Sweet Potato Harvest '23

[@tamaracross9]

Cover your beds with some kind of mulch. I used pine animal bedding, we had a drought here and my well ran dry and wasn't producing enough water to water the garden but my tomatoes and peppers that was in this bed where I layed 2-3 layers of cardboard and covered the soil with pine shavings not only survived but thrived during the drought. Its still going right now. I only hand watered that bed 2-3 time during the summer and it rained maybe 3 good times. I'm doing this to all of my beds and my grow bags now😊

[@plantaseednotlitter2260]

Well done loyal and faithful servant that harvested Beauregard sweet potatoes 🍠 Happy Fall Days

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

Beauregards are the best.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

You need to add manure and perhaps plant a cover crop that you can cut down and mix in.

[@murlthomas2243]

Just a note: the microphone is on the front of the camera. For us to hear you talking you need to be on the front or to the side of the camera, or wear a microphone that clips to the front of your shirt.

[@tomharrington1393]

🥔🥔👍👍

[@uppanadam]

Sorry was too busy watching your crazy dog!! LOL!! But in all fairness...sweet potatoes are pretty hardy...should be able to grow in any condition and in any soil and anywhere on this planet really!! P.S....enjoy that egg!! LOL!!

[@ThirdTimeAroundRanch]

Maybe we didn't dig down far enough to find the potatoes. We really need a tractor!

[@uppanadam]

@@ThirdTimeAroundRanchLOL!! Who knows with sweet potatoes!!

[@petergundel2956]

Maybe mixing down mulch from the chipper can gradually, loosen up the soil.

[@ThirdTimeAroundRanch]

That's a good idea, I don't think it would hurt anything to try.

[@billpaullin6527]

Hey and good morning, your sweet potatoes look pretty good from where I'm sitting. My wife and I live in Central Alabama and we have had the worst time with growing any potatoes. Fire ants eat most of the crop and ruin the potatoes and we end up feeding them to the chickens and pigs ,any we do get. Your extremely lucky to have received rain we are long do for a good rain here its been very very dry. How do you address the fire ants ,do you poison😂😂

[@ThirdTimeAroundRanch]

We don't use any poison near the garden. Mostly we ignore the ants because they just keep coming back. BUT a couple years ago we put down a granual that you spread all over your property (Extinguish Plus) and it did work, we just haven't gotten around to doing it again.

[@michaelkoon8371]

Why no new videos ???

[@ThirdTimeAroundRanch]

I just finished putting out videos on building our hoophouse, did you not see them?

[@michaelkoon8371]

@@ThirdTimeAroundRanch no sorry

[@ThirdTimeAroundRanch]

@@michaelkoon8371 That's ok, if you hit the notification bell you'll get notified when I put out a new video. Sometimes youtube messes with your notifications and you have to reset them.

[@christina2466w]

Your soil is too hard. Harvest is not good