If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share it to help spread its reach! Thanks for watching 😀TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 Growing Sweet Potatoes 1:22 Tip #1: Containers VS Soil 5:09 Tip #2: Sweet Potato Soil Mix 8:05 Tip #3: Rooting Sweet Potato Slips 12:56 Tip #4: Fertilizing Sweet Potatoes 14:42 How To Plant Sweet Potato Slips 19:55 Tip #5: Vine Management 22:19 When To Harvest Sweet Potatoes 25:27 Adventures With Dale
Sooo 😂 I should've watched this BEFORE I planted my sweet potatoes in 10 gal pots last weekend... used only miracle grow potting soil with chunks of tree trunk/root instead of rocks at the bottom for drainage, no sand or other added stuff... 😕 do I remove plants - amend the soil with sand and perlite and replant? Or will that cause shock & delay growth bc of disturbing them again?
Sweet potatoes saved so many lives of Koreans through the generations just before me. There, rice runs out around April, and barley isn't available until June. Sweet potatoes filled the gap. It grew very well even without fertilizer, and the petioles were made to kimchi, which tasted better than nappa.
That's so interesting. I never grew sweet potatoes before, and I had no idea the camote tops/leaves are edible. I'll try growing some (and yams) because I love making kimchi. Also trying mizuna kimchi!
I’ve had sweet potatoes in storage for almost 8 months. I believe they’d be an amazing filler. They grow amazingly, leaves are edible when growing. Then the roots last so long when in dry storage.
Excellent video sir. Just some info for all you growers : at the end of the season , cut some big slips off and put them in a vase of water , keep in front of window ( or grow lights in basement ) and it will last thro winter into spring when you can plant them again. !!!
Usually, the sweet potatoes I harvest in November are sprouting by March. I keep the early sprouters for rooting. Once they begin to develop sprouts, they root in about a week on a heating mat.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you thank you thank you 😊....I was just given sweet potato slips yesterday 😋 but didn't ask what kind.. Your explanation us the best I'm so glad I didn't need to keep strolling... Of course I'll need to watch a few times cause it's new to me and very good step by step instructions and information...
Two years ago I planted an orange sweet potato whole after trying to make slips. The sprouts were so small by June, and it was an extra, I just planted the whole thing in an area that was, from bottom to top, heavy clay (90+%) then a layer of 6 inches of hardwood sawdust topped by a foot of natural wood bark mulch. I did no further amendments or watering and when I harvested it in the fall, it produced over 35 lbs of sweet potatoes, my best producing sweet potato plant by far. Last year was a drought year so my garden did pretty bad overall. NE Ohio for reference as to climate.
Literally spent the day looking into growing sweet potatoes and then... THIS VIDEO 🙌 It's like you have a crystal ball into what people are thinking of growing 😂😂😂
What an absolutely awesome tutorial vlog on sweet potatoes. As an organic gardener for decades, I actually learned something I did not know. I can rectify the situation as per your instructions. Amazing video that I'm sharing as we speak. Blessings for you, your bride & Dale - and your gardens. Sherry 🥰 🙏 💞 🐕
Great video! The math I came up with to make your ratios scalable (based on 7:42) are as follows: - Peat Moss: 3.28 parts - Topsoil: 2.99 parts - Compost: 2.99 parts - Perlite: 1 part - Play Sand: 1.34 parts
So excited for this year! Here in the PNW (very different Zone 8b here in Oregon, near Salem) we need to squeeze out some extra growing degrees before and after the peak of summer. I got a pack of 15gal fabric grow bags, and I've been planting out some slips over the last couple weeks. I'm experimenting with planting a tomato, a pepper, or a basil plant in some of the bags with the sweet potatoes, to see if we can get a dual harvest and gobble up some of the excess nitrogen. I have most of them in our 6x8 hobby greenhouse for now, since our average daily temps are still around 55°, where it's about 10° higher in the greenhouse, and they are all living their best life right now! I'm still waiting for our garlic and potatoes to finish in our main garden before I lay down some clear plastic on rows, cut slits and plant the slips. Then I'll drape some fabric row cover over the pvc low tunnel there to hold additional heat in. Last year we grew sweet potatoes for the first time, and got about 35 lbs without all this heat management or grow bags, so I'm hoping we can really ramp it up this year. 🤞
Great tips on growing sweet potatoes. For Okinawan sweet potato, here's what I do that worked for me in the ground in zone 9a. Everything is similar but here is what worked for me: 1) I fertilize 15-15-15 All Purpose Granular Fertilizer every 2 weeks for the 1-2 months; 2) switch to 6-30-30 Water Soluble for the rest of the season every 2 weeks; season ends in month 4 or 5 when the tubers are the size I am after. For growing in pots, I am still experimenting, hopefully this season experiment will produce more tubers.
I was wondering how to grow sweet potatoes. I put one partly in water and it is growing a vine and now i know to cut the vibe into slips and plant those. Looks like I'm ordering more 25 gallon grow bags and making more soil. Thanks for your recipe for sweet potato soil. I'll get some play sand. Great video and so glad to cone across this when I did!
fwiw I live in Florida Old school gardeners grow sweet potato Vines/leaves, yr round, as a secret Nutrient Boost for the compost pile. They would grow specific sweet potato plants just for compost & would feed them fish Hydrolysate for vigorous growth. btw We eat the Leaves in Stir-Fry, soups, jambalaya & Gumbo ✝️🇺🇲🚜
Even I who live in the North of England 🇬🇧 can follow your tutorial and grow sweet potato. Thanks for the great information. I planted my sweet potatoes 2wks ago.they ok considering the weather but I will now be adding bone meal and watering more frequently and crossing my fingers for the best 👌 🎉
Hands down, this is the best gardening advice channel. Anthony uses a scientific approach, without being pretentious or providing content that isn't user-friendly because it's overly complicated. I got an okinawan sweet potato from a farmstand at a market in Asheville, NC early last fall, stored it properly, and now I have slips for sweet potatoes growing per this channel's past advice (in grow bags). Solid, solid stuff.
You just answered why my sweet potatoes are all leaves and hardly anything under the soil. My soil is too rich! Thank you for this great instructional video. I like how you explain clearly with attention to details easily missed. The leaves aren't wasted for us. We're Asian and sweet potato leaves are normal everyday food for us. Better than spinach imo, none of the metallic aftertaste that spinach has
I over fertilized last year and had great looking vines and only a few potatoes. It's a reasonable mistake to make. I'm going for better results this year! I sprouted organic Garnets from the grocery store last year. The few potatoes that we got were great. I ordered a couple of different ones to try this year from Hoss.
I love spinach, started eating it this year when I grew it. I didn’t really eat my sweet potato leaves last year. So imma definitely hope I enjoy them more because they grow in such abundance in comparison
Another great video! Here in SE Louisiana I planted Japanese purple sweet potatoes (according to Whole Foods' description) almost 6 months ago. Two scrawny sweet potatoes produced dozens of slip that I likely planted no later than June 1. I kept waiting for the leaves to turn yellow here in early December even the recent 40 degree chill didn't greatly affect the leaves. I pulled them yesterday from two raised beds (one 20" deep 30" by 6' and the other 12" deep 4' by 6'). I likely saw this video before planting as I added plenty of bone meal! With a couple of roots left to dig up I measured a beautiful harvest of two tubs of sweet potatoes with approximately 44 pounds each. I did plant a couple of orange sweet potatoes in one bed (possibly jewel) and 6 months was apparently too long as they began to slightly split. Some of the Japanese purples are possibly 3 or 4 pounds it appears. Now I know that I need to pay more attention to the time they are in the ground! This was my best sweet potato harvest by far! I need to determine the best way to preserve some of the smaller ones for next year!
Oh my God thank you thank you thank you. You just explained exactly what happened to me 2 years ago and it made me give up trying to grow sweet potatoes. The vines are beautiful I love the vines but I don't like the taste of the vines. And I had very few sweet potatoes thank you so much. They were in this beautiful beautiful dirt that I actually created because I'm here in the desert of Arizona if you want good dirt you have to buy it or make it. I think you explained what I did wrong
It's funny, but sweet potatoes like lower quality, sandy soil. Save the good quality black soil for the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, etc. Give the sweet potatoes the crummy soil.
Everytime you stepped to the side like that to point to your garden it felt like I was awaiting you to tell me the weather forecast 😅 my mind was anticipating the slide changing. You have the stance and everything! Lol
I have virginia red clay so it will be in a raised bed that's home made compost and was heavy mulched with like 8" of wood chips. I have some play sand as well.
Ditto. In Houston also. I just dug up my Yukon Gold and some blue potatoes from a raised bed. I turned the soil 3x and kept finding more potatoes. It was a workout! After that, I'm trying grow bags for the first time. I'm doing a Japanese purple and Beauregard. I planted my slips about 5 days ago. I planted 2 per 20 gallon pot. I wasn't really sure how many I could fit in each pot. I did put a couple of tablespoons of bone meal in the hole when I planted them. Then I got busy and didn't add any other fertilizer. The potting soil I used has some though. After seeing your video, I'll "amend" my aggressive fertilizing plans. Would it pay to give them high N early to grow lots of foliage starting out, and then switch to a low N / high P midway through to encourage root growth?
South Jersey here. It's great to know sweet potatoes love the sandy soil. I had no idea. That's all we have here in the Pine Barrens. I used leaf mulch compost this year in 20 gallon grow bags and have added bone meal from Espoma, the makers of Plant-Tone, right here in South Jersey, about a half hour from me. I will add some native soil in as you advise so my plants don't focus on leaf production. Although, my friend eats the leaves and says they are delicious. Last year I did them in 5 gallon buckets, but the groundhog realized he could knock over the buckets and wiped out my plants. With the 20 gallon grow bags, I think he will find it difficult this year. Learned a lot on this video. Thank you for sharing your tips.
I just planted my slips in a 20 gallon grow bag yesterday and it looks like I need to add some bone meal. I’m in the Triangle so all of your info is super helpful and timely! Thanks!!
Darn! Wish I had seen this 2 months ago! I’ve been fertilizing my corn weekly and regular potatoes every two weeks as you advised, so I figured something similar for sweet potatoes! My slips are in 20 gallon container. So what do I do? Leave them alone?
Great video, thank you. Everything you need to know without a bunch of fluff talk lol and detailed info on what to use, much appreciated. I'll definitely subscribe!
I listened to you in your previous video and got grow bags this time. Looking forward to a good harvest as my raised bed was a failure too. For calcium, can I use crushed eggshells as topping? Also, I believe sweet potato leaves are edible too, I'll try cooking them with spinach!
Thundershirts are the best! Hey, grow the slips with a sweet potato on toothpicks in a jar of water. These are always on the kitchen window sill of a southern gardner. Hey mention so east Louisiana! Great video!!!
I just planted mine a couple of weeks ago and then seem happy. It's my first year, so I got my slips from baker creek. Mine are in ground in native soil, but its a brand new bed and I haven't amended it in ages. Bur grow bags would be wonderful!
I would recommend not adding compost. That can do more harm than good. Give them some slow release organics and bone meal. Keep them irrigated, and they should do well.
i like the sweet potato leaves we eat them by boiling them then mix them with onions ginger and tomato mix them with vinegar, i just bought one piece of sweet potato from the market i want to try to plant them to grow some leaves so i can eat salads.
Every try the Bush Puerto Rico variety for your grow bags? I tried them for the first time last year. They did quite well in poor, clay soil, and really did grow in a bush style. Each topped out at about four foot diameter.
I have yet to have luck growing sweet potatoes here in New England, but I do know that some farmers here can pull it off. I gave up this year because they aren't all that expensive to buy and I can easily make room for more regular potatoes that grow like weeds here!
I just planted my slips this afternoon! They’re in a 20 gal grow bag with granular and some bone meal but maybe 1/4 of what you recommended so I think I’ll redo them with way more bone meal in the morning! Thanks!!
Hi, I live in zone 7A. How often should I water my sweet potatoes plants? Thank you so much for your great videos. I bought some sweet potatoes plants since I couldn’t start my own vines because I saw this video like 2 weeks ago.
Hey neighbor, I live along the PamlicoRiver 😊 love your channel. I planted my sweet potato slips couple weeks ago, and they were suffering in the heat. I had to cover them with a shade cloth, same with the Cantelope. We are in for a very hot July! Anyhow, what’s your best soil for seedlings? I was using black gold, but it has a lot of chunky stuff in it that I have to screen out. Thanks.
Very informative, never tried potatoes of any kind yet but this information goes hand in hand with carrots and beets. I haven’t seen you grow either of these root crops. Your sandy soils would be ideal. Try playing some music for your man Dale. A little bit louder. Thanks for your information
Excellent videos, I’m in 4A Lethbridge Alberta so growing conditions are different. I bought a sweet potato from Safeway and I’m attempting slips to see when I need to start them next spring. My garden is full and looking good even though it’s been a cold spring.
Have I said thank you 🥰 Thank you. I was growing leaves and little potatoes. I put everything above ground with crab shells and triple phosphate. I’m going to try this mixture if this one doesn’t work. Thank you so much always
Thank you for putting these video out. You do a great job with organizing the content and then listing it all. It is very complete and it is appreciated for all the time that you spend doing this. Question: do you know of a wholesale seller for fertilizers and compost products? We run a small non profit that grows fresh food for those in our community and the garden is on the large size, so every penny saved helps. Thank you again!
You're welcome! I don't really know anything about wholesaling. I'm just an individual with a typical residential house, so everything I buy is through retail channels. What I would recommend you do is to check your local county (or neighboring counties) landfill. Many counties give out free mulch and/or compost. You may be able to get all the free load-your-own mulch you want, and also start your own compost pile out of free mulch. When it comes to getting cheaper fertilizers, this is the best advice I can give you: ua-cam.com/video/BT-jylXnqDQ/v-deo.htmlsi=xQEsIbA9CQxh2B1o
I'm not sure what you mean. My sunroom is so hot right now, it's unusable until the sun sets. For the winter, you have to put a heater inside. There isn't too much more to it than that.
As a longtime viewer, I'm sure I'm not the only one, but we would love to meet your new bride. Would you consider doing a Q&A for us? I wonder if she loves the garden as much as you do and I also have wondered (many times) what you do with all the produce you harvest? How do the two of you manage the bountiful harvests that I know you bring in? I would love to know.
I have been wanting to host a Q&A for a long time, but it’s been too busy during the spring. I’m hoping I can do one during summer when things slow down. Brittany doesn’t do any gardening. She doesn’t have any interest at all in plants 😂 It’s a one man show in the garden over here 😅
I was just getting ready to plant some sweet potatoes here in Alabama so this video will be a great help, I took notes! thank you again for your very educational video
Can you place a large plant saucer under your sweet potato pot to catch the water that will drain out the bottom of the pot and in reference to water conservation? Because I live in the city (concrete backyard) and I don't want to waste water. 😊
Awww, poor Dale. My Golden Retriever was like that after she got hit by lightening, 2nd hand (lightening struck our metal basketball goal, traveling across the water, into the entrance of our opened garage, which she was standing in. My ex also got hit at the same time; they both lived). Great video, great information!
Awesome thorough video! Saved to my 'garden playlist'. I planted my slips in two 50 gallon grow bags (first time growing SPs). I'm going to head outside with my bonemeal now 😅
Cuestión how do you control the mosquito fruit do you Rover them or what do you do to prevent them . Una pregunta como controlas la mosca de la fruta en tomates... los envuelves o que haces.
Aww, it's ok, Dale! What's the specs on that PC? Nice!! I just planted my slips yesterday in 100 gallon grow bags. I used square foot method, then I see this and I want to bunch them closer together. I put about 8 per bag...
I live in East ARKANSAS… my buddy owns one of the largest suppliers of sweet potatoes to Wal-Mart and other vendors… He taught me to plant the slip in an L shape.. lay the stem flat and bury, make the upturn just enough for the leaf and a few inches to stick up… not sure why… Matthews Sweet Potato Farms…
This is right on time. I just got my slips today and this is my first time growing sweet potatoes. Going to plant one slip per 15 gallon grow bag. I went back and fourth between 10 or 20 gallon so I figured 15 was good. What do you think?
That’s probably fine. There is very little organic matter in there, and usually top soil contains sand, so you should be ok. Just fertilize generously with bone meal and an all purpose routes 5-5-5 fertilizer.
saw your sweet potato slip video a few months back and tried to find the two sweet potatoes you had but couldn't (guess ill have to go online I live in a small town) so just used a regular one. I feel like its been forever since I planted the sweet potato but I think im finally starting to get a slip! I know im late on growing them but still super excited and going to send it anyway since I am in containers thanks again for your videos!
The fresher the sweet potato, the longer it takes to root. If you got yourself a really fresh sweet potato from the grocery store, it can take 1-2 months to get going. I save my old sweet potatoes from the previous season. Old sweet potatoes I dug up in November begin to root quickly in late March. In fact, some of them will have already started to sprout in my garage, and I use them. The best sweet potatoes to root are old sweet potatoes from last year's harvest. I am growing Murasaki, Stoke's Purple and Okinawan, because they're more expensive and harder to find. The orange potatoes are a dime a dozen as they say. I love growing the Japanese-style varieties.
Yes it was fresh I knew it would take a minute but wanted to do it anyway lol I will be better prepared next year by getting some and letting them get old can’t wait
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If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share it to help spread its reach! Thanks for watching 😀TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Growing Sweet Potatoes
1:22 Tip #1: Containers VS Soil
5:09 Tip #2: Sweet Potato Soil Mix
8:05 Tip #3: Rooting Sweet Potato Slips
12:56 Tip #4: Fertilizing Sweet Potatoes
14:42 How To Plant Sweet Potato Slips
19:55 Tip #5: Vine Management
22:19 When To Harvest Sweet Potatoes
25:27 Adventures With Dale
Thanks for all you do to help me have a more successful garden!😊
Sooo 😂 I should've watched this BEFORE I planted my sweet potatoes in 10 gal pots last weekend... used only miracle grow potting soil with chunks of tree trunk/root instead of rocks at the bottom for drainage, no sand or other added stuff... 😕 do I remove plants - amend the soil with sand and perlite and replant?
Or will that cause shock & delay growth bc of disturbing them again?
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Sweet potatoes saved so many lives of Koreans through the generations just before me. There, rice runs out around April, and barley isn't available until June. Sweet potatoes filled the gap. It grew very well even without fertilizer, and the petioles were made to kimchi, which tasted better than nappa.
That's so interesting. I never grew sweet potatoes before, and I had no idea the camote tops/leaves are edible. I'll try growing some (and yams) because I love making kimchi. Also trying mizuna kimchi!
Sweet potatoes are a great storage food. I still have a few leftover from my harvest last November.
@@TheMillennialGardenerthat's amazing, any special storage?
I’ve had sweet potatoes in storage for almost 8 months. I believe they’d be an amazing filler. They grow amazingly, leaves are edible when growing. Then the roots last so long when in dry storage.
@@jimdandy4329I still have some Beauregard sweet potatoes from last fall as well. All I did to store is put them in a box in a closet of a bedroom.
Excellent video sir. Just some info for all you growers : at the end of the season , cut some big slips off and put them in a vase of water , keep in front of window ( or grow lights in basement ) and it will last thro winter into spring when you can plant them again. !!!
Usually, the sweet potatoes I harvest in November are sprouting by March. I keep the early sprouters for rooting. Once they begin to develop sprouts, they root in about a week on a heating mat.
This is the absolute BEST explanation I’ve ever seen on sweet potato slips.
Thank you! I’m happy to hear it was helpful.
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Thank you thank you thank you 😊....I was just given sweet potato slips yesterday 😋 but didn't ask what kind..
Your explanation us the best I'm so glad I didn't need to keep strolling...
Of course I'll need to watch a few times cause it's new to me and very good step by step instructions and information...
Two years ago I planted an orange sweet potato whole after trying to make slips. The sprouts were so small by June, and it was an extra, I just planted the whole thing in an area that was, from bottom to top, heavy clay (90+%) then a layer of 6 inches of hardwood sawdust topped by a foot of natural wood bark mulch. I did no further amendments or watering and when I harvested it in the fall, it produced over 35 lbs of sweet potatoes, my best producing sweet potato plant by far. Last year was a drought year so my garden did pretty bad overall. NE Ohio for reference as to climate.
Literally spent the day looking into growing sweet potatoes and then... THIS VIDEO 🙌
It's like you have a crystal ball into what people are thinking of growing 😂😂😂
This is INDEED THE BEST GROW GUIDE FOR SWEET POTATOES ON THE INTERNET!!! So very detailed. I truly appreciate you, thank you! New subscriber!
What an absolutely awesome tutorial vlog on sweet potatoes. As an organic gardener for decades, I actually learned something I did not know. I can rectify the situation as per your instructions. Amazing video that I'm sharing as we speak.
Blessings for you, your bride & Dale - and your gardens. Sherry 🥰 🙏 💞 🐕
Thank you! I'm glad to hear it was helpful.
Just in time!!! I’m about to plant my slips today!! Thank you!!
You're welcome! Glad to be timely.
Great video! The math I came up with to make your ratios scalable (based on 7:42) are as follows:
- Peat Moss: 3.28 parts
- Topsoil: 2.99 parts
- Compost: 2.99 parts
- Perlite: 1 part
- Play Sand: 1.34 parts
So excited for this year! Here in the PNW (very different Zone 8b here in Oregon, near Salem) we need to squeeze out some extra growing degrees before and after the peak of summer. I got a pack of 15gal fabric grow bags, and I've been planting out some slips over the last couple weeks. I'm experimenting with planting a tomato, a pepper, or a basil plant in some of the bags with the sweet potatoes, to see if we can get a dual harvest and gobble up some of the excess nitrogen. I have most of them in our 6x8 hobby greenhouse for now, since our average daily temps are still around 55°, where it's about 10° higher in the greenhouse, and they are all living their best life right now! I'm still waiting for our garlic and potatoes to finish in our main garden before I lay down some clear plastic on rows, cut slits and plant the slips. Then I'll drape some fabric row cover over the pvc low tunnel there to hold additional heat in. Last year we grew sweet potatoes for the first time, and got about 35 lbs without all this heat management or grow bags, so I'm hoping we can really ramp it up this year. 🤞
Great tips on growing sweet potatoes. For Okinawan sweet potato, here's what I do that worked for me in the ground in zone 9a. Everything is similar but here is what worked for me: 1) I fertilize 15-15-15 All Purpose Granular Fertilizer every 2 weeks for the 1-2 months; 2) switch to 6-30-30 Water Soluble for the rest of the season every 2 weeks; season ends in month 4 or 5 when the tubers are the size I am after. For growing in pots, I am still experimenting, hopefully this season experiment will produce more tubers.
Anthony gotta say great content, happy gardener New Zealand
I was wondering how to grow sweet potatoes. I put one partly in water and it is growing a vine and now i know to cut the vibe into slips and plant those.
Looks like I'm ordering more 25 gallon grow bags and making more soil. Thanks for your recipe for sweet potato soil. I'll get some play sand.
Great video and so glad to cone across this when I did!
Wow just planted my sweet potatoes today.
fwiw
I live in Florida
Old school gardeners grow sweet potato Vines/leaves, yr round, as a secret Nutrient Boost for the compost pile.
They would grow specific sweet potato plants just for compost & would feed them fish Hydrolysate for vigorous growth.
btw
We eat the Leaves in Stir-Fry, soups, jambalaya & Gumbo
✝️🇺🇲🚜
Yay! Sweet potatoes! 🍠
Even I who live in the North of England 🇬🇧 can follow your tutorial and grow sweet potato. Thanks for the great information. I planted my sweet potatoes 2wks ago.they ok considering the weather but I will now be adding bone meal and watering more frequently and crossing my fingers for the best 👌 🎉
Hands down, this is the best gardening advice channel. Anthony uses a scientific approach, without being pretentious or providing content that isn't user-friendly because it's overly complicated.
I got an okinawan sweet potato from a farmstand at a market in Asheville, NC early last fall, stored it properly, and now I have slips for sweet potatoes growing per this channel's past advice (in grow bags). Solid, solid stuff.
Planted sweet potatoes yesterday, it's the first year trying. I have clay soil .keeping my fingers crossed! 🤞
You have a lovely, lush garden!
Thank you! If you have slips left over, you can start some in containers and compare results in the fall.
You just answered why my sweet potatoes are all leaves and hardly anything under the soil. My soil is too rich! Thank you for this great instructional video. I like how you explain clearly with attention to details easily missed.
The leaves aren't wasted for us. We're Asian and sweet potato leaves are normal everyday food for us. Better than spinach imo, none of the metallic aftertaste that spinach has
I over fertilized last year and had great looking vines and only a few potatoes. It's a reasonable mistake to make. I'm going for better results this year! I sprouted organic Garnets from the grocery store last year. The few potatoes that we got were great. I ordered a couple of different ones to try this year from Hoss.
I love spinach, started eating it this year when I grew it. I didn’t really eat my sweet potato leaves last year. So imma definitely hope I enjoy them more because they grow in such abundance in comparison
Just tried one raw. After taste I liked but I think I enjoy the spinach more raw. Need to try it cooked. But it was worth the try
@@breakdown2878we use them in anything, soups, omelette, stir fry. It's a perfect green that doesn't overwhelm the dish
@@yellowdog762jb I'm going for better results for everything this year since the price of produce skyrocketing!
😊 yep sweet potatoes is my favorite thing to grow
Nothing better than planting and harvesting our own food. It's good for the body and mind. Congratulation
Thank you!
Another great video! Here in SE Louisiana I planted Japanese purple sweet potatoes (according to Whole Foods' description) almost 6 months ago. Two scrawny sweet potatoes produced dozens of slip that I likely planted no later than June 1. I kept waiting for the leaves to turn yellow here in early December even the recent 40 degree chill didn't greatly affect the leaves. I pulled them yesterday from two raised beds (one 20" deep 30" by 6' and the other 12" deep 4' by 6'). I likely saw this video before planting as I added plenty of bone meal! With a couple of roots left to dig up I measured a beautiful harvest of two tubs of sweet potatoes with approximately 44 pounds each. I did plant a couple of orange sweet potatoes in one bed (possibly jewel) and 6 months was apparently too long as they began to slightly split. Some of the Japanese purples are possibly 3 or 4 pounds it appears. Now I know that I need to pay more attention to the time they are in the ground! This was my best sweet potato harvest by far! I need to determine the best way to preserve some of the smaller ones for next year!
Oh my God thank you thank you thank you. You just explained exactly what happened to me 2 years ago and it made me give up trying to grow sweet potatoes. The vines are beautiful I love the vines but I don't like the taste of the vines. And I had very few sweet potatoes thank you so much. They were in this beautiful beautiful dirt that I actually created because I'm here in the desert of Arizona if you want good dirt you have to buy it or make it. I think you explained what I did wrong
It's funny, but sweet potatoes like lower quality, sandy soil. Save the good quality black soil for the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, etc. Give the sweet potatoes the crummy soil.
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Everytime you stepped to the side like that to point to your garden it felt like I was awaiting you to tell me the weather forecast 😅 my mind was anticipating the slide changing. You have the stance and everything! Lol
I have virginia red clay so it will be in a raised bed that's home made compost and was heavy mulched with like 8" of wood chips. I have some play sand as well.
Thanks! In Houston we wash out so much that tips on how to help my plants recover is great!!
Same here. It isn’t unusual to get 4-5 inches of rain in a single afternoon thunderstorm 😤
Ditto. In Houston also.
I just dug up my Yukon Gold and some blue potatoes from a raised bed. I turned the soil 3x and kept finding more potatoes. It was a workout!
After that, I'm trying grow bags for the first time. I'm doing a Japanese purple and Beauregard. I planted my slips about 5 days ago. I planted 2 per 20 gallon pot. I wasn't really sure how many I could fit in each pot. I did put a couple of tablespoons of bone meal in the hole when I planted them. Then I got busy and didn't add any other fertilizer. The potting soil I used has some though. After seeing your video, I'll "amend" my aggressive fertilizing plans.
Would it pay to give them high N early to grow lots of foliage starting out, and then switch to a low N / high P midway through to encourage root growth?
The title to this video is not hyperbole! I’ve really learned a ton from you.
And again CONGRATULATIONS to you and your bride!!
All your content is very thorough and very helpful. Thank You
You're welcome!
Awesome teaching. Thank you Anthony 😊❤
You're welcome!
South Jersey here. It's great to know sweet potatoes love the sandy soil. I had no idea. That's all we have here in the Pine Barrens. I used leaf mulch compost this year in 20 gallon grow bags and have added bone meal from Espoma, the makers of Plant-Tone, right here in South Jersey, about a half hour from me. I will add some native soil in as you advise so my plants don't focus on leaf production. Although, my friend eats the leaves and says they are delicious. Last year I did them in 5 gallon buckets, but the groundhog realized he could knock over the buckets and wiped out my plants. With the 20 gallon grow bags, I think he will find it difficult this year. Learned a lot on this video. Thank you for sharing your tips.
Agreed 💯 you have the best videos on growing sweet potatoes! Hi Dale!
Hi Anthony! I use 30 gal. Mineral tubs for cattle for my sweet potatoes too. Thanks for the tips! Off to Home Depot.
You're welcome!
I used your storage tub and heat mat method in my basement and it worked like a charm.
Awesome! It’s the best way to cure them. It makes life so easy.
I find all of your videos very useful 👌🏼 😊
Thank you! I appreciate it.
@@TheMillennialGardener You are very welcome
Your ground covering what does that help, in gardening',,,,,,,thanks
Thanks so much for this growing guide... I am putting my slips in the ground 😂.. wish me luck!
Sweet potato vines are yum yum yummy!!!
Absolutely best video on this subject! Planted some today before seeing this and regret the 101010 I used…washing it out quickly!
Thank you so so so much!!! So generous content.
I just planted my slips in a 20 gallon grow bag yesterday and it looks like I need to add some bone meal. I’m in the Triangle so all of your info is super helpful and timely! Thanks!!
Darn! Wish I had seen this 2 months ago! I’ve been fertilizing my corn weekly and regular potatoes every two weeks as you advised, so I figured something similar for sweet potatoes! My slips are in 20 gallon container. So what do I do? Leave them alone?
Good Boy, Dale! ❤
Great video, thank you. Everything you need to know without a bunch of fluff talk lol and detailed info on what to use, much appreciated. I'll definitely subscribe!
I'm going to try bigger grow bags and bone meal this year. Thanks!
You're welcome!
I listened to you in your previous video and got grow bags this time. Looking forward to a good harvest as my raised bed was a failure too. For calcium, can I use crushed eggshells as topping? Also, I believe sweet potato leaves are edible too, I'll try cooking them with spinach!
Thundershirts are the best! Hey, grow the slips with a sweet potato on toothpicks in a jar of water. These are always on the kitchen window sill of a southern gardner. Hey mention so east Louisiana! Great video!!!
I don't use the water/toothpick method. The soil method is much faster and more reliable.
Yup, this is my first time growing sweet potatoes, and I love how easy they are to root from slips. Fabulous.
Best of luck!
Really good information
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for all your knowledge!
You're welcome!
I just planted mine a couple of weeks ago and then seem happy. It's my first year, so I got my slips from baker creek. Mine are in ground in native soil, but its a brand new bed and I haven't amended it in ages. Bur grow bags would be wonderful!
I would recommend not adding compost. That can do more harm than good. Give them some slow release organics and bone meal. Keep them irrigated, and they should do well.
i like the sweet potato leaves we eat them by boiling them then mix them with onions ginger and tomato mix them with vinegar, i just bought one piece of sweet potato from the market i want to try to plant them to grow some leaves so i can eat salads.
Thanks for saying the date and location at the beginning. Ur growing zone would be appreciated as well
You're welcome. Location information is in the video description.
You're an excellent presenter/teacher. Much thanks. About to plant my slips.
Every try the Bush Puerto Rico variety for your grow bags? I tried them for the first time last year. They did quite well in poor, clay soil, and really did grow in a bush style. Each topped out at about four foot diameter.
I have yet to have luck growing sweet potatoes here in New England, but I do know that some farmers here can pull it off. I gave up this year because they aren't all that expensive to buy and I can easily make room for more regular potatoes that grow like weeds here!
Is there any benifit to plant in pots before planting into the final containers? I live in zone 6 and I need to stretch my season as far as possible.
Awe Dale! Good boy!
One of our dog has a thunder vest too ❤
He didn’t used to be this scared of thunder years ago. He’s becoming more and more afraid of it 😔
I kept my vines alive over the winter and I planted them 2 weeks ago.
One your best videos!!! Thanks from Fayetteville, NC
You’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I just planted my slips this afternoon! They’re in a 20 gal grow bag with granular and some bone meal but maybe 1/4 of what you recommended so I think I’ll redo them with way more bone meal in the morning! Thanks!!
No worries. You can always top dress. I’m pretty generous with fertilizer at planting.
Everytime I click on one of your videos you look more and more yolked! What’s growin on is you my friend
Camera angles and such 😆
Hi, I live in zone 7A. How often should I water my sweet potatoes plants?
Thank you so much for your great videos. I bought some sweet potatoes plants since I couldn’t start my own vines because I saw this video like 2 weeks ago.
Hey neighbor, I live along the PamlicoRiver 😊 love your channel. I planted my sweet potato slips couple weeks ago, and they were suffering in the heat. I had to cover them with a shade cloth, same with the Cantelope. We are in for a very hot July! Anyhow, what’s your best soil for seedlings? I was using black gold, but it has a lot of chunky stuff in it that I have to screen out. Thanks.
Very informative, never tried potatoes of any kind yet but this information goes hand in hand with carrots and beets. I haven’t seen you grow either of these root crops. Your sandy soils would be ideal. Try playing some music for your man Dale. A little bit louder. Thanks for your information
Excellent videos, I’m in 4A Lethbridge Alberta so growing conditions are different. I bought a sweet potato from Safeway and I’m attempting slips to see when I need to start them next spring. My garden is full and looking good even though it’s been a cold spring.
Have I said thank you 🥰 Thank you. I was growing leaves and little potatoes. I put everything above ground with crab shells and triple phosphate. I’m going to try this mixture if this one doesn’t work. Thank you so much always
Thank you for putting these video out. You do a great job with organizing the content and then listing it all. It is very complete and it is appreciated for all the time that you spend doing this. Question: do you know of a wholesale seller for fertilizers and compost products? We run a small non profit that grows fresh food for those in our community and the garden is on the large size, so every penny saved helps. Thank you again!
You're welcome! I don't really know anything about wholesaling. I'm just an individual with a typical residential house, so everything I buy is through retail channels. What I would recommend you do is to check your local county (or neighboring counties) landfill. Many counties give out free mulch and/or compost. You may be able to get all the free load-your-own mulch you want, and also start your own compost pile out of free mulch. When it comes to getting cheaper fertilizers, this is the best advice I can give you: ua-cam.com/video/BT-jylXnqDQ/v-deo.htmlsi=xQEsIbA9CQxh2B1o
How often do you water the soil when your start to grow slips from a sweet potato?
Liked the video! Thanks for the info… one qstn can I start the seeds inside? I am in metro Atl Ga area zone 8a/b area.
Awesome! QUESTION, can you make a video in how to weather your sun room for the different seasons? Thanks man!
I'm not sure what you mean. My sunroom is so hot right now, it's unusable until the sun sets. For the winter, you have to put a heater inside. There isn't too much more to it than that.
As a longtime viewer, I'm sure I'm not the only one, but we would love to meet your new bride. Would you consider doing a Q&A for us? I wonder if she loves the garden as much as you do and I also have wondered (many times) what you do with all the produce you harvest? How do the two of you manage the bountiful harvests that I know you bring in? I would love to know.
I have been wanting to host a Q&A for a long time, but it’s been too busy during the spring. I’m hoping I can do one during summer when things slow down. Brittany doesn’t do any gardening. She doesn’t have any interest at all in plants 😂 It’s a one man show in the garden over here 😅
Perfect timing as this is my first year growing them and I just planted then the other day and in the same size 25 gallon grow bags!
Perfect!
I was just getting ready to plant some sweet potatoes here in Alabama so this video will be a great help, I took notes! thank you again for your very educational video
Great tutorial! I am growing four different types this year in 20-gallon grow bags and in the ground. I especially appreciate the tips on fertilizer!
I plant my sweet potato only for the leaves, they are very good. but if I have longer summer growing season, I would try it
Thanks you very much I will try this year if possible !!!
Can you place a large plant saucer under your sweet potato pot to catch the water that will drain out the bottom of the pot and in reference to water conservation? Because I live in the city (concrete backyard) and I don't want to waste water. 😊
Awww, poor Dale.
My Golden Retriever was like that after she got hit by lightening, 2nd hand (lightening struck our metal basketball goal, traveling across the water, into the entrance of our opened garage, which she was standing in. My ex also got hit at the same time; they both lived).
Great video, great information!
Thank you, thank you! 😊👍👍
You're welcome!
Very informative and helpful. My slips are ready and I was considering where to plant them. Very timely here in Florida.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Awesome thorough video! Saved to my 'garden playlist'. I planted my slips in two 50 gallon grow bags (first time growing SPs). I'm going to head outside with my bonemeal now 😅
Those are some big bags! Best of luck!
@@TheMillennialGardener they're awesome 😂 bought them on whim and no regrets. They are very well made and come in pkgs of two.
Cuestión how do you control the mosquito fruit do you Rover them or what do you do to prevent them . Una pregunta como controlas la mosca de la fruta en tomates... los envuelves o que haces.
Thanks
Thanks for the very informative video 😊
Hugs to good boy Dale ❤🤗
You’re welcome! Dale is better now that we are in a dry pattern, but it’s a long, stormy summer here.
Aww, it's ok, Dale! What's the specs on that PC? Nice!! I just planted my slips yesterday in 100 gallon grow bags. I used square foot method, then I see this and I want to bunch them closer together. I put about 8 per bag...
Can you make an update on your pawpaw trees, how are the doing? And could pawpaws produce fruits in zone 7b?
Excellent video, thanks
I live in East ARKANSAS… my buddy owns one of the largest suppliers of sweet potatoes to Wal-Mart and other vendors… He taught me to plant the slip in an L shape.. lay the stem flat and bury, make the upturn just enough for the leaf and a few inches to stick up… not sure why… Matthews Sweet Potato Farms…
This is right on time. I just got my slips today and this is my first time growing sweet potatoes. Going to plant one slip per 15 gallon grow bag. I went back and fourth between 10 or 20 gallon so I figured 15 was good. What do you think?
Love you
Thank you 😊
Love, love, your explanation!!!!....thank you 😅😅
My sweet potato vines are getting longer should I cut the growing tip?
This is good information. Thanks!! (It's my first time growing sweet potatoes!)
You’re welcome! Best of luck 🍀
Love your vids! I tried swt potatoes in a smart bag...had better success in a wooden dresser drawer.
Great info, as always! Much ❤to the lovebirds!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
If you have roots coming from the potatoes after being in water, can I plant the potato itself?
I just planted my slips... I kinda want to dig them up.and start over. I used 50/50 peat and top soil. Thoughts?
That’s probably fine. There is very little organic matter in there, and usually top soil contains sand, so you should be ok. Just fertilize generously with bone meal and an all purpose routes 5-5-5 fertilizer.
saw your sweet potato slip video a few months back and tried to find the two sweet potatoes you had but couldn't (guess ill have to go online I live in a small town) so just used a regular one. I feel like its been forever since I planted the sweet potato but I think im finally starting to get a slip! I know im late on growing them but still super excited and going to send it anyway since I am in containers thanks again for your videos!
The fresher the sweet potato, the longer it takes to root. If you got yourself a really fresh sweet potato from the grocery store, it can take 1-2 months to get going. I save my old sweet potatoes from the previous season. Old sweet potatoes I dug up in November begin to root quickly in late March. In fact, some of them will have already started to sprout in my garage, and I use them. The best sweet potatoes to root are old sweet potatoes from last year's harvest. I am growing Murasaki, Stoke's Purple and Okinawan, because they're more expensive and harder to find. The orange potatoes are a dime a dozen as they say. I love growing the Japanese-style varieties.
Yes it was fresh I knew it would take a minute but wanted to do it anyway lol I will be better prepared next year by getting some and letting them get old can’t wait