Harvesting Beauregard Sweet Potatoes In The UK - We Harvested Three Crops From One Space

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Beauregard Sweet Potatoes are one of our FAVOURITES to grow, they have the classic Orange skin and flesh and are a variety, usually grow to a good size given the right conditions and are a variety you will often find in grocery stores and used by commercial growers.
Lots of tips, info and observations in this video as we harvest our tatter and chatter.
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Пікірлер: 39

@sarah_farm 6 ай бұрын

Your video is a great reminder of the value of patience and perseverance. It takes a lot of time and effort to grow and harvest melons and oranges, but the end result is so worth it. And the fact that you're able to make a living by selling them at the market is even more impressive. Keep up the great work! And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.

@bels2521 Жыл бұрын

Your harvest looks great!! Awesome use of space. I'll have to use the idea!! Great energy between you both!!😊

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏 glad you enjoy the video thanks for watching and for your lovely comment 🙏✌️🌿

@davejones4269 Жыл бұрын

My mum used to pronounce that word like this ‘bow- re- gard’. I think it’s from the French meaning beautiful. As in ‘beau’. and ‘regard ‘ literal ‘good’. And ‘look’ Anyway enough of my pedantry …. Love the harvest and love the channel… I’ll be trying the Okinawa purple sweet potato this year if I can get hold of any n

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Its probably our bad pronounciation Dave 🤣 I'm REALLY bad at it - don't even get be started on botanical names!! 🤣 ... Funny you should say this though because Dan always wanted to pronounce it the way you say, but in my head (which I thought I had picked up in NZ) its was said how you hear us on the vid. I'm sure you are right! It was a great harvest though either way 😆 I LOVE purple sweet potatoes too, we grow molokai purple - its a little more tender but I love the deep colour ... I can feel the goodness from it im sure ! 💚✌️🌿

@monaraahmed7193 Жыл бұрын

Wow fantastic harvest there well done to you both for sharing 👍👍👍

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and for your comment Monara 🙏✌️🌿

@marysurbanchickengarden Жыл бұрын

You can make french fries or chips you call them from the small ones, we love them fried. We also bake the big ones and some people here harvest the younger tender leaves and stir fry them. In the southern United States sweet potatoes are a staple. We love sweet potato souffle. They are very good for our bodies as they take minerals from the soil and we take them in when we eat them.

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

We LOVE the good nutrition these beauties provide too … we’ve been enjoying them chipped, slow baked in the fire and also in soup and curries too … big love to the sweet potatoes for sure - thanks heaps for watching and commenting 🙏💚✌️🌿

@Appophust 7 ай бұрын

English hippies look completely different. 🤣Nah, but seriously, amazing video. Keep up the good gardening.

@freedomforestlife 7 ай бұрын

Ha 🤣 Thanks - Glad you enjoyed watching 💚✌️🌿

@gawain8000 Жыл бұрын

P.S. MORE BLOOPERS PLEASE 😂😂😂

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Ha ha, ok, see what we can do! We gotta get better at saving them actually, as due to storage we just delete all our footage mostly once vids are made, but we said it would have been a fun thing to do for the end of the year just putting all the bloopers in to a vid ... im gonna try and save them this year! 😁

@hephzibahbradshaw9509 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. So much fun treasure hunting. WE GIVE THANKS FOR OUR ABBAYAHUAH LOVINGKINDNESS JUDGMENT AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH. JEREMIAH 9:24

@gawain8000 Жыл бұрын

Great harvest and fantastic sheet of cardboard at the end 😂 Love the tricrop system ❤

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍 gotta love a good bit of cardboard!!! 💚🙏✌️🌿

@pearletafaily4226 10 ай бұрын

Hi ,it's lovely to see how well you have done with your gardening, I was wondering where you bought your sweet potatoes Seeds.

@freedomforestlife 10 ай бұрын

Hello and thank you for your lovely comment. We got our original slips to grow the sweet potatoes from a place called Highland Horticulture - I'll put the link in here for you. You can sometime get some luck growing slips to plant out from store bought sweet potatoes, but we've had mixed success with this over time. We've made other videos about how to do this too, so i'll pop another link in for that also 💚 hope it helps and happy growing ✌️🌿 Highland; www.sweetpotato-slips.co.uk/ How to grow slips: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNhzrbyTucqUaGw.html Our Sweet potato growing playlist: kzfaq.info/sun/PLOidPRQofoMMQnV_40S6dUq7nxtcMY5w9

@hellofromthewoods Жыл бұрын

Love seeing the harvests!

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏✌️🌿

@robertedwards87 Жыл бұрын

hi guys,ive just found your chanel while researching "growing sweet potatoes in the UK"and whilst ive enjoyed watching your sweet potatoe videos its a shame you hav'nt done a video showing how to cure and store them in the uk as at harvest time its a bit too cold outside.just a thought for a future video

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Hi Robert, yes, it is a video we totally intend to do 💚 The only reason we haven't as of yet is because we are still honing our facilities here/experimenting for the best doable option and learning more each year ... We do talk about how we cure them in other vids - we've made quite a few, not sure if you've found the others (theres a Sweet Potato playlist on our channel kzfaq.info/sun/PLOidPRQofoMMQnV_40S6dUq7nxtcMY5w9 ). For example, this year where it was unusually cold we lost a lot more of our stores than usual because our shed isn't frost free and have been experienting with how they keep inside at more room temperature ... this year we are insulating the shed now 😃 We share stuff about this as it comes up on our Face book page normally too - Thanks for watching and for your comment - its great to know how our vids are being found too 🙏✌️🌿

@robertedwards87 Жыл бұрын

@@freedomforestlife look forward to seeing your curing video,thats the only part that is putting me off growing sweet potatoes as to cure them they should have a high temp and a high humidity which i could create but at a expence that would make it cheaper to buy them from a shop.keep up the good work n see you soon

@NnekaOchonogor Жыл бұрын

Great harvest. Thanks for sharing. I might just harvest mine this weekend. Excited and anxious at the same time!

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Ha, that’s exactly how I felt when harvesting our first lot, so totally understand 😊 I’m sure you’ll have a good crop as you were watering them - let us know how you get on 💚✌️🌿

@richardcrosara5010 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff you guys, well done :)

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard 🙏✌️🌿

@growinginthewind Жыл бұрын

nice one guys :) gonna try and give this a go in sunny scotland :D

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Go for it! Recommend looking in to which varieties are hardiest for sure ... T65 grows best outside of us down here - put a vid up on your channel about how they go for you and let us know ✌️🌿

@robynlloyd6414 Жыл бұрын

Hiiiii … lovely to hear you two having fun 😁. Hey Dan, you were setting aside tip cuttings to grow on for next year right? Last year I had Kumera in my hothouse and I left behind some of the red skinny roots (laziness) and they’re now all growing like mad, would this be an easier way of getting a harvest .. like leaving bits in the ground to do it for themselves like you do with potatoes? Or would the ground get too cold for them to survive in uk?

@rexmonarch2 Жыл бұрын

I puit my sweet potato vines in a compost pile and they've gone insane here Zone 10b -- literally a groundcover of vines that I have to cut back to keep from taking over. And they send out runners underground and pop up many feet away from the main mass of vines.

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Hey Robyn, glad you enjoy the vid 🙌 that’s awesome that you grew unexpected sweet potatoes that way - perennial sweet potatoes would be fab! It may work for use if we buried them really deep and mulched them well, but if the tubers do get a frost of them, they just turn to mush .. we might get away with it on a good winter though … 🤔 your winter is still on average a little better and shorter than ours, but not much in it now I’d say on our milder winters … like this one so far!!! But turning cold from next week apparently 😬 thanks for commenting hear 🙏💚🙏 ✌️🌿 xxx

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, yes I’ve heard they grow like this some places! Showing their connection to morning glory/bind weed !!! Much more rewarding though!! 💚✌️🌿

@rexmonarch2 Жыл бұрын

The original compost pile starter vines have been in about 5 months so I am going to check for mature sweet potatoes. They are Hanna and Violet. We love baked sweet potatoes with unsalted butter, Himalayan salt and black pepper. Meanwhile, I have to redirect the vines away from the pineapples and butterfly friendly Porterweed.

@suzannedavis4338 Жыл бұрын

Great harvest when did you plant them?

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Hi Suzanne, we plant out from the middle of may - after chance of frost have pass. ✌️😉

@suzannedavis4338 Жыл бұрын

@@freedomforestlife great thanks I will try in our polytunnel next year.

@steveoshakes Жыл бұрын

could it be wireworm causing the holes?

@freedomforestlife Жыл бұрын

Thanks Steveo … yes it could be, this ground could be classes as newly broken, as it was all very over grown just a couple of years ago, which it would seem from what I’ve just read is the space they are often found … thanks for the suggestion … another thing learnt about today 🙏✌️🌿