We Should’ve Been Planting These in Our Yard All Along! | Homestead Vlog | October 9, 2023 

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fSgDFFzx4lI.html Starting slips ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ym5JWQWtoFo.html Planting sweet potatoes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eq6TY0eEqIk.html Check out this playlist! You Can Grow Your own Food ru-vid.com/group/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

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

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.

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. ❤

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.

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!!!!

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.

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

Love to see the entire family working together. No ipad, just outside with a plan together. Sunshine family time. Makes me happy to see.

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

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.

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

If you guys like spinach , that’s what the leaves taste like , I just love your son driving the little truck , did you guys make that for him , the children are so sweet & enjoying helping that’s beautiful , May God continue blessing your garden ❤❤

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 !

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. 😇🙏🏻❤️🙌🏻

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

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

YOUR KIDS are just GREAT 👍!😇!😇!😇!😇!

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

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

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.

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.

Wow .those were some big sweet potatoes.👍❤️

Love watching those kids. 😊😊😊

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

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^^^--

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

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

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.

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

Such a pleasant video of your family.

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

Now that's a sweet potato patch! 😮

The bigger, the better. More food.☺🙂😊😇😋

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

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!

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

Great harvest . May God be the glory.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I can tell. There's a lot of them. Very nice! I grew 3 slips of white sweet potaoes in a large whiskey barrel. I made out like a bandit.

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

I enjoyed watching this sweet potato harvest!

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.

When I grow sweet potatoes I always give the vines to my Korean friends.

My dad always pulled the vines off first ,leaving the potatoes in ground, he said if the vine got frosted it would go to the potatoes and ruin it.

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.

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

The yungins are having a great time!

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

What a blessing ❤ I saw 👀 some of the reds, peeking 🫣 out, as you were heading to start digging up the white ones. Do the white ones have the same taste as the red? Can’t wait for you to show me how to preserve them. I got football size ones too! Last year, I grew them in the ground and turned out rats got to them, not voles, like I thought ❤ this year container, & they’re huge & bountiful ❤no damage yet, but will finish up harvest today 😂 God is Good

Chickens would love all those greens.🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔

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

I love those giant ones they are family-sized and you only need to cook one for a whole meal

what an idyllic life you have! I'm jealous

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

I love watching you all work together.😊 nice sweet potatoes.

Don’t you love it when kids enjoy chores!

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

Steam the young leaves of sweet potato for salad .add tomatoes ,onion and sauce,yummy.

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

WOW! THOSE are fabulous!!! 5:56

White sweet potatoes are my favorite

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.

Those are amazing!!

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

Yum yum fried sweet potatoes

Wonderful harvest!!

Good looking harvest

Beautiful!

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

First time watching your channel, you guys are lovely! I cant wait to watch the rest of your videos!

What a great harvest, they will be yummy roasted and also boiled and mashed with butter.

Bountiful harvest. God bless.

Amazing Harvest!! Have a Blessed Day!!

Your kids are awesome helpers!

Great Harvest!

You are so Blessed to have such a wonderful garden!

Thank you for the great information

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

Just beautiful.

the greens are great in smothies

If you don’t like to eat the big ones as a baked sweet potato, you can can it or use it in sweet potato pie, sweet potato casserole or sweet potato fries.

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

Yesterday I watched a RU-vidr with a small sweet potato harvest in raised beds and today your great harvest. It proves that potatoes are a pioneer crop that do best in unimproved soil. The best potatoes form when the plant is struggling a little and doesn't have everything it needs easily.

Those stems are highly sought after food in Asian countries. In its season you can see them in bundles at farmers markets all over, quite pricy also.

Those really big sweet potatoes are really good baked. Wash, oil them and wrap them in foil.