hey everybody it's Rob the Backyard Gardenerr and we got to harvest some sweet potatoes today...
that's right everyone it's time to harvest the sweet
potatoes it was actually time more than ten days ago but we've had so much rain
first it was hot and I wanted to wait for it to cool down then it's been
raining like crazy so today is not the most ideal day to do it because we had a
huge thunderstorm the last couple of days the ground is pretty wet but I
checked the forecast it's gonna be wet for the next week and at the end of the
day I gotta get these two potatoes out of the ground they're already starting
to bulge they're probably gonna get some scabbing if I don't get them out and
I've noticed we had a little bit of pest damage on a few of them so with that
being said the first order of business is I need to go ahead and chop all the
vines down I'll be saving some of the leaves but as you can see here a lot of
the leaves have damage on them pretty much most of them so there's probably
not gonna be too many that I can save but there's a lot of new green foliage
that has grown since all the thunderstorms have hit so I'll save some
of them and fry those up for myself in the meantime we're gonna make a big ol
pile of the leaves and I missed all the mosquitoes crazy mosquitoes but I do
have bug off on me so I should be okay hopefully anyway well go ahead cut the
tops off and I'll bring you back in and we'll get a bird's-eye view of the
ground to see how many of these sweet potatoes are sticking out alright
everyone we've got the tops for the most part chopped away that's what we got
there big pile of bah-choo potato vines thought this would be a good time to go
ahead and show you something in case you didn't know everywhere the super title
vine touches something moist or more specifically the soil it starts to send
out more roots and if you look throughout all of these nodes you can
clearly see the sheer number of roots that this vine was sending down and so
my point is it's too late in the season to worry about keeping these roots or
these vines buried to produce more potatoes but if it's early enough in the
season as your shoe potato vine starts finding out if you have the space it is
a good idea to go ahead and dab some of the vines toss some dirt on it
let it set some more roots and more sweet potatoes will come out of some of
those out of some of those roots so you can actually get a bigger yield that way
now we're gonna have some of that happening I was taking a look here and
you can see the sheer number of shoot potatoes kind of peeking out of this
will get more further into that here in a second but you also can see spots
where it was barely just taking off and so we're gonna have some of these little
or sous potatoes they'll still eat fine I'm fine with those and then also
obviously when I was pulling out a lot of the vines I did pull some sweet
potatoes up inadvertently and I even found some like this like I said I know
we have some damage so we've lost some sweet potatoes to a couple of different
pests I haven't seen a lot of mice out here anymore but this bed when I removed
all of the brush whistle is laden with potato bugs or sow bugs the Jews wide
the comb potato bucks for a reason they love getting your potatoes when they're
right so you can see here we've got several several potato tops peaking up
I must have broke these off while I was pulling the vines but I'm expecting a
pretty good harvest here we've got lots and lots and lots of sweet potatoes
here's a nice example of a vine that had just started so we've got three littler
ones there got some back there we've got one laying
sideways over here and then I've got a couple of bad boys way over here and I
didn't plant I didn't plant past this stick so all these are from its vining
and I'm sure we probably even have some down here amongst the basil so really
curiously what we got which I will record a lot of the digging with you and
try to keep this video as short as possible but still give you an idea of
what I'm running into all right guys we're gonna start on the small side and
that's it there's some all sides because I did not plant any sous potatoes to the
left of this so I figured we come down in here
sorry about that I was so excited about it is I forgot to film these are from
the extra vines so whatever I get on this side is bonus so here's a couple of
sweet potatoes already let's see what else we got down here right amongst the
pineapple roots yeah this is gonna be probably a fairly large potato harvest I
would imagine we used twice as much space this year as we did last year so
here's a couple more for you that's pretty good shoot potatoes we slide this
over here we'll just keep following up this this area oh gosh that's another
nice one right here look at this guy
that is a nice one we do have some back here we got a little tiny pack right
here and this is what I was talking about earlier where the vine set late in
the season and so it gave us some smalls but like I said we don't really need
that one like I said well let it vine and do its thing and get more here's
another nice one back here
good old baseball size and continuing on we'll move over here I don't think
anything bind over here so I don't oh I'm could be wrong oh we got that's the
damaged one which we'll just toss back over there for something else to eat see
how these came out a little one there little one they're a little bit bigger
one there
and small one there so that's where we had another vine that had sent down all
right well let's grab this handful that's coming out right here again a
bunch of smalls and again these are probably where the vine just sent out
another set of roots and we've got more that came out
and potato bugs did a number on that one as well a couple of casualties
I don't mind casualties when we've got
pretty nice ones this one's actually
doesn't feel that healthy to tell you the truth I probably won't eat this one
it has a little bit of discoloration so we'll probably end up tossing it back
feels like something may have just started to get to it yeah I'm not a fan
we'll put it down over there as a discard but we will take these pieces
right here and we'll continue looking for sweet potatoes oh here's one not too
bad
a couple more odd shape ones Billy fine
all right we got a nice ice one right here
holy moly that is a giant gotta like it and this I would imagine came from one
of the main plants one of the main slips that I planted which is why a it's
closer to the surface B and they're bigger and C they're a little bit
discolored holy cow yeah beautiful
they just keep coming up Wow some monsters
wow this is gonna be large harvest guys and I still see lots of surface finds
somewhere now is pulling the potatoes up
well I was pulling the vines up alright you can see what it's looking like and
we're only about six feet in and we still got 12 feet to go so I'm gonna
pause for a while get both gloves on so I can expedite some of this and I'll
bring you back in a little bit well I pretty much removed probably 90% of the
potatoes out of the ground I will need to take my garden fork and just make
sure I didn't leave any down there since I do not want to be growing some
potatoes over here next year I grossly underestimated the box that I would need
the next step for me is to hose these down just a little bit just really just
run rock water over them so I can inspect the skins a little bit for any
damage see which ones I need to go ahead and expedite eating on sue potatoes you
can't eat straight out of the ground but it's best to cure them and so I have a
video on how i cure them which i'll post a link above right here if you want to
check that out after the video I'll also link that at the end of the video so you
can click on it when this video is over what I'm gonna do now is rinse all these
off give you a look at them in their bin we'll get them away up see how much
pounds I got I would imagine this is probably 35 pounds or so it could be
more maybe 40 pounds and I'm gonna put them in a bag which will help cure them
over the next three to seven days
we'll just give them a nice spraying off individually as well and then I'll stick
them in this bag which is actually a cooler bag well zip it up we'll put them
in the pantry and we'll give me three to five days check on them add a little
moisture if we need to since it's not 100 centimeter d but could be closed and
then we'll check them again three to five days after that let me go ahead and
get them in stop and then we'll weigh that bag there you have it that is a big
big bag and the final step is to take this scale well turn it on because then
the Sun just came out and we'll get this bag wait up let me zip it up and we'll
do a live weigh-in all right guys scales at zero I didn't tear the bag as far as
making sure it's zeroed out with the bag but I believe the bags about half a
pound
it got 43.2 pounds so 43.2 pounds the way I look at it is the bag probably
weighs half a pound so I'll call 43 pounds in probably 12 to 14 feet of
planting space probably 12 feet of planting space plus it bind out so it
used almost a full 18 feet technically but I only planted it out at 12 feet
I'll take it all right guys like I said 43 pounds of
sweet potatoes we'll take that all day Sun just came out so it feels fantastic
but last step is that I'm gonna go ahead and cure the potatoes I'm gonna leave
them inside that bag because it acts like a mini greenhouse keeps the humid
and warm in there and I'll be putting that in my pantry to go ahead and fit
not finalize the process if you have any questions on how to cure sweet potatoes
remember at the end of this video I'll link another video that I explained the
process more in detail hopefully enjoyed the soup potato
harvest with me it was my best ever we're getting a little smarter on how to
grow sweet potatoes here in Texas this is Rob the backyard gardener signing out
happy gardening and thanks for watching
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