Won’t starve this winter.

[coachg]

2 of 3 milk carton crates of sweet taters . Have about 2/3 of my row dug so I expect 2 more at least . Really surprised at the size and quality of them with such a dry summer. I did run the soaker hose on them all night a couple of times this summer . I don’t pay the water bill at my father in law’s house so it’s all good ! Wife’s older brother is a lawyer and pays the bills at their dad’s house since he died .

 

[coachg]

Here’s the 4 I’ve got dug . I dig by hand so it takes me a while but I’m down to about 12-15 feet of row to finish .

 

[jltrent]

Those look good. You have good soil to grow sweet potatoes. My Kennebec potatoes did well this year. I just put out 50 lbs. of seed potatoes and ended up with 21 5-gallon buckets of very large potatoes.

 

[4hfarms]

Those look great! They sure don't grow like that around here...

 

[coachg]

I usually grow red potatoes in the spring but got a late start so I didn’t get them planted. Miss having them . We eat a lot of new potatoes ( boiled whole) and then my wife fixes them several ways . So thankful for the seeet potatoes ! Again I was sort of shocked when they turned out so good . Lost a few to the mice . They tunnel down my row and help themselves. Sometimes I dig up a nest and one year I dig up a rat snake crawling through a tunnel catching mice . Not what I was expecting !

 

[Ouachita]

Granny called them poot roots

 

[coachg]

Granny called them poot roots

They do that to some folks !

 

[greybeard]

Yeah, I learned not to attend a Marine Corps League meeting the day after eating fresh baked sweet potatoes. (canned ones don't have the same results). Those look good Coach.
I never lived anywhere with loose enough soil to grow them, or any other root crop. Always hard tight clays or rocks.

 

[coachg]

Sand Mtn use to a big area for raising potatoes but has only 1-2 growers left . Most were grown for chips . Most sweet potatoes are grown in Cullman county which is not on the Mtn. With our lose soil I grow peanuts , potatoes and sweet potatoes in my garden .

 

[chaded]

I usually grow red potatoes in the spring but got a late start so I didn't get them planted. Miss having them . We eat a lot of new potatoes ( boiled whole) and then my wife fixes them several ways . So thankful for the seeet potatoes ! Again I was sort of shocked when they turned out so good . Lost a few to the mice . They tunnel down my row and help themselves. Sometimes I dig up a nest and one year I dig up a rat snake crawling through a tunnel catching mice . Not what I was expecting !

Yeah that would be the last year I grew potatoes if I had that happen. Lol.

 

[SBMF 2015]

I know we’re not supposed to brag. . . But I’m going to get fat this winter !

My wife and her sister in law, along with two other women got together yesterday and made 150qts of apple pie filling!
She had already made 28qts of applesauce this fall ( she says she wants 100 more )
This summer she froze 100qts of sweet corn,130 lbs of strawberries, and canned 20qts of peaches (my favorite)
Along with part of a beef and a hog in the freezer. Our grocery bill should be pretty manageable all year.

 

[Travlr]

I know we're not supposed to brag. . . But I'm going to get fat this winter !
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My wife and her sister in law, along with two other women got together yesterday and made 150qts of apple pie filling!
She had already made 28qts of applesauce this fall ( she says she wants 100 more )
This summer she froze 100qts of sweet corn,130 lbs of strawberries, and canned 20qts of peaches (my favorite)
Along with part of a beef and a hog in the freezer. Our grocery bill should be pretty manageable all year.

We've been baking. Zucchini bread and apple pies, and into the freezer. We sample all the apple trees we find and harvest them if we can contact their owners, and the apples will make a good pie. We cut the sugar in recipes to about 25% of what the recipe says. We like to taste the apples instead of just sweet. It's amazing how many of the tree owners don't use the apples.

 

[SBMF 2015]

We've been baking. Zucchini bread and apple pies, and into the freezer. We sample all the apple trees we find and harvest them if we can contact their owners, and the apples will make a good pie. We cut the sugar in recipes to about 25% of what the recipe says. We like to taste the apples instead of just sweet. It's amazing how many of the tree owners don't use the apples.

Those 28qts of applesauce came from a tree next to a pasture we rent. No idea what variety but they sure taste good.

 

[Travlr]

Those 28qts of applesauce came from a tree next to a pasture we rent. No idea what variety but they sure taste good.

Maybe you know this but from what I understand apples are one of the few species that won't breed true. Every Gala, MacIntosh, or whatever "kind" of apple in a grocery store is a tree that's been grafted to produce that kind of apple from the original tree that was discovered.

I have a tree in my yard that's okay for pies but not really something I would choose as an eating apple. Some trees are so tart that they are hard to eat. I like testing any apples I find in old orchards just to see what they are like. Back in the days of Johnny Appleseed the trees he planted grew a different apple from every seed that sprouted.

 

[chaded]

I know we're not supposed to brag. . . But I'm going to get fat this winter !
View attachment 50887
My wife and her sister in law, along with two other women got together yesterday and made 150qts of apple pie filling!
She had already made 28qts of applesauce this fall ( she says she wants 100 more )
This summer she froze 100qts of sweet corn,130 lbs of strawberries, and canned 20qts of peaches (my favorite)
Along with part of a beef and a hog in the freezer. Our grocery bill should be pretty manageable all year.

That warmed up on vanilla ice cream would be good.

 

[AmandaQ]

I know we're not supposed to brag. . . But I'm going to get fat this winter !
View attachment 50887
My wife and her sister in law, along with two other women got together yesterday and made 150qts of apple pie filling!
She had already made 28qts of applesauce this fall ( she says she wants 100 more )
This summer she froze 100qts of sweet corn,130 lbs of strawberries, and canned 20qts of peaches (my favorite)
Along with part of a beef and a hog in the freezer. Our grocery bill should be pretty manageable all year.

This is so impressive!

 

[gcreekrch]

2 of 3 milk carton crates of sweet taters . Have about 2/3 of my row dug so I expect 2 more at least . Really surprised at the size and quality of them with such a dry summer. I did run the soaker hose on them all night a couple of times this summer . I don't pay the water bill at my father in law's house so it's all good ! Wife's older brother is a lawyer and pays the bills at their dad's house since he died .
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I like a good feed of them fellas. Cooked in a steamer, butter, salt and pepper. All that is needed!

 

[SBMF 2015]

This is so impressive!

Yes it is! I can’t take any credit. My wife is an Amazing woman!

 

[Dave]

I don't know how many apples the wife put up. But I hauled off 2 protein tubs full of peelings. And our friendly bear ate a ton too. She canned peaches, Froze strawberries. Plenty of corn and green beans. There was already half a beef in the freezer. And in the next month or so I am going to shoot an elk. She likes to can some meat and we are almost out so I know where a quarter of the elk is going.