Growing Sweet Potatoes | Raised Bed Garden Tour | Sweet Potato Update
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2019
- Growing Sweet Potatoes - A full raised bed garden tour here on the homestead including a sweet potato update along with our other gardening efforts. See how we grow huge sweet potatoes in our not so secret anymore super soil / garden soil mix from slips / starts. We'll throw in some of our advice, ideas, tips, and tricks on growing giant vegetables. Welcome to our June garden tour 2019
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It put a smile on my face to see that corn tasseling . Everything is still looking good !
It is coming along... Bad storm this evening... Really bad... Gonna have to survey things in the morning... Gonna be a long night wondering how things held up... Fingers crossed... We'll see... Thanks so much for watching... Hopefully we will be coming back with good news...
@@BumbleBeeJunction That storm came through here as well . I looked at the weather map and seen you guys were getting after us .
You guys are my gardening heroes. I love watching your videos.
Thank you so much Donna ! We really appreciate the support !
Beautiful people with beautiful gardens.
LOL... Thank you so much for your continued support ! As always, we appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment as well !
@@BumbleBeeJunction , you're so very welcome!
Omy the sweet potatoes look awesome in that container !
They do really well in there most years... We sort of crowded them last year... But things are looking really good so far this year... Thank you for watching !
thank you for up date
Heyas Jody.... Thank you for watching ! Hope you are all ready for a great weekend ! We are getting blasted with storms here...
BEAUTIFUL!!!
Thank you so much for watching and we hope you have a wonderful and safe 4th !
Beautiful garden.
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great looking garden.
Thank you so much Ray !
Looking Great!!!
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Your garden is amazing!
Thank you!
Wonderful garden !
Thank you so much ! We appreciate you watching and lending your support ! Hope you had a great weekend !
Nice garden. I hope to have one as good as you do one day. 👍
Looking Good!
Thank you so much !
Good job Mark
Thanks so much ! Really appreciate you watching !
Get well soon Mark 🤗
Hello and thank you for for your kind words of support ! We hope that you enjoy the channel ! I am working to return ASAP and Tina has been busy tending to our very active an dynamic homestead... We really do appreciate you joining us and showing your support ! Many blessings on you and yours !
Boy your garden is so pretty.. The sweet potatoes are looking great I plant lots of sweet potatoes there is so many different ways and dishes you can do.
Could not agree more... And I like them about nomatter how they are fixed, from sweet to savory... Thank you so much for watching ! We appreciate the support !
What a beautiful garden, now that's what a real garden looks like! Yes hard work pays off! Wishing y'all a lovely wk end!
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I really love your garden. Poor Tina and those thumbtacks. I am a strawberry addict.
LOL... She is stocking up on starts for a new vertical planter we go, so she endured... ahahaha Thanks so much for watching !
Those Brussel sprouts! Wow who knew?! Have to see how they do. So much success happening at ya'lls place! It's always a joy to see your updates and get those tips and tricks. A video on your sauerkraut making who be great! We are pretty sure ya'll have 4 green thumbs lol! The squashes are beautiful and prolific. Seriously we need to prune the umbrella leaves of ours. Ready for the salsa videos. Take care..God bless. ❤👍😊🐝
That cabbage is coming out of there soon... Right now we are up against getting the first pick of beans done before the grands arrive... But the cabbage needs to come out, so we may pull it here before too long... And it goes straight to kraut, so there wont be much delay there...
Great video as always. Beautiful garden. Sure like all your videos.
Thanks so much ! We really appreciate you watching and lending us your support !
This is Bumble Bee Junction history...back in 2019 wonder how it showed up?
I grow my sweet potatoes in containers, and I can’t wait to harvest mine. Please do a video when you harvest your sweet potatoes? I love sweet potatoes and I’m a new subbies.
We will be doing one soon, but we have a couple others that you can find in our Gardening playlist... You can get to the playlists by simply clicking my logo.... Thank you so much foor subbing ! I appreciate the support !
Mark I was laying here watching this video just waiting for you to make it around there to that sweet potato bed back there brother and man they have really taken on a tremendous growth spurt since your last update on them! That bed is completely full and overshadowed by the foliage of the plants! Pretty soon you won't even be able to see the planter that y'all are growing them in, they look great man, deep green leaves and those new purple growth tips are peeking out everywhere. They are definitely loving the location and the soil that you and Tina planted them in. Are you looking to harvest around August, I heard you mention that they were at about the mid season point now.
Oh yes, we let them run a couple years back (not last year, and we should have) and they will be to the point you cannot tell what color the planter is... It is crazy... Letting the runners root down goes back to feeding the main root base, but they also leave small tubers wherever they root, so we had them coming up in the lawn the following spring... ahahaha Hey, while I got your attention, I was gonna suggest to you a cheap bug zapper and a timer to run it only at night... Many common pests like the cabbage looper worm are the product of nocturnal moths (not pollinators) and you can have at them with a bug zapper... Ours are solar and located in each of the chicken runs so I forget about them as part of our insect control plan... You can also attract song birds and other pest eaters to your yard when they come in the morning for fried snacks... In any case, food for thought.... Thanks so much for your support brother, it is much appreciated !
That definitely sounds like a plan to me, they are fairly cheap here at my local garden center, and the pest issues here are getting worse and worse as the season progresses, thanks Mark!
I hear ya... They get bad here too... If ya got fish in the pond, hang it over the water and recycle the fried bugs... ahahaha
I really enjoy learning from you folks. Thanks for sharing. ❤️ From Ohio
Thank you so much for watching Karen ! Much appreciated !
just came over from the Crockers live stream and Subscribed to your channel, I'm fairly new to YT but thanks for sharing I like seeing how everyone does things so different then I combine a little of this and that add my own and right or wrong give it a try wether it's gardening cooking or whatever.
Thats how ya should do it... Keep trying everything you can think of till something sticks, then try to do it better... Good on you ! Thanks for watching ! We appreciate you coming over and lending us your support !
Welcome to the group. I started watching Bumblebees Bee Juction about a year ago.
When Mark tells you "to ask questions " he means it! He DOES answers gardening questions. REALLY!!! Not just "pat" answers,but your question...I love that! And,though late in season,watch his Super Soil tutorial ...It works so well! Dutch from keeping it Dutch used it and so did Hidden Hights Farm did too. Both have had great results.
I know,I sound like I must be related to them...LOL! I'm not. Just love this channel!!!!
Come on now Nancy, we are all family here ! ahahahaha Thanks so much for your kind words !
Btw, the gardens are looking great! Love you both.
Thanks so much Pixie !
Yes yes a full tomato video that would be great I'm having problems growing them. Love ya'll
Sure... I think that would be a good idea too... We get a lot of questions on tomatoes so maybe we can knock out some answers folks are struggling with... Good call ! Thank you !
Great video Mark like watching the progress of your garden!
Thanks so much ! It is really starting to come along now... Gonna be some changes coming as things come out and others go in to set up for Fall... We pretty much garden from Frost to Frost....
Hi, thanks for the garden tour, it’s beautiful and very organized, I like that. I’m wondering about how the broccoli that you cut off is doing it’s been three months now, did they grow up and produce anything? Are you familiar with the Mittlider Method of gardening? Your garden reminds me of that with it being so organized and growing so well. How often do you fertilize your garden and how do you do it? What state or zone are you in? It seems like you have a long growing season, I’m in Michigan and it’s not that long for us, I think the last frost in the spring is May 12th and the first frost in the fall is September 28, four month to get grow everything. I think I’ve bothered you long enough, I’ll look at your play list, maybe my questions have already been answered, thank you for your service to our beautiful country and also for the great videos that you and Tina produce. Sincerely, Cindy
LOL... The broccoli came out great... I think we do have a video on that... Not a Mittlider fan, but perhaps I do not understand it well enough... We feed weekly... Our main feed is the Jobes Veg and Tom in the red bag at most Lowes... We are in E. TN, but the zone charts vary... Our season is long enough we can often grow back to back sweet corn...
The sweet potatoes look good. I didn't know how to identify Japanese beetle damage. Where did you get your beetle traps? You may have said but I don't recall. You and the missus have a blessed day.
Heyas Lynne ! Yeah, Japanese beetles can really be a pain... I like to catch them early... I actually just learned that it was them skeletonizing leaves just a few years back when they tore into some wild raspberries and did that to the leaves (it was obvious they had done it by the number of them present) so I did some research... I get the traps from Amazon and they are the Spectricide brand... Each comes with 2 bags so that is nice... Be sure to hang them so the wind blows the lure smell over the area you are trying to protect... And put it a good distance away because it may bring them in from other areas too... You can likely save a little money just buying the lure, then stand the handle of a bucket up and put the lure on it, and an inch of soapy water in the bottom... Not sure you'd even need the soap... Then the drown beetles would make for good chicken food, or fertilizer.... LOL
Jobes also has microrhizal fungi for root development
Awesome... I did not know that....
Wow. Beautiful garden! Thank you for the GREAT information!!
Thank you so much for watching ! We very much appreciate you lending us your support ! Have a great weekend !
I always learn something new watching your channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
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Love your videos watching from Bangladesh
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The cups on the strawberry bed is ingenious. I never even though of that and I wondered how people managed runners in a raised bed. That is the best idea. Janice
It works really well, especially since it really only takes a few days for them to root in, so the paper cups hold up even in a rain or two... They just are not up there long enough to break down much.... Thank you for watching !
Sorry about your red onions but its good to know I'm not alone.😜😂. Sorry not laughing. Hehe
They were crap starts I should have returned - that is my overconfidence in what we are doing... It is ok though... You will get to know me, and I will not wait on a half assed planting... I cannot... I have shelves to fill before Fall... So the red onions are on borrowed time... LOL
@@BumbleBeeJunction I totally agree. You can't wait around too long or you'll miss an opportunity to plant something else.
You’re gardens are fantastic! Thanks for all the tips!
Thank you so much for watching ! We appreciate you lending us your time and support !
Always happy to see my friends! 😉
Thank you so much ! Always good to see you as well ! Thanks for watching !
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Tomatoes are looking great!! I just harvested my red onions ( first time growing them) today, they are a little small but I'll do better next year now knowing to plant them shallow now. Thanks for all your great advice and tips. What type of carrots are you growing? I think I recall you said before Nantes something I think, I'd like to try them next year, yours are looking great as usual.
The are a hybrid type of Nantes, but yes, you are correct... The best thing to do would be to call customer support at www johnnyseeds com and ask them for something that will do good in your area....
@@BumbleBeeJunction Thanks
I don't have live traps anymore they got damaged but I do have four cats that have been tearing the s*** out of chipmunks and squirrels
They are usually good for that... LOL
,,,very good video,, sweet potatoes are looking good,,, now do you treat the Broccoli with any kind of pesticide,,,just wondering,,
Most of our plants, broccoli included are sprayed with Liquid Sevin Concentrate until they put on edible parts, and then we switch to BT which is considered organic....
Your garden is just beautiful! How do you store your sweet potatoes over winter. We have a horrid swarm of squash buts here. They got to my fall tomatoes and I lost over 100 Roma last fall.
Wow... I am surprised by that loss... The liquid sevin concentrate will kill them... And we store them on newspaper in a warm upstairs room... Be sure they do not touch each other...
Bumble Bee Junction , thank you.
i love jalapeno chopped up with feta cheese and a baguette yummy stuff hugssss from Ontario Canada
Great... Now I am hungry again.... Thanks.... ahahahaha
What month do you plant sweet potatoes in the fall?
great tip on the strawberry runners makes it hard for squirrels to knock them over :) thanks for sharing
Thanks so much for watching ! It makes them really easy to deal with... I have a nice vertical planter I want to put them in....
Maybe I'm mistaken but cutting the tops off doesn't that keep the plant from growing any taller
Not at all... A new top can form at any leaf node and continue the upward growth of a plant... In fact, when you cut, you cut right aboce one, leaving it at the highest point to continue on...
Proof is in the puddn ! So proud just watching! Thank you for sharing! Would love to see you processing your harvest! Love you guys and may our Lord Jesus Christ continue to richly bless and 🙌💓🙏
We have a couple sweet potato harvest videos (from that same tank), one better than the other... But this year is setting up to be a really good year, so we are excited ! Thank you so much for watching, for your kind words, and for your support !
Wow! Amazing garden! Where did you get your metal beds from? They're gorgeous and unique (opposed to the traditional wooden beds).
Heyas ! Thank you for your kind words ! The beds came from Home Depot online and are made by EarthMark... Since we built that garden, Northern Tool has come out with a line that is just as nice (I bought my Mother some) and half the cost... You might want to look into going that route... At half price, they rival building in wood price wise....
@@BumbleBeeJunction Oh nice!!!! Thank you for the info. I will look it up. I hope my plantings are just as successful as yours but one step at a time. haha
Thanks again for your support Chris ! I hope you find something you can work with ! And we are here if you run into questions...
Hello y’all beautiful garden great job y’all 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏼
Thanks so much George... They are really starting to roll now... This is when it gets fun... We are harvesting, preserving, and planting for Fall, all at once... Whew !
Always amazed at your garden but always wonder. Why don't you plant any flowers in your vegetable beds? Great look at the sweet potatoes today, look's like a great crop coming on. Much love and respect, peace and blessings. 🌶🌽🍓🍅🥕
LOL... It is probably because we maintain pesticide free flower gardens here on the property just for the bees (thus our name) and Tina covers the porch in flowers every Spring in her planters... I am in and out of the garden so often with the tractor / tiller that I am afraid nothing would last there long (in the gardens)... That and we usually have something blooming in the garden too... LOL But I do like the look of a cottage garden with flowers... Just dont give Tina any more ideas... ahahahaha I am the one who pays the price... LOL
how often do you water your sweet potatoes? You give them blood and bone every week? I need to fertilize more! Love your videos! Thanks!
We water every morning... And yes, we feed 2 parts bone to 1 part blood weekly from mid season to harvest now... Or you can use that Jobes organic Veg and Tomato food they sell at Lowes...
this is my first year growing sweet potatoes and it seems very confusing. I just heard on another channel that if you water and fertilize too often the vines won’t make tubers! They’ll just grow vines. I don’t live in sweet potato country (the south) so all my information comes from UA-cam or the internet, but I think I can still grow them successfully. I just get frustrated because of all the contrary opinions. We don’t usually have a hot summer mostly 70’s with a few 80’s sprinkled in but we do have a long growing season with frost not happening until December. I just top dressed them with some hard wood potash mixed with compost. They seemed to really take off after that. I hope it was the right thing to do. I feel like I’m just guessing so thank you very much for all the information you share!
Not to worry, you are doing just fine... We feed once a week BUT the blood and bone meal are not as rich as the compost and wood ash you amended with... So you will not need to add anything for a good while, at least until they start to show they are in need (listless, wavy leaf surface, slow tip growth, etc)... But you should be fine... Any sweet potato plant will form tubers though... You just have to leave them long enough... Cut back the nitrogen from here out... That will turn them out of the growth state and into the "storage" state where they built tubers to last the winter... // I know it is confusing with the varied info out there... We are working to be a trusted source of information for new gardeners so they enjoy their gardens rather than struggle and give up... And we let our results speak for themselves with our harvest videos in the Gardening playlist linked at the end of this video... Glad to try to help... Just let me know what I can do for you... But most importantly, enjoy your garden !
;thank you so much for taking the time to clear that up for me! I have more sweet potatoes on the hot side of the garage and I’m anxious to see how they do as well. They are in huge 1/2 water barrels so I know they’ll have plenty of room. I love gardening! It’s so fun to grow something totally different than anyone else is growing or that I’ve ever grown. I’m still trying to understand interplanting and what goes where and when. You have helped me learn about succession planting and inter planting. I have a lot of onions just starting to bulb so I hope I can plant another crop when I harvest them. Maybe a fall crop of something. So thank you again!
Good evening! Quick question - you’ve shown a video when you harvested your green beans. Tina just cut off the plants at the ground then you guys picked the beans from the cut plants. Do you pick any beans before you do that (like a week or so beforehand)? Or do you just let them grow to a certain point then cut them off? Also, Im thinking of planting brassicas after my beans. Do you guys grow broccoli from seed? I feel like you’ve covered that but I cant remember. Thank you!
We wait until the beans are in full production and do a smaller pick first, then they are all starting from the same point... Then they grow out their main "flush" of beans, and that is what we pull up the plants to harvest... We could leave them for another small picking, but it is more productive for us to plant Fall beans right back and double up the crop... // We do plant Fall brassicas... If you click the link at the end of this video, it will take you to our gardening playlist... In there, you will find a video called Planting Fall Broccoli that will explain how we do it...
Awesome looking garden! So very informative! Enjoy your vids very much! I learn something from each one of them. So i guess you can teach an old dog a new trick!
LOL... So glad you are enjoying them ! Thank you so much for watching ! Much appreciated !
Gardens look better than anything I could grow.
Thank you so much for watching and lending us your support !
Hey y'all...what do you use to keep worms off the cabbage?
BT... It is considered organic and garden safe... Very effective... Just google Cabbage Looper (the worms) and BT together...
A ground hogs got a hold to one of my raised beds with sweet potatoes they ate a lot of the leaves but it was a few left on them so instead of pulling them I just left them hoping that theyll keep growing you think I'll still get some sweet potatoes and the plant will still live? Dont know what to do to keep the ground hog away I put repels all around them and I've even put hair from the hair brush into the raised bed and I put new plants in the bed and the ground hog got them again I'm just gonna see if theyll grow and if I can I'm gonna shoot that ground hog lol
You may just have to trap him or shoot him (I hate to say that, but they can be destructive)... He should be giving you some indication of the direction he is traveling... If you put up a couple pieces of fence to funnel him to an opening at the bed, that is where you would put your trap... Otherwise, all I can really think of is to shoot him... They are like a watch, and he is coming the same time every day, so that should be easy enough to narrow down... I am sorry the options are sort of limited with them...
Last year my first time they came out real skinny what did I not do right?
Usually either too crowded or too much nitrogen in the soil... Crowding is pretty easy to fix... But when sweet potatoes have nitrogen they grow big tops and no potatoes... Focus on spacing, and bone meal (phosphorus) rather than nitrogen...
What does it mean when you say they bolted?
Bolting is when a plant prematurely goes to seed... Usually caused by heat...
How many pounds of potatoes do you normally harvest
That tank usually produces between 100 and 150 lbs of sweet potatoes... This should be a good year... We have a couple harvest videos in our Gardening playlist (click my logo to find the playlists).... Thank you for watching !
What do you add to your soil to make it “rich”?
If you click on my logo, it will take you to our main page... There, you will find our playlists... In the Gardening playlist (also linked at the end of this video) you will see our Super Soil video that will go into that in detail....
Bumble Bee Junction Many, many thanks...I’m also a retired vet and look forward to your videos!!
Where do you buy the Japanese Beetle traps?
I bought ours on Amazon... I picked up 6 traps and each trap comes with 2 bags... But then I ordered several spare bags... I dont think we will need them now, but I was not sure how bad the beetles would be this year....
Do you have bees because you definitely could support them with all you grow. Thanks for the program
We do not keep bees but we have large pesticide free flower gardens to support the wild population which we benefit from....
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Could be ?!?!?! LOL
I 've planted bell peppers and I notice that the stems are turning a dark color is this a sign of a disease.
It is really hard to tell not knowing what type they are... One thing you can do is make sure it is able to use all of the nutrients in the soil by spreading a little Epsom salt around them and watering it in deeply....
@@BumbleBeeJunction thank you ill try that.what ratios of Epsom salt.
Try just like a tsp around each plant once a week until you see signs of improvement or you are happy with the results....
Pls organize ur beard and ur mustache same way u organize ur garden thanks beautiful garden
Not a chance... LOL But we are glad you enjoy the gardens...
Wow, your sweet potatoes looks awesome. Again a nice video. 😊
Thank you so much Michaela ! We really appreciate you watching and lending us your support !