The HAPPIEST Garden Harvest | Growing Sweet Potatoes with Ruth Stout Method

This is the day I have been most excited about all garden season! Last year I attempted growing sweet potatoes for the first time and haphazardly threw some slips in some left over hay and those were the only ones that grew. So being super excited to find out I could grow sweet potatoes up here in Michigan, I decided to go for it all out in my Ruth Stout Garden and it was a grand success.
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[@appalachianmercantile]

I love to see gardeners excited about their harvest! Congrats!!

[@1870s]

I couldn't contain my excitement!

[@mommacrow3170]

Yes i agree... your excitement made me laugh out loud... sweet potatoes are my favorite thing to grow.

[@faronandfriends155]

@@1870s You seriously need to learn that all those greens are delicious. Don't toss them.

[@averagejoesmiling456]

Rachel, you're the only person I'm aware of that can get THAT excited about sweet potatoes!! Awesome!! You go girl. God bless!

[@1870s]

I simply couldn't control my happiness 😂

[@phillippinter7518]

I would have to disagree with that statement

[@didithacosta8852]

You can also cook the young leave of sweet potatoes. Saute with garlic and onion add a pinch of black pepper and a little bit salt. Very healthy and delish. You can also plant those stems again

[@Tess316]

Didith Acosta you a filipino?

[@lujitsu1251]

We have a frost and snow here so there is n way I know of to preserve these vines until the next growing season. If you are in hot temperatures you are right though.

[@Mulberrysmile]

Lu Jitsu Just bring some cuttings in the house and let them grow over the winter. In the early spring, cut the long vines into pieces and root them. When frost is done, plant them out.

[@rrbb36]

Leaf = one Leaves = more than one Leave = to go, to exit

[@karendaniel8149]

Such a fun harvest! I was laughing and celebrating with you 🥳 Party in the potato patch!

[@1870s]

It was so fun! Probably my favorite day ever in the garden!

[@johnhuong7039]

Your viewers are all laughing with glee along with both of you. What joy to the souls

[@connie9198]

Rachel, IF THIS VIDEO had a place for a 10x thumbs up I would have given it. I love your excitement and the joy that comes from growing your own food. Bless you girl, and hope to see some recipes from these awesome sweet potatoes.. Thank you for sharing..

[@sarah_farm]

You're doing such a great job at showing everyone the way you see the world! Thank you for this!

[@lorigreen2192]

This was such a fun video to watch. Your excitement, Rachel, was so true and honest and it was so refreshing. I really appreciate your videos and this was one of my favorites. Thank you!

[@Adele-d9k]

That's what I sounded like last year, it was my first time planting sweetpotatoes.My neighbors were asking if something was wrong and my husband had to tell them it's just me getting excited about my very first gardening experience.

[@catherinewalker1804]

Your enthusiasm is infectious!!! I love sweet potatoes, so many ways to enjoy them!! Todd is so caring of your adventures in gardening, it’s lovely to witness. Thanks for yet another sharing video 💞 Catherine from Canada 🇨🇦

[@joanpia5180]

The sweet couple harvesting their sweet potatoes

[@beckystone7994]

Great beautiful harvest of your sweet potatoes Rachael! I was told by an old lady that you can eat the leaves of the sweet potato plant and that they are delicious ! She said you can eat them in salads , stir fries, or cooks like you do other greens and fry the leaves with a little oil and butter like you do fried cabbage or boil them like you would collards , turnips or mustard greens ! She said they have a slightly sweet taste and are very delicious ! She also said sny little potatoes left behind will regrow plants and make sweet potatoes next growing season !! I thought it was great info especially with our food shortages were now having ! God bless and I love your videos ! ❤️🙏✝️🙋🏻

[@RiaWallace]

Your excitement is great!

[@SuzeQKnits4997]

I love this video and I love sweet potatoes. I grew some in 20 lbs buckets last year and I got 60 lbs of sweet potatoes from 6 buckets, it was pure bliss. I'm growing them in buckets again this year, I really enjoy growing them this way.

[@samanthawinchester2994]

Sweet potatoes are travellers so look out all around that bed and possibly for a couple of years because they come back out of nowhere sometimes! Love how happy you were with your harvest 😊 so cute!

[@1870s]

I've been keeping an eye out but nothing so far and they won't make though our winter if I missed anything

[@bernardkleinschmidt5930]

We are in southern Minnesota. Growing sweet potatoes for the past 5 years. Never a crop failure. We plant them in black plastic. Just poke a little hole and put the slip in. This year was dry the first week they were in the ground, but most grew. Largest one year was the size of a foot ball. Love them!

[@1870s]

Wow a football sweet potato, I think I would have started dancing 😃

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Your excitement when you pulled that huge one out made my day! xx

[@1870s]

I couldn't contain my excitement, I nearly had tears of joy

[@luckyrobinshomestead]

I appreciated your joyfulness at your harvest.

[@yvonnechin4052]

Aw Awesome 👏 thanks for sharing this I’m so happy for you both 🥰😋🤩

[@KandicePolut]

I live up in Emmett, Michigan but I’m from TN. Been here for 5 years now. I didn’t start gardening until 3 years ago. I just LOVE gardening and preserving food. This year I have 100 tomato plants, 70 peppers, and a bunch of other stuff. I’m slowly learning how Michigan weather affects growing. I just wanted to Say I love your videos and you guys are so inspiring! I’m learning so much from y’all!

[@Beckysgetsittogether]

That's awesome! I never thought to grow sweet potatoes when we lived in Toledo! God bless you guys!

[@suziperret468]

Wow, now that's a happy garden!

[@loraineleuschke4186]

Yea. Sweet potatoes. So many ways to cook them. They were my late, sweet mother’s favorite vegetable. She grew up having them as a treat after school. Grandpa would put raw ones on the hearth and they were soft by the time she and her siblings got off the bus.

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

In Liberia they eat the leaves while the tubers are growing underground. Our missionaries ate the leaves with the villagers and said they were very tasty. The very poor villagers have very few choices in their daily diet. Americans are so spoiled for choice, we should be so thankful for every blessing. Wonderful harvest of sweet potatoes, and I'm with you on it being a favorite. I like them any way you can prepare them.

[@judem81]

I have a plant and just sauteed the leaves, so good!

[@merian_d]

This made me happy too! I live in a apartment. I have a small garden. So watching these types of videos makes me happy. Thank you for sharing ❤️

[@1870s]

Awesome I'm thankful to be able to share my garden with you

[@lindseydimmitt8322]

I could watch this video over and over! Not just for the learning, but the reaction with every one that comes up!

[@joelplucena1609]

I am jealous of your garden. I will definitely do Ruth Stout method. Thanks for sharing. From the Philippines here. Salamat po!

[@lisaautry4944]

Your reactions made me smile!

[@foster3316]

Nice! Our local county seat Gilmer, Texas has a yam festival mid October called the Yamboree. Enjoy it every year. Basically its an old style County fair honoring a local staple, Texas sweet potatoes. Pies galore, fancy cows and gospel singing. Love it.

[@1870s]

Oh u think that sounds like Heaven's front porch!

[@foster3316]

Country people with big smiles, barn dances, funnel cakes and local produce. Yeah its pretty nice.

[@Dorrie519]

your excitement is so contagious!!! I was rooting for you as you were pulling them up. My husband wanted to know what was going on! Keep up the great work, I love watching your channel!

[@1870s]

Thanks for rooting for me 😊 and thank you for your support and encouragement ❤️

[@Ash-rc8nd]

I am glad I found this channel

[@jessyzunega2815]

I honestly cried watching this because I felt your joy. Im really hoping to grow my own food in the future and experience the joy that comes with it. ❤️

[@1870s]

I'm glad you felt my excitement. I'm always amazed by what God can do when we are faithful, we have to plant the seed but only He can make it grow. I'll forever be thankful for He provision in my life.

[@jessyzunega2815]

God bless you, your family and your garden! ❤️

[@jeanniewright2554]

WOWZERS!! Looks to me like you have nothing to apologize for! Enjoy your bounty!!

[@1870s]

We for sure will!

[@JonesChronicle]

Rachel, try to eat young leaves of sweet potato.. very healthy.. you can blanch it for several minutes.. i love how your garden can produce such as those sweet potatoes . 🥰

[@annetten4166]

Your gardening happiness is contagious, love it.

[@HELLENICPRIDE100]

The Ruth Stout method worked for me in a positive way. I harvested ordinary potatoes, far more than i can handle, from an area just a fraction in size to what you have there. I live in Melbourne suburbia.Nice to see you reaping the fruits of your labour.........so satisfying.......Best Regards.

[@1870s]

We're going into year #3 of Ruth Stout this spring, can't argue the results!

[@venividiamavi8558]

Wow.. bountiful harvest.. i still remember on my childhood days, sweet potatoes saves our breakfast together with coffee. My grandmother used to plant sweet potatoes in rice paddy. 🇵🇭

[@barbaracarbone4658]

Wow... very awesome harvest!!!

[@jocelynbermas2459]

Lovely couples to see hand on hand harvesting. Bountiful. God bless. Im happy too.

[@janabandana4240]

I live in Connecticut. I had an awesome sweet potato harvest this year and I was almost as excited as you when I pulled those tubers up. You can grow your own slips from your own potatoes. I grew my slips from two organic sweet potatoes I purchased last year. l got sixteen healthy beautiful slips. I too planted my garlic in my sweet potato bed together with my first attempt to grow shallots. Garlic is my other favorite crop! 😎😎

[@1870s]

I may just try to grow my own slips this year. New things are always so intimidating to me, but if I never try I'll never learn!

[@janabandana4240]

When I grew my own slips I chose a potato (organic) from Whole Foods that was grown locally so that it would be good for my climate. I cut either one in half or used two. I don’t remember. I suspended them in a glass of water using tooth picks. I don’t remember how far in advance I did it but I’m thinking March for a June planting. At first one produced and I got nothing from the other. Eventually I got more slips than would fit in my bed and I gave some away. This year I mulched with black plastic bags to heat up the soil. I got my best sweet potato harvest. Some of them grew far from the plant on long runners sometimes a foot or longer. It was a warm not too wet summer here where I live. That helped. This year, in addition to my own potatoes, I saved some Japanese potatoes and white sweets from a local organic grower. Hope to have my own (I think they were Garnett) and the whites and the Japanese. I love my vegetable garden and the miracle of working with the world to create food for me and my friends and family. 😎😎

[@SolidGoldShows]

Awesome harvest! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Greetings from Northern California

[@cblair8501]

I'm a huge garden nerd too!! I get excited too, soooo rewarding & healing. You guys are great, spring will be here before we know it.

[@judelpogoy376]

A gardner is never afraid of worms. I love ur vlog

[@1870s]

Thank you, glad to have you with us 💚

[@pamelacooley6457]

Beautiful. We had fun collecting our sweet potatoes this year. One of my favorites to grow

[@rolandomartinez2535]

Totally enjoyed your harvest video. Just can’t believe that is only due to 2 years since when you stated your Ruth Stout experiment. Great job!!!

[@1870s]

I know, stay tuned because I'm really modifying my Ruth Stout beds this year in hopes for even better production

[@lyndonnelly]

Once you have the plants you will always get some growing back

[@1870s]

Not in our region, won't survive our winter

[@jamiemullen5625]

Just something to bring up to yall is that you can eat the leaves of sweet potato vines like spinach. I dehydrate them along with other greens and make a super green powder and add it to soups and shakes. They are amazing 👍

[@SiphoMasilela-km4ou]

Great harvest Rachel, congratulations

[@Benary96]

I just found out about this method and I found this video during my research I love seeing it in action...and I love your joy and excitement i hope I'm this excited when I have my own harvest!

[@reginaroos7095]

Hi, when I harvest I plant some vines into pots and keep them indoors in a sunny spot through winter, so I don't have to start from scratch when planting again. I love your Garden.

[@1870s]

Great idea!

[@kprairiesun]

Love that you're using Ruth Stout method! I've used it for years but never had room for sweet potatoes. Thanks so much for showing how you planted the slips! You can grow your own slips from the sweet potatoes and get quite a few off each sweet potatoes. Thanks! Show us what else you are growing that way and how you plant them! You could use those that already have slips growing out of them. My favorite candied sweet potatoes are delicious and just peeked, cut up sweet potatoes, baked in a casserole dish with good amount if butter drizzled all over them, salt and pepper, some brown sugar sprinkled over them. When 3/4 done or almost done or earlier if you like, sprinkle marshmallows over them and put back in the oven till tender and marshmallows mostly melted. Tried to make them like my grandma dud who was a professional cook without actually knowing how she did it. Everyone always lives them, even my family that doesn't like them normally. I don't like mushy, over sweet sweet potato casseroles, so this lets you still taste the sweet potato as a potato.

[@1870s]

Thank you, we have several videos on our garden, about half my growing space is Ruth Stout and the remainder is raised beds. Currently planning the 2020 garden

[@homesteadonmain]

I've been binge-watching your sweet potato videos to watch your shear joy in harvesting!! You are the cutest ever Rachel, and now I am going to plant sweet potatoes this year in our new Kentucky garden! Love you both so much.

[@daniellegodfrey2247]

Wow!!!! That's so exciting Rachel! I just love your earth!

[@1870s]

Me too really hoping this year's harvest is as good

[@theheritagehousesc]

Potatoes to me are like Christmas presents; you never know how big or small till you start digging in! They are m favorite thing to harvest.

[@1870s]

Me too that and carrots

[@susanhickman1746]

Great haul of sweet potatoes! 👏👏👏👏 We grow our in towers and use slips poked in from the sides. Soil is super loamy and light. Harvest is soooo easy… no digging needed. We had a terrific harvest. Happy for you & Todd. Susan

[@joinmeinthedirt5186]

Every time you show your amazing garden I always remember the spring flooding and can't believe how will it's come.

[@1870s]

I know it's crazy how bad it was and how well it turned out, I did replant several times, but I'll stress less next time

[@joanpia5180]

I really love harvesting our sweet potato

[@rosecowan1556]

Great Video!! We have sweet potato growing now. Can’t wait to see our harvest. Thank you for the video!!

[@TheSignseeker]

Your joy is contagious. 😊

[@bwaters2696]

Thank you Mrs. Rachel I came across your channel today on my day off work am a first responder here in Michigan. I don't have a lot of space to plant sweet potatoes I will be trying this in a bucket as soon as am able to play in the dirt : ). I just love your excitement in the garden that was an awesome harvest last year.

[@1870s]

Thank you for your service and commitment during this time! I hope you have great success growing some food this year!

[@iniyers6679]

So many sweet potato tops too. It is so yummy and very nutritious too. Love this harvest video.

[@1870s]

Thank you 😊

[@freedomhomesteadky]

I LOVE sweet potatoes and I will be just like you were here during my first harvest (next year). ❤️

[@1870s]

It was so fun!!

[@happydays1336]

Bake sweet potatoes then split and top with small marshmallows, cinnamon and brown sugar and melt again in the microwave or oven if you need to. Yummy!

[@DonnyLisa1]

💕”0h, its like Christmas!”💕 How joyous you are. I feel the same during my harvests.

[@1870s]

Love that! ♥

[@natashanagy1117]

I really adore your joy! Thanks for a great video

[@Remember2020]

Thanks for sharing. You're achievements are inspiring.

[@TZap19]

Calder Dairy Farms sweatshirt......I went to school with John Calder in Allen Park....Class of 1974! I live in CA now. Love your videos....it makes me miss Michigan.

[@1870s]

My daughter worked there

[@joannecafiero6287]

Beautiful harvest and the greens are delicious...and nutritious too

[@tracyrenearn]

So glad I found you. I am only 30 minutes away, Ypsilanti. I actually spent many years as a child in Monroe. Just moved back to the mitten 4 yrs ago. I tried Molokai sweet potatoes this year. My first time growing any potato. I am year one Back to Eden garden method and had what I would call a success. I am with you on your excitement. I was told I couldn't grow sweet potatoes here! And I just planted garlic for the first time too. Bingeing one your videos now. I can't get enough of them!

[@1870s]

Awe ❤️. Welcome!! I hope you have a wonderful garlic harvest next year!!

[@mistymockingbird3511]

Sweet potato greens are so delicious.

[@urbanotales8546]

Seeing you happy makes me happy 😊

[@trudymautz4388]

I get so excited like you when I dig up my potatoes too. Glad I found your channel, someone who has a similar growing zone as me. I am in Northwest NJ

[@1870s]

Welcome aboard!

[@camilo_negro]

sauted young leaves of sweet potatoes is so delicious and healthy❤️❤️ beautiful harvest.. lots of sweet potatoes...

[@judya.shroads8245]

Your excitement is so nice. You need a little spade to dig them out. Great harvest.

[@hazkhan6124]

yes the most exciting is when harvesting and so much to provide too!

[@RobinsTinyHomestead]

I feel the same way about sweet potatoes, I didn't do nearly as well as you but still super thankful for what Gob blessed me with. Nice harvest:-):-)

[@IvysCouponCamp]

I love your sweet potatoes, I do potatoes in a laundry basket ,

[@evangelinehenderson1455]

Thank You for the information!!Love the excitement,,I get excited too when I see a great eating that going to my table 😀 ❤👍🏾

[@LaHortetadeBussy]

Wow. Thanks for video ist beautifoul

[@1870s]

Thank you glad you enjoyed it

[@alamo2211]

Growing my very first sweet potatoes this year in south Texas. One month to harvest, I can’t wait to see how they did!

[@1870s]

How exciting!!! I hope you have a fantastic harvest

[@CamMcB]

low-maintenance Gardener. I call myself a haphazard gardener. like them both.

[@chekenolchannel9692]

Good harvest. I like low maintenance garden too. Let's nature take its on course.

[@comebackstacey1838]

I really enjoyed watching your harvest! So glad to know we'll be able to grow sweet potatoes in our Ruth Stout garden in 2020!

[@zoediaries]

We are actually eating the leaves as well.give it stir with onions,garlic and oyster sauce..oh heaven!

[@deborahsalgado9484]

Wow that is amazing thank you for sharing how you harvested these I just made some slips and put them in the ground first time, cant wait till I can see them growing. I am in Charlotte, NC.

[@chowfun6526]

This is so awesome. Congratulations on your harvest. Lots of meals here. Yay.

[@avirgingardenista2892]

What a beautiful sweet potato HARVEST!! I love the excitement in your voice! Lol. I'm looking forward to growing potatoes next SPRING/summer season!! Happy FRIDAY! Happy gardening❤🌽🍁🌿🍂🍠🍓🍅🍆

[@taurobenitez1520]

ME ENCANTA EL BONIATO ME ENCANTA QUE LO HAGAN EN FAMILIA. BESOS DESDE URUGUAY.

[@tinacolwell8103]

Your excitement is contagious. Great harvest!

[@1870s]

It was a fun day in the garden

[@kikiromero622]

I love your joy!

[@laurielyon1892]

Love how excited you get when you find the potatoes. Gardening is exciting! That is how I am getting when I pull out a carrot because this is the first time growing them for me.

[@blessildajoy]

You're making me rethink my whole garden layout! I may have a use for that spring bog after all?

[@_thatchickchris8246]

Oh how I love sweet potatoes! Your harvest was great. I picked up some old harvesting baskets yesterday at a thrift store $4! I am so excited to use them next year!

[@1870s]

Awesome, I love thrift store scores

[@IcedReality]

Amazing!!! Thank you for sharing your joy!

[@1870s]

Your welcome it sure was a fun experience

[@atwistedsky9169]

I love how excited you were with the harvest. Those sweet potatoes looked amazing and they really seemed to love the Ruth Stout bed judging by the growth of the vines.

[@1870s]

Yes they love growing in this method

[@abbey5574]

I love how happy this project made you!! Such a lovely video!!🥰

[@sevenjacobs]

This video was so fun to watch!! I grew sweet potatoes a few years ago. Definitely trying again this year with this method!!

[@mr.willie9578]

Great video Rachel and y’all got the mega load of sweet potatoes 🍠

[@judithwest2316]

Good for you! I’m excited for you.

[@kimberlee2469]

That was so joyful to watch! I loved the shear glee and excitement! I’m excited for you 🙏

[@1870s]

Thank you so much!