Hi, I'm in 32169 near the beach. Took me 3 years to learn how to grow purple sweet potatoes. Similar to what you do, i now get 5+lbs vs 1#. I'm using free bins discarded on trash day. Coleman cooler with wheels, took that and filled it with leaves, grass, weeds, twigs. Then put sand and composted tree from the woods on top. the PSP taste great! no bugs (in the ground they were eaten by bugs). And i just turn it over and dump it out so no tools to damage them. Nice video!
Great videos ! I also started a channel here now and its great to see such a active community ! I live off grid and do organic gardening in the mountains !
I had so many pests this year from caterpillar infestations, pillbugs eating plants, borers ruining all my cowpea varieties in the summer and earwigs gobbling up my ground cherries and my cape gooseberries. The cape gooseberrry husks would have holes in them and the pea sized green berry eaten inside and I lost thousands. Mass planting failed. I`m building soil since moving to this lot 2 years ago and I don`t want to harm the earthworms, bees, toads, tree frogs and lizards. I`m gonna brainstorm over the winter and try to figure out how to grow cape gooseberries that don`t get eaten. The only reason I harvested some ground cherries is because they produced enough that the earwigs only got 90% of them.
Building soil is key and takes time! I had a pill bug and earwig infestation after laying down wood chips the first year. Lots of carbon and plants suffered. Earwigs help control the cutworm population. The pill bugs help break down organic matter. Both will eat your crops too. Have you tried spraying a molasses and water solution around the plant? It helps breed healthy microorganisms in the soil. Also, you can make Lactic Acid Bacteria sprays to help break down organic matter faster.
@@foreverfoodforest I have very thick grass clippings and mowed over leaves plus in summer I go in the woods and rake back the leaves and pine straw and scrape up the dry leaf mold and scatter that around. To expand my growing area I use my cardboard delivery boxes and place them over the grass then start adding grass clippings, leaf mold, rotting logs crumbled up and I cover this with some sandy/silty soil from a wash and immediately plant cowpeas. Then I keep adding green grass clippings then more mowed over leaves in the fall. There was about 2 inches of topsoil on top of hard red clay here 2 years ago and the worst yard I`ve ever seen...a bulldozed hill...and my main garden now has black topsoil about 7 inches deep. But with so much mulch the bugs have plenty of places to hide. I have a half gallon of blackstrap molasses. I need to mix it up as fertilizer and buy another gallon. I had planned to use it but I added 20 types of microbes in organic fertilizer. The earthworms in the garden areas are now coming into the surrounding soil and breaking it down. I planted clover in the yard 2 months ago and some wildflowers for the bees next year. Last year the bad drought and heatwave killed all the clovers and flowers. My fruit trees are doing very well here though. I have 6 fig trees in the ground and 5 dwarf mulberry trees that are thriving and I`m planting more figs next spring for the birds (so we don`t fight over them) and some earlier ripening varieties. They like the mulberries and I only got a few this year but they were tiny twigs in March. Next year will be a great harvest for me and the birds. I`m gonna root the cuttings when I prune them to give away to the community. You can simply stick a dwarf mulberry cutting in the ground and it will grow. Fire ant nests are perfect for this because the ants keep it moist.
@@foreverfoodforest After August the cowpea borers slowly went away and I got a decent harvest of Red Ripper Peas from September into after mid November. If we get an early frost I cover the patches with lightweight tarps. I planted them in my fig tree mounds this year and kept the vines on the ground and they did great in fall. The bunnies like the leaves so I use them in spring and summer around the edge of the yard to keep the bunnies out of my green beans in my main garden. I can harvest the young pods of the Red Rippers before the borers get them and cook them like Asparagus Pole Beans so I can still get a summer harvest that way. Farmers spray really bad chemicals to get a harvest of Black Eyed Peas and the borers still get 60% of them so there`s no point in fighting them.
Backyard gardening is so rewarding 😊
Hi, I'm in 32169 near the beach. Took me 3 years to learn how to grow purple sweet potatoes. Similar to what you do, i now get 5+lbs vs 1#. I'm using free bins discarded on trash day. Coleman cooler with wheels, took that and filled it with leaves, grass, weeds, twigs. Then put sand and composted tree from the woods on top. the PSP taste great! no bugs (in the ground they were eaten by bugs). And i just turn it over and dump it out so no tools to damage them.
Nice video!
My first effort at growing potatoes yielded less results than your 1.22 pounds 😢
Looking forward to doing better this year! Thank you for the video
You can do it!
New subscriber here. I'm in Atlanta and tried backyard gardening for the first time this Spring.
Great videos ! I also started a channel here now and its great to see such a active community ! I live off grid and do organic gardening in the mountains !
Love it, I agree with the king, home grown potatoes are royal food!
Hear! Hear!
New sub. I’m in northern Florida. So I can start my taters now for a spring summer harvest? .
Yes! If you plant now - they will be ready around April.
@ Awesome 👏🏿. I have two raised beds to put together. I have a potato 🥔 I’m cutting into 4 pieces
I love homegrown potatoes.
So much flavor!
Love it!
Hello friend how are you,The information you have provided is very useful.
Thank you for watching!
Hi Christina,
Interesting videos, also can you direct me where I can buy your boots.. Seems very strong compared to the ones I buy don’t last..
I had so many pests this year from caterpillar infestations, pillbugs eating plants, borers ruining all my cowpea varieties in the summer and earwigs gobbling up my ground cherries and my cape gooseberries. The cape gooseberrry husks would have holes in them and the pea sized green berry eaten inside and I lost thousands. Mass planting failed. I`m building soil since moving to this lot 2 years ago and I don`t want to harm the earthworms, bees, toads, tree frogs and lizards. I`m gonna brainstorm over the winter and try to figure out how to grow cape gooseberries that don`t get eaten. The only reason I harvested some ground cherries is because they produced enough that the earwigs only got 90% of them.
Building soil is key and takes time! I had a pill bug and earwig infestation after laying down wood chips the first year. Lots of carbon and plants suffered. Earwigs help control the cutworm population. The pill bugs help break down organic matter. Both will eat your crops too. Have you tried spraying a molasses and water solution around the plant? It helps breed healthy microorganisms in the soil. Also, you can make Lactic Acid Bacteria sprays to help break down organic matter faster.
@@foreverfoodforest I have very thick grass clippings and mowed over leaves plus in summer I go in the woods and rake back the leaves and pine straw and scrape up the dry leaf mold and scatter that around. To expand my growing area I use my cardboard delivery boxes and place them over the grass then start adding grass clippings, leaf mold, rotting logs crumbled up and I cover this with some sandy/silty soil from a wash and immediately plant cowpeas. Then I keep adding green grass clippings then more mowed over leaves in the fall.
There was about 2 inches of topsoil on top of hard red clay here 2 years ago and the worst yard I`ve ever seen...a bulldozed hill...and my main garden now has black topsoil about 7 inches deep. But with so much mulch the bugs have plenty of places to hide. I have a half gallon of blackstrap molasses. I need to mix it up as fertilizer and buy another gallon. I had planned to use it but I added 20 types of microbes in organic fertilizer.
The earthworms in the garden areas are now coming into the surrounding soil and breaking it down. I planted clover in the yard 2 months ago and some wildflowers for the bees next year. Last year the bad drought and heatwave killed all the clovers and flowers.
My fruit trees are doing very well here though. I have 6 fig trees in the ground and 5 dwarf mulberry trees that are thriving and I`m planting more figs next spring for the birds (so we don`t fight over them) and some earlier ripening varieties.
They like the mulberries and I only got a few this year but they were tiny twigs in March. Next year will be a great harvest for me and the birds. I`m gonna root the cuttings when I prune them to give away to the community. You can simply stick a dwarf mulberry cutting in the ground and it will grow. Fire ant nests are perfect for this because the ants keep it moist.
@@foreverfoodforest After August the cowpea borers slowly went away and I got a decent harvest of Red Ripper Peas from September into after mid November. If we get an early frost I cover the patches with lightweight tarps. I planted them in my fig tree mounds this year and kept the vines on the ground and they did great in fall. The bunnies like the leaves so I use them in spring and summer around the edge of the yard to keep the bunnies out of my green beans in my main garden. I can harvest the young pods of the Red Rippers before the borers get them and cook them like Asparagus Pole Beans so I can still get a summer harvest that way. Farmers spray really bad chemicals to get a harvest of Black Eyed Peas and the borers still get 60% of them so there`s no point in fighting them.
@@baneverything5580 Good to know about the fire ant nests, at least there's some use for them.
Stolen potatoes taste better!
The forbidden vegetable!
The Lambada of the garden....