Do YOU Want to EAT? Sweet Potato Harvest and TIPS
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2022
- 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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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!
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
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 👍
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.
Nope, they are morning glory family
I am struggling with this food issue. Could you recommend a book?
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!
Well done! Enjoy your abundance❤
What variety. I’m I’m Michigan
We're in Ohio as well. This was my first time growing sweet potatoes. Any tips?
@@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😉
@@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.
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
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!
Your sweet potatoes look great
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
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.
@@lissa755 especially can't stand rats.yuck! Filty!
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.
Help is coming to dig sweets, like my four little slips I planted. So much knowledge, and that’s what DSH offer’s ❤️
You get 4 plants to dig. Lol
The vines are really good sautéed in butter or ghee with fried eggs too! Your cows are so sweet. I love watching them.
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!
So very sorry this happened to you!
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.
I lost about 1/2 of mine the same way
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.
@@ny-gardener4380 thanks for the tip :)
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❤😊
Thanks.
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!
Great video. Taking notes to add to my sweet potato manual (thank you for writing it Danny). Continued Blessings ✝ for you both & DSH.
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!
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 👍
If we have ducks, chickens, cats and dogs, etc..will they eat gum and would gum hurt them? Thanks.
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!
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 🕊️🥰
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.
I love Dolly’s expression…whadda ya mean there’s no sweet potatoes mom? 🤣🤣🤣
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.
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
Your mix will deter, but will not kill rodents.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for all the info on eating the vines also!
Man you all have the best sweet potatoes. We have learned a lot from watching thank you
Beautiful harvest so far!
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!
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. 😄
I'm glad to see you doing better today Mr. Danny. Your much appreciated and loved by many 🌻 and Mrs. Wanda as well.
I got slips off of a potato from the store. First time ever had sweet potato. I left it 120 days. I got 1 potato from the plant. God bless you and your family.💖
Danny, you and Wanda teach us so much about how to be successful at gardening! I really appreciate your videos!
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
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 😋
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!
Last year we bought a fruit press for our grape harvest. We ordered one we saw ya'll using on your video. I was glad we did. It has worked very well for us. Thank you.
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
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!!!💘💘💘
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
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!
Thank you for showing your cows.
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.
I'm so happy to hear you say these things about animals destroying our food supply. True for my backyard garden up here in CT
Great garden! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge on harvesting sweet potatoes.
They are sure looking good. Your whole garden is excellent.
Oh my word! Yes! Do you want to eat?! We're in year 2 of our zone 6a Missouri garden. I've only grown a Canada, and have NEVER had the rodent or bug issues in Canada! I have lost most of our tomatoes to birds, chipmunks, racoons, and squirrels. Rabbits ate our bean seedlings and asparagus. I used to think they were cute, but they're eating all our food!!! They gotta get gone!
Some insect chewed up 3/4 of our potatoe harvest. I got 12 quarts and 12 pints out of 60 hills What a disappointing garden year! I just reseeded harvested food with cool weather, quick maturing crops. Praying for a better harvest then!
I pray you're able to manage your harvest with your health and heat!
Good morning, what a beautiful garden you both have!!!!! Gods blessings 🙏
Those are beautiful samples of each - I hope for sure the rest of your harvest matches. They look good enough to eat through the computer screen.
I hear such pleasure in your voices when you see big sweet potatoes! 😀
I only just found your UA-cam channel, Fantastic, I love it, Love from Australia. I love Sweet potatoes
I live over the state line in the Citronelle,Al area. I can't wait to plant sweet potatoes next year. I am a novice gardener and you are a wealth of information and inspiration
I never grew potato before, and saw it on Patara show (Apalachia Homestead). She couldnt find much slips, so just threw some old pantry ones in the dirt. I tried that (orange sweet potato) and had my slips in a couple weeks, that was in June. Now I got vines all over. Cut off the slips and stick that potato back in the dirt and it will grow more! Also tried some japanese purple, but they aren't doing near as well.
Morning Y’all , again my friend, it’s like Gardening Class , thank you for taking the time to show us the good the bad and the ugly, (if you don’t mind) I Take Notes ! LOL !
Good morning.
Oh my..now that's a production line.hats off.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Great video Danny & Wanda. We are going to harvest ours here in a couple weeks. Mike
Thanks for sharing. I have tunnels under my plants also.
massive sweet potato beds - lovely so good
Those peas look amazing!!!
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 🙏🏻😀👍🇺🇸
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. 🐀🚫
Definitely agree and we fight off the gofers,moles and a major slug problem and we just got some kittens and we have a barn cat to help
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.
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
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!
Great video on sweet potatoes!
Starting to dig my potatoes too.
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!
When I water my aloes the mice run out!
Danny what I can see there is White - Red & Orange Sweet potatoes. I do not grow the white as they go a blackish color when I roast them but the Red & Orange are just amazing . I have 2 large beds in at the moment as we are coming into Spring & Summer & I only have a few saved from my last harvest- they are my favourite potatoes. Great Video Thanks Guys. Cheers Denise- Australia
Love all of your harvests. It would be good if you could buy the property next to you. That way you could have more pasture and keep it down to keep the varmints away from your place.
Dolly's expression when you said no sweet potatoes! 😂
I took to growing all my tubers in buckets or bags. No blight, not one bug or rodent in over 3 years. This way you can move them out of the way and let them sit in the dirt until you need to harvest some. I was digging them out all winter in the basement.
Looks good and you are correct, you’ve got to get rid of the varmints. God bless y’all.
I want lemon grass!! I'm going to use cattle panels for my peas next year, what a tangle everything is.
Send me your address.
Good morning ☺️ Awesome Harvest!
Good morning
Take what you can get especially this year !! And get as much harvested as once ..!!
Great video! 👍
We had every insect imaginable eating our sweets last year so I planted in buckets this year. We'll see how they did in another week.
I'll have to try the white sweet potato, I always eat the reds. I love hearing the rooster crow!
Beautiful potatoe patch
Danny and Wanda, can you cut up the vines resprout them and replant them? Thankyou for your insight, we are truly blessed to have the both of you 🙏
There's not enough time to regrow them.
@@DeepSouthHomestead Thank you, I had wondered that
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.
How did you get rid of them. For the first time I have them
@@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.
Good Morning Danny and Wanda!
The cows know how edible they are and seem to love them.
Good morning
Nice looking sweet potatoes. I hope to raise some next year.
I plant my rows far enough to where I can get tractor between them take your tiller down next to each side of row and grind them vines make digging lot easier when you don’t have all that vine to pull out the way
For Rats try baking soda and jiffy corn mix, mixed together and then put out in containers, kills them stone dead
Good morning from Alabama. Have a great day.
God blessing your peas and sweet potatoes! YAY!
My momma liked the long slender ones
Wish I was there to help y'all dig em up . . . . . .
I work my tell of in my garden and I think more of my food than I do vermon or varments no mater what the season if he's on your side of the fence he's yours if he's on my side he's dead .I don't sweat like a dog for something besides me and mine to eat . may GOD bless yall.
Same here
There's lots of tators don't overdo it in the heat . God has blessed you 🙏.
Good morning brother!
Good morning
I'm gonna try wrapping tulle around the trunk of our fruit trees to detour critters from climbing and getting the fruit. Robbie in CA says they don't like to get their claws in the tiny holes so they go away. It has worked so far keeping them from eating my moringa when small. I just bunch it up around them and nothing has eaten them.
BTW, I'm west of Hattiesburg and I love watching you two. Praying for your health, Danny.
I was in Columbia yesterday at our kids house.
I use on my container garden. It works on deer too if you cover the whole plant . I live in the middle of town and I have deer coming smh
@@bcrouch2626 I've started that as well. It helps with vine borers, etc.
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.
Rodents can't digest the mix and the gas it causes, so the rodents die from gas.
I will sometimes add a little quick krete (sp) to it...that really gets them stopped in their tracks
Danny....Do you want to eat? LOL
It's so funny because your truthful. My favorite sweet potatoes are the white ones. My parents came from Puerto Rico. They have some delicious sweet potatoes on the island.
Wow, you are going to have a great harvest of sweet potatoes. God is good.
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?
For birds rabbits and squirrels and etc the mesh fabric tulle works well. They don’t like their nails feeling like they are going to be trapped