How We Grew Enough Sweet Potatoes to Last a Year

Show y'all. Potato bed right here. You can see the frost has turned all the leaves into dust. That's a great thing because it's going to make it way easier to harvest and pull up all these vines. thing about sweet potatoes is they're actually not the same as regular potatoes at all they are actually a type of morning glory which if you've ever seen them they take over everything like vines and that's exactly what we kind of got right here my pitchfork is broken so we're just going to be using a shovel i'm definitely going to get dirty wow with that first one this was Our very first time growing sweet potatoes. And we grew them from slips, which is just little cuttings off of the vines of the sweet potato. So I have no idea how many we're actually gonna get here, but I haven't even made it past like two plants and it's already looking pretty insane. Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. Thank you. Look at these! Oh my gosh! These are as big as my head! I forgot to mention that these are organic Covington sweet potatoes and very proudly I say we did not use any pesticides, chemicals, nothing. These are 100% natural and delicious. Perfect example of these sweet potato slips. A lot of people over the winter will actually Put a sweet potato in some soil with part of it up out of the soil indoors and you can sprout your own sweet potatoes and you can see you get these little slips right here and that's all you plant and then it just grows and grows from each little node sweet potatoes. But this one was just sticking up out of the ground doing it on its own so maybe The gardener in me wants to take it inside and let it keep growing so we can have a head start and free slips for next year. I already have a pepper plant, an entire pepper plant, inside in a big pot. I'm sure Andy is really loving all the plants and things I'm bringing in. Mushrooms, plants, seeds, dried flowers, all of it. Comment below if you guys know if chickens can eat sweet I'm going to get sweet potatoes because We've been saving the little teeny tiny ones, or the busted up ones, for the chickens. Alright guys, so this is it for this little raised bed. Final synopsis is they're definitely not as big. They're more uniform, not as big, and definitely easier to harvest. But I still am a fan of in-ground. So we've got two beds left. Raised beds, we're going to go get that, and we'll be done. Guys, look at the arched trellis here. It's looking mighty crispy. Sweet potatoes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Wow, wow, wow. My goodness. Oh, my gosh. The camera doesn't do it justice. Y'all leave a comment down below on what your guesstimate is of the weight, and we will let y'all know here shortly. Hehehehe! Legit, when you can just do this. It's a sweet potato. Super fulfilling, we are finally getting eggs from our lady. Our most in one day so far has been six eggs. Exciting that they're finally starting to pay their rent. And it's all useful. Let's see what we got in here for today. Ooh, and we put these golf balls in here. So it's kind of teaching them where to lay and it's been working pretty good. These are two olive-egger eggs from our olive-eggers. As you can see, they're the same color. It means they're laying in the woods. So we only found, well we only had two eggs in the cube so there's a lot going on. But we have this sneaking suspicion that the chickens might be laying eggs in the woods. So we're going to just do like a super quick survey of that little area and see if they might be laying. If they are that's going to be a huge problem. Uh, the consensus is you can't find them, because they could literally be anywhere. They traverse all this really thick, brushy stuff all day long, and you can see tons of areas where they, like, scratch and find bugs and stuff. So, yeah, not the, uh, not the whimsical, perfect little collecting eggs segment that I was hoping for, but again, this is... It's real life. It's real life homesteading. Thank you. get up soon i get so cold get yourself moving and you'll be okay