Harvesting Storage Crops for WINTER + Total POUNDS | Will it be enough?

[@kathleenhughes5149]

If you pinch out the main runners tips of the pumpkin and squash vines after they are two metres long they produce more side shoots which increases yields greatly, needing less plants and room. Then pinch out the top of the side shoots after they have several fruits they put more energy into the fruit. Last year we got 30 large QLD blue pumpkins from two plants side by side. Volunteers from compost around a fruit tree. And basically all snakes here in Australia are dangerous.

[@andrewbryner2187]

Name something in Australia that isn't dangrous

[@cephalopodx7587]

I wish I could heart your comment as well.

[@TiffanyalmazanLifeOfJoie]

Great tip! My pumpkins and butternut vines seriously took over.

[@emilefrederics8427]

@@andrewbryner2187 tree snakes

[@luckyrobinshomestead]

This is where I want to be. After two abysmal garden years, I at least got a great potato, onion, and garlic harvest. The strawberries didn't do too bad, either, until the heat wave.

[@juliekooiker3408]

Nice job family!!! You all have worked harder than we can understand for this!!! Who needs to work out when you grow your own food!

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Exactly. Probably why gym memberships weren't a thing when most of our parents parents worked on farms most of the day, lol

[@thecarolinafarmhouse]

The black snake was so cool! Crazy that it just came out of the ground like that!

[@lizbratcher2919]

I lOVE black bean and butternut squash enchiladas! It’s so smart though to adjust every year so you don’t have a surplus of one thing! You’re gardening amazes me!

[@jamieharen4537]

LOVE your videos so much, I look forward to each one 🙂

[@amandar7719]

I grate butternut squash in food processor (skin included) and freeze (you could freeze-dry) then add it to Thai chilli and peanut butter soup before putting in noodles, or in stews, as a quick thickener. Adds to depth of (non-floury) flavour.

[@sgrvtl7183]

Thank you for the thickener advice!👌

[@christy.franklinhomestead]

Well done! Butternut pumpkin is delicious cubed and roasted with potatoes. 👌🏼

[@woodworkinggirl5525]

Love your videos. I could watch you and your family garden and preserve food everyday🤗 I also love seeing and learning how you ferment, I’ve watched your videos over and over trying to learn, I get so intimidated that I will get my measurements wrong🤪 Please continue teaching us❤️much appreciated ☺️Christy from Virginia

[@debbieyzuel7887]

Your kids are amazing.

[@egheitisunna]

I'm from Iceland and here we leave the potatoes in the ground much longer, it is fine to keep them there until the ground freezes in about December, though the grasses will be gone the potatoes do just fine in the dirt, it is nice to be able to pick new potatoes long into winter.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Greetings in Iceland!!! Indeed we do often find potatoes long into winter that we forgot about, or simply missed. They do keep well just left in the ground :) We pull them here typically because though it gets cold, there are still enough warm days in fall that the potatoes start sprouting, which for us means time to bring them in!

[@thenurturinglife]

Amazing harvest! Y’alls hard work really paid off. I can’t believe how big some of those sweet potatoes are!

[@AlanaLee-xv2qy]

Nice job! We go through our onions so quickly as well.

[@chels67]

I would love to see more meals that you make out of all this bounty. We don't have garden space, but would still like to change our eating habits

[@woodworkinggirl5525]

yes most definitely, want to see more cooking and preserving foods🤗

[@luckydubeinrc5165]

i grow in pots on the veranda, and its a lot of fun, squash, tomato potato, tomatos... easy as pie,

[@chels67]

@@luckydubeinrc5165 my dogs broke Inyo my little space this summer. Apparently green beans are a delicacy for them.

[@judymay4469]

A great happy harvest for you're family.God bless..

[@vcr210]

What a life lesson you are teaching your children. Blessings to your family.

[@judymcintire8061]

New subscriber here from CT. My heart is blessed to see Christian homesteaders. Now I will be catching up on your other videos! Your harvest looks awesome!🤗

[@losinghalfofme]

The pumpkins are super pretty!

[@hillarywattenbarger3203]

So incredible! I love watching you! I cannot wait to hit the potatoes harder next year....this year was a heavy squash/pumpkin year for us!

[@elizabethpiela7389]

Your kids are so GOOD!!!

[@laurenaltomare8992]

Nature is awesome! Go sneaky 🐍

[@sherry2836]

Beautiful harvests! It's great that your kids are so involved in the garden. Just seeing and participating in how their food grows, they will appreciate it so much more when they're grown and may have city jobs where they might have to shop in a grocery store! (Unless they will always have access to mom and dad's garden or gardens of their own)😉

[@willbass2869]

Excellent video. So, so very important to measure and track production & usage. That's the sign of serious gardening/homesteading. Kudos! Like the old saying, "if you don't measure (record), you can't manage". Passing on a tip I recently saw on another YT channel. Before frost comes just cut off the sweet potato vines. That prevents rot that results from frost killed vines from moving down into the tubers. Tubers can then be left in ground so as to accommodate busy work schedule at year end.

[@evegreenification]

One way I utilize quite a bit of squash without anyone noticing that it is there is by taking the squash in as they grow on the vine--no waiting until the outside has hardened--and blending them in a blender with a tiny bit of water to make them into a sauce consistency. Then I put the sauce in the dehydrator as I would to make fruit leather. It comes out as sheets of dried squash. I freeze this in bags and crumble into breads, soups, crumbs for breading, stocks, meatloaves, and rice and pasta water.

[@kal.salmon]

your videos are so inspiration and educational! thank you for sharing 💛

[@wildweeds]

That's a seriously abundant harvest! Nice!!!

[@inninnawagardening]

mantap kebun yang luar biasa

[@JjJj-mx9ms]

Love your videos!! You look like your a doing great and feeling great. Summer and autumn has been great for you guys!

[@ThePineFarm]

Great tips and gorgeous harvest! 😊

[@hickoryhillinthebigwoods-r759]

So amazing to see how well your garden does.

[@craftykhomestead6347]

May I suggest a few barn cats 🐈 we have one outside cat and we haven’t had any moles or mice and very few rabbits around the house since. He also alerted me to a snake in our gazebo that was trapped in the netting. Thanks for sharing how y’all garden and preserve, it is very inspiring and motivating for me to keep trying.

[@faybrockhoff4187]

So good to see the kids working so hard and investing in their reward

[@susanfreeman6350]

Congratulations on your bountiful harvest! I had to chuckle at your comment about your family getting sick of butternut squash . One of my family’s favorite meals is your stuffed butternut squash recipe. We absolutely love it.

[@mrs.w5539]

Thank you for you videos. This is my goal, to grow our own veggies. We will dive in next year. For now we are preparing and building our garden.

[@ioanagherman5952]

Wow, you guys harvest a lot ,how good is God, a lot of work but worthed. God bless you guys and your family.

[@najninawal5771]

Beautiful share 😊

[@MeBeingAble]

What youre doing is good business. It was done in the old days and its a necessary survival strategy imo. Great job 😊

[@joannak4640]

As always, I was super happy to hear from you today ❤️ Thank you for keeping us updated on all of the crops you were able to grow and harvest. I don't know, I would maybe think of planting peanuts in a whole different area considering how the sweet potatoes got eaten too 😬 Again, Thank you for the update. Have a great week God bless you all P.S. Did you know that squash seeds have a natural dewormer in them for chickens?

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

No, I didn't know that. The chickens do love them!

[@quantafitness6088]

Really wish I could grow sweet potato like you do 😍 They must taste amazing when home grown.

[@charlesburkhart800]

Amazing harvest! You and your children are great gardeners! We have voles too and they did the same to our small garden here in NE Ohio but we are not blessed with those big snakes. HaHa You are a Proverbs 31 Mother

[@rik80280]

That's so gratifying after all your hard work picking off the blister beetles! You got a great crop of potatoes. I did the same thing last year, trying to put pumpkin in everything, so I scaled back this year. Still, I have lots of butternuts to give away and more than enough for us. I really don't want anything to go to waste.

[@meme7591]

I will cut up butternut squash, carrots, sweet potatoes and if I have pumpkin I'll cut that up too. And what I do is I cook it in chicken broth. And I put it just enough chicken broth so that when it boils cuz you know the juice is going to come out of those other ones. Then I will puree it to make a soup I will caramelize some onions and stick some garlic in there and I will stick that in the soup I will also add other herbs I use parsley salt pepper I add garlic and onion powder. I will also add turmeric to that as well. And then I add a dollop of sour cream on the top or sprinkle some cheese in it. You can also add sauteed chicken to that or sauteed meat to that. It's a pretty yummy soup you can also cook that down a little bit more and use that as a lasagna base. I also like to use brags 24 seasoning in it as well. You can also use that mixture when you're making pancakes or muffins and you can make a pie out of it as well. And you can just use water when you're boiling these. Something to think about

[@jacksonjones813]

Super dope video guys, enjoyed the professionalism and advice in this! Can't wait for the canning too! Rock on!

[@kimlettau4167]

Wow that is amazing! I bet you're so thankful...truly blessed

[@jinsvege-garden157]

Yes, Its enough Very well done

[@nwilliams551]

This was very helpful information. Thank you so much!!

[@Dyshof]

Yes, well said. We also have too much of some crops, so we try to give it away instead of overfeeding ourselves. Had this in the past with patatoes (with my parents) and couldn't eat after for a long time....

[@sueshughart7006]

Oh my those sweet potatoes look so good!!

[@melanieedmonson1480]

Your onions are beautiful. Pretty pumpkins too.

[@Frdunsing]

Amazing harvest Thanks for sharing 😊

[@reneek8223]

Tell your kids they are doing a great job! I am sure you already do, but from one mom to the next! Cheers!

You guys are doing an amazing job!

[@anthonymoser46]

I just ran across your channel an I love what your doing keep up all the good work

[@marieschieler1914]

I found a snake just like your hanging out on a branch in my blackberry bush. Very helpful animal. ❤️

[@robertacleary5256]

Beautiful beautiful life beautiful family ❤

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

as always... love a harvest! but storing fot winter is the most important part of the year for me, i feel most peopel with a small piece of ground can grow summer veg, took me forever to build the skills for winter growing!

[@liriomulder]

Congratulations on an amazing harvest. Lots of perseverance and hard work...so worth it! I noticed your wooden crates. They are just what I've been looking for our storage. Do you have a tutorial or a link to recreate them?

[@oldbear6813]

I don't mind snakes as long as I know they're there but they definitely have a jump scare factor to them 😂 They are just so beneficial as long as they aren't poisonous 👍. Beautiful harvest 💜

[@ThyBookie]

This video was super helpful! Thank you!

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

I had the same with my potatoes

[@BillC253]

So much good information.

[@ehsanihomestead]

very cool information!

[@maryegerton6848]

Beautiful! Very well done 😊

[@tillisross2246]

Modern day pioneers.

[@Pixarification]

Lovely video, I can't wait for more. ❤ Kisses for the whole family.

[@lorrainecostanzo9092]

Our snakes here in Australia are very venomous so we have to give them a wide berth, I was out weeding this morning early as it it late spring here atm and after heavy rain through the night it is very hot and muggy/humid today, I live on a steep hill and put my hand up to pull some long grass out and definately heard something move under the plants near my hand, ooops time to move to another spot to weed. I survived 2 brown snake bites which is quite rare, you usually die. I love your videos, good luck with your peanuts next year, there is so much wildlife eating everything here now but it is illegal to kill them so you constantly are finding ways to garden with them, good luck

[@jamiefairley]

Good tips. 👍

[@atoddt8439]

Feet the extra pumpkin to your dogs by mixing it in with their food. Its good for their digestive system

[@geneortiz4020]

How are You. Nice videos I was working in Connecticut with boticello farm and I love that work tanks for your information

[@dennysemcqueen9549]

I pressure can my pumpkin cut in cubes. Works well. Greetings from Australia.

[@reneemarie3164]

I put pumpkin or sweet potatoes as extras into my turkey chili and spinach hash as an orange vegetable option. Your harvest looks fantastic.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Thank you! I love that idea.

[@godsprecious6884]

Really enjoyed this content

[@chelseafailla9887]

So inspiring - great job!!!

[@leahwolber7082]

Well done! We had rodent damage to our beets this year, anything above soil had bites taken out. We’re able to cut out those bite marks and eat them anyway. It’s still a real bummer when you’re looking for a clean potato. Do you collect your own seeds? I’ve started doing that with a passion this year. I still have green onion, beets and carrots in the ground; they’re biannual plants that flower in the second year. Everything else except some lettuce varieties I’ve been able to seed collect.

[@fireflyhikes4250]

Use some of that pumpkin puree for pumpkin soup.

[@pamelas9]

And the kids just keep growing. My boys grew about 6 inches each this year and are eating like full grown men all of a sudden.

[@michellehayashi576]

Thanks so much sharing your storage crop harvest with us! Could you share how much potatoes, onions, sweet potatoes, ect. per row feet you get? I think that would be lovely to know.

[@raineyday9066]

I was wondering the same thing, how many feet in a row of different kinds of vegetables.

[@kimkerley4218]

I like to can more than a yrs worth of something because it might not be a good yr next year and the jars will last several years. 💕😊 Just my thoughts 😊

[@lxcoffee990]

Thanks for the great vid again! Do you do anything different to store the potatoes you intend to use as seed? Wonder if you store them in your chilled pantry or you have a special way of keeping them until next season?

[@jayayo]

LOL the way he weigt the sweet potato is same with me, because i dont have a proper scales :)

[@LidijaLesich]

Love learning from you! Although we live on the opposite sides of the earth. P.s. Can you PLEASE share source of your gorgeous overalls? I'd love to purchase if I can online there's nothing like that here in Australia 🙃

[@Linqian-z4y]

Sweet potato's leaf can eat by stir fry, tasty. Sweet potato's leaf can cook for feeding pigs🐖.

[@dehaakbaak3511]

I found your Chanel about a week ago and I already learned so much from you! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. A have a question though: did you guys think about keeping bees?

[@meme7591]

So I would like to know the cost of if you were to go grocery shopping the whole year. In comparison to the amount of supplies like seeds and soil and compost that you purchase to do a garden and how much you think you make like as if somebody were to come buy it from you from the produce that you make. Same with growing pigs and cattle how much goes into it comparison to buying it. I know you can't buy what you're growing I hope you're getting the adjust of it I'm just curious. And how much seeds do you end up saving and which ones do you save. And why do you save those particular ones.

[@janazelenak6879]

Thank you so much for info it definitely is great idea how much you need to plant to successfully grow and harvest and have enough to eat. How long are your potatoes when you plant? How much a part do you spread all ?

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

How did you catch the rodents near the peanuts? I have voles (new to me this year) and I can't figure out how to trap them in bigger numbers than 1 a night.

[@macymalin5510]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a home tour. We're currently drawing up plans for a home for our family and follow same homesteading lifestyle. Can you touch on how your house was built to accommodate your homesteading lifestyle. For example, pantry size, pantry location, kitchen tour. Please please please. I'd even buy your blueprints.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

House plans and lots of details are up on my blog now, hopefully this helps you in the meantime! Here is the link www.theseasonalhomestead.com/house-plans-for-our-homestead-what-we-chose-and-why/ Home tour video will come out early December.

[@kaymack5304]

“He’ll be ok. It was just a surface thing.” 😂Just a flesh wound.

[@woodworkinggirl5525]

could we also see what your growing in your garden now🤗

[@punjabseth260]

🌼🌼👌🏻

[@sarahmclain4535]

What kind of meals do you make with your pumpkins?

[@do4699]

It would be helpful to know how much you planted to get these yields.

[@pipcoomes7734]

I was watching thinking “wow. In Australia I’d be really worried about snakes,” as you’re pulling up the sweet potatoes….

[@ConstanceDunham]

Me too! 😂 All our snakes are poisonous

[@noneyabeeswax3200]

❤❤

[@feltlikeitbydebs]

Great video and advice on weighting crop for storage. Sweet potatoes are my nemesis. Can you please tell me how you grow your sweet potatoes in more depth but say what season you start as l am in Western Australia. Many thanks. Debs

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

I plant them two weeks after our average last frost in Spring. Here is a blog post I wrote about sweet potatoes, hopefully it will help! www.theseasonalhomestead.com/7-secrets-to-growing-huge-sweet-potatoes/

[@sraymond7137]

Hi This is Raymond from Cape Town in South Africa. First time watching your video. I have to concede that I was really impressed. I would like to know - how do you preserve your potatoes for such a long period. Looking forward to your response.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Hi Raymond. I have some information about this here www.theseasonalhomestead.com/how-to-harvest-cure-and-store-potatoes/

[@sraymond7137]

@@TheSeasonalHomestead Hi Thank you for your kind response and link. Some very handy tips. Am enjoying your videos .. keep up the good work. Kind regards and God bless 🙌 Raymond

[@pennywillis8895]

🇦🇺Some years you will have an abundant harvest that you can put away for several years. As the following year you may not have a good harvest. You could barter with them.

[@Psalm2710_]

Love your garden!!! About how many hours do you spend on it daily?

[@jeanneamato8278]

Is there no food bank you could bring squashes to?

[@shannandesh]

What variety of pumpkin do you grow? They look great!