I,m from the Philippines and we eat sweet potato leaves but we use only the ones close to the tips as the leaves are not so wide. Place them in boiling water and take them out right away so not to overcook.Add salt to taste and sliced tomatoes sliced onions if you like and lemon juice.They're so good and nutritious
When I was a child, (I'm 68 now) my Paternal grandmother ALWAYS had baked sweet potatoes any time we visited. She baked them in a wood burning stove...one of my most favorite memories. I'm trying to grow them this year for the first time in containers. Great video.
I’d LOVE to see your process from beginning to harvest of Sweet Potatoes. I don’t know of anyone who grows them in Montana. I absolutely LOVE them. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Rachel. I have truly been enjoying your videos.
hi, i'm from Australia, and "down under" we are advised to remove the tomato plant WHOLE with the roots intact, take them into a shed and hang them upside down and let tomatoes ripen naturally , if possible
julia sparrow I have a huge tomato with yellow blooms. It’s still in the eighties here in TN. We aren’t expecting a frost anytime soon, but if it does, I’ll try that. Thanks! 👩🌾
Hey Julia where about are you from? I'm in nsw (south coast) my tomatoes are already starting to bloom (I got an early start on them this year, but I don't get a heavy frost till they've finished up for the season. I'll keep your advice in mind if I ever move to a more frost zone
@@Kangaroojumper Hi Kangaroo Jumper i'm in Victoria, was going to put them in last week ,but soooo glad i didn't after today's hail and the temp is predicted to fall back down below 12 degrees celsius this week, hope you don't get our weather honey xx
Okay I LOL’d when the squash was eaten and you said “rude”😂 I absolutely love you excitement and enthusiasm with the sweet potatoes. This was a fun video.
Janet’s Ways Lol it is rude! We do the labour and they take the profits. Also often they dont stop at one! My tomatoes had one single bit on 4 or 5 of them in a row. Instead of just eating one whole one, they ruined a lot of them.
I get it countryrose763 I’m constantly fighting the visitors to my fruit trees. It was funny the way Rachael offhandedly said it, totally made me laugh because I get it.
Nothing better than green fried maters. You can make green tomato ketchup and green relish too! Nice haul of peppers. The sweet potatoes are incredible. You got some huge ones. So exciting guys, kudos for being low key, but there was such more potential. You gave it your all even though you were tired.
Donna here! When I was a little girl, we were facing an early frost. I helped my mom pick all of the tomatoes out of the garden! It was so cold! Then we took newspapers and wrapped up each tomato up and put them in the hall closet. We still had ripening tomatoes until Christmas that year! Good luck with your tomatoes!
I remember going to my grandparents home as a child and they did the same wrapping with newspaper. A much better way to ripen tomatoes than setting on window sills.
I am currently growing the sweet potato slips, to see how far I get in the growing process in the UK for next year,. I hope i get some at least big enough to eat , now I would be excited too.
I wouldn't miss your sweet potato dig for the world. You two are the cutest getting so excited over the size of them. I saw your last years video as well. You made me smile today. God bless.
10 cups chopped green tomatoes, 1 cup white vinegar, 1 cup sugar, 1 large chopped onion, chopped red pepper for color. Salt and pepper to taste. Grandma's green tomato relish.
Got down to 33 in Colorado a week ago. I took off a lot of unripe tomatoes and peppers. I didn’t lose a single plant. Even my zucchini is still producing. I wouldn’t begin to worry at 39 unless it’s very extended. We are back up into the mid to hi 80s. Now I’ve got counters and a table full of veggies to do something with.
after watching your video, it makes me more excited to harvest mines in a few months! Love your guys expressions 🤣😂🤣😂 You guys make it hella fun to harvest!
My grandparents used to wrap their green tomatoes with newspaper and put them in their basement and as they wanted tomatoes they would bring a few to the kitchen and would ripen in couple days . Had homegrown “ maters” in December!
I was admiring the big tree behind you, and then came the clip saying you were in Michigan. I lived in Michigan many years ago when I was first married. It is the most beautiful state I’ve ever seen. I loved the trees! Never made it to the UP, but would still love to.
THE BEST sweet potato harvest ever! Your excitement and gratitude makes the whole experience worthwhile. There were so many parts where I literally laughed out loud. Love it!!!
What a fun video. Uou both were like kids at Christmas. Beautiful bounty. I just live your enthusiasm with your garden. You make it fun and educational at the same time.
You can try covering all producing vines with thick sheets of tarps in the evening and they should protect your plants from cold night temps. Remove them in the mid morning.
I use tarps and if really low Temps coming a string old older incandescent Christmas lights under it. The weather here in michigan is weird. I only live maybe 3 1/2 hours from detriot/lake eerie and while its dropping cold at night no predicted frost yet 😅 But I have a deep low area on 2 sides of my yard. Frost pulls down there first so it really helps.
Just found you my fellow Michigander ❤️❤️❤️ I live in Gladwin County. I grew sweet potatoes like 15 years ago and fortunate to find some plants again this year. I'm planting them today, June 18. Getting my garden in really late because of weather and I was in the hospital for 8 days. Still recuperating but got to get her done. I'm 61 years old and working from a wheelchair but I need to make sure I have some food for my son's family and 2 great grandchildren. ❤️❤️❤️
I bring the tomato vines in with green tomatoes still on. They ripen naturally indoors by continuing to use the nutrients in the vines. It's also a fun kooky decor effect for a few weeks - and 'supposedly' the tomato vines repel spiders from your house.
Honestly, these sweet potato harvest videos sustain me during this triple digit heat we have here in the southwestern United States. Your excitement is infectious!
I live in the deep south. I have red clay a few inches below the top soil in my garden. So I built a 12" deep raised bed for my sweet potato bed. They grow so well in it because the soil is much looser.
You guys had a great sweet potato harvest. Yeah, I remember this time of year we would be down in the garden with daddy doing the same. Mom never had to buy sweet potatoes or russetts. Dad grew them all. Miss my childhood. Now if I could have any wish granted. It would to take me back t age 5. And relive those innocent years.
I didn't know that tip about tossing vines! I grew sweet potatoes for the first time last season and noticed my vines re-rooted and the sweet potatoes were really small. An "Ah-ha!" moment for me. I know that excitement digging in the dirt like that. I grew Jerusalem artichokes/Sunchokes last season and had a great harvest. Lots of fun digging those up!
I'm new to gardening this season and have learned so much from your videos and even canned for the first time this year, too. My two sons (3 and 1.5) love helping in the garden and my oldest was watching this video with me. He was shouting "Puull! Pull! Pull! Way to go!" Just like he was spectating a sport. Can't wait to see what you make with all of those potatoes!
Now we know what Rachel was like on Christmas morning when she was a little girl. ☺️ I often see comments on other channels where people clamor about why didn’t someone save it or eat it. There’s only so much food preservation that a person can do, and it’s never a waste if your livestock can eat it.
The frost coming is Mother Nature’s way of telling you to relax a little Rachel. That’s a great harvest you’ve had from your garden and all your hard work paid off. The excitement of digging for sweet potatoes is like panning for and finding gold.
Great Video! It always feels like Christmas when I harvest my sweet potatoes :) This year I have realized the importance of worms in root vegetables. I have about 2 million worms that i farm in my barn for castings, but as I breed more, I am putting them in my sweet potatoes in the garden. This year I had the most unbelievable harvest! I believe it is due primarily to the worms composting, loosening & aerating the soil. :)
Really nice harvest of sweet potatoes. You obviously appreciate your garden so much and I am sure that translates to good care and therefore a good harvest. And you have a good sense of humor. All that together makes for good RUclips videos.
Now you know that you need a deeper bed for you sweet potatoes. Add more soil now so your ready for next year. Great videos. I'm in the southwest Michigan. Hello neighbor ☺️
Your channel popped up in my feed and I just had to see the harvest. I'm 55 and love gardening. I was so impressed with your garden and personality that I just had to subscribe. I hope you will continue to produce these awesome gardening videos.
I am so very happy your sweet potato harvest and the garden in general this year was a wonderful success. I understand the exhaustion of late summer/early fall gardening, being just done and over it. Sometimes I cover plants I'm not done with to squeeze another week out of them but mostly I do like Elsa and "let it go".
Dear Todd and Rachel, Thanks for taking us through your sweet potato harvest. It looked mighty good to me,and, how good it is that sweet potatoes can be grown successfully in Michigan. Let me also say how great your tomatoes, peppers, and squash all look this far into the season. You are obviously doing things right. So glad all your knowledge and hard work are rewarding you with a plentiful harvest. Sincerely, Larry Clarence Lewis, Canada.
I,m from the Philippines and we eat sweet potato leaves but we use only the ones close to the tips as the leaves are not so wide. Place them in boiling water and take them out right away so not to overcook.Add salt to taste and sliced tomatoes sliced onions if you like and lemon juice.They're so good and nutritious
I chop them and cook with my eggs. Very tasty!
Do you blanch the leaves and add the other vegetables to be eaten raw or do you add the other vegetables and cook them together?
listening to Rachel's genuine excitement and delight and Todd's giggles was a lot of fun!
I’m in my 70’s and digging potatoes is still such a thrill!! Glad your harvest was so AWESOME!
God bless you
What a plentiful harvest.. love your garden.
When I was a child, (I'm 68 now) my Paternal grandmother ALWAYS had baked sweet potatoes any time we visited. She baked them in a wood burning stove...one of my most favorite memories. I'm trying to grow them this year for the first time in containers. Great video.
It's fun watching this girl garden. Next year it's Sweet Potatoes for sure, Thank You
You enthusiasm is infectious and I 100% get the bitter sweet feelings of the garden season coming to an end.
I’d LOVE to see your process from beginning to harvest of Sweet Potatoes. I don’t know of anyone who grows them in Montana. I absolutely LOVE them. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Rachel. I have truly been enjoying your videos.
I love that kind of sweet potatoes
hi, i'm from Australia, and "down under" we are advised to remove the tomato plant WHOLE with the roots intact, take them into a shed and hang them upside down and let tomatoes ripen naturally , if possible
julia sparrow I have a huge tomato with yellow blooms. It’s still in the eighties here in TN. We aren’t expecting a frost anytime soon, but if it does, I’ll try that. Thanks! 👩🌾
I have done that for years if a heavy frost threatens that I can't manage with covering
Hey Julia where about are you from? I'm in nsw (south coast) my tomatoes are already starting to bloom (I got an early start on them this year, but I don't get a heavy frost till they've finished up for the season. I'll keep your advice in mind if I ever move to a more frost zone
@@Kangaroojumper Hi Kangaroo Jumper i'm in Victoria, was going to put them in last week ,but soooo glad i didn't after today's hail and the temp is predicted to fall back down below 12 degrees celsius this week, hope you don't get our weather honey xx
You should harvest some of the seeds from the squash.
Okay I LOL’d when the squash was eaten and you said “rude”😂 I absolutely love you excitement and enthusiasm with the sweet potatoes. This was a fun video.
I did too that was too cute!🤣
Janet’s Ways Lol it is rude! We do the labour and they take the profits. Also often they dont stop at one! My tomatoes had one single bit on 4 or 5 of them in a row. Instead of just eating one whole one, they ruined a lot of them.
I get it countryrose763 I’m constantly fighting the visitors to my fruit trees. It was funny the way Rachael offhandedly said it, totally made me laugh because I get it.
Nothing better than green fried maters. You can make green tomato ketchup and green relish too! Nice haul of peppers. The sweet potatoes are incredible. You got some huge ones. So exciting guys, kudos for being low key, but there was such more potential. You gave it your all even though you were tired.
Donna here! When I was a little girl, we were facing an early frost. I helped my mom pick all of the tomatoes out of the garden! It was so cold! Then we took newspapers and wrapped up each tomato up and put them in the hall closet. We still had ripening tomatoes until Christmas that year! Good luck with your tomatoes!
I remember going to my grandparents home as a child and they did the same wrapping with newspaper. A much better way to ripen tomatoes than setting on window sills.
Everytime you pull out a bunch I just feel so happy!
I felt your enegrgy and was happy for you when the sweet =potatoes dug upgot bigger and biugger well done both of you.
I am currently growing the sweet potato slips, to see how far I get in the growing process in the UK for next year,. I hope i get some at least big enough to eat , now I would be excited too.
"I'm low-key not too upset about this." Love it!
I love Rachels reactions to sweet potatoes.
Y'all are a TRIP!!! I LOVE ❤️ THE EXCITEMENT!!!
Watching Rachel’s reaction to her sweet potato harvests are becoming my annual “video to look forward to”
I wouldn't miss your sweet potato dig for the world. You two are the cutest getting so excited over the size of them. I saw your last years video as well. You made me smile today. God bless.
10 cups chopped green tomatoes, 1 cup white vinegar, 1 cup sugar, 1 large chopped onion, chopped red pepper for color. Salt and pepper to taste. Grandma's green tomato relish.
All I kept saying was Wow! Wow! so happy for y'all
Well how fun is that?..beautiful sweet potatoes. It was fun listening to your excitement and Todd’s giggle.
Love watching you in your beautiful garden. Yes God is saying you worked hard now it’s time to rest. 😊
I LOVE sweet potatoes too!! So much fun watching your JOY as you harvested
Got down to 33 in Colorado a week ago. I took off a lot of unripe tomatoes and peppers. I didn’t lose a single plant. Even my zucchini is still producing. I wouldn’t begin to worry at 39 unless it’s very extended. We are back up into the mid to hi 80s. Now I’ve got counters and a table full of veggies to do something with.
Love, love, love it!!!
after watching your video, it makes me more excited to harvest mines in a few months! Love your guys expressions 🤣😂🤣😂 You guys make it hella fun to harvest!
Looks like your bittersweet turned into more SWEET with that potatoe harvest!! Congrads, you deserve it!! God is Good
Look at your sweet potato harvest. Wow! So many different recipes to delight the palate with those beauties. Enjoy!
I will, I can't wait to grow. So much fun just to watch you guys dig that sweet potatoes. It like treasure hunting!
My grandparents used to wrap their green tomatoes with newspaper and put them in their basement and as they wanted tomatoes they would bring a few to the kitchen and would ripen in couple days . Had homegrown “ maters” in December!
I was admiring the big tree behind you, and then came the clip saying you were in Michigan. I lived in Michigan many years ago when I was first married. It is the most beautiful state I’ve ever seen. I loved the trees! Never made it to the UP, but would still love to.
I do love ur canning vids but that was by far the best video of yours! Lol. So much fun. Thanks for making me smile ☺️
All livestock loves sweet potato leaves and vines.
THE BEST sweet potato harvest ever! Your excitement and gratitude makes the whole experience worthwhile. There were so many parts where I literally laughed out loud. Love it!!!
I just love Todd's laugh! I thoroughly had a blast watching you guys harvest! How exciting! Fun! Fun!
What a fun video. Uou both were like kids at Christmas. Beautiful bounty. I just live your enthusiasm with your garden. You make it fun and educational at the same time.
Your thumbnail said it all
Beautiful
Awesome harvest
You can try covering all producing vines with thick sheets of tarps in the evening and they should protect your plants from cold night temps. Remove them in the mid morning.
I’ve even used old sheets to cover my strawberries & vegetables. Some people use newspapers also.
I use tarps and if really low Temps coming a string old older incandescent Christmas lights under it.
The weather here in michigan is weird. I only live maybe 3 1/2 hours from detriot/lake eerie and while its dropping cold at night no predicted frost yet 😅
But I have a deep low area on 2 sides of my yard. Frost pulls down there first so it really helps.
Very nice sweet potato haul.👍
I love watching you guys harvesting your sweet potatoes.thanks for sharing your video.
I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your videos!! A pleasure to watch.
This is my favorite video of any one's here of late. The pure joy you had pulling those sweet potatoes!
Just found you my fellow Michigander ❤️❤️❤️ I live in Gladwin County. I grew sweet potatoes like 15 years ago and fortunate to find some plants again this year. I'm planting them today, June 18. Getting my garden in really late because of weather and I was in the hospital for 8 days. Still recuperating but got to get her done. I'm 61 years old and working from a wheelchair but I need to make sure I have some food for my son's family and 2 great grandchildren. ❤️❤️❤️
I bring the tomato vines in with green tomatoes still on. They ripen naturally indoors by continuing to use the nutrients in the vines. It's also a fun kooky decor effect for a few weeks - and 'supposedly' the tomato vines repel spiders from your house.
Wonderful sweet potato crop. Wish my husband liked them.
Looks like you got some nice pumpkins also.
Love your excitement
Honestly, these sweet potato harvest videos sustain me during this triple digit heat we have here in the southwestern United States. Your excitement is infectious!
The look on your face when you dug up that big Sweet potato was priceless! 😂
Rachel, Thank you for your excitement. I'm already looking forward to 2022 growing season.
Your joy was infectious 🤗🤗🤗!
I live in the deep south. I have red clay a few inches below the top soil in my garden. So I built a 12" deep raised bed for my sweet potato bed. They grow so well in it because the soil is much looser.
So excited for you with your massive sweet potato harvest.
You guys had a great sweet potato harvest. Yeah, I remember this time of year we would be down in the garden with daddy doing the same. Mom never had to buy sweet potatoes or russetts. Dad grew them all. Miss my childhood. Now if I could have any wish granted. It would to take me back t age 5. And relive those innocent years.
Loved this video and your sweet potato excitement! Todd's giggles were cute too! Lol
Congratulations!! Nice harvest!!
I didn't know that tip about tossing vines! I grew sweet potatoes for the first time last season and noticed my vines re-rooted and the sweet potatoes were really small. An "Ah-ha!" moment for me. I know that excitement digging in the dirt like that. I grew Jerusalem artichokes/Sunchokes last season and had a great harvest. Lots of fun digging those up!
You two were like kids on Easter with your excitement. I love it!
End of the year is hard, but most of us are so tired, that we're ready for to put the garden to bed. Awesome sweet potato harvest!!
Rachel I love your excitement; I love watching your videos. You did even better this year with the sweet potatoes 🍠. Keeping it Low-Key.
Sweet potatoes have so many good properties for healing in them. You had a wonderful haul of so many veggies. Great job!!!
It was heart warming to see a couple enjoying the fruits of their labor like you two are doing.
I'm in New York, 5B, and I grew purple sweet potatoes. I can't wait to see whats under the ground!
I'm new to gardening this season and have learned so much from your videos and even canned for the first time this year, too. My two sons (3 and 1.5) love helping in the garden and my oldest was watching this video with me. He was shouting "Puull! Pull! Pull! Way to go!" Just like he was spectating a sport. Can't wait to see what you make with all of those potatoes!
That was fun to watch. I am happy for you🙋♀️😀
You guys were so cute harvesting those sweet potatoes. I enjoyed this.
Lol absolutely nothing like pure joy over simple things lol. Good job guys!
Now we know what Rachel was like on Christmas morning when she was a little girl. ☺️ I often see comments on other channels where people clamor about why didn’t someone save it or eat it. There’s only so much food preservation that a person can do, and it’s never a waste if your livestock can eat it.
The frost coming is Mother Nature’s way of telling you to relax a little Rachel. That’s a great harvest you’ve had from your garden and all your hard work paid off. The excitement of digging for sweet potatoes is like panning for and finding gold.
Wow those are some big sweet potatoes 🍠 great video Rachel and Todd
Oh my Goodness, as I watch you on my big screen, I have to comment on my small screen! Lol, I love your excitement!!!
Awesome sweet potato hall, y’all will have sweet potatoes all winter long.
It really did get cold fast here in Michigan. Beautiful sweet potatoes!
Sorry for the early frost coming! 😢 We just harvested our sweet potatoes today too. Good luck, friend! Glad to find you today.
Thank you! You too!
Great Video! It always feels like Christmas when I harvest my sweet potatoes :) This year I have realized the importance of worms in root vegetables. I have about 2 million worms that i farm in my barn for castings, but as I breed more, I am putting them in my sweet potatoes in the garden. This year I had the most unbelievable harvest! I believe it is due primarily to the worms composting, loosening & aerating the soil. :)
Thank you for make me feel so exited, I hope to have the same experience soon.
I can't get enough of your sweet potato joy! 💗💗
I think we have 2 or 3 harvest videos, enjoy 💕
I have never heard Rachel as animated as with sweet potatoes. So hilarious!
Really nice harvest of sweet potatoes. You obviously appreciate your garden so much and I am sure that translates to good care and therefore a good harvest. And you have a good sense of humor. All that together makes for good RUclips videos.
What huge sweet potatoes! What a blessing your garden has been!
I am Vietnamese but I really like your videos and hope you will produce more videos like this
Love watching you guys harvest from your garden. Thank you for sharing!
Sweet potato harvest looks so good. You inspired me to grow them again.
Love your sweet potato harvest. That was my first introduction to your great channel last year. You are like a kid on Christmas morning. Love it.
Congratulations on your fantastic sweet potato harvest!! Enjoyed seeing your passion, Rachel. Had me smiling along with you. God bless.
Now you know that you need a deeper bed for you sweet potatoes. Add more soil now so your ready for next year. Great videos. I'm in the southwest Michigan. Hello neighbor ☺️
Lol. I love the Christmas reference! Nice sweet potatoes! Can't wait to build my own garden next spring!
We ate only the young sweet potatoe vines. The mature vines we fed to the animals. You guys are so cute!
Your channel popped up in my feed and I just had to see the harvest. I'm 55 and love gardening. I was so impressed with your garden and personality that I just had to subscribe. I hope you will continue to produce these awesome gardening videos.
Oh there are tons from the season, the garden is wrapping up for the year, so not many more left
Green tomatoes are wonderful, fried, chow-chow I think green are wonderful
I am so very happy your sweet potato harvest and the garden in general this year was a wonderful success. I understand the exhaustion of late summer/early fall gardening, being just done and over it. Sometimes I cover plants I'm not done with to squeeze another week out of them but mostly I do like Elsa and "let it go".
I'm so glad you had a great sweet potato harvest!
I got so tickled, you guys sounded like you were harvesting diamonds at a Christmas party.
i love how you enjoyed digging those sweet potatoes
You two are so cute when you get excited 😁 I'm happy y'all got a great sweet potato harvest!!
I just love watching y’all’s channel!
So excellent those sweet potatotes - I'm just smiling out loud along with you guys.
Dear Todd and Rachel, Thanks for taking us through your sweet potato harvest. It looked mighty good to me,and, how good it is that sweet potatoes can be grown successfully in Michigan. Let me also say how great your tomatoes, peppers, and squash all look this far into the season. You are obviously doing things right. So glad all your knowledge and hard work are rewarding you with a plentiful harvest. Sincerely, Larry Clarence Lewis, Canada.
Like, I totally enjoyed watching yall have such a great time harvesting your sweet tatars.🙂