This year’s sweet potato harvest was one for the books.
Journey with me as I dig for our sweet potato treasures and experience shocking results.
The harvest was impacted by critters, voles to be exact. There are some really distorted and funny looking potatoes, namely one that was growing outside of the dirt. Then there are others that were bitten, but most of the potato was still there. Then there were others that were nearly completely eaten and some that actually were!
All in all, there were several lessons that came out of the harvest that will only help in the future:
– Where there are vines, there aren’t necessarily potatoes
– Harvest on time
– Harvest early, if possible, when bad weather is expected
– Companion planting with scented herbs works!
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Look at that sweet potatoes cadaver 👀. I love love sweet potatoes. 😁
The soil looks great 👍. 😊
What tha heck! 😳 Why were they so destroyed.
You make candy from sweet potatoes.
Darn voles!
I can't believe those varmints. SMH!!!
Critters won't let u be great…tsk
Glad you got some good ones out of that harvest. Sorry about the bad ones.
That was wild!
Waooo amazing this your video looks so really beautiful and lovely place
Great job with the harvest my friend❤
Hello new friend. Happy to connect with you! Hope you can join me as well. Anything from the garden is a blessing. I enjoyed watching.
Thank You 4 sharing. Very helpful. I’ve been frustrated also. Tho I had some teeny and most huge ones but some cracks and wrinkles all mal formed a few black surface spot(s) (I’m) curing but unsure what to make of it all. Baffled.
Oh no. What the heck was eating them? I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry honey. I text the vegetables and we have squirrels and m o l e s and stuff like that. But there's a lot of squirrels and he told me to get a bar of Irish Spring soap and a potato peeler and take the bar soap and use the p e e l e r n cut chips make chips around your garden about a foot from your garden or half a foot and rodents and squirrels and just stuff like that that eats your garden up he told me to use the Irish Spring and a veggie pillar and just go and slice off pieces of it around your garden he said for some reason squirrels and stuff like that doesn't like to smell of the Irish spring. Look for veggie boys on YouTube and they have a beautiful Harvest which it's a farm of course a farm store. I hope you can make out what I'm trying to say but I feel so bad for you I thought I would try to tell you about the Irish Spring. Take care of yourself honey it just wasn't your season. Merry Christmas
Because of vole and mole damage in the past, i started planting all my root crops in raised beds. Those critters find it difficult to get into the raised planters and i got bumper crops out of those beds.
A companion to sweet potato is garlic from what I recall.
Some root vegetables ward off pests as well. Radishes,turnips for example.