A Sweet Surprise
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Our first frost has come, and the rest of the garden has taken the hit. Today we’re harvesting our sweet potatoes to see how they did.
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Intro: Let Me Love You by Loving CaliberDancing On The Tables by Elijah N
Beyond Words by Many Moons Ago
El Dorado by Blue Steel
I Won’t Waste This by Wildflowers
Morning Light by Onda Norte
Mountain Spring High by Gabriel Lewis
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The green loofah may be salvageable. Our area also got frosted and a local homesteader said she took her green loofah & baked them at 350F for 30 minutes. When cool enough to handle, she peeled & seeded them and now they are completely usable for kitchen scrubbers.
interesting
Great feedback! Thanks!
I’m going to try that with my green loofah. Thanks for sharing
I tried this and ended up with juices from the loofah all over the oven. Put a tray of something under it to help, if you can. I did 30 minutes. It wasn’t enough, so I’m adding more time.
I always enjoy your homestead adventures! But my absolute favorite ones are when the whole family is together! Your harvest is much more than a sweet potato haul! I see five young ones...growing, developing, and blessing us all! Well done, mom and dad! 💕
Terrence ‘s account literally started today.
Here in France, we have someone (a large fruit producer) who has put his chicken in his orchards. He has integrated chicken coops in each orchard with fences around them and the hens move freely in this large space. It thus avoids certain diseases and its soil is permanently fertilized and its production is incredible.
Kisses from France ♥♥♥
@@terrance8178 Uh my catchy profile ???
What do you want to know about me?
Are you trying to flirt with me?
In fact, I don't really understand your approach and having it translated by Google shouldn't help understanding...
@@lagrenouillerose6862 I would report him if I were you. I checked his profile, it was created today and he's posted the same thing word for word in several responses. Likely it's some scam. I've reported him on all the responses I've found thus far.
@@xzaviayifu3581 Thank you very much to you... I had also noticed that it was someone who had just arrived and I found it surprising, I had the impression that he was confusing UA-cam with a dating site.. .
Kisses from France ♥♥♥
First frost, first snow or first spring flowers! Mother Nature is always full of first and I love them all. God bless you all and keep growing.
One of the best parts of these videos are showing a homestead is alot of FUN FOR EVERYONE!
To heat your green house through the winter you can use plastic containers/barrel drums of water that get heated by the sun in the green house. They release heat throughout the night. Like the ones you use to water the pigs. If painted black or if they are blue they hold more heat.
I loved hearing from your son today and I love it even more that the most I have ever heard from your boys is due to their love of sweet potatoes! Lol
Right!!! They also went crazy on the dug-out so Im guessing they just love to play in the dirt!! 😂
Nice to see kids enjoying nature and not on phones and playstations.
I luv seeing Buggie with her little bare feet digging in the dirt. And the pride in your sons voice over what you all have grown. Great job! 🌻👍🌻🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🌻
Just a suggestion, take a large black plastic bag and slip it over the tractor seat! (Maybe even the lawnmower seat too. Thanks for sharing so much, I can never do this, but I sure can live through ya'll.
Many moons ago my father planted some potatoes and got one potato that weighed 5pounds so he gave it to a lady across the road and she said it lasted her about a week. You have got some good spuds there.
Single, 67 years old. Sounds like im starting a singles ad. Lol. As long as they taste the same, I would love to have some of the small, spindley potatoes. I would eat them more often in a manageable size. Great harvest!
Buried treasure in truth. I remember you commenting that your top-soil was washed down the hill so maybe that last bed had a lot of it. Any way you look at it, you certainly got rewarded for your efforts.
I want to see all the delicious recipes Meg makes with the sweet potatoes 😋
I am jealous. Those sweet potatoes are beautiful and will make delicious meals. Soup, with coconut milk, peanut butter, a few red chili flakes, onions, carrots and celery, cumin and curry. Yummy on a cold, rainy day.
The family that potatoes together stays together (and eats potatoes for dinner!) 😁
Jac Frost visited Southeast Alabama last night. 32F this morning.
Love that buggie is getting right in there helping! She’s so cute. The boys are grown up!
Ben You told us one of your favorite chores is digging potatoes. I want to tell you what my favorite chore is. Cutting firewood, firewood , loading firewood, stacking firewood, burning firewood. The fun part is I,m almost 60. My favorite grandmother was born in the late 1800's. Yes that is right. My sister has a picture of my grandmother with her parents and the biggest stack of firewood you ever did see!
What a great harvest. You and all of us, have learned so much this year! Loved, seeing the kids out there getting it done! Congratulations on growing interest for lots of folks and your kids. I can't even imagine where they will go with the knowledge they gain from working with such good parents! God bless all of you!!
What a Harvest !!.and Great team work even Buggy 🤣.
💚 My, my, that's a lot of sweet potatoes and a lot of learning! Very cool 😎. 💚
You guys are gardening fools! Wow. Every video is like a master class in... something. It's such a joy to watch all of you work. Makes me wish I were 20-30 years younger.
AWESOME harvest! I harvest 50lbs on my volunteers sweet potatoes from last year in my sandy soil. 💜Zone 9B Central FL
I love seeing the results of your experiments. To think that you can grow sweet potatoes around your trees and get a great yield, weed suppression and soil aeration! Oh my! Fun day Hollar family. 🌻
I was hoping to see the dirt lovin' buggie golden locks make an appearance.
Those sweet potatoes are impressive! Your hard work is paying off in spades~ I see sweet potatoe ff in your future.
So awesome. The education your homestead provides is priceless. Way to go, Hollar Family!
That's a very sweet harvest that got the whole family very excited..such beautiful family moment. The potatoes reminds me of Paul Gautschi, harvesting and replanting potatoes at the same time... year round..planted under his fruit trees. If you have good soil..you can plant literally everywhere. Maybe try a row in the tunnel for experiment?
You guys rock. I planted about 10 slips in late July and harvested less than 1 pound yesterday. I did, however discover that sweet potato leaves are the best greens ever. Bacon grease and minced garlic, s&p, cayenne pepper, Aleppo pepper to season and a little chicken broth. Try them next year. It wu make you turn your nose up at spinach.
Nice job! Nothing like homegrown sweet potatoes.
I grew mine in my green house over the summer and they went bonkers! No shade cloth only watered once a week. My best year ever!
As a livestock geneticist that hobby gardens- keep your big beast sweet potato’s for slips, not your little ones! Growth rate and “early maturing” genes can/will be heretitable. I always keep the specimen that most suits my requirements to “breed” replacements off. In your case, breed from the plants you know did fantastic. Give it five years and you’ll have the most incredible sweet potato harvest!!
Your children are so helpful , you can tell they enjoy helping God bless your beautiful family
Loved everyone working together. So fun to see bare feet the day after a frost. I hear my Mom saying put your shoes on!!! So cool your son coming to the camera to show off that haul from one sweet potato plant! I am zone 9 and gardening in clay... 3rd year trying to grow them. Hopefully it is a little better than last year!
I think sweet potato pie is coming up! The small ones would make really good sweet potato chips!
And fries👍😊...
@@cherylt8590 yes! Good idea!
We’re going to be eating sweet potato everything 😂
@@TheHollarHomestead 🤪I’m sure Meg will be making some delicious things
@@TheHollarHomestead sweet potato mash added to pancakes is about as good as pumpkin added. Then add some pie seasoning to some whipped cream and have a great breakfast.
Awesome harvest for your family & the animals. Great see the kids in there digging for treasure.
Hi Brett, you are growing up way too fast. That was a great sweet potato plant you showed us loaded with nice potatoes. Thanx!
Exactly how a Homestad is supposed to work! You did good! Fun too
I would be proud if I had grown all them. I have only been gardening a year, an I just let mother nature do her thing with a little weeding now an then, iv had a great crop, even fed some to the neighbours chicken's. Great video, love you guy's 👍
When I had my commercial greenhouses, we grew a fair amount of decorative leaf sweet potato vines in hanging baskets. Even those would get enough small tubers on them that they would sometimes crack the plastic baskets by fall. I always wanted to try eating one of them but never got around to it LOL. I love how Brett gives his "commentaries" to the camera sometimes now
I love how excited you all are about your potato harvest. I’m the exact same way. And I like to say everything I do in my garden is an experiment
love the little pigs and glad you got your sweet potatoes harvest
Y'all, this was a FANTASTIC tater harvest! Even the 8 pounds of regular taters were amazing, I'd be as happy as a pig in slop if they were mine! I'm looking forward to next year, provided we don't have another HORRIBLE drought.
You can grow food anywhere....put the seeds and God will do the best
Praise God for his mercy and grace
Seeing this Ben as you have grown them in a raised bed I really think we will try both sweet and red potatoes in all raised beds next year. Great looking crop of the sweet potatoes for sure. Y"all have a great weekend and God Bless.
We enjoyed this so much! Y’all are the movie part to “dinner and a movie” every night. My husband and I have been married almost 48 yrs and about 2 yrs ago, we made you part of our mealtime. It is so nice. We say our blessing and get to watch you say yours in most episodes. Thank you for hours of wonderful viewing!
🤣 🍠🍠🍠 There’s no age limit on having fun digging in the dirt ❤. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Wowzer! That's brilliant, and 100lbs for your animals too. Well done. Now to look up what a sweet potato slip is as I don't know here in 🇬🇧. Hope you feel stronger soon Meg, praying for you 😊
It’s the sprout that come from the potato once it goes into regeneration mode. We pick them off and root them in water, then plant them. You can also pick them off and plant them directly in soil.
@@TheHollarHomestead bless you, thanks for the info. We are going to try this year, not sure if it will be hot enough but worth an experiment and you never know we may be surprised 🙏
Hi jo, I’m based here too.
I tried the slips in water to sprout, it takes a while. The slips need to be rooted by spring so they can go in ground March/April to give them long enough to grow. Mine failed last year, so I will try to get the sweet potato to sprout now, so once they’re pulled off & put in water they can root. Let me know how you get on xx
LOVE the shots of the frost
Lovely frost photos! Awesome sweet potato harvest! Great encouragement to try... even when the odds say no. You are blessed for it! Thank you for bringing hope to those discouraged. Blessings and prayers over you all.🥰🌻🐛🍁🍂
How cool is that sweet potato & potato harvest! What family fun digging for treasures. Idk your middle son's name, but he looks a lot like Meg. Great job Ben!👏💙
Kim C White ~ The middle son is Brett. Twins are Jack and Tyler, youngest boy is Munchie/Corbyn, and the little girl is Liliana/Buggie. You don't know what the names are and I don't know how they're spelled. LOL.
@@TXNLaurenMcN I think it's Lilyanna. The rest you got right lol.
@@SagebrushRambles ~ I know Buggie's middle name is Faith, but I'm still uncertain as to the spelling. Thanks for the input, JT. You're probably right.
@Tommie Jones A beautiful family... Inside & Out. 😉
Nice yield of sweet potatoes Ben, I saw someone on UA-cam who grew some in a bucket he also said you can grow them anywhere. Not bad yield for the russets being late planted either. Nice seeing the whole family chipping in and I agree love digging up root plants. Blessings to you all. 😊🇺🇲
We just harvested our "Okinawan Sweet Potatoes" here on the "Big Island of Hawaii". Our raised beds are Washing Machine tubs. We got 19 pounds from just one bed.
As a kid I enjoyed digging and picking up potatoes.
🙋hi from Scotland hi wow what a crop of Sweet potatoes I grow all my own veg and had a great harvest this year but here in Scotland we don't get high enough temperatures to grow sweet potatoes well done on all of your crops you have come a long way in such a short time take care lovly family Anne from Scotland
@@terrance8178 hi Terrance I am from Scotland
Harvesting root vegetable crops is kinda like dirt fishin'! I love y'all's enthusiasm.
The frost on the plants looks nice. We are still pleased to be leaving them for a while. Each season has its joys. Great haul of sweet potatoes. 💕💕🌻🌻
You can eat the small sweet potatoes too! :) I would rub them with oil and salt & pepper and roast them. We loved them with a beef or pork roast. Yum! .... I absolutely LOVE hearing the kids talk on camera. It's a family affair!
Yummy yummy in my tummy, sweet potato 🍠 pie 🥧 sweet potato 🍠 and butter , sweet potato soup 🍜, I could eat sweet potatoes till the cows 🐄 come home 🏡 such a sweet surprise . ❤️
Awesome potato harvest. Also, it's a very smart practice to raise food for your animals to off set the cost of animal feed. Keep up the great job 👏♥️👍
It’s so sweet your little one is right out there helping, she’s such a beautiful little girl, Meg you will be making sweet potato pie, candied, mashed and baked sweet potatoes too, also some sort of bread, an awesome harvest, it’s so wonderful your boys are such a great help on the homestead!
@@terrance8178 go away
Why go away?
It is fun digging up potatoes. Great haul.
Look at all those helpers ! Precious
No soil digging is complete withou Little Miss Mischief appearing. 🥰
What a wonderful bounty of good, nutritious and healthy food to add to the winter store cupboard.
Wow that is a lot of potatoes, let him wear it for a hat! Lol. A couple of years ago my husband and I had put sweet potato slips down in the south garden. We really didn’t take care of the south garden, except for we dumped our above ground swimming pool twice. So the pool was clean when friends and family came over. I really wished I had weighed those sweet potatoes because they were huge and all they got was extra water. Oh by the way, neither my husband or I like sweet potatoes, but my mom and several of my sisters do so they had a haul that year.
Waiting to see what Meg does with those sweet potatoes! I'm imaging some brown sugar, home made butter, you know she will tempt our taste buds with her fabulous culinary creations. peace
this video makes me smile. great time together diggin spuds and thats so good that you grew 100lbs of potatoes for the animals! next you'll need a corn field! thats my plan for next year...hopefully
corn field
Look at that Frost. We haven't even had a frost like that in mid Michigan yet.
I thought the same thing!
Terrance is a scam bot and should be reported everytime someone sees that reply.
Nuthin' like good growin' and good harvestin' then good eatin'!
I sure hope Meg has an industrial washer and dryer for the amount of dirt and mud her 5 men accumulate each day! Your boys are amazing helpers with beautiful shiny hair, I might add.
That's a fabulous result! It is so cool that you guys share what you did and what grew. A lesson to all of us.
What a fabulous harvest! What a great learning experience!
Those potato helpers are priceless!!
I would enjoy seeing how you integrate the harvest into the animal feed this winter.
What a harvest guys
If you keep them in a cool dark place they will last a year I just ate some from last season
How awesome! I love digging for sweet potato treasure! I've grown them the last 2 years, but next year I've got to grow regular potatoes and try them out. I only have a few beds to grow in, so I'm selective in what I decide to grow.
You can grow then harvest the reg potatoes then plant sw potato slips to do both!!
I am so happy how God has blessed your crop
Wonderful. I have loved watching you learn and work and add more each year. Imagine what next year will be like. Love how the children are so interested. And all the animal feed. You are well on your way to self suffciency.
I look forward everyday for videos from you folks..so much teaching and learning....love it!❤️
I love seeing what your garden has produced.😆❤❤🙍♂🙅🙅♀💁🙋♂🥔🥔🥔
Love the vlog as usual. The frost looks absolutely beautiful. HopeMeg is feeling better today. Its so cute seeing Buggy organising her brothers when your harvesting. Love and blessings beautiful family xjx
It was like going on a treasure hunt and it made it look fun. Great harvest kids!
Yay! The boys are excited (including you Dad)! Sweet potatoes!
Please get well Meg. Your family loves you. 💕.
Great harvest! Blessings!
You should have a day for each of the boys to introduce themselves and tell or show us what their favorite day would consist of.
Buggie is the cutest toddler on UA-cam! Would love to see more of her, and meet the boys too. Meg inspires me to get off my duff. You're a good guy Ben! Thanks for wholesome content.
If you folks like pumpkin pie, you would also like sweet potatoe pie. Just another possible option for the undersized harvest.
Wow, such a terrific harvest of potatoes!! I saw little Buggy out there helping with her big brothers😘! I love how y’all work so well together💜! Thank you for sharing your wonderful life with us!
Fantastic crop of taters!! And I loved seeing little Buggie digging "taboes"! Even those long skinny sweet taters are so sweet and good. My mom always preferred the long skinny ones over the big fat ones because they are sweeter. She would bake them to add to our meals. You should try some and see how you like the skinny ones!
Wow congrats those sweet potatoes were huge‼️💯
Loaded baked sweet potatoes are the best!! Bake just like regular potatoes and put bacon bit, cheese, chives and sour cream and optional ground beef 🤤
I enjoyed this every bit as much as you guys did, thank you for sharing it.
Frost can be a killer, but it is so beautiful. And raises sugars in apples, oranges and other plants. Hoping Meg feels better.
Gosh what a great sp haul! LOVE THE WEIGHING in. Will you save slips to plant in your greenhouse?
yes and it also raises sugars in collards and turnip and mustard greens
Congratulations! You have the biggest and prettiest sweet potato harvest I’ve ever seen! There’s a lot you can do with those delicious potatoes, too, and Meg you know that! Sweet potatoes are very simple to grow because they take a very small amount of your time, yet they are very healthy for grown ups and children, too!
Your correct on the quality of your soil. Lived in Amarillo, tx and it took me 2 years of heavy mulch in clearly clay soil. Soil could be used for base road work. Had 3 commercial size trash cans full of fall leaves, 5 bales of alfalfa hay. And all summer grass clippings. If you do the work the lord will take care of the rest on your blessing. Hard work always rewards us green thumbs gardener's.
You are so blessed with such a great harvest…unfortunately my husband does not like them…..so I dehydrate them when I find them on sale and I make sweet potato powder to add to soups and such……also a lot of greens go into powder……then there’s no waste …I take small potatoes and wash them then run thru the processor and grind it….then I dehydrate the ground potatoes.
You could easily bury an old freezer and use that as a cold cellar for root veggies and veggie powders…..BUT don’t tell anyone because it will come to a day food will cause people to become thieves……..my grdpa would hide his homemade beer used as a barter in one….he had numerous cold cellars hidden about…one with money wrapped in plastic and stuck inside chickens and frozen….
1870 Farmhouse, Rachel took potatoes and cubed them raw, no par boiling, mixed the cubed potatoes with oil, onions and peppers which she calls OBrian potatoes and freezes them….I tried it and the potatoes stay white and taste good….try some….great way to store potatoes.
All of a sudden the little victory turns into a huge step in being GROCRY STORE INDEPENDEPENT !! YAY !!!!!❣
Buried treasure is the best! Awesome.
Great harvest yall. Even the skinny ones, soaked in acv and scrubbed can be chopped and sauteed with greens, bacon or sausage for a side or w eggs for breakfast. Brett is clearly your next gen farmer, along w Buggie.
I just love watching your boys help out and look like they’re enjoying themselves. I was wondering maybe you guys could do a video where you introduced all your boys and your daughter with their names and their nicknames. And why do they have those nicknames?