Those small ones... 'Smash potato' them, add oil, favorite seasonings, and air fry or bake. Also, I recommend researching cutting or trimming the vines. The word is to keep them no more than 3 feet, it supposedly encourages tuber growth.
When we plant the slips we bend the bottom upwards so the slip forms a "J" shape, this way the sweet potatoes dont grow to the depths of China but instead grow near the surface and also point the bottom part towards the sun. The other thing maybe lifted them too early as we usually wait until the leaves die off.
Yes! I had the same thing happen two weeks ago. I had vines everywhere. NO POTATOES. I had topped this bed with about 8” of fresh rich black soil. So my bed went down a good two feet. I suspect either big fat slugs that I did not have before. Or nematodes that I noticed on a Seminole pumpkin in the same bed.
My experience with that variety of potatoes is very small. So it can be the variety. I believe that is what it is. I have have the cream skin cream flesh and they dont produce very well.
I didn't experiment last year with my sweet potatoes put them in a raised bed for more room thinking I was going to get more potatoes with 30 slips and got very tiny ones. Same as yours I was so disappointed all that work for nothing. This summer I went back to putting them in a container I haven't harvest them yet but I usually have better luck with container than. Raised bed now I know you live and you learn.
I planted mine in 2 20gallon grow bags 4 slips each. I got about 5 pounds from each bag some good size ones too. But I also got a few smaller ones. I think next time I'm going to plant in April and harvest 1st week of October to get some bigger ones.
Hi Petrina, I grow on raised bed and I get tons of big sweet potatoes. So I think it may be a problem with your soil in the raised bed. I plant my sweet potato slips in the bed in May after growing leafy greens or tomatoes and I don’t fertilize sweet potatoes ever or add any compost or amendments. Then I harvest in September and I get big and decent size ones. I also keep the vines pruned so that they don’t grow outside the bed. I hope that helps for next year.
I have harvested 14 of my 5 gal bags and had 22lbs total. Some are a lb by themselves. I still have a 100 gal grow bags that I put under the A-frame trellis that I am going to let go another month. I agree with the others, it looks like the bed was N heavy.
I've been growing my sweet potatoes in my Greenstalks for the last two years and I'm always happy with the results. The sweet potatoes do really well in them. So far, I've tried two different varieties and both did well. But I was the happiest with the slips I made from a grocery store bought orange sweet potato rather than the one I purchased actual slips for. However, the purchased slips still gave some nicely sized sweet potatoes. For anyone interested, the purchased slips were Tainung #64 Sweet Potato Cuttings from Cody Cove Farm. It's more of a pale orange (almost yellow) fleshed sweet potato with great flavor. Not quite as big as the orange sweet potato I purchased from the grocery store, but still worth growing. The Urban Harvest in St. Pete sells the Tainung #64 slips also, but she's currently sold out of them. And Jerra's Garden has them as well. This year, I'm trying three different varieties I purchased from the grocery store again to make my own slips. I want to see how they do in my Greenstalks. I will definitely grow the Tainung #64 again after my current planting is harvested. Maybe next time I'll remember to save a potato to make slips from!
I’ve gotten some huge ones from some grocery store variety I think. It was from my cousins grandpa (not related) and made huge potatoes one year and not much the next year. It makes me nervous every year growing potatoes not knowing what to expect.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I found them a little slower to take off as well. I really loved their foliage! Nice little heart-shaped leaves and sort of a pretty purplish colored stem. :)
Josh Jamison did trials and he said a lot of varieties would do this. I’ve been hit or miss some years. I’ve grown some that have done well and others that have been terrible. I would suggest trialing Josh’s variety Tainung 64 at Cody Cove Farm next year.
@@mwnemoI bought those this year but I got them a bit late so they are still growing in a bed. I figured I would let them keep going until I get back from my trip
WOW, I am in zone 10A, i started container gardening. I have a nice bunch of sweet potato slips and had second thought's in how to plant them, whether container or raise bed, so thank you, i guess ill stick with container! Sorry for the outcome of your raised bed sweet potatoes, I would have been🥵😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I think this is the kind of potatoes you grow in raised garden, but in container you grow different. I growing in raised garden all the time and its grow good, but I use the kind you grow in container (regular sweet potatoes, not white one) I live in central Fl too.
wow! I'm shocked that's all you harvested from your raised bed. I did ok in a couple of grow bags and one layer of one of my GreenStalks but thought for sure in ground would be much better. Glad you were able to get them pulled though when you did since we have a hurricane headed our way.
I live in South Florida (10a) and none of my sweet potatoes did well this year. I have them in numerous locations and none of them have done well this year. Maybe I will try a container next year.
This can't be right!! 😀There has to be something missing in the soil from the garden bed?! 🤔Did u get the soil from your own compost or did u buy it from somewhere? Also the soil in the containers it has to be different aswell, I noticed it had perlite in it so that was store bought potting mix right? You gotta investigate this more! 😀
I started mine in 2 fabric pots they grew all over the place around the fabric beds. I am finding some in the containers and outside the containers. I am only taking the big ones and leaving the rest to grow bigger
The same thing happened to me this year and my friend who is also a master gardener. My opinion what happened in my results was under watering and too fertile soil. Next season I plant to do in 25 gallon grow bags and fresh soil which has not been used with other crops.
In Brevard County and I dont feel like my sweet potatoes have done well either. Would it be worth keeping them in the containers longer (since my fall/winter seeds are still small) and adding in phosphorus at this stage? or maybe cutting the vines back to help root production? Thanks!
I'm so glad I found your video. I've been trying new things in my Greenstalk planters. I dont want them to be for strawberries like so many people think they are for. I started experimenting with sweet banana peppers and Anaheim peppers last summer with success. This summer, I grew all of my jalapeno peppers in one of my three Greenstalks with great success. I'll give potatoes a try this spring. What kind of potatoes do you grow in your Greenstalk? Were your sweet potatoes bush type or vining type?
Mine did ok. I pulled mine for the same reason. We are just going to get drenched. I didn’t get huge ones for baked potatoes but good enough to make a couple good casseroles so I’m calling it a win.
Same thing happened to me this year planted an 8 x 4 raised bed and the sweet potato leaves were luscious and beautiful, but I only got little sticks sweet potatoes. Not sure what I did wrong but I’ll try again next year.
I've grown sweet potatoes for years in Flordia. And soil fertility is what happened. Meaning, you're soil in the raised beds was toooo fertile. They thrive in harsher conditions. Fertile soil produces insane amounts of vines, but almost no tubers. It's counter intuitive. But it's true.
I always add bone meal to my soil. I do potatoes in containers and raised beds. Have you tried the Tainung #64 from Cody Cove Farms. They are great potatoes
I had exactly the same result in my raised bed, I thought perhaps it was due to not having enough volume of soil in the bed . Lots of vines and they looked very healthy but few and relatively small sweet potatoes. Didn't have any planted in green stalk.
Thank you for sharing!! I grow my sweet potatoes and potatoes in the Greenstalks and they do great. I had better production in the Greenstalks versus even my grow bags, which I was very surprised. I’m happy to see someone else having great success with the Greenstalks as well!! 😊
The sweet potatoes I grow in grow bags do a lot better than the ones on the ground. I think it’s because soil dries up faster. The ones in the beds have such rich soil. Also, in the beds they get chewed up more by bugs than in the bags. Salutations from Kissimmee, stay safe and enjoy your vacation.
@@beckylynnd8818 Fabric grow bags with handles. They sale a large variety of different brands at Amazon. The trick is place at least 2 slips in them and let the vines grow don’t trim them. I usually place some next to a trellis.
My grow bag sweet potatoes were not as great this year as last, but were in a sunnier location last year. Won't harvest my in ground sweet potates until Nov 1 and we shall see. Already canceled RV trip to north Georgia and Asheville area planned. Heck of a year on the Dunedin gulfcoast. Have fun.
Doesnt look like you dug very deep skot of times they are deeper down. You at still have some deep? Or too much nutrients for leaf growing not enough right for rokt growing?
First year I grew 200 feet of sweet potatoes I made a really big harvest. Next couple of years was less. Last year I did not even harvest most of them, not enough production. And I was rotating them. Took a year off this year, will grow them again next year. Some years are just bad. Maybe too much fertility on yours would be my guess. Maybe plant them earlier. Seems like my earlier planted sweet potatoes made better than late planted sweet potatoes. They tolerate the heat but maybe they do not like it as much as we think. But that is a guess.
I wish I knew why some years I get 45 lbs and this year I got 10 lbs. I just harvested early too. I'm perplexed. I think I made a mistake composting in the same bed as growing a root crop. My crop was ravaged by larva and worms. I saw a Living Traditions video where they had all vines and little potatoes in their raised bed. So.....variety, pressure and soil must make a huge difference. Enjoy your vacation. Be safe in this hurricane. Looks like it us going over my house.
Me too. I’m near Fort Myers. Almost seems as if the nicer the vines, leaves, & flowers look, the weaker the actual potatoes are. Maybe the nicer growing conditions means the roots don’t have to swell as much to absorb nutrients.
Sweet potatoes need to run out of nitrogen about 2 months after they are planted, or they'll just have spindly potatoes. You can fertilize a little at planting with a quick release N and before they run, but after that you shouldn't. A lot of organic matter makes it impossible to control the N. It will be released moreso as the soil warms, which is not what you want.
Well, that was a surprise ending! I hope our sweet potatoes in a raised bed do better than yours! They won't be ready for 2-3 weeks yet. Were the ones in the bed a different variety?
Love your channel, you'll have 100k subscribers soon. Im a good predictor of these things. I've grown 2 great crops of sweet potatoes in my life. They were both grown on worn out pasture I added a miniscule amount of chicken litter , 1 wheel barrow full for 1000 SQ ft. And a bucket of ash each potato was at least 2 lbs. I've also grown many crops of spindly sweet potatoes in really fertile soil. Nitrogen matters. N needs to run out before bulk up.
I’m not sure exactly where you’re at in Florida, but did you have any issues during the hurricane Helene? I live on the coast of Georgia in Savannah and I lost my greenhouse it imploded.
Wow! I'm amazed at the harvest from your containers! Good thing you harvested all of them, with all the rain coming, PLUS another hurricane Wed. morning with tons of rain. Stay dry. Greetings from Leesburg, FL.
I did a soil test recently and the phosphorus levels were off the charts. Nitrogen was probably too high also. I did a video on that recently. Check it out
I believe that jaytoney3007 comment could address the cause of a problem. There is also a video about Jim Kovaleski in Florida (I could not find it now) where Jim has decreased sweet potato crop because of the too strong soil... Maybe adding sand in your raised bed soil mix could make things better...
It looks like you have too much nitrogen in the soil. It will cause the sweet potatoes to produce vines like mad, and not roots. Try again without fertilizing. If possible grow a leaf crop to use some of the excess nitrogen before planting again.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Next spring I will be growing sweet potatoes in my potato bed. It is filled mostly with compost fom my compost bins. I'm growing a crop of red cabbage, and in the winter, I'll grow a quick crop of mustard and lettuce in it to deplete some of the nitrogen. I'm hoping that when I plant sweet potato slips in May, the raised bed will be ready. Phosphate rich and nitrogen poor is key to a succesful crop of sweet potatoes.
The size of yours are just like mine, grown in a 5 gal bucket....much better sizes when I planted in the ground. Potatoes are next...going to plant in cardboard boxes....
Check out this video next for growing sweet potato slips from store bought - ua-cam.com/video/mEZ2WrvmH9s/v-deo.html
Petrina, Milton looks set to pummel us 🤦🏻♂️
@@BPBomberI know! Ugh this season has been rough
Those small ones... 'Smash potato' them, add oil, favorite seasonings, and air fry or bake. Also, I recommend researching cutting or trimming the vines. The word is to keep them no more than 3 feet, it supposedly encourages tuber growth.
Thanks for the tips! I’ll definitely try timing the vines next year to see the results.
Petrina, be safe during Milton.
Thank you. We are all prepped and ready
What size grow bags would you use for sweet potatoes?
When we plant the slips we bend the bottom upwards so the slip forms a "J" shape, this way the sweet potatoes dont grow to the depths of China but instead grow near the surface and also point the bottom part towards the sun. The other thing maybe lifted them too early as we usually wait until the leaves die off.
I like that idea. Thanks for the tip
Yes! I had the same thing happen two weeks ago. I had vines everywhere. NO POTATOES. I had topped this bed with about 8” of fresh rich black soil. So my bed went down a good two feet. I suspect either big fat slugs that I did not have before. Or nematodes that I noticed on a Seminole pumpkin in the same bed.
My experience with that variety of potatoes is very small. So it can be the variety. I believe that is what it is. I have have the cream skin cream flesh and they dont produce very well.
I think you are right. I haven’t had the best luck with that variety. I’m going to try some different ones this year.
😢 now I'm afraid to dig up mine in the raised bed
Don’t be scared. Give them a check first before pulling them like I did.
Hang in there, Milton is coming. Good luck.
Stay safe
I didn't experiment last year with my sweet potatoes put them in a raised bed for more room thinking I was going to get more potatoes with 30 slips and got very tiny ones. Same as yours I was so disappointed all that work for nothing.
This summer I went back to putting them in a container I haven't harvest them yet but I usually have better luck with container than.
Raised bed now I know you live and you learn.
It was a big learning opportunity for me but very surprising
I had a very similar experience so I’m gonna put some brassicas in there. Thank you for the tip 😊
Absolutely 💯 Brassicas will pull the extra nitrogen out.
I planted mine in 2 20gallon grow bags 4 slips each. I got about 5 pounds from each bag some good size ones too. But I also got a few smaller ones. I think next time I'm going to plant in April and harvest 1st week of October to get some bigger ones.
That's a great idea!
Hi Petrina, I grow on raised bed and I get tons of big sweet potatoes. So I think it may be a problem with your soil in the raised bed. I plant my sweet potato slips in the bed in May after growing leafy greens or tomatoes and I don’t fertilize sweet potatoes ever or add any compost or amendments. Then I harvest in September and I get big and decent size ones. I also keep the vines pruned so that they don’t grow outside the bed. I hope that helps for next year.
Thanks for the tips!
I have harvested 14 of my 5 gal bags and had 22lbs total. Some are a lb by themselves. I still have a 100 gal grow bags that I put under the A-frame trellis that I am going to let go another month. I agree with the others, it looks like the bed was N heavy.
I’m going to try and deplete it over this year but I might still grow them in containers for a couple years. It was such an easy process.
I've been growing my sweet potatoes in my Greenstalks for the last two years and I'm always happy with the results. The sweet potatoes do really well in them. So far, I've tried two different varieties and both did well. But I was the happiest with the slips I made from a grocery store bought orange sweet potato rather than the one I purchased actual slips for. However, the purchased slips still gave some nicely sized sweet potatoes. For anyone interested, the purchased slips were Tainung #64 Sweet Potato Cuttings from Cody Cove Farm. It's more of a pale orange (almost yellow) fleshed sweet potato with great flavor. Not quite as big as the orange sweet potato I purchased from the grocery store, but still worth growing. The Urban Harvest in St. Pete sells the Tainung #64 slips also, but she's currently sold out of them. And Jerra's Garden has them as well.
This year, I'm trying three different varieties I purchased from the grocery store again to make my own slips. I want to see how they do in my Greenstalks. I will definitely grow the Tainung #64 again after my current planting is harvested. Maybe next time I'll remember to save a potato to make slips from!
I got some of those from Cody cove farm but they took a while to get going so I haven’t pulled those yet. I’m going to let them grow until I get back.
I’ve gotten some huge ones from some grocery store variety I think. It was from my cousins grandpa (not related) and made huge potatoes one year and not much the next year. It makes me nervous every year growing potatoes not knowing what to expect.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I found them a little slower to take off as well. I really loved their foliage! Nice little heart-shaped leaves and sort of a pretty purplish colored stem. :)
Thanks for sharing 💜
You are so welcome
What variety was in the green stalk and what variety was in the raised bed?
Beauregard in the Greenstalk and Hayman in the bed. I’m starting to think the Hayman may not be best for my area
Josh Jamison did trials and he said a lot of varieties would do this. I’ve been hit or miss some years. I’ve grown some that have done well and others that have been terrible. I would suggest trialing Josh’s variety Tainung 64 at Cody Cove Farm next year.
@@mwnemoI bought those this year but I got them a bit late so they are still growing in a bed. I figured I would let them keep going until I get back from my trip
😮 Same thing here, the container wins, I had 4 tubs and got a decent harvest of Sweet Potatoes 😊
That is awesome!
WOW, I am in zone 10A, i started container gardening. I have a nice bunch of sweet potato slips and had second thought's in how to plant them, whether container or raise bed, so thank you, i guess ill stick with container! Sorry for the outcome of your raised bed sweet potatoes, I would have been🥵😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
It was a huge eye opener for me. It’s great to know though. Saves me some bed space to grow other things.
I think this is the kind of potatoes you grow in raised garden, but in container you grow different. I growing in raised garden all the time and its grow good, but I use the kind you grow in container (regular sweet potatoes, not white one) I live in central Fl too.
wow! I'm shocked that's all you harvested from your raised bed. I did ok in a couple of grow bags and one layer of one of my GreenStalks but thought for sure in ground would be much better. Glad you were able to get them pulled though when you did since we have a hurricane headed our way.
Yes, I was equally as shocked but glad I got it done before the storm.
I live in South Florida (10a) and none of my sweet potatoes did well this year. I have them in numerous locations and none of them have done well this year. Maybe I will try a container next year.
I’m sorry to hear that. It’s been a strange year for sweet potatoes
This can't be right!! 😀There has to be something missing in the soil from the garden bed?! 🤔Did u get the soil from your own compost or did u buy it from somewhere? Also the soil in the containers it has to be different aswell, I noticed it had perlite in it so that was store bought potting mix right? You gotta investigate this more! 😀
It is different soils. The ones in the beds, I built over years with homemade compost. The container was promix.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Wow I would've thought that the homemade compost would perform muuch much better 😀Very interesting 🤔
@@socloseagain4298I’m totally scratching my head
I started mine in 2 fabric pots they grew all over the place around the fabric beds. I am finding some in the containers and outside the containers. I am only taking the big ones and leaving the rest to grow bigger
The same thing happened to me this year and my friend who is also a master gardener. My opinion what happened in my results was under watering and too fertile soil. Next season I plant to do in 25 gallon grow bags and fresh soil which has not been used with other crops.
I think I’ll do the same thing
I grow my Sweet Potatoes in the troughs and it works great. In Central Florida.
In Brevard County and I dont feel like my sweet potatoes have done well either. Would it be worth keeping them in the containers longer (since my fall/winter seeds are still small) and adding in phosphorus at this stage? or maybe cutting the vines back to help root production? Thanks!
It can’t hurt to leave them in longer. The phosphorus could help them size up. I’d leave the vines though.
I love digging sweet potatoes!
I'm so glad I found your video. I've been trying new things in my Greenstalk planters. I dont want them to be for strawberries like so many people think they are for. I started experimenting with sweet banana peppers and Anaheim peppers last summer with success. This summer, I grew all of my jalapeno peppers in one of my three Greenstalks with great success. I'll give potatoes a try this spring.
What kind of potatoes do you grow in your Greenstalk? Were your sweet potatoes bush type or vining type?
They were vine style called Beauregard. I definitely recommend using the GS plant supports. That really helped to keep the vines under control
Ive grown red potatoes just from the store in mine with great success before.
What type of sweet potatoes did you grow?
They were Beauregard and hayman
Mine did ok. I pulled mine for the same reason. We are just going to get drenched. I didn’t get huge ones for baked potatoes but good enough to make a couple good casseroles so I’m calling it a win.
Definitely a win!
I just had the opposite happen! Our containers were zero while our raised bed was fantastic…go figure! We are located in north central Fl!
Just goes to show that every garden is different. Congrats on your harvest!
Same thing happened to me this year planted an 8 x 4 raised bed and the sweet potato leaves were luscious and beautiful, but I only got little sticks sweet potatoes. Not sure what I did wrong but I’ll try again next year.
Congratulations👏👏👏
Thank you
I’ll be harvesting my first ever crop of sweet potatoes in November would you mind explaining more of the curing process? Is it similar to onions?
Similar but they like hot temps. I normally just lay them in my garage for 2 weeks. That should do it.
Do you keep your vines for plants for next year
Not usually since I get some cold temps over winter but usually some volunteers pop up
Wow! Who woulda thought?!!
I was so shocked
I have a lot of white I guess mites on the underside of the leaves of my sweet potatoes. Any suggestions and how to get rid of those
Sweet potatoes are pretty resilient so you probably don’t even need to treat them but if you still want to, try insecticidal soap
What soil did you use in your greenstalk? Very cool experiment! Thx!
I used promix for the Greenstalk. I also added a little planttone fertilizer
I've grown sweet potatoes for years in Flordia. And soil fertility is what happened. Meaning, you're soil in the raised beds was toooo fertile. They thrive in harsher conditions. Fertile soil produces insane amounts of vines, but almost no tubers. It's counter intuitive. But it's true.
That makes sense. I guess I need to ease up on the compost lol.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Yep. They really do thrive in poor conditions. Fertile soil just makes amazing vines.
@@Wee_Heavyit did make amazing vines lol
I always add bone meal to my soil. I do potatoes in containers and raised beds. Have you tried the Tainung #64 from Cody Cove Farms. They are great potatoes
I ordered slips this year but they took awhile to get going so I’m going to let them Lee growing until I get back from my trip
I had exactly the same result in my raised bed, I thought perhaps it was due to not having enough volume of soil in the bed . Lots of vines and they looked very healthy but few and relatively small sweet potatoes. Didn't have any planted in green stalk.
As a first time, sweet potato grower in Florida this video literally made my decision! Thank you for this one🎉
Glad I could help!
Thank you for sharing!! I grow my sweet potatoes and potatoes in the Greenstalks and they do great. I had better production in the Greenstalks versus even my grow bags, which I was very surprised. I’m happy to see someone else having great success with the Greenstalks as well!! 😊
It was a bit of a surprise for me but I’m probably going to continue to grow them this way from now on.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a I plan to do the same! Plus I love how it saves space!
The sweet potatoes I grow in grow bags do a lot better than the ones on the ground. I think it’s because soil dries up faster. The ones in the beds have such rich soil. Also, in the beds they get chewed up more by bugs than in the bags. Salutations from Kissimmee, stay safe and enjoy your vacation.
What types of grow bags do you use? I have never grown sweet potatoes & I would love to try.
@@beckylynnd8818 Fabric grow bags with handles. They sale a large variety of different brands at Amazon. The trick is place at least 2 slips in them and let the vines grow don’t trim them. I usually place some next to a trellis.
@@Chocamatoes thank you
Awesome harvest from the container, sorry about the bed i thought it would do better..new friend here from Growing My Own.
@@growingmyown it looks like you got a good harvest too
My grow bag sweet potatoes were not as great this year as last, but were in a sunnier location last year. Won't harvest my in ground sweet potates until Nov 1 and we shall see. Already canceled RV trip to north Georgia and Asheville area planned. Heck of a year on the Dunedin gulfcoast. Have fun.
I’m so sorry. It’s been a tough time for a lot of people. Stay strong and safe
Doesnt look like you dug very deep skot of times they are deeper down. You at still have some deep? Or too much nutrients for leaf growing not enough right for rokt growing?
First year I grew 200 feet of sweet potatoes I made a really big harvest. Next couple of years was less. Last year I did not even harvest most of them, not enough production. And I was rotating them. Took a year off this year, will grow them again next year. Some years are just bad. Maybe too much fertility on yours would be my guess. Maybe plant them earlier. Seems like my earlier planted sweet potatoes made better than late planted sweet potatoes. They tolerate the heat but maybe they do not like it as much as we think. But that is a guess.
I wish I knew why some years I get 45 lbs and this year I got 10 lbs. I just harvested early too. I'm perplexed. I think I made a mistake composting in the same bed as growing a root crop. My crop was ravaged by larva and worms. I saw a Living Traditions video where they had all vines and little potatoes in their raised bed. So.....variety, pressure and soil must make a huge difference. Enjoy your vacation. Be safe in this hurricane. Looks like it us going over my house.
Me too. I’m near Fort Myers. Almost seems as if the nicer the vines, leaves, & flowers look, the weaker the actual potatoes are. Maybe the nicer growing conditions means the roots don’t have to swell as much to absorb nutrients.
It’s a head scratcher for sure. Stay safe
Sweet potatoes need to run out of nitrogen about 2 months after they are planted, or they'll just have spindly potatoes. You can fertilize a little at planting with a quick release N and before they run, but after that you shouldn't. A lot of organic matter makes it impossible to control the N. It will be released moreso as the soil warms, which is not what you want.
Hurricane Milton is coming Tuesday. Keep safe. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏝 🏖
I just heard. Ugh another one!
Well, that was a surprise ending! I hope our sweet potatoes in a raised bed do better than yours! They won't be ready for 2-3 weeks yet. Were the ones in the bed a different variety?
They were. They are called Hayman. I’m starting to think that might be one of the issues.
Love your channel, you'll have 100k subscribers soon. Im a good predictor of these things.
I've grown 2 great crops of sweet potatoes in my life. They were both grown on worn out pasture I added a miniscule amount of chicken litter , 1 wheel barrow full for 1000 SQ ft. And a bucket of ash each potato was at least 2 lbs. I've also grown many crops of spindly sweet potatoes in really fertile soil. Nitrogen matters. N needs to run out before bulk up.
You are so sweet. Thank you! I agree. I think the beds are just too rich at this point
I’m not sure exactly where you’re at in Florida, but did you have any issues during the hurricane Helene? I live on the coast of Georgia in Savannah and I lost my greenhouse it imploded.
I’m near Tampa but I didn’t have any issues. Normally I move the GS into my shed during the storms so they don’t normally have issues.
Wow! I'm amazed at the harvest from your containers! Good thing you harvested all of them, with all the rain coming, PLUS another hurricane Wed. morning with tons of rain. Stay dry. Greetings from Leesburg, FL.
This weather has been such a challenge this year. I was pretty surprised too
Raised bed, too much nitrogen, not enough phosphorus. I planted 6 slips and got HUGE sweet potatoes, a big grocery bag-full.
I did a soil test recently and the phosphorus levels were off the charts. Nitrogen was probably too high also. I did a video on that recently. Check it out
I believe that jaytoney3007 comment could address the cause of a problem. There is also a video about Jim Kovaleski in Florida (I could not find it now) where Jim has decreased sweet potato crop because of the too strong soil... Maybe adding sand in your raised bed soil mix could make things better...
I saw the video from Jim a couple years ago. Totally forgot about that. It definitely makes sense. Thanks
That is a bummer about your raised bed
Yeah but I’m happy about the containers
It looks like you have too much nitrogen in the soil. It will cause the sweet potatoes to produce vines like mad, and not roots. Try again without fertilizing. If possible grow a leaf crop to use some of the excess nitrogen before planting again.
I think that was probably the reason. I didn’t add any fertilizer so it might be my compost is too rich.
@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a Next spring I will be growing sweet potatoes in my potato bed. It is filled mostly with compost fom my compost bins. I'm growing a crop of red cabbage, and in the winter, I'll grow a quick crop of mustard and lettuce in it to deplete some of the nitrogen. I'm hoping that when I plant sweet potato slips in May, the raised bed will be ready. Phosphate rich and nitrogen poor is key to a succesful crop of sweet potatoes.
The size of yours are just like mine, grown in a 5 gal bucket....much better sizes when I planted in the ground. Potatoes are next...going to plant in cardboard boxes....
Let me know how that goes