This year we decided to dig up the yard, to garden closer to the house. We are SO GLAD we did, this sweet potato harvest is amazing!! We planted an old timey whote sweet potato and beauregards! Find Billys Bone Sauce here ➡️ permapasturesfarm.com/products/billys-bone-sauce Check out the whole process ⬇️⬇️ When we initially dug up the yard kzread.info/dash/bejne/mIebpqh_qtuanKw.html Starting slips kzread.info/dash/bejne/q6FprLmKh9fVdtI.html Planting sweet potatoes kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6VqtrtplajXec4.html Check out this playlist! You Can Grow Your own Food kzread.info/head/PLnKpaj6ZJDIrIlBkiZZiKNRAnnA8KC6qV Find True Grit merch here ⬇️ www.thelawsonfarm.com/youtube.html#/ Join our Facebook group and share your gardens!: facebook.com/groups/639624823908914 Instagram: instagram.com/tg_southerncookingandcanning/ TikTok @tg_appalachianways Contact us: Hello@thelawsonfarm.com Write us: P.O. Box 138 Lawsonville, NC 27022

@andreamorrison8419

8 ай бұрын

Do y'all have a great recipe for sweet potatoes

@michaelpardue2400

7 ай бұрын

Look like great potatoes Harvest

@DonnaRatliff1

7 ай бұрын

I just pulled one of my sweet potato beds up today. It was a small 10 fr row one. To my surprise they did awesome. I literally had 11 hugemongous tators all on one the plant. The entire row was like that. I ended up with 60 lbs of tators on that 1 10 ft row. The chickens had been in the electric netting in that area last winter for a good amount of time. We tilled real good. I made the raised row outside of my sweet corn patch. So that was very impressive. The starts had only been done since first of July. I couldn't believe it. My regular sweet potato patch with many rows I'm leaving down for another 2 weeks if weather allows. Then that one will be full 120 days. Theyre the bush sweets. Puerto Rico tators. So will be interesting to see how they do too. 👍👍

@bettablue2660

7 ай бұрын

Please have your daughter play somewhere different when you shoot’s video. Her squealing/screaming I too awful to tolerate.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

7 ай бұрын

Please kindly escort yourself on out, due to this comment and the last regarding my children, I do not need you on my channel, thanks@@bettablue2660

So lovely seeing parents and their children working together on the farm. One day food will be more valuable than money 🙂

@oakmaiden2133

7 ай бұрын

Alreay is, I can’t eat a dollar.

@nunyabisnass1141

7 ай бұрын

Getting the kids involved is one of the best parts. They already like getting dirty, and they learn fast. Plus they feel like they're digging for treasure so it isn't difficult to convince them to help. And the investment on potatoes is almost always manifold positive. One sweet potato creates around a dozen slips, each slip produces about 3-5lbs of potatoes...all you have to do is plant them and that's basically it, very low effort, low investment high yield crop.

@foziahramli3001

7 ай бұрын

True , will come a time when food security and growing your own food is being "the way of life"

@dlewis895

17 күн бұрын

​​@@foziahramli3001 THATS HOW WORLD OPERATES AN AMERICA. BEFORE. INDUSTRIAL AGE PHILLIPINES EAT THE GREENS FROM.SWEET POTATOES. GOOGLE IT

Quick tip, when you plant your slips put in a stake beside them then you can find the centres of the plants and never waste time rooting around looking for them. Good on you that is a great harvest.

@pamschonfarber1041

7 ай бұрын

Great tip

It is refreshing to see your children eager to have fun and help in the garden. This of course is a testimony to good parenting.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

7 ай бұрын

thank you

It's just so wonderful to see children having such a healthy and happy childhood. I wondered if that was lost to this generation completely. Beautiful "yung'uns" you good folks have. ❤

You can eat the vine leaves like spinach, either steamed, or in a soup. Super nutritious and tasty. Yes, the deer enjoyed mine until I put a barrier up around them.

@josegonzales54195

7 ай бұрын

I did not know that.... Thanks for the info.

@Dnugrahari

7 ай бұрын

We like the leaves in a stir fry with smol shrimp

@mistyblue526

7 ай бұрын

Hmmm....maybe I'll try some leaves in a smoothie?

@whereswipa2268

7 ай бұрын

I always eat sweet potato vine tips. I stir fry it with olive oil, crushed garlic, salt and pepper. Super simple.

You are living the best life! And, it's a blessing to see your children working with you. Tell them how blessed they are to live this life. City children are missing out on so much. Your children are blessed! ❤❤❤❤ Baton Rouge Louisiana

It’s great to see your harvest and y’all’s hard work being blessed, Proverbs 12:11,12 says Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread/food,, Y’all are hard workers and you are reaping the fruits of your labor, Blessings!!!!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Love this, thank you!

Great harvest! Jacob is such a smart young man. Both your kids are so helpful around the farm! 😊

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊

LOVE THIS!! huge potato harvest!! The kids having fun helping out is the icing on the cake!

You can can the sweet potaotes for use in pies and casseroles or just to bake with brown sugar later Cut the big ones and make fried sweet tater in a skillet with brown sugar and butter - yum! That kind reminds me of my Mom and was one of my Dads favorite ways to cook them

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Great idea!

Love how the children help and seem to enjoy it

Sweet potatoes are a super food, from what I've read. I really like them, ours done well also,some were unbelievably big. Thanks all and God Bless 🙂.

For the very large sweet potatoes, here is a good way to cook them: Peel and either slice about 1/2 in. thick or cut in small chunks. Mix them with sliced or chunk apples and toss with melted butter mixed with some brown sugar and cinnamon. Add either chopped pecans or walnuts if desired. Put in baking dish that has lid or cover securely with foil. Bake at 350 until desired tenderness. Delicious! Or cut in chunks, boil and make mashed sweet potatoes.

OMG.. some very pretty ones in the raised beds...well.. maybe next time..The world's heaviest sweet potato 🥔(Ipomoea batatas) weighed (81 lb 9 oz) on 8 March 2004... what a day to remember~! YUM

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Wow!!

If you do not like big sweet potato’s you could use them to make your own homemade dog food. This year I planted things my dogs could eat right along with us. And a treat for the other animals on your homestead which you already do. I tried sweet potato’s in the ground and in grow bags. The grow bags did the best because this summer the ground was so hard . I will amend the soil and try some in ground next year. Have a great day! I enjoy watching your channel.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Great idea!!

Our sweet potatoes surprised us as well. They were enormous! It was a great year for sweet potatoes.

@CH-hm8ud

7 ай бұрын

By what month you plant your sweets potatoes?

Now that's how you do sweet potatoes! GOD IS GOOD!

Great. I live in a big city in Germany. Rented house with 24 tenants. I'm old and in a wheelchair. There's a mini meadow on the ground floor. I use about 10 plant pots (50cm diameter). This year I have 2 sweet potatoes in one pot Big as baby heads).I use some leaves in Asian dishes.I came across your channel by chance. Subtitles help me. Thank you for your video and warm greetings from an old Saxon woman ^^formerly Chemnitz today Berlin.all the best to you all--hope google translates correctly^^^--

@gailtalley8037

7 ай бұрын

That’s a great idea using pots as I’m afraid the critters would eat mine if I tried growing in my yard, I’m in the city in Michigan USA Blessings 💚💜

That's a great harvest. I take the great big ones and peel them and cut them up for fries or cubes and then can them. The cubes I use for sweet potatoes pie or make muffins with them. Really good.

We are so glad you’ve joined us today! If this video has helped you in anyway please give us a share! We appreciate you all! This year we decided to dig up the yard to garden closer to the house. We are SO GLAD we did, this sweet potato harvest is amazing!! Find Billys Bone Sauce here ➡️ permapasturesfarm.com/products/billys-bone-sauce Check out the whole process ⬇️⬇️ When we initially dug up the yard kzread.info/dash/bejne/mIebpqh_qtuanKw.html Starting slips kzread.info/dash/bejne/q6FprLmKh9fVdtI.html Planting sweet potatoes kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6VqtrtplajXec4.html Check out this playlist! You Can Grow Your own Food kzread.info/head/PLnKpaj6ZJDIrIlBkiZZiKNRAnnA8KC6qV Find True Grit merch here ⬇️ www.thelawsonfarm.com/youtube.html#/ Join our Facebook group and share your gardens!: facebook.com/groups/639624823908914 Instagram: instagram.com/tg_southerncookingandcanning/ TikTok @tg_appalachianways Contact us: Hello@thelawsonfarm.com Write us: P.O. Box 138 Lawsonville, NC 27022

Have a beautiful weekend y'all 👍🤠👍❣️🫶❣️

Those big sweet potatoes would make awesome fries. 😁 oh my, I'm almost envious. Almost, glad God blessed you.

Large sweet potatoes are just as good as small ones. Just cube them and bake them.

You guys had an awesome harvest ! We picked ours yesterday and I was amazed how well they did with it being dry this year . We had around 12 slips given to us and ended up with 2 feed sacks full . This was our second time growing them because I only just started liking the taste of them . I think next year I will plant a lot more . I can see how people used to survive on them in the old days . Heck I never fertilized and got potatoes the size of footballs lol . Thanks for sharing and have a great day !

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Awesome!!

I had a problem with moles/voles eating my onions this year. Boy was I mad! From the top it looked like a beautiful big onion. Pulled it up and the whole thing eat up! Next time my onions will be in containers. I was gifted several large cow water troughs. They won’t hold water because of cracks but they are perfect for raised beds. The only crop we want frost on is greens. I remember one year we didn’t have collards for thanksgiving. Mom refused to cur them because it hadn’t frosted. She said it made them sweeter. Beautiful tater harvest!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

I’m the same way over collards 😂😂😂

Awesome tater harvest guys! I love how you all work together as a family on your farm/homestead. Those youngins don’t realize the value of the lifestyle y’all are giving them right now, but as time goes on they will. Thanks for sharing. 😇🙏🏻❤️🙌🏻

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@onionguts

7 ай бұрын

How beautifully put. And how upside down our world is at this time. These beautiful children and parents are the answer 💕💕💕

YOUR KIDS are just GREAT 👍!😇!😇!😇!😇!

We are learning so much for you folks! Thank you! Yall have a wonderful family!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

I lived in Appalachia when I was in my twenties and listening to y'all talk is like music. :-)

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

7 ай бұрын

aww thank you

Love seeing your babies helping .memories of our 8 on the farm blessings

@heidimisfeldt5685

7 ай бұрын

8 kids, how blessed and wonderful. Must have been so much joy.❤😊

If you can the big sweet potatoes you can use them for sweet bread and things like that. Or you can blanch and freeze them and roast them in the oven with seasoning until they are browned a little, they will still be soft, but they are really good to eat. My family loves them, I even make make sweet potato pancakes.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Great idea!! Thank you for sharing!

I would like to complement you and your whole family for a wonderful sharing with your two little ones working in the background. It reminds me when my son and daughter was much younger, helping in the yard gardening and cleaning up. Keep it coming, the entire video kept me smiling on what being a family is truly about. I love the subject on harvesting sweet potatoes but I even love the family atmosphere of seeing the two little ones learn gardening from their parents. Love, James Williams.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Cut up the big sweet potatoes into cubes and boil them and mash them with butter, salt and cinnamon. Yummy!

I live in Taiwan, and sweet potato greens are one of the most popular vegetables here. They're one of my favorites. The greens are typically just very quickly stir-fried with some fresh garlic and cayenne, but you can really do whatever you like with them. You really ought to try them.

That looks like exactly like what the rats did to my beats But the rats didnt burl any holes into the beds they just ate them from the top down at my mom's house years ago in the winter that's where you'd always find the rats bed inside her greenhouse beds that's where they spent their winter cause it was softer

Zinnia flowers take tons of water from vegetables I found out using containers and all summer double watered squash and zinnias to keep bee's around, I'll use different flowers next year, maybe marigolds

Good harvest. That kind of soil is suitable for root crops. The stems can be planted again.

Nothing wrong with a big potato. One can feed the whole family.

I tried two slips this year…one in a bucket and one in a hill in the garden. The sweet potato in the ground did awesome!! The bucket grew little skinny potatoes. I am west of Asheville

White sweet potatoes are my favorite

WOW, I need to plant sweet potatoes next year..🥰👏

I love to hearing you guys talking each other, sounds like my fav. movie "the hatefull eight".

Wow .those were some big sweet potatoes.👍❤️

Such a pleasant video of your family.

I can big sweet potatoes in a TINY bit of honey. Then add them to pancakes during the winter. I use freshly milled flour so it keeps it more moist and les dense. I do pancakes and waffles as a quick run out of the door breakfast. So I cook them the night before and we don’t use syrup. So the extra sweetness and nutrition makes it work for us.

You can always mash the big potatoes and freeze them also. Don't add any butter or milk until you defrost them.

Those little kids are like mom and dad there some working machines for young children they are just getting right with help hand awsome steve

So happy you had such a great harvest. When it comes to the leaves, they are wonderful! I sauteed them like spinach and I've dehydrated them and turned into powder and add them to my smoothies!

Take and bake all those big ones and take skins off mash ‘em and freeze them they are great ❤

You are so Blessed to have such a wonderful garden!

You could eat some of the leaves too. Very nutritious, wonderful just sauteed.

LOOKING GOOD! ENJOYED WATCHING YOUR FAMILY AT WORK AND GETTING A GREAT HARVEST! CONGRATULATIONS!

Great potatoes harvesting, both kids are so helpful...

Good looking harvest

My goodness, what a great sweet potato harvest! Loved seeing your kids so excited to help.

Cutest helpers I've ever seen great harvest

Beautiful land! It is so dry where we are in OK. Love seeing all the green!

Amazing Harvest!! Have a Blessed Day!!

Clean those big ones up , Peal and dice to 1inch squares and roast in the oven, add salt and butter. Then freeze what you cant eat. The young leaves can go in the salad! Be sure to Cure them to get them to sweeten up.

So exciting and what a nice family bonding you have,

Your kids are awesome helpers!

Bountiful harvest. God bless.

First time watching your channel. Your children are precious. Working so hard without complaining. All those yummy sweet potato's. I can only think of Sweet Potato Pies and candied sweet potato's. Congrats on your harvest.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

7 ай бұрын

thank you

I was excited along with you watching those potatoes come out of the ground!

Those sweet potatoes are amazing, WOW. Thanks so much for sharing, you have a beautiful family

Those are amazing!!

Great Harvest!

Beautiful!

I loved watching you guys taken up your sweet potatoes! I’m so excited about doing mine. I’m on Long Island and potatoes grow beautifully here!

❤ Loved seeing your helpers pitch in! Steam or boil those real big ones and mashem up, delish!

Tip mustard green are Amy when you pick small leaves most people wait for huge leaves but they are best when leaves are small collard as well. Sweet Potatoes love the dirt you have.

Great job, great family 😊

Those are some beautiful, great kids!

Great harvest . May God be the glory.

Just beautiful.

Precious kids -- sooooo cute and helpful to their parents.

Like your video, learned some things and wow those sweet potatoes got big big ❤

Great harvest. Big one will taste fine. Can can them. Hard to cut up but well worth the time. Make sure to use potato fork and dig all of them up.

I love the way you are bringing up your children. Very helpful and independent. Well done to both of you. Btw that's a bountiful sweet potato harvest

Thank you for the great information

It’s like Christmas. 🤗

I love seeing happy children!

I enjoyed watching this sweet potato harvest!

I enjoy your videos but your kids excitement made my morning! Y’all are definitely raising them right!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Glad y’all had a pretty good turnout…they look great to me…I plant some in pots about a week ago here in Florida just for the pretty climbing vines❤

WOW! THOSE are fabulous!!! 5:56

Big potatoes that’s wonderful. Sweet potato bread, sweet potato pie, candied, sweet potatoes. You don’t want those big ones I’ll take them. And yes, can them don’t waste it.

Wow - nice werk. Next year I’m plant’m!

The big ones are great for fries. Safe blessings, everyone.

I saw frost several places as I took my granddaughter to school this morning in Ashe County. That time of year!

Wow thank you for this video. You have a Hugh bounty . Marking your starter plants was a great idea . I am starting mine in a grow bag , we live in Central Florida and I have quite a few slips to get started . Thank you sooo much .

Now that's a sweet potato patch! 😮

The leaves! The leaves are delicious!

Oh yeah sautéing those greens like spinach is sooooooooo good. And good for you.

The yungins are having a great time!

New subscriber here. Watching from North Texas. Y’all have a sweet little family. Thanks for sharing your life with us.

Wonderful harvest!!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Wow those kids did a lot❤ no complaints just enjoying ❤

Sweet potatoe pie.sooo good