those weights super dangerous as a dad myself it gave me mild anxiety 😂
Oh I know lol. You can’t tell in the video but I was telling her to be careful and to go back by the camera. Her walking on the potato’s was 😬😬😬
Was this filmed this year? All mine are still green
@Favored Acre Homestead o didn't mark the exact date but I'd guess early March so that makes sense. Shouldn't be long now! Thank you for the response!
Yes this was filmed this year. I’m sorry my other comment must have never posted.
whats pound ? its 2023 i thought we use kg by now ..
You dont need to cut squash off, just twist it 🤦
We prefer to cut 🙂
You can use neem oil on your plants. bugs hate the taste. but it's natural from the neem tree.
I will have to give that a try! Thanks!
@@FavoredAcreHomestead I use it on all vegetables and fruit trees. You can use it up till you harvest. Just wash your produce with clean water.
Hi. Lovely harvest. New sub here @kimshomesteadliving