so my daughter is out here harvesting the sweet potatoes from this um
this raised bed that we made out of um repurposed palettes you all so this is a really good so we
can look and look inside of here um we'll see it pull them up don't have to worry about the
um the animals getting them or anything we don't watch this
whoopsie some nice sweet potatoes
some long ones you all I'm sorry this is out of the great big planner box that we had
some pretty long ones
the frost last night the freeze killed the um killed the sweet potatoes leaves on the top
and see how big some of these are like massive look at that totally massive this is uh
we're going to put them in the top of the she shed to dry
that's what we did last year we really didn't have to do much of anything to these in here
step um you know build it and do the
they're really deep inside the Earth
and there's there's might be a lot more that's deeper we'll have to pull the vines out completely
what if I do this to try to pull some of this stuff out of the way oh I pulled up one
from The Vines there must be a massive one down there it kind of looks like it could be
um or a great big long one hello
um oh
they go all over the place
uh well it's you're supposed to dry it out first
so we just kind of dry them out that's what we do these are really nice
kind of get that great big one out over there
get some of these Vines out of the way there's a there are a whole lot down in here
a ton of them I'm getting in the way oh that was a big long one
uh this is the first year that we've planted anything in them since I just built them
uh this year I built these sweet this uh planner boxes
so it's a it's a good harvest
it'd be plenty for us
normally we have them planted in the garden but then the voles and stuff gets to them
and they're really embedded you well
um yes it was sweet potato sweet potato casserole that would be great um it looked like that broke
off yeah sweet potato casserole you all okay look at this one oh that's a nice one
um
pure organic if you're into Organics it's um it's pure organic yeah
oh wow that's a great big long one oh my gosh look at that look how massive this thing is
that says size of a ruler you all one size of a ruler um
so this if you're just tuning in this is the first year that
we've grown anything in these since I just um
got them built this year
oh that's a nice big one too
oh that's okay that is all right you're not supposed to like get the dirt off of them or
anything either you will this is a whole lot I don't know how much sweet potatoes are going for
in the stores do you all know how much they're going for in the store as well this look like a
big one's coming out maybe or just a whole bunch of them oh just a whole bunch of scragglers you uh
um sweet potatoes and yams they're the same thing I'm pretty sure I've not known them
to be anything different oh I see a big I see a big one down there let's see it let's
see how big this one is can you see that oh my gosh that is massive look at that
look how massive this one is you all this is this is serious this is serious
stuff now we got a big massive um yam or a sweet potato coming out
um you may say oh it's not massive oh it's really this prop might be one of the biggest ones we've
gotten out of here that you can see that we're having to dig around in here oh there's another
great big one you'll take that one all right yep so um I don't want my stuff to get in the way
organic sweet potatoes in California are five dollars for three pounds oh my gosh look at look
at how nice these are um look at that one like massive massive you off you just tune in every
try and she's trying to get this out of there you can see it goes pretty deep oh my goodness
it's got a lot of small ones around it
little bitty small ones look at that you all can you see it it's like oh my gosh
gotta dig down deep it's got It's probably going really deep in the ground
it's kind of exciting it's going deep into the ground I left my hot tea up there too
that's okay let me see if I can oh here we go here we go oh my gosh that is massive
wow look how massive that is and look how nice it looks you are it looks really nice
look at that that's beautiful it really is beautiful got some more some more ones and I
guess after we get the majority of these out we'll have to go right back through and um excuse me
wipe back through and then sift through all of this kind of yeah
they are expensive well I personally I won't I won't spend the money for them but I like to eat
sweet potatoes and they cook a lot faster than regular potatoes and they're a lot healthier for
you they are I hope this is okay you all it's a really good harvest and the good thing is this
right here can stay this um is that another kind of what of a big one it can stay um
stay here and we can use it again next year or even this year if we've got more crops we
I think we got some fall crops that we can pick and you know you can just dice
these up like carrots and have a nice uh a nice meal even with the skinny ones you off
I'll let you see how how this is how big the the planter box is you can see the leaves
died from the freeze it's uh it's all right I could probably try to pull some of these out
I don't know about it though yeah I don't want to tear up my thing
yeah that's right coconut curry never heard of coconut curry you are
um yeah I have a helper today that's right I better get all of these little bitty ones
our husbands our husband my husband's up there in the she shed in the um the top of the she shed
where it gets nice and hot I said uh we got dirt left over up there could you climb up there and
clean that out because it hurt my knees I think if I'd had to sit there a long
time try to get up all the dirt from last year from the sweet potatoes
looks like something bit into that it's like a hole might have been something in here that
got it maybe a nematode or something I I wouldn't want a nematode in it I wouldn't
um coconut curry sounds really good yeah you also um it's out here
been wondering when thus this Harvest would be able to be done and um I guess now is the time
it's like this these need cut or something because they're like oh there's another great big one you
all let's let's there's another great big one down in here well it's not too big but it's kind of big
it's going deep it is going pretty deep oh there's several of them uh that's down there in the ground
I'm sure that there's a lot more underneath these two probably in the dirt we'll we'll sift through
it um for these uh what do you think it's just like a malformation is all I think I just snapped
one of these in half shoot well I think you can eat them as they come out of the garden um or do
so um if you're just tuning in we got a freeze last night and um the leaves to the sweet potatoes
uh got frost damage and it's time to pull these out they've been in there long enough
and they'll cure up in our top of the she shed where it gets really hot with the Sun um okay
yeah I got it going they'll cure up there and um I don't know how long but yeah they are nice and
they'll taste really good you can eat them as a snack oh wow that's a nice big one too look
at that that's about the size of a ruler maybe 12 inches if you were to straighten it out um
and again this is like a recycled pallets and an old fencing there was old picket fence that
somebody said for free on the Facebook I had picked up a whole bunch of them and I pulled the
um the planks off of it but then um there were free pallets and I had some two by
fours and I put it all together and I filled in the gaps and I had some
plastic sheeting that I had bought and stapled it to the inside there's a lot of work though
it was I had to make them a certain height and then it took like a whole truckload of
dirt compost from the Earth First place is what it took like a jungle um
yeah what's going on oh you're hungry it would taste good in the edge of some
be microwave it or bake it or do whatever you want to just eat it and sweet potato
casserole or something or even a sweet potato and just savor every bite of it um that's right
kind of like carrots um
they're probably part of the carrot family Maybe you can see there's like tiny ones on here too
um we could eat those I'm sure oh this is like
a size of a potato it didn't get to fully mature you uh um foreign
bacon and pineapple sounds really good I've never heard of that let me let me get this out of your
way oh sorry it's like a jungle okay it is a jungle seeing you all you have to do is bend over
um is what you have to do to spend over and get those sweet potatoes out
so now we know what to expect um
from these sweet potatoes next year you see how they um cascaded over here
um is on this side a lot of them didn't get as uh
grow as much as they probably wanted to grow they probably didn't you uh
but that's okay it's all right and if there's like scragglers maybe they'll have some leftovers and
stuff and you can also grow your own sweet potato shoots but you better do it plenty ahead of time
um yeah that's a big jungle right there one great big Jungle of roots massive roots um
I guess I'll get these so I think that's probably about it you all it is got a nice little Harvest
a sweet potatoes this is one of the biggest right here this one and um this one right here uh
so yeah I am gonna go I am you all I'm gonna go go in there and get my hot tea and um drink it so
um with that being said um thank you all for watching and again it's like a recycled pallets
a recycled old wood fence and some compost from Earth First and a lot of hard work that's what
it was so thank y'all for watching hello Michelle honey you're so very welcome so with that being
said hello wherever you are in any part of the world hello from my heart to yours love you
have a wonderful rest of your evening you are it's beautiful out it is absolutely beautiful