Our FIRST EVER Sweet Potato Harvest! 

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.."Milky Spore"? I had to look that one up...Learn something every day!

@@lilblackduc7312 Yes, they are the good guys! I found several of my paste tomatoes cored out and when I was watering them out fell a grub. I happily killed it. I also kept an eye out for more tomatoes with holes bored into them, and I found another grub. I killed that one, too. They can still come up through the hardware cloth.

@@elizabethwantland1127 I read it's the grubs of Japanese Beatles, which I hate anyway. Grubs cored out your tomatoes?...kill 'em all.🇺🇸 😎👍☕

You don't eat sweet potato they are so good for you. You have the best thing for the rat,mole or vole. Turn the cats loose on them.

Thanks for the information on Milky Spore.

They are highly nutritious for them too!

Very good for dogs!

Great idea! 😁👍

Moles come from under neath

I know!!! Mine too.

I agree, depends on the area, but my 1st guess would be voles.

I was thinking voles too, Mrs H. They look alot like mice but with a longer pointier nose and they mostly travel underground. I researched them when I saw one in my yard. Once I found out about them, I opted to not use the raised bed I was going to start & switched to only containers instead. Best to empty & line that bed with weed suppression cloth or something similar. But luckily you guys got alot of sweet potatoes though, awesome haul! 👌👏❤️🙏

Ground hogs ???

Yup, voles!! I tried the sound things you have but doesn’t work. Hardware cloth is going into the bottom of my raised beds.

Me too

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I give them to my dog too. He loves them. He eats just as good as we do lol. People who love their pets always give them the best ♥

This can also happen when left in the ground too long. I only say that because they were in there long enough for a potato to start sprouting slips.

Sorry about the bugs that got your potatoes, there are several kinds of bugs and insects that will eat potatoes also make sure that you don't plant them in the same place next year you have to rotate every year. Best of luck my wife and I love ya'll, keep loving your farm

Wish you could share with me. Lol

Moles

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Hello to you 2 beautiful growers....for the first time growing sweet potatoes you are bless with a good harvest....some very lucky woofies to get such yumi sweet potatoes....we roast it...with our roast potatoes....and make stew potatoes as sweet winter dessert with custard...yumi....love watching ...the good harvest....sorry moles..they were having a ball....all the best during the storm....stay safe all on Homestead... All the way from.. SOUTH AFRICA....

Love the ginger and gray....furbabes they are also busy in flower beds.

Kitties are adorable...so sweet.

I feel the same way. Imho they're delicious no matter how you prepare them. Tons of beta carotene too.

Probably ants. I'm in Philadelphia Pa And I had ants making holes in my sweet potatoes. They were everywhere.

It.might be voles. Those holes are what I had last year.

I saw "The prolific Farmer" on utube and he said you can grow the slips indoors and eat the good green leaves as spinach. They are probably good for treats for pigs too. Not sure if you are raising pigs. He has tips for the soil too. Good luck.

@@rosemarymccall4260 I'm also in Philly, however, you and I both know it ain't ants. 😄😄 Rabbits is not too far off and you can lookup and see what kind of rodents can do that and how to fix the situation from there. I wish you all the Blessings and good fortune

Rats come mostly from underneath. They'd need to remove the dirt. Put hardware cloth down, put dirt back in, then hardware cloth on top. The leaves will come up thru the hardware cloth. Blessings,julie

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I know! This totally made me happy!

I was laughing on my way into the kitchen to get more coffee.

Thank you! This is my first time with sweet potatoes too and I've been battling a gopher!

@@terril2643 same with me! I have to do something entirely different next year. I grew so many and ended up with nothing.

@@Thetimecapsuletx I'm so sorry!! I still haven't dug mine up. The tops are just very suspicious... Very small..

That was my first thought as well.

Moles are insectivores. It's the Voles that eat crops.

Hi Mr & Mrs H. Good harvest. Those durn voles feast on everything from under the ground and can leave you food bankrupt . Then when the food they have gotten starts to rot, which is bad but does add nutrients, then the worms help break it down and they in turn multiply, which is good. I am interested to know how do you make pet food with them?

Use the tiny potatoes to make slips for next year. They will produce quite a few. And yes, the broken potatoes will scab over. Keep them in a cool dry place to cure and store. Don't let them freeze.

Under the vines, it worked for me.

I sprinkled crushed red pepper flakes under my vines.

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@@truthseeker9688 For leafy greens and root vegetables, it's great. The ONLY shortfall with that which I can see is when needing zero-nitrogen fertilizer for pushing flowering and fruiting.

I grew of Japanese sweet potatoes this year. I'm very proud of myself. Last year I got a late start and they only produced 5 sweet potatoes but they were delicious. I saved 2 to grow slips for this year, started earlier and had a great harvest.

@@Cashelda very good for you.

I've had critters real bad too and nothing keeps them out but glass

May need a pitchfork to dig them up.

I had something in my raised beds took nibbles out of my white potatoes. Sorry!

It was those moles

Grubs eat plants and worms are ate them

Can I ask how you store them for slips?

Seen so many video of folks doing them in various kinds of containers and having awesome success. Will be doing that next year as the dang chipmunks got so many of mine this year.

Deep South homestead

You can get the most slips by putting them in a plastic box I put 6 in a box full of holes inside a second box 1/2 full of a bag of organic compost an nesseled them about 1/2 way down on the each of the potatoes. Got over 50 long slips set them on the back porch in the shade.

Watered the compost about every three days as it was really hot here in Houston am I planted them in July to leave them for about 4 months. Will harvest in November.

Same!

You guys did great for it to be your 1st time, it will be amazing next year god bless stay safe ❤️

Please try next season. They're exciting to see growing and digging for the harvest really is that much fun!

Used a regular shovel, a lot easier

You could also use a pitch fork and work from the outside towards the middle! You be surprised how many you can miss. Some are deep!

Dogs eat sweet potatoes, carrots and peas that I know of

My collie pyrenees mix also beats my butternut squash.

Sweet potatoes are very good for dogs. The vet will tell you to feed your pups sweet potatoes when it's not feeling good and wont eat too! They love them

My dogs eat all veggies!

My sister's dogs prefer bell peppers over dog treats. They can smell them a mile away 🤣

Save the smaller one for you slips

IT EITHER A RAT OR MOLE ANY THING RABBIT ANY WILE ANAMILS

I am so sorry for the potatoes you lost.

Same for me! There was huge white grubs all in my beds!

I tried growing in containers the voles got into them anyways it looked like a mouse when I pulled it out of the soil so maybe it was a mouse but the containers didn't faze them

Hey! I’ve been looking for the area on the news but I’ve seen nothing period how did that compare to what Orlando got?

@@dharmaslife if you were following the storm you would’ve seen we were in the direct path of the land fall. Orlando actually receive what we were expecting to see! And if you look on the map it was actually Ft.Myers which is located right under where I reside that got the worst impacts, Orlando got hit but It wasn’t as impactful due to the storm already being on land!! You had to be here to experience what we went through. The news media wasn’t covering all areas.

You all have my deepest sympathy. There is nothing as heartbreaking 💔 😢 as having your crops attacked and not know what is happening! I am so sorry.

I did the same. Picked them a week early and got no rain😆

Weevil eat the vines. Voles eat the potatoes.