Surprising Sweet Potato Harvest // Summer 2024

[@cantseetheforestforthetree9673]

Grow those carrots out for seed, they may be small, but that they’re making carrots at all growing in that mess of weeds and sweet potatoes is a trait worth propagating. Joseph Lofthouse goes into detail on how he developed a carrot landrace that he doesn’t have to weed on his landrace gardening channel.

[@lincwayne3435]

Hey man, lookin' good! I was wondering if you'd mention curing. I got some nice organic purple flesh sweet potatoes last year. We made slips, harvested, & then CURED them. imho, that's the difference. Taste so good - waaay better than the originals that we got. Thanks again William!

[@susandobbins1313]

We really enjoy your channel. We've enjoyed your videos in front of and behind the camera for years.

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL The Permaculture Consultant videos!

[@Marilou-g5t]

You need some long tap root "weeds" to break through the hardpan.

[@dawnelliott7363]

I planted 6 slips from a grocery store sweet potato and got plenty in harvest. Definitely worth planting.

[@johnstjean1422]

Awesome harvest man looking forward for next year planting some sweet potatoes 🍠

[@IAMBLESSED555]

Remember it rained in East TX

[@ThePermacultureConsultant]

Almost everywhere but in DeKalb. The past couple heavy rains have missed us ever since I dug the new pond 😂

[@debbiecasalina4475]

Those dang ants, can do some damage! Can I ask, why do you give the pigs the ones you accidentally hit with the fork?

[@TeresaEdwards-kw3np]

They don't store for long if the skin gets punctured

[@colleenbow777]

I was stung by a little black ant on the top of my foot last week. It stung! Grabbed a plantain leaf and chewed it up and put it on the bite. Definitely reduced the sting immediately but the top of my foot was swollen and itchy for 3 days.

[@ThePermacultureConsultant]

Oh wow, that's wild!

[@cobysmith3179]

Ants are the worst bites for me. Way worse than the mosquitoes! Mine last for weeks. I’ll try the plantain trick. I have that growing all around my yard!

[@colleenbow777]

@@cobysmith3179 Saturday I was helping my husband pick up a log we just debarked for one of our posts for the new garden. The log rolled a bit as I was picking it up and a knot scratched me. I immediately grabbed some plantain and chew it up placed it on the cut and put a bandage over it. That night I put a salve on it I made with plantain, yarrow and burdock leaf. Blessed to have all of those growing on our property. It’s healing up great.

[@wilsontaylor234]

My sweet potatoes are still blooming. This is the first year that I have planted any since I was a kid. I was a bit late planting mine this year. The slips came from a sweet potato that my mother had started before she passed. Last year my mom used 1 sweet potato to make slips and got 200 lbs of potatoes. I don't think that the slips you started had anything to do with the amount of harvest. Probably had more to do with the variety.

[@mikhailkalashnikov4599]

IMO, sweet potatoes are THE survival crop. Low maintenance, carbs, low tech long term storage, and easily sustainable to kickstart next growing season. Plus, root crops are well protected from storm damage, etc.

[@norcalgal6785]

Wow! Nice! Thx William! 😊

[@californiadreamer2580]

Wow!!! Great harvest😊

[@AlleyCat-1]

Love the video. I'm going to plant crimson clover in my garden as soon as the goat's are done eating the weeds down. My experimental garden gets watered at least once a month, if i can get someone to do it. But so far its done good on strawberries (chicken's have enjoyed them a lot. Dirty little boogers) i have some potatoes that look to be done-ish, so I'll go check them out. They were planted near the strawberries & Asparagus, blueberry plant has come back to life, so maybe next yr it'll give us a few berries & tomatoes (store bought) have recovered (put a copper wire by them, next yr i might actually get around to make them into coils.) 1 have 1 pea plant survived the chicken's, last i looked. 😅

[@annakozlowski4837]

Question can you comment on electroculture in a permaculture setting its like grounding for your dirt with copper conductor .Thanks for all you do❤

[@ThePermacultureConsultant]

I'm planning a video for that here pretty soon. Thank you!

[@countrynana8072]

Blessings. Sweet potatoes are great

[@shalomtoday]

👍 did you measure yield per square foot? How many slips on average did you plant per square foot? About how many meals will this harvest provide your family?

[@Pinkpumpkingardener]

❤❤❤

[@suzannem5674]

Could you put chickens in the garden once done. Let them till up the soil. The reshape and plant covercrop. Until ready to plant again?

[@ThePermacultureConsultant]

Absolutely!

[@janew5351]

What is the difference between garden fork and potato fork?

[@brycehess6708]

One is for gardening and the other is for potatoes 😉

[@ryanpinkham6784]

Just curious, why you didn’t let the sweet potatoes grow longer? The roots were beneficial in breaking up some of this Texas Clay.

[@ThePermacultureConsultant]

I don't want them to get too big and start cracking.

[@ryanpinkham6784]

@@ThePermacultureConsultant I pulled a few today. When that are 1 pound plus each… I double dug some new beds this year, with organic humus and manure. Ran a crop of blue bush beans through, and then layered perennials. Man, these taters are popping out of the ground.

[@rickthelian2215]

Nice Sweet Potato😊

[@cbak1819]

Love small sweet potato.

[@nickcarroll8565]

I let mine go as long as possible, because I like them to get as big as possible. But they aren’t as nice to bake for single servings that way.

[@MorePranaGardens]

I've had ants undermine and kill plants before. Mean little bugs.

[@dwighthires3163]

You are a man who learned to work. Good job on your sweet potatoes. It sounds like you could gorilla garden sweet potatoes in your area.

[@BrendaBodwin]

90 day?? Nope. 120 days. JS.

[@debbiecasalina4475]

That's what I thought too!

[@BrendaBodwin]

@@debbiecasalina4475 You thought correct. 😁👍🏼

[@tanyarobertson3943]

I call treats 'snackies' too! 😂

[@jonerlandson1956]

the missing watermelon sounds like a pig to me....

[@wilsontaylor234]

No, a pig would tear up the garden. It was probably a racoon. They love watermelons.

[@jonerlandson1956]

@@wilsontaylor234 those animals are all pretty much the same aren't they?...

[@wilsontaylor234]

@@jonerlandson1956 Raccoons are smarter, use their hands to eat, typically wash their food before eating. They are destructive in their own way, but less so than a pig. Also, notice how the watermelon was hollowed out. Pigs could not have done that.

[@jonerlandson1956]

@@wilsontaylor234 pigs are considered to be one of the most intelligent animals on the planet... largely i think because they can revert back to their original non-hybridized versions of themselves in one lifetime