This Is The BEST Harvest All Year | Luffa Gourds & Sweet Potatoes

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[@ouachitafarmacy]

Those would be Georgia jet variety, we’ve never let our sweet potato vines die back or we’d be into our first frost date. We try and go 100-115 days. You can put one large sweet potato in a container with moist soil potting soil under a grow light and have more slips than you can imagine. Good job!

[@martharentfro6991]

In my experience sweet potato vines do not die back unless frost hits them. If you do not dig the sweet potatoes before frost they will not keep well at all. The first time I grew them was for a fund raiser and had to reimburse my customers because they had been nipped by a very light frost and started going bad soon. This is a lesson I remember 35 years later.

[@sandyrees490]

You don’t wait for the vine to die back on sweet potatoes. Mark your calendar for 100 days after planting and dig up with a couple weeks after that

[@DJ-ok5ov]

My mom always let her sweet potatoes sit in the sun for a few days. She said it sweetens them. I tried that with mine this year. They are so sweet and good. Yes, mine got pretty big too but they are delicious and not at all tough. One baked is big enough for both of us.

[@dandymom1709]

The only downside I've ever had to really big sweet potatoes is that they are hard to cut with a knife. A good sharp cleaver works just dandy though. Because of their size they don't bake well but I use them for whipped sweet potatoes, sweet potato pies, sweet potato casseroles... They also do great for canning.

[@takingcareofmine]

Sweet potato fries!

[@ancientantics]

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[@apiecemaker1163]

Hey Zach, you should get you a gator garden wagon. I absolutely love mine. It has like lawn mower tires so it goes over rough terrain and it has a dump bed. Saves a lot of wear and tear on my back and shoulders. I promise you will love it for hauling produce, feed, etc. Enjoy HOA. Hope you guys come back with a lot of great memories. Y’all are in the prime of your lives. Enjoy these days. They give you fond memories to look back on when you’re older like me. God bless.

[@cassandralang2281]

We only cold store our baking size sweet potatoes. Once the large ones cure, we peel and I can them in chunks for easy quick side dishes. Some with a candied syrup for candied yams and some plain for mashed sweet potatoes. I take the small/ skinny long ones and process them into sweet potato fries! We love growing sweet potatoes.

[@metalmartha2571]

Zach I would eat the split ones first just so you don’t lose them to bugs. I’ve never grown sweet potatoes before though. My climate is too cold, we only have 120 days of growing season and that’s the exact amount for sweet potatoes? Is how I understand it. On the other hand now I think I might give it a shot! Great harvest! 🎉 Can’t wait to see the recipes that come out of them

[@sherryprofitt8746]

Yes. You did need Rusty's help. He's a good boy and helpful. I can tell.😀 I like to put the big ones covered with butter wrapped in aluminum foil in the slow cooker to cook. Being single, I put them in the refrigerator and cut them in to pieces and reheat in the microwave.

[@barb5011]

Just a suggestion, use a dolly to carry your tote, it saves so much on your back. Great harvest and Happy Thanksgiving .

[@elainevang9114]

Hope you have all those vines to your critters. My goats and chickens love them! Great job first time growing them. 😊

[@DiggingForHealth]

That's a huge luffa at 1:00. Great harvest of luffa and sweet potatoes! We get giant sweet potatoes too. They taste just as good but they won't last as long when they split like I saw some of yours did. Just eat those first! Great job!

[@puremayhelm]

I grow Georgia Jet here in Manitoba Canada because they are a short growing variety. 100 days here. I find once they get massive huge that they become very fibrous for me. I prefer them just normal size and find they store better. Beautiful yield you got!

[@moprepper5007]

Holy cow! Those sweet potatoes are monsters!!! This was our first year with them too. None got bigger than the norm but they were so stinking simple to grow, I’ll be doing many more in the future too. And grow your own slips so you don’t have to buy again. They’re a breeze to grow but take forever to start.

[@deborahtheodore5407]

I gathered a few stems from the plant after harvesting the potatoes and put them in water for next year. I gained some slips and a beautiful window plant.

[@tamararoberts9307]

My second year growing sweet potatoes this year in a large pot and was better than last year. I am pleased 😀 y'alls look fabulous 👌 👏 👍

[@sheraeduncan2980]

120 Days is the norm. They lose a bit , in my experience , when they are in the ground too long. Those are beautiful congratulations. Vines dying back is really the other potatoes not sweets.

[@gretchenarrant8334]

Thanks, didn't know that. My first attempt. Learn something everyday.

[@elainegill3352]

HAHA loved your comment about gardening in the fall, I agree although up here in Canada zone 2b we wear flannel most of the year. love your videos lots of great info.

[@Lucaangelo252]

Hello Elaine how are you doing?

[@Lulu-he9dp]

Great loofah and sweet potato harvest. Sweet potatoes are much healthier than russets so it's great to have in your pantry. As you see, you get a variety of sizes, and all are good prepared one way or another.

[@chasingmoonlightfarm]

My largest was 7lbs last year!! It was 😋! I think you're supposed to let them set for 6 weeks or so before eating...that is so that the sugars get really concentrated. Enjoy the harvest!! ❤️

[@marcialittle7893]

I had two that were seven pounds each last year! I grow in 18 gallon tubs, so I had seven tubs and 96.2 pounds of potatoes. I would recommend using the largest ones first, and you do not need to wait to eat any of them, they are just as sweet today as they will ever be. Yummy! Enjoy!

[@amyroberts7248]

@@marcialittle7893 Oh so good to know cause this is my first year growing them and I will be growing them in totes so Im relieved to know they should do fine. How much water should I be giving them??

[@beckyjo1956]

That's freaking awesome!! I love growing sweet potatoes, and white potatoes . It's like a treasure hunt.. ❤️

[@miasgirls3778]

My pastor once told me that the leaves sweet potato plant is edible.❤️❤️❤️

[@Angela_Alaimo]

Yes, they are. Sweet potatoes are in the morning glory family. Irish potatoes are nightshades, and the leaves are not edible

[@miasgirls3778]

@@Angela_Alaimo thanks for information 🥰

[@Angela_Alaimo]

@@miasgirls3778 Welcome! Always happy to share knowledge. And who would have thought they were morning glory relatives?

[@syntychiahintsin-tee-shaks2256]

Both harvests are no joke! Congratulations! I’m definitely going to try again with loofahs next year.

[@diannamc367]

We had a chance of frost a couple weeks or so ago. I pulled all my green tomatoes (3 boxes) figuring I would need to make green tomato salsa, etc. I didn't get around to it and almost ALL of them have ripened! Yeah, that tomato will turn for you just fine😅

[@gwensmith9596]

I dug mine last weekend. I had a great harvest of about 15 #. I took a few of my smallest sweet potatoes from last year and put them partially in soil. I grew my own slips. While I like bigger sweet potatoes for baking , I don't want them huge. So about the same size as a regular baked potato is perfect for baking. So to save yourself money drop a few of your smallest SP into your greenhouse around Feb or March. You will get slips fast. Or in the house. I have tried the sweet potato in water and while it works took longer. I also had slips from a left over sweet potato in my previous growing patch. Enjoy and good luck

[@lorisimpson1801]

Great Harvest. Look into starting your own slips next year. Very easy to do and much cheaper. Only downside to monster sweet potatoes are very hard to cut but they will taste the same as smaller ones.

[@gretchenarrant8334]

I grew my slips by accident, but man they went wild. I could have shared many!! Lol

[@kathysaurbeck8582]

You did a great job with those sweet potatoes I do them every year too. I enjoyed canning them. This year I used the new priority and they were larger than normal and you’re right they are hard as a rock. I want to thank you for the great videos that you put out continue to do it. I bless your travels have fun. By the way I live in Michigan

[@nancycarney]

The only thing I know about sweet potato harvest is if they are super large and split, they may have aged and could be drier. Usable for casserole but not that great just to eat like a baked potato. The center even looks a little different. I love that you enjoy what you do. I only have my fall potatoes left. They are not ready. Southwest Tennessee near the Mississippi river. We have unusually cool dry weather. I hope they make it before an early frost. They will not be real big and as many as a summer crop. But we will get something.

[@tarchia9092]

Awesome haul. I always found them deep down and if I left a little one behind, it started growing again next season.

[@tracybruring7560]

I am thinking you will have a problem with squirrels

[@Mel-vu9ss]

I buried a few sweets in a tub in my greenhouse early early spring this year, I added some bone meal before I planted and kept them watered. There were tons of slips by the time I could plant them, they started growing just when they knew I would need them.

[@lisac.4811]

I've found that the really big potatoes are hard to cut up if you are wanting to slice and roast or make fries. Taste is about the same. We had several really big ones this year too, particularly where they got good moisture. I prefer mine to be more of the size you can hold in your hand. But always thankful for all I can get as we love them.

[@ellenmallery3425]

Uub..

[@NancySutherland]

This was our first year growing sweet potatoes also. We harvested today even though our vines hadn’t grown back. We had lots of very large ones, and some small ones as well. Congratulations on your great harvest! I am told that they will do well in the same bed every year, as some will come back from the pieces of vine that you may leave in the soil.

[@telyeash4155]

Those look amazing I love sweet potatoes wish we could grow them in Oregon

[@ruthcowden1386]

There was no need to fast forward through your sweet potato harvest. I could watch that all day 🙂

[@telyeash4155]

I agree I think it’s the coolest thing ever

[@susanstokesbrungard291]

This harvest is so great. proud of you all. lv an Prayers.

[@ohiorivervalleyhomestead]

Stir fry the leaves. They taste like a light spinach.

[@tennesseegirl1215]

Can those big ones in a brown sugar syrup, they are delicious. I save my small ones for baking

[@Lucaangelo252]

Hello Tennessee how are you doing?😊

[@kimsmith5471]

I'm in Zone 8b & my vines never died back. Very happy with our haul. The chickens ate every leaf & left the vines. Your critters will love the treat !

[@LuJustLu]

What a way to hit the ground running!!! Your first time growing them, and you have a massive harvest like this. Great job!

[@kathleenritter4532]

Great blessings for your family!!! Safe travels

[@judyabernathy80]

Zack, won’t the animals get those sweet potatoes left out on the tables? I see raccoons, dogs, opossums, rats, etc getting them. That would be a shame. Those potatoes are beautiful!! ♥️🙏🏼🙏🏼♥️

[@Lucaangelo252]

Hello Judy how are you doing, Where are you from?

[@hollyu48]

Cows love the vines

[@EverydayWonder]

How exciting! We grew “fingerling” sweet potatoes! 😢😂 idk what we did wrong but we will try again next year!

[@athomewithelisa]

Oh my goodness I want to grow Sweet potatoes now

[@Lucaangelo252]

Hello beautiful how are you?

[@jeannamaynard5037]

Size of potatoes does not affect taste, only serving size. Retail customers do not want more than one serving per potato.

[@Lucaangelo252]

Hello Jeanna how are you doing, Where are you from?

[@sandypratt8951]

❤️👍👍👍

[@coolstamper]

OMGosh…I’ve NEVER see sweet potatoes that big!!! ❤️🇺🇸❤️

[@lydiabrooks2302]

Will you use the sweet potato greens?

[@Lucaangelo252]

Hello Lydia how are you doing, Where are you from?

[@tammydove935]

How do you find out the elevation so I can pressure can?? Haven't found anyone yet to answer so I know what pressure gauge should be where I live?? I have a 23 quart presto pressure cooker HELP PLEASE!!! TIA

[@rubymcgilvra1771]

The really big one would be good for canning. The smaller ones make good bakers. The fingerlings would be good for sweet potato fries.

[@terriebrecheisen1875]

Good Job!!! I love those ginormous ones. Casseroles, pies, or just to scoop out and munch with a sprinkle of cinammon....yum.

[@markkristynichols845]

So I grew loofah last year because of your loofahs and they were great! This year I planted 4 plants and I’m overrun with them and I’m so excited!!! Thanks guys, ❤ y’all, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@sharonkeef0522]

How can I get some seeds for lofa

[@jtharp9265]

Great 1st year sweet potato haul 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Mr.Danny & Mrs Wanda Grow big ones also and they are just fine !!! I'd use those for pies 🥧 😋 Mine were pretty good also - but not as many as yall . God bless you 🙏 and the whole family . Mrs Josette Montgomery County, Texas 🙏

[@debrafuller5693]

Such a joy to have a harvest! Alot of thought in design and patience with nature ♥ abundance It's a beautiful paradise for sure!Congratulations on ya'll success 💕

[@anitahouse3600]

Start your own sweet potato slips. easy to do. I planted 3 slips this year, 1 was eaten by a rabbit. 2 slips produced 54 pounds!!!! Largest one was 5 lb 8 oz. HUGE! I normally can the great big ones. Yes, love digging sweet potates.

[@mccoolfarmandgarden]

Don’t worry about the vines dying back. We just harvest around 120 days

[@MorrisPatchofHeavenhomestead]

Holy cow, those are some amazing looking sweet potatoes, those are going to make some good eating, bigger might be harder to cut but still delicious just the same. Those loofahs were amazing. Love and blessings

[@kyfaithhavenfarm9228]

The huge potatoes don’t can well. Very fibrous. And the fingerlings are great for frying but don’t store well.

[@nat3803]

Plain outstanding video! Loved this presentation of your Gourds and Sweet Potatoes!

[@annies8857]

Great Harvest!! Your first go at it and you did wonderful. My first attempt at growing Sweet Potatoes was not successful. Deer ate all the vines...lol

[@iaintdoingit8199]

I dig my Georgia Jets at 120 days. Vines are still strong and beautiful. Don't let the vines die back because you will have woody spots in the potatoes. Did you know that sweet potatoes are part of the Morning Glory family -- fascinating!

[@jesusislord2457]

The smaller the better, to me. The big ones get pithy in the middle; a lot like crook neck squash if allowed to grow too long. The bigger ones are fine for frying but, they do need parboiling to give the middle a chance to get tender. Enjoy!☮️💝🙏🇺🇸✌️

[@dianewebb5865]

What did you use to fill your raised bed for sweet potatoes? Did you use it in all your raised beds ? I'm in Zone 8a..South Carolina...trying to figure out what to use in raised beds.

[@Pjdlharvey]

I really need to do lots of mixing things in my soil. I can't grow anything. You really have some green thumbs. God Bless y'all

[@amyreid9649]

I’m south of you in E. TN. I always hill a row and plant slips about 7to 8 inches apart. I have had great harvests. Always. Variety like you got and last year had so many and some like footballs. I didn’t plant this year. I had a heaping wheelbarrow full and some extra. As they started to age some started growing slips. So I roasted a bunch and dehydrated them mashed up plane. I don’t care for canned I feel they always seam soggy. Great job, enjoy them!

[@sandytmobile4467]

Your gold mine on sweet potato wow oh wow. I just bought only two why because there 2 for $5.00 and not big but food is just gone up. We didn't plant them or Acorn squash Wich is a favorite even for pies so we needed up on getting things inn. Your a good man on everything you do and take very good care of all your family. A blessing to you. Hug from Oregon

[@dianewebb5865]

How many seeds did you plant..loofahs?? Did you use cattle panels ?

[@tawanaconaway499]

Zac what variety of sweet potato is this...thus.... such beauties

[@denesestanley7011]

Cook it when it’s young….delicious luffa

[@conservfriends9651]

Most channels, who grow sweet potatoes, say to harvest at 120 days. They slice the fingerling size and make sweet potato fries.

[@kimsampleshall7137]

your fine the bigger the better, I've never had a problem with my xxxxxLg sweet taters, goood crop, eat up!

[@lorenawaller457]

I know this has nothing to do with sweet potatoes but, I just wanted to let you know that I planted 5 of the comfrey seeds that I got from you and 3 of them germinated and are growing very well in one big pot. I’m so thankful to you for sharing these seeds with us and I was also wondering if it’s safe to leave them outside during the winter here in Iowa or should I bring the pot inside during the winter and take them out after the first frost? We sometimes get temperatures of down to-24 degrees but, not always. I want to make sure that my precious little babies are safe and continue to keep growing every year for years to come. Thank you so much for all you do and share with us, Love 💕 y’all ❣️🤗❣️

[@dibutler9151]

My mother grew them one year and got like 60 from 2 vines. She didn't grow them again for about 15 yrs, lol.

[@tamararoberts9307]

Nice haul y'all! I'm in south-central Indiana and harvested mine 2 weeks ago and did pretty good

[@bettylongshore9594]

Awesome harvest on both you luffas and your sweet potatoes! I think the best eating potatoes are the smaller ones you were showing - bigger than fingerlings! I know Jen will find a way to make them work though!!!!!! We were gifted with some sweet potatoes that are starting to have issues. I may need to find a way to either can, dehydrate, for freeze dry them!!!!! Anyone know which way is the best?????

[@leonastreva4049]

Years ago I grew some Georgia Jet sweet potatoes in unprepared clay - one of them fed 10 people for Thanksgiving dinner. I was told that huge ones would be stringy and not food - not true, they were wonderful. You said they were Georgia something - hope they are what I grew, if so they would have gotten bigger and still wonderful.

[@growinggenerationshomestea516]

Yall should grab some kudzu before it's gone to tincture, best thing hands down for headaches.

[@mimasminihomestead]

Got some weird editing going on... random pics popping up in videos and framing margins.... just a heads up!! 👍

[@gloriahagg6293]

Boy! That one sweet potato would feed your whole family. Ha. Great harvest.

[@COWELLGIRL]

The animals are gonna love those sweet potatoe greens

[@maryarcher8484]

I have heard that the leaves taste really good I have never tried it.

[@rachelrocha4319]

My friend grew loofa this year and now I know how to help him ! Thank you ! I am growing some next year . I want an arch too.God bless !

[@ameliainpdx1775]

There are times I wish I could eat sweet potatoes, but am allergic to them. I'd try to grow them if I wasn't... along with some of the other produce everyone seems to grow...

[@rockymeadow7311]

The long thin taters make great French fries. Georgia Jets are very prolific.

[@ladyryan902]

See I guess I'm greedy cause I'd be harvesting the leaves for stir fry and chickens love those leaves n vines😄 those potatoes are enormous!!

[@JustineMcGuire]

Jess’s sweet potatoes at roots and refuge farm was the same way!! Hmm weird!

[@kansasmisfit7404]

Check out Tina and Mark bumble bee junctions sweet potato 🥔🍠 harvest

[@rkwms3934]

Great harvest, the only thing I don't like with canning them the get to infused with the liquid, if you have a cool basement after they are cured I would stick to that method.

[@beverlyboyce1041]

Try Evangeline sweet potatoes, they grow more long than fat and round. Looks like they got too much water near end of season cause they started splitting and I see a few slips trying to develop.

[@deborahjennings4119]

Great sweet potato harvest harvest! You are growing the wrong luffa variety if you want to eat them. We use the one from Hoss Tool called Vine Okra and they have a squash like flavor. We tried the other one and it did taste nasty, but the vine okra is great!

[@maryann6522]

Digging for treasure

[@Lucaangelo252]

Hello Maryann how are you doing, Where are you from?

[@annequiring5652]

I have to harvest my loofahs and sweet potatoes today. Temperature is supposed to drop to 30o tonight.

[@lolagranolathechickendoula]

"I don't know about that. That's from Chernobyl" hahahahahahaha

[@hickoryhillinthebigwoods-r759]

After years of trying, I finally had a loofah gourd grow this year. I have 20 gallon pot with a vine growing and I have four gourd on it. I am super excited. Thank you for letting us know they can dry in the storage room.

[@debrahutson4357]

You can plant regular potatoes in the summer for a fall harvest I planted mine in early July for a fall harvest

[@lindajustice2000]

Did you water and fertilize your sweet potatoes on a regular schedule?

[@FireDude13]

Holy Toledo! Those are some big sweet 'taters! It is always a bonus when a veggie is pretty much hands off. Nature is pretty good at doing it's thing! Thanks for sharing - enjoyed it 🤠

[@Rachel-ju5vt]

What a wonderful harvest!

[@cindiwatson5415]

My loofa’s had squash bugs this year. They made brown spots on the actual loofa. I was so mad

[@sheliaheverin8822]

So, with sweet potatoes you don't wait until the vines die back to harvest them? I hope they aren't pithy. The huge ones would be good to can.

[@tammysarrazin7078]

doesnt matter the size they are great eating........i love to cut them up like fries put some oil salt pepper garlic onion powders and pop into oven best sweet potatoe fries ever hugsssss