YOU can Grow Sweet Potatoes! Tricks for Starting Slips, Planting, Harvesting and Curing

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  • Learn how to start sweet potato slips and how to plant them, as well as how to cure sweet potatoes and store them. Plus, learn the secret to keeping sweet potatoes happy.
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  • @macoppy6571
    @macoppy6571 6 днів тому +2

    May this be the most popular starting sweet potatoes video for 100 years 🙏

  • @Homesteading_heathen
    @Homesteading_heathen 20 днів тому +39

    Protect this man. At all costs.

  • @bernadette6618
    @bernadette6618 20 днів тому +27

    Came for the sw potatoes, stayed for the tunes!🌿

    • @anitamurphy2454
      @anitamurphy2454 18 днів тому +1

      Guess you know about his DTG tunes channel?
      Fun!

  • @annellacannella5674
    @annellacannella5674 19 днів тому +25

    I almost didn’t watch because I have no problems growing sweet potatoes. But then I thought, well, it’s David the Good and I could use a little levity this morning. You never disappoint. Good sweet potato info and a good laugh. I really enjoyed the reggae music for them. Freedom to grow your vines! I think it’s my new theme song.

  • @james-heatherbailey5530
    @james-heatherbailey5530 19 днів тому +12

    David's wit and musical creativity are unmatched 😂😂
    Love the grunge david!

  • @user-ic2ug8ys1z
    @user-ic2ug8ys1z 20 днів тому +25

    +1 for potato love songs. Keep the "Good tunes" coming!

  • @jholcomb9532
    @jholcomb9532 7 днів тому +1

    "You can really look into their eyes", LOL!

  • @ozarksbuckslayer2484
    @ozarksbuckslayer2484 20 днів тому +22

    Everybody is crazy, I'm just one of the unlucky ones who got caught. - Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

    • @ContactsNfilters
      @ContactsNfilters 19 днів тому +3

      Such a good book! I love Brené Brown's quote better though. "Everyone is crazy, but the scary ones are the ones that don't know they're crazy." 😂

  • @takeitslowhomestead5218
    @takeitslowhomestead5218 17 днів тому +4

    Thanks for the smiles and giggles. They felt good! 😁 🌱

  • @kimmy_mac
    @kimmy_mac 17 днів тому +5

    Oh my goodness. My garden is now jealous of your singing. Love your work. God bless you and the family

  • @op4rlb348
    @op4rlb348 6 днів тому +3

    Wow. I just found my favorite gardening UA-cam channel ever. ❤Thanks for the good info, and for the music. 🙂

  • @melanielinkous8746
    @melanielinkous8746 20 днів тому +5

    My husband always gets jealous when he "catches me" watching this channel. 😂
    After 15 years, I'll take it! Blessings to you and your family 🙏💕

  • @jerrypackard6807
    @jerrypackard6807 19 днів тому +6

    WE LOVE YOUR CRAZY MUSIC AND SENSE OF HUMOR DAVIIIID!!!!!!! ;-)

  • @Leahslittlepatchofparadise
    @Leahslittlepatchofparadise 20 днів тому +9

    I have missed your videos, and sense of humor 😂
    I'm so glad the gardening season has kicked back off up there in America for you ❤

  • @e.t.preppin7084
    @e.t.preppin7084 5 днів тому

    I can’t stop the tears of laughter!!! You are the real deal. I know I heard it through the potato vine. That’s my go to song for tubers !!!!

  • @gennyt.1306
    @gennyt.1306 8 годин тому

    This is really THE BEST informative video on growing sweet potatoes! How have I not found this channel until now?!!! I’m so glad I did!!!

  • @harmonic3350
    @harmonic3350 20 днів тому +7

    Best sweet potato planting jams ever 🍠

  • @davidthegood
    @davidthegood  20 днів тому +24

    Learn how to start sweet potato slips and how to plant them, as well as how to cure sweet potatoes and store them. Plus, learn the secret to keeping sweet potatoes happy.
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    • @LogCabinArtist
      @LogCabinArtist 20 днів тому +2

      I just pulled out a 6 pound purple sweet potato!

    • @Rhett573
      @Rhett573 20 днів тому +1

      Hi

  • @amyrea4451
    @amyrea4451 19 днів тому +4

    David, you are hilarious and we truly enjoy your videos!😂😂😂 thank you for passing on knowledge and entertainment!

  • @ptrainingbytim
    @ptrainingbytim 20 днів тому +6

    David the legend. Another gem my brother in Christ!

  • @truthseeker9688
    @truthseeker9688 5 днів тому

    Thank you for being wise....and goofy. LOVE it!

  • @hazelbellefarm476
    @hazelbellefarm476 20 днів тому +11

    😂I’m just gonna pray over mine and water them. Singing might kill them.

    • @cbak1819
      @cbak1819 13 днів тому

      Praying too! Singing too..🎉

  • @lisakruger5289
    @lisakruger5289 20 днів тому +3

    Oh my gosh, thanks so much for the laughs with the music experiment! They were greatly needed and much appreciated! 😅

  • @russwilkerson2741
    @russwilkerson2741 11 днів тому +1

    I love sweet potatoes. I heard they love classical music for best results.

  • @texaschopper3091
    @texaschopper3091 День тому

    ROFL. That is hilarious. Oh my gosh, you made my day. Gotta sing to my sweet potatoes.

  • @whatwhat8097
    @whatwhat8097 7 днів тому

    Singing to them is key🍠🎶

  • @laurascozycorner458
    @laurascozycorner458 15 днів тому +1

    Love it! The skit at the end was funny too!😂 bought your book on grocery row gardening, very informative!! Really like how you wrote in about the squirrels and how you acquired the knowledge from each author or friend! ❤

  • @wordwalkermomma4
    @wordwalkermomma4 20 днів тому +1

    “Our Go Babylon”!! I love it!
    I will, David the Good, I WILL sing to my garden! 🎶♥️🌿🥦🍎🥕🍃

  • @elwyncuster6360
    @elwyncuster6360 20 днів тому +4

    You can look into their eyes...you're hilarious!

  • @patriciaserdahl5577
    @patriciaserdahl5577 20 днів тому +3

    Thank you David especially the tip on Curing them Blessings to this year's gardens God bless 🙏 🎶 🇺🇸

  • @CapitanFantasma1776
    @CapitanFantasma1776 20 днів тому +2

    And you have a theme song! Great info thanks!

  • @FM-qm5xs
    @FM-qm5xs 7 днів тому

    You really need to write a full version of the sweet potato love song lol.

  • @deeprootstexas
    @deeprootstexas 20 днів тому +3

    😂 the end

  • @rosehavenfarm2969
    @rosehavenfarm2969 20 днів тому +7

    I see the guitar in the GRG...is that from the ukelele planted last fall?
    I forgot to start my SP slips last february. So I'm buying them this year. I've found Puccini works well on SPs.
    BTW, Minimalist Gardening is a terrific book. Congratulations.

  • @deborahcresswell1616
    @deborahcresswell1616 20 днів тому +2

    Hi there from southwest Louisiana

  • @mattpeacock5208
    @mattpeacock5208 20 днів тому +1

    That love song at the end had me rolling despite the shear dad-joke quality!
    Good on ya!

  • @EDLaw-wo5it
    @EDLaw-wo5it 15 днів тому

    Great info David. Be blessed brother.

  • @belieftransformation
    @belieftransformation 20 днів тому +1

    Very entertaining, plus good knowledge! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦

  • @kimyennguyen3148
    @kimyennguyen3148 20 днів тому +1

    I am with you, minimalist gardening❤

    • @danfay4860
      @danfay4860 19 днів тому

      Minimalist everything

  • @lauraanderson3354
    @lauraanderson3354 7 днів тому

    Thank you for this wonderful information. I'm getting ready to plant.

  • @GrandmomZoo
    @GrandmomZoo 20 днів тому +3

    Hello my food forresting hero mentor!!!!!❤❤❤

  • @danfay4860
    @danfay4860 19 днів тому +1

    I have grown sweet potatoes here in northeaster Massachusetts in the ground and in grow bags with a decent yield with my short growing season.

  • @babetteisinthegarden6920
    @babetteisinthegarden6920 20 днів тому +1

    Thanks for the info David, and the mini concert at the end.

  • @MiladyMeowMeow-bf7nk
    @MiladyMeowMeow-bf7nk 19 днів тому

    The serenade was amazing 😂

  • @betitagtz
    @betitagtz 11 годин тому

    So from what I see on the video, not needed to let the tubers root? Some you put on the ground had roots and some didn’t. 😊 that makes it even easier! Loved the music! 🎉

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  7 годин тому

      Right! You can just stick the vines in and they’ll root.

  • @ManiacNation06
    @ManiacNation06 15 днів тому

    Omg! I’m loving the rap😂😂😂 #1 single in the making 😂

  • @electricfrontporch5334
    @electricfrontporch5334 20 днів тому +3

    I and I love da reggae sweet potato jams mon

  • @SimpleIdeaz
    @SimpleIdeaz 11 днів тому

    Just found out about Japanese sweet potato which is cold hardy. Going to try my luck

  • @elijahsanders3547
    @elijahsanders3547 17 днів тому

    Great video! Thank you. Hope I have space some time to grow them :) I had some that we bought but had to throw away, I put them in some shade next to my composting bags, and they started growing some vines!

  • @womanoftheozarks
    @womanoftheozarks 8 днів тому

    ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou

  • @breesechick
    @breesechick 20 днів тому +1

    Hi from NW GA

  • @sarahfruzz1787
    @sarahfruzz1787 15 днів тому

    This is extremely helpful!! Thanks!!

  • @mikhailkalashnikov4599
    @mikhailkalashnikov4599 20 днів тому +5

    I just planted ours yesterday. Zone 6 here, but reusing the same stock of sweet potatoe for several years now. Just bring em in the basement before first frost and whatevers left by springtime has new slips ready for planting. Can't beat em. Perpetual calories and goodness.

  • @rogerfranks6705
    @rogerfranks6705 19 днів тому +1

    You are one entertaining man!!!! Well done!❤️

  • @tonyalewis9053
    @tonyalewis9053 20 днів тому

    Loved Grocery Row Garden and almost finished with the new book, Minimalist Gardening, only two chapters left! I’m starting this fall with cardboard, grass clippings & compost, and lots of wood chips. In the meantime, I’m growing in a couple of raised beds. 👩‍🌾

  • @margaretlounsberry433
    @margaretlounsberry433 15 днів тому

    lol, love you David!!!

  • @chriskincaid6035
    @chriskincaid6035 6 днів тому

    Thank You ....

  • @WyattLCombs
    @WyattLCombs 17 днів тому

    Pure musical gold David! Keep it up!

  • @karrieweb2004_JxEdEx
    @karrieweb2004_JxEdEx 18 днів тому

    I think Styx recorded the lovesong version...😊

  • @brokenmeats5928
    @brokenmeats5928 20 днів тому

    I love ALL David The Good videos!

  • @agapefield
    @agapefield 18 днів тому

    ❤❤❤love me some sweet potatoes! Very nutritious too!

  • @CoreenT
    @CoreenT 20 днів тому

    You earned a like for serenading your sweet potato. 🥰🎶

  • @user-qr7sv6sc7d
    @user-qr7sv6sc7d 18 днів тому

    The nature law of action and reaction.
    Sow the seeds of kindness will return with kindness. Sow the seeds of love will return with love. We create what we give out. Plants are sentient beings too and do respond to the type of music and feelings we give them.
    🙏🙏🙏

  • @koicaine1230
    @koicaine1230 20 днів тому +1

    Yay, a live!

  • @benneptun4054
    @benneptun4054 20 днів тому

    Hilariously brilliant! Great stuff, DTG! Thank you! 😂

  • @mustbsavdbyjesus
    @mustbsavdbyjesus 6 днів тому

    Awesome!

  • @timothy4weigel
    @timothy4weigel 14 днів тому

    Those potatoes are Sweet

  • @critical_buckel
    @critical_buckel 19 днів тому

    Great songs John.

  • @carolmayer9789
    @carolmayer9789 20 днів тому

    David, I did try the granny method and they rotted for me too! Being in zone 5a sweet potates are a little tricky to grow here, but it can be done. Loved your songs in the garden.😅❤

  • @JurassicJolts
    @JurassicJolts 19 днів тому +1

    Mad bars 🔥🔥🔥

  • @moniquegebeline4350
    @moniquegebeline4350 13 днів тому

    The best sweet potato I ever grew was a white variety called Ohenry I believe man they were good I cured them in the oven for 3 weeks on cookie sheets it was the warmest place in my house. They were ready for thanksgiving and everyone raved about them! I can’t get the Okinawa purple to grow for shit for me. One of my fav crops!

  • @benjaminp6924
    @benjaminp6924 20 днів тому +1

    Jam to the yam, yello from Colorado

  • @AAHomeGardening
    @AAHomeGardening 17 днів тому +1

    I have three different types of sweet potato growing

  • @Fil-AmGardening
    @Fil-AmGardening 18 днів тому

    Will the tubers’ size affected when you cut the tops?
    We normally eat the tops, it’s common for us Filipinos
    I agree the toothpick method isn’t a good way to start slips
    Love your music so much❤

  • @KishaMiles1
    @KishaMiles1 14 днів тому

    Yo soon I love your songs. they make me laugh every time

  • @barbaralong8665
    @barbaralong8665 20 днів тому +3

    First year I didn’t know to “cure” them a couple weeks. They were still better than from market.
    ❤ Read Minimalist Garden and loved it.

  • @screamingstarprime3503
    @screamingstarprime3503 19 днів тому

    Turnip grunge 😂 Citrus loves Beach Boys

  • @pamwade2047
    @pamwade2047 19 днів тому

    Love the tunes! I’ve been missing your funny outtakes, etc at the end of the videos lately. Now, tell me how to keep the deer and rabbits out of my sweet potatoes! I don’t have funds to put up fencing. Any suggestions?

  • @mandarinmelon
    @mandarinmelon 20 днів тому

    Will you release a Minimalist Gardening audiobook? Please?

  • @sergeb957
    @sergeb957 19 днів тому

    I like to grow sweet potatoes too'

  • @doomguy584
    @doomguy584 20 днів тому

    I need good topsoil i plan on composting from here on out out but i only have 2 rows planted and the rest is still in planter trays

  • @sn232
    @sn232 14 днів тому

    Do you use any type of fertilizer at any point? If you do, can you please explain the details? Loved the video! I remember David Wolfe many years ago mentioning a farmer who broadcast music over his crops and they had less insects, less disease, higher yield of crop! I believe it was classical music.

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  14 днів тому +1

      Ashes, some char, and manure. Sometimes cottonseed meal and kelo meal. Homemade compost.

    • @sn232
      @sn232 13 днів тому

      @@davidthegood Thank you!

  • @runningwarrior5468
    @runningwarrior5468 20 днів тому +3

    Can sweet potatoes grow in 6b?

  • @avgFloridian
    @avgFloridian 19 днів тому

    You do have to sing to them. It's 100% true. For some reason, my sweet potatoes are more "sour potatoes." Maybe I should try singing ska instead of death metal.

  • @brockberrick2727
    @brockberrick2727 19 днів тому

    Grocery row touuur please :D

  • @zachyweezer
    @zachyweezer 20 днів тому

    hey, david. perfect timing. i'm in zone 8b and just planted my slips today. they came in the mail (took forever). i'd planned on having 10 plants, but a few were most certainly dead, so only 7 went into the ground. do you think i'd still have enough time to grow my own slips? i'd like a few more, for sure, but i know it'll take a few weeks.

  • @freelivingtennessee
    @freelivingtennessee 16 днів тому

    Anyone have any success planting sweet potatoes near something that isn’t cold weather crops or herbs. I wanted to use them as ground cover under my tomatoes or peppers but they say you can spread disease that way? I know morning glory family and solanacea family are under the same larger family
    I did it once in NY with a few tomatoes but this year we’re in east TN and the disease pressure here is a little heavier

  • @freelivingtennessee
    @freelivingtennessee 16 днів тому

    I started sweet potato slips from a purple sweet potato and the shoots are so thick and short I don’t know when I can clip them? I keep waiting but maybe they’re running out of soil? (I have them vertical in cups of soil to save space, it’s always worked for me with orange SP’s) they’ve been in quite a while. Now it’s hot in East Tennessee so I have em outside
    I’m thinking just to sink them into some space in one of my raised beds? Then clip the shoots off? Idk man 🤣🤣🤣

  • @rosemawhorter904
    @rosemawhorter904 13 днів тому

    We plant heaps of sweet potatoes here inthe highlands of Haiti. One trick I found to speed up bulk planting is to lay down slips (or in our case cuttings), then walk along with a stick and shove the center of the cutting down into the soil for rapid burial.
    I'm curious to hear your knowledge on varieties. We tried to bring in a US supermarket sweet potato but they're offspring did very poorly. They seem to only grow starchy not sweet varieties here. Do you know if different climates are more appropriate for different varieties?
    Also, do you suppose layering would increase yields or just make everything smaller?

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  12 днів тому

      We tried the orange ones in Grenada and they did worse than the local types. Not sure why.

  • @robregez
    @robregez 7 днів тому

    Anyone else here via Huw Richards newsletter?

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  7 днів тому

      Huw is the best. I didn't know he'd mentioned me.

  • @FellsApprentice
    @FellsApprentice 19 днів тому

    Do you ship sweet potato slips? I'd like to plant these to see if they can outcompete the local poison ivy. And function as a deer food plot in addition to giving me sweet potatoes.

  • @thadrobinson8343
    @thadrobinson8343 20 днів тому

    I loaned out my copy of Square Foot Gardening, how many slips are okay to put in a regulation garden square? Also, you should re-shoot this using Mel's Mix in a raised bed, it's optimal for vigorous tuber formation and I understand it promotes male vitality,.

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  19 днів тому

      Nice. I don't remember Mel's spacing.

  • @ajmoore43
    @ajmoore43 20 днів тому

    👍

  • @bernkev1
    @bernkev1 16 днів тому

    Will book be on Audible anytime soon?

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  15 днів тому

      No, I haven't had the time to record.

  • @ContactsNfilters
    @ContactsNfilters 19 днів тому

    I was feeling extra lazy and just buried the whole sweet potatoes. Will let you know how that goes. 😂

  • @patriciakane764
    @patriciakane764 20 днів тому +2

    I know how to plant seedlings but my potatoes aren’t producing seedlings! Please help.

    • @breesechick
      @breesechick 20 днів тому +1

      What do you mean? Sweet potatos or Irish?

    • @breesechick
      @breesechick 20 днів тому +1

      I struggle with sweet potato slips unless it's super warm where I live.
      Irish potatoes I have an easier time with.

    • @davidthegood
      @davidthegood  19 днів тому

      I don't know what you are asking

  • @donnadwyer1056
    @donnadwyer1056 19 днів тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @bernkev1
    @bernkev1 16 днів тому

    Bugs won't bother them in a box on the porch? I am in by Gainesville/Ocala.

  • @kenlee5550
    @kenlee5550 19 днів тому

    Growing slips and planting them isnt a problem for me. Any tip on how to prevent mice from eating the roots. They dig holes and get to the roots. I was almost in tears last fall, after 120 days i was so looking forward to harvesting them but nope, mice got to them.first 😢

  • @ApisVenandi
    @ApisVenandi 17 днів тому

    I cannot sing to save my life... maybe I can play some of your music, where can I get your CD?