Dos and Don’ts of Growing Sweet Potatoes + Harvest
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- I’m sharing some dos and don’ts of growing sweet potatoes from my personal experience so you can grow yours successfully. This episode will include 2018 harvest, where to grow sweet potatoes, and how to distinguish a delicious with an old sweet potato.
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Dont forget about the huge nutrition you get from eating the leaves. Theyre delicious in soups or just as any green leaf veg.
So even if you cant get the actual sweet potato (kumara in NZ) to fruit then you still have all the leaves to harvest.
And you just go to your kumara patch and take the leaves whenever you want them during the growing season.
You can blanche the leaves then freeze them and use them as a superfood in a smoothie.
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You've got such a big, beautiful harvest there! I grew organic sweet potatoes in 4-gallon buckets last year and it was such fun to go on a "treasure hunt" in those buckets at the end of the season. The largest potatoes seemed to prefer the very bottom of the buckets, so it was a thrill to dump them out. Every bucket had nice usable potatoes in it, and, of course I re-use the soil to make new compost for the next season's buckets. I use the methods and tips from the book "All My Secrets of Organic and Container Gardening So Far." Thanks, Wendi!
I love the pot method too! It’s much easier job when harvesting. :). Happy Gardening!
Wish you talked more about the do’s and dont’s. More than half of the video showed you harvesting vs your tips.
I’m a 16 year old from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 and I LOVE sweet potato 🍠 😍 I hope I can grow them one day. These ones look sooo goood! 🥰
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I grow my sweet potatoes in plastic laundry baskets lined with landscape cloth with a good soil/sand well-draining mix. The bottom of the laundry basket retains a bit of rain (live in New England; ample rain,) while the landscape cloth and open basket mesh insures it doesn't get soggy.
That purple passion is glorious!
Thats awesome. I hope you find this info helpful. If you keep your really old sweet potatoes growing they will produce flowers and really good seeds. If you plant the white varieties and the purple, when they cross pollinate you get Sweet Potatoes that have like a purple and white marble effect. Save some of your own seeds and try. Its so much fun to watch tiny seed grow into enormous sweet potato. The older plants 2-3 years old will flower much earlier in the year so plenty of time for seeds to ripen. When they flower they really do not like the roots disturbed though so just grow some in a separate area just fo seed production. You can produce your own varieties that no one else has got. I do this with Yams, Sweet Potatoes, Tomatoes and normal potatoes. I would encourage any one to have a go.
That’s a neat idea! I’ve never seen flowers of mine seeded just yet...I’ll take a closer look next time when it flowers.
Okinawan is almost guaranteed to flower. I think that is the type you have there. The Japanese Purple one. If you cut it, does it have white and purple streaks? If so that is one of the types I grow. If you see the seed capsules just leave them until they start to turn brown. The seeds will keep for years. I just planted some 4 year old seeds last week and they already grow 1 inch tall.
Thank you for your videos. This year is my first time growing sweet potatoes. I am confident they will grow well in my containers after I follow your tips.
In New Zealand we have two purple type Sweet Potatoes one is Okinawa and the other is Purple Dawn. We have Purple Passion Potatoes but not Sweet Potatoes.
Thank you for sharing. The information with pictures and comments of good and bad has been very helpful for me.
The Honey Sweet Sweet Potatoes have yellow flesh and have pinkish Red skin but I think the Japanese Sweet Potatoes you have are called Red Sweet Potatoes here in New Zealand but are named by their māori name Kūmara. Red Sweet Potatoes are one of the most populist Sweet Potatoes in New Zealand.
Purple passion was by far the best I ever tasted. Roasted them with nothing added and it was like eating candy. Unfortunate my growing season isn't long enough for them to get a decent crop.
The insides are so beautiful. If you have any other colorful harvests, please share 💜💜
I grew sweet potatoes for the first time this year. I just harvested them yesterday. Most were the size of my thumb. Some smaller. Zone 3b here. Pretty much a no go and I'm sad about it. Had them in grow bags, pots, and in garden beds. 4 different types.
WENDI, love your Vids. Happy to see your doing well. Xoxo
Amazing harvest... thank you for sharing.
I love purple potatoes ....delicious...sweet !
What a fun harvest, thanks for sharing.
Amazing harvest. So satisfying to watch! haha
👍🏻 good job. I like the video when you taught us how to cook the sweet potato leaves very tasty thanks for sharing.
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Best when baked
Nice video of Sweet potato.
wow, you are good at the garden. a good grower
Hi Wendi-- Thank you for the video! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Question-- do Japanese sweet potatoes need to be cured (i.e. stored in warm and humid environment) after harvest? Thanks.
Thanks, Wendi. My friend was right near the beach in San Diego, where it never ever gets as hot as it does here in the summer time. Colder winters here for sure, so just sort of wondering what type of "heat' sources say sweet potatoes really need before I devote precious bed space to them.
the sun
Late but if you see this, the variety of those japanese sweet potatoes is known as satsuma-imo. I think they are also called murasaki but it could be a different variety so don't take my word for it.
Mine is called Purple Passion with purple skin and flesh. I might grow the variety you mentioned this year. :)
Wow that is some harvest, great job!!
Thanks for the usefull information.
You put the sweet in sweet potatoes 🤩
Even though the large old sweet potato is inedible, can you still break the slips off and replant them to grow more?
In another video I saw, they said yes.
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Wonderful harvest.
Mmmmm. I can almost taste em!
good points but I don't think we'd have much of the same problems here in colorado. I grow them for tillage and the leaves.
The regular Sweet Potato is probably called Beauregard.
WOW! Great harvest! Awesome job!
Thank you! :D
Can you steam cook the leaves & eat them?
Another phantastic video!
Alex Georgiadis Lol Thank You! :)
Amazing
I wasn't sure where to find it again but did you say that the slips must come from the potato? And that a vine cutting will grow but not produce the potato? If so, I have wasted a lot of time this year. Although I do eat the leaves as well. Thank you.
Hi! I love viewing your vlogs, by the way where can we avail the slips to buy please?
Grow your own, easy.
Thank you for all your videos.
I've seen them grow in a long mound. It's probably easier to harvest, also to avoid being too wet. I've also seen them grow in a medium of just a mixture of sawdust, sand with little soil, and harvesting is a lot easier. Also, I wonder if you cure them before eating?
Yes, Curing is key. There’s a video about that. Growing on mound is good advice for places that rain often. In our garden we use water very conservatively so too wet is never an issue. Haa
How long does it take for you to get a harvest where you are? Nobody here in the Bay Area grows sweet potatoes that I know of, everyone says it's not hot enough. However, in San Diego (where the weather is always mild, hardly ever hot) I had a friend grow them successfully.
You can grow them in the cooler zones, like I did last year. (See my post up above). You just make the "starts" indoors a month or more early, then put them in buckets so that you can MOVE them into the hottest parts of your patio or backyard as the sun position changes from spring to fall. I also LEFT mine growing in the buckets as long as possible, until a night freeze was forecast, which means you don't have to actually harvest them until September or even October sometimes (so that they get the longer sun exposure).
That’s exactly it, Susan! @feralkevin Inland San Diego can get quite warm, just the Bay Area stays a bit cooler, but it’s probably warmer than where it is north of us. Inland of San Diego is dry and warm. Buy time by growing the slips indoor is a great tip! Happy Gardening!
feralkevin Bro it gets hot and humid in the inland bay area and even in San Diego. If it's too cool start them indoors and then bring them outdoor when it's warmer.
I grow them, SanFrannn
Hi Wendi, I have fried, she sad: put sweet pot. in ground, just below, not deep and wait when the leave start grow and be like small salad, then cut and wash and eat! Grow for the leave!
Did you try ? She sad it is better then because of the greens vitamins!
All vitamins are good for you. I always encourage having diversity in our diet. I do eat the leaves too! Very nutritious and delicious - checkout a video I did on that, in the sweet potato playlist.
Great share!
Can you do a video on Okinawan sweet potatoes please.
I’m actually just starting to plant Okinawa sweet potatoes. Will make video on that soon!
One of the sweet potatoes you grew at 1:17 has a grocery store sticker. It’s possible that one you planted but seems suspicious.
I’m in Southern California too and I love growing sweet potatoes. This year I’m having a really hard time curing them. They seem to sprout no matter what I do. Any advice would be really helpful! Thanks!
I'm in East Texas, I have some starts, that I did in water method and wanted to when I should plant in ground??? I know I won't be able to harvest this fall, but for next year, when should I plant, also I have a Morning Glory , its does well on the east side of my back yard, part sun and part shaded in afternoon.... would this be a good place to put my sweet potato???? Thank You enjoy your videos 🥔🌱🌻🦋🐝🐞
Late but I'm in North Texas. I find it is best to plant the slips when they are 4+ inches tall with some roots, although I am guilty of planting them when they are only like 3 inches
Wonder why my sweet potatoes don't produce tubers after 5 months of growing. I grew them in a shallow bed and under full shade. Soil mix is one third each of garden soil, sand and compost. Plenty of healthy looking leaves though. I am from Malaysia
I think they need full sun
What is the difference of harvest when it started from slips and the other one is started from vines?
thank you for sharing.
What do you do with the old sweet potatoes? Do you still eat those?
Iky C Some are ok to eat, but the super old one has a bitter taste, in that case I let them dry out then compost.
Thank you for your tips. How do you store your harvest so they stay good for as long as possible please?
And her name shall Bee! It’s kept in dark cool space. Can be stored for a couple of months here. More about this in my upcoming video on this topic! Stay tuned!
Yayyyyy thxxxxx a lotttt I think I’m going to try thisssssss
I love 2 eat sweet potateo..
I am growing sweet potatoes for the first time here in central CT. I will have them in raised beds. Should I watch for escaping vines after harvest? How do I cure them or do they even need curing. Also. Can the Japenese sweet potatoes be eatern right away or do they need curing?
Sweet potato vines are sold as ornamental potted plants, correct? Or do all sweet potato plants or vines produce sweet potatos?
If they all produce potatos, that's a bonus to an already pretty plant!
I believe so. I've heard that the depth of the soil and the number of vines in the pot will determine if they will produce.
japanese have more than one type? the white okanawan and these red type?
Hi Wendy.....when do you start the slips and when do you plant the slips? I am in northern California
I am in San Francisco. I buy sweet potato around Thanksgiving. A few go into the yard. There's no frost here. Then depending on rain and temperature, I start seeing slips by January.
I would love to grow purple passion sweet potatoes but can't seem to find them any where.
Ha! The invasive sweet potato.
Hi Wendy and Becky I live in just a little bit above South Florida I'm in St Lucie County just above Palm Beach County on the east coast and I got from a Green Market and Okinawan sweet potato which was absolutely the most delicious thing I've ever eaten could be because it was purple too but I'm almost completely blind and I was wondering if there's any way to grow sweet potatoes in containers that I could put up high because I don't have really good balance when I'm bending over and things so if you could drop me a line and just let me know if it would be possible for me to grab them like that and where would I get seeds or slips for them because the Green Market is about 2 hours away from the house and needless to say I don't drive any longer I'm can you get them in seed form and can you grow them in containers how do you build a red bear raised bed thank you
Where is a good time to plant sweet potatoes in North California
Hi Wendi my name is Angella.I am living in Atlanta and I am about to start planting my garden.How can I get some of those purple potato to plant.?
Hi , can you eat the leaves of all these sweet potatoes ? Or is it a specif one?
They kept growing through winter? Do you not get frost where you live or can they just do that?
I am having problem getting a slips from the variety you are growing. The one with purple colors. The white and orange one i am fine. Why is that?
Thank you!
Where did you get the Purple Passion potatoe? I would love to grow it too!
Awesome!
Where from can I get the slips in India and also the price?
I am not familiar with India. Maybe someone will come across this comment and point you to the right direction. :)
We have in Goa in India, also it is grown in Belgaum in Karnataka....but the produce shown in UA-cam channel..is too good.the colour size super.....I have been growing..it loves fish manure
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is purple color sweet potato leave edible?
Beautiful purple sweet potatoes. Do u plan to sale any slips?
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oh wendy
Are there any nutritional differences between the purple variety and common sweet potatoes?
It’s difficult to find actual nutritional content on plants that are not breed for commercial use, but usually the more deep the pigment in plants, the more nutritious they would be. Grow a colorful garden for maximum benefits! :)
Do u have to cure the purple potatoes ?
Do you have purple yam (Ube)?😁😁😁 like to get a slip. I have purple sweet potatoes.
Wow wow ..😍😍
Do you eat them right away or do you have to cure them so that they are sweeter?
Curing will make the sweet potato sweeten. See more info on how to cure in this video: ua-cam.com/video/fv_ezQ0trCI/v-deo.html
Do vines have to grow long?
Man you have the richest natural soil ever.
Hi Wendi. Thank you for your videos. I do have a question... I have grown regular potatoes by just cutting and separating the potato into pieces so that each growth that has developed is on a potato piece, and I just plant the whole piece and the growth together... can I do that with sweet potatoes? or do I have to actually separate the growth from the original sweet potato and then plant just the growth leaving behind the piece of sweet potato... Thanks!
Sweet potatoes aren't actually potatoes so they won't grow like normal ones! Its rare a planted sweet potato will make more potatoes. You need to plant the slips for production and good harvests, and just one sweet potato making slips can make more than a normal potato diced up in regards to plants. If you are only after the leaves then the planted whole sweet potato will make plenty of those.
@@FoxTenson Wow... well... I planted it and went through the process as if it was a normal potato and got a crazy amount of sweet potatoes out of one single one! I harvested about five or six month later.
That is pretty rare to get many off of them planting that, you had some good luck! Congrats! I've always found, read, and been told slips were the way to go, I've never had luck using a piece of sweet potato. If they did produce any they were small or oddly shaped.
What happens in nature? An animal does not come along, put a sweet potato in a jar of water, then pluck off the slips to soak in another jar of water to develop roots. In the wild, the sweet potato in the ground develops more slips. The slips grow. More roots develop on those slips. The roots then swell to become the next potato. All without human help. The reason to grow slips, develop them, and replant them is that if your sweet potato grows 6 slips, they are all condensed in 1 area. They will intertwine, compete for the nutrients in the limited space, and produce fewer and smaller sweet potato. You may only get a bunch of 1" thick skinny roots all bundled together. If you take those same slips, space them 2 feet apart, those 6 slips can go into a 4'X8' garden bed, and yield a whole bed full of sweet potato.
I noticed there was no mention of curing. Mine taste awful and bland unless I’ve cured them. How do you cure yours?
Carol Ann Skjellerup I will be making another video about curing them. I keep them in a dark cool area indoor for about 2-3 weeks at least. Harvesting them when it starts to get cold would get them a little sweeter too.
interesting n informative !
Hi wendi, I bought some sweet potatoes from the Asian market hoping to grow slips from them...but it's been over a month and still no slips. I've tried three different methods (leaving them out exposing them to light, putting the ends in water, and just putting it straight in soil) but still no luck. Any suggestions?
In one of my sweet potato episodes, I’ve explained that some sweet potatoes may have been irradiated so the tuber won’t sprout. Or if it’s not organic, it has been sprayed with chemicals to extend shelf life. Get organic sweet potatoes or ones from farmer’s market then try again. Good luck!
Wendi Phan which farmers market do you go to? I really want the Okinawan sweet potatoes.
I guess the Don’t would be not to grow them under your house 🏡🤪
The purpelness comes from cross off a beat and a sweet potatoe cross breed
No my dear in philippines we have that purple color we call it "ube"
Wow yummy , I like to eat raw for breakfast , lunch and dinner all raw , make raw sweet potato spaghetti
Gente eu nunca vi batata doce roxa por dentro
stokes purple sweet potato
The one in video is called Purple Passion, but I'm sure it's very similar to Stokes.
Wow! Looks great! Where could I buy your cucuzza squash? Would you sell some to me? :D
Fried potatoes is best. Fried potatoes is healthy for you.
is there a plant i can grow that has leaves that taste sweet
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How do I control squirrels from eating my leaves
You can put a cover over it (like metal nets). Be sure to leave lots of growing space though. Self Sufficient Me channel did this in his 'grow sweep potato in a pot' video
I use tulle to keep squirrels out. They don't like getting caught in the fabric.
Harvest-ED
We just gonna ignore that big ass worm thing
at least one guy noticed
what?
can you send me purple sweet potatoes, i live in India.
Chị là người Việt ạ 😍😍😍
I diddnt even notice lol