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You should've gone to an Asian supermarket, they usually have okinawan sweet potatoes there and sometimes they have the molokai sweet potatoes too. Lol
I did planted sweet potato last yr. During winter I put them indoor but the root rice aphids came in too with them or with other plants from outside and keep.sprsying them with all kinds of spray neem oil with soap water solution, but doesn't work. Their population decrease but I still see them around... I tried amonia bleach also 3 % hydrogen peroxide. Their population become lesser and lesser. I hope sooner or.later they are gone. Can't wait for the summer to bring them.out to remove the flying aphids gin the house. They attacked all my plant, kalamansi, snake plants they live inside the soil.., oregano... my sweet potato died too due to rice root aphids..
I think here he encapsulates his audience quite well. None of us want to pay any more for anything than we need to, and if there's a cheat code we'll pounce on it.
You can plant extra sweet potatoes next to the chicken coop. The chickens fertilize the sweet potatoes, and you can feed the greens to the chickens as they grow. Then at the end of the year you harvest the sweet potatoes and the chicken meat.
It’s the hat. He is a Vietnamese, he loved his hat. The guy is great. The subject matter is crucial in order to attract subscriber. Once he find his nitch, he will propel to success. I wish him good luck. Loved your surroundings.
Thanks so much! I've been trying hard at it! I'm glad we're making content that people love to watch. And thanks again for watching! Let me know if there's something you want me make a video over and I may try it!
Thanks so much! I do love my hat. It's actually the mathematically most effecient form of headware if you'll be outside for long periods of time! Also, I am Taiwanese, but I LOVE pho. It's awesome.
What a nice place you have my friend☺️ I am a former iranian and also a former muslim been baptized for 34 years half my life to Christ you as a Christian and since Statless too a man with no country! I like your place and the way you planting those potato's. , I like potato's and staring tomorrow I start to see if can have tons of Potato's ☺️☺️☺️ have a blessed day and night. Stay Safe🙏 P.s. Moving my comment after while! A thumb up from me👍 here where I am in this country of south east asia the sweet potatos are cheapest to buy and very healthy to eat☺️🙏
Strawberries are growing in the kiddie pool...lol don't 4get the holes on the bottom... Sadly,pumpkins were eaten by bugs..it's totally different growing here in MO. than it was in Cali....
Even your dog entertains us in the background of your videos! 6:44 Give that dog a bone/treat! 😂 And great advice - not everyone knows you can eat sweet potato leaves (like spinach) but also an important warning for those who may not know you shouldn’t eat regular potatoes leaves (or green potatoes). Love your content and sense of humor! New subscriber. 😁
I think it's so I didn't want it to rot in the ground and cause the plant to die while it's so young, but I've never tried just planting both kinds and seeing what happens.
I did the same thing for both Okinawa and Murasaki sweet potatoes. I went to the Asian market closest to me, bought a few of each and now I've got tons of slips that are already 8 inches long and I've got another month and 10 days to go before putting them in the ground!
Thank you so much for checking the video out! Good luck with the sweet potatoes this year! I just put mine down into the ground this year, looks like the deer got to them. But I do have backup slips which is nice!
The sweet potatoes are great! Being that you're in London and have access to tons of foreign markets, you make be able to find TONS of potatoes that aren't available here. You could grow like 20 different kinds and see what works/tastes best for your climate! FYI, sweet potatoes are tropical only plants, so the first frost WILL kill them. Keep an eye if you're planning on growing through winter.
Thanks! Yeah, they do good, your prop should vary depending on variations in species, rain and what not. It's better to use a 25gal pot, but 5gal pots are more relatable to people.
I'm getting ready to start sweet potatoes and regular potatoes in 5 gal buckets, grow bags, and bins. I've never had a garden before this year.. Tried to grow veggies in containers, here in 100+ daily heat in Ca. What a disaster! Hoping fall and winter will do better. I'm not giving up. :) PS: I also love that you keep right to the point and don't drag out the video with unnecessary info. You go straight for the gold! I subscribed today! Thank you. 🪴
Thanks! I am glad I earned your subscription! I used to live in Santee, so can relate a bit. You could try using shade cloth to reduce the heat in the summer. The good news is there is a good chance that you could grow right through the winter!
it was too hot when you tried gardening. sheer cloth over the containers would give garden shade but keep the heat. sheer fabric will provide some light but keep the hottest heat in check.
Thank You for showing me the answer to my question... I rooted a sweet potato and put it in a pot outside it's got a really long vine now. But i guess I've got to cut a part off at the node and root then replant? Not so sure. But I know now so in the morning I'll go out and check for a.potatoe...
Yep! Any part of the vine has the ability to become another plant. You can snip a section with leaves, then place it in water. It'll start to sprout and look like what I have at the beginning of this video!
@@hillbilly-homestead ok,. So it doesn't matter if the cut is above or below the node? Thank You Sir....I enjoyed the video and the surroundings. Loved the doggies....Where do you live?
I read on another site that you can eat the greens if you don't want to make more potato slips. Funny recipe though: tomatoes, onions and slips ??? Seeking more information.
Its my first time growing sweet potatoes and know this will sound stupid to most people, but is that just a regular sweet potato you can pick up in the produce dept?
Not a stupid question at all! Short answer is yes, try to grab organic if you can. The best bet is to go to a whole foods, sprouts, local organic place or farmers market. Most of those places will have better quality.
I saw this video and it was so informative and interesting. Thank you so much for sharing this information. You are a real educator. I just subscribed. 🧡
Howdy Donna! I was in IT, then went into manufacturing where I learned about "2 Second Lean". I then applied 2 Second Lean to my finances, and retired 15 months later. Got bored and started a company and am now working on retiring the company. I actually have my other UA-cam Channel, Hillbilly Millionaire, and it's dedicated to helping people life hack their way to financial freedom.
thanks for sharing this great video............I've been doing this for the past year and am generating tons of vines I've been harvesting to add to dishes all the time. They seem to overwinter fine down here in Zone 8b. Sweet potatoes down here can serve as a survival crop.
I'm zone 6. bought some sweet potatoes at safeway. I wanted them on hand. they had to be fairly old as they produced vines very quick. but it's gonna be cold here in a few weeks so I'll probably need a bucket grow.
C Maggie, you'll have to let me know how they turn out! Hopefully you can grow them inside by the window or something! Today a friend and I were just discussing using 9 buckets, Planting 3 at a time, after some growth, going to try to grow 3 more after 1 month, then another 3 after than. 1 Month later, the first 3 buckets should have yeilded 15-30 sweet potatos to last a month. Then replant. Not sure if it'll work, but then we'd always have one set of 3 buckets coming into harvest.
Thanks Albert! I actually weare the hat because it's the most efficient hat for the outdoors! Side effect is it looks cool. Here's the hat I have: amzn.to/3wp857C
@@hillbilly-homestead Really?! Wow, well then your property is pretty well organized and you are an efficient person. 👍 I'm a first time watcher, do you share which country you do permaculture in? I thought I saw an American flag.
I planted a few sweet potatoes, and tons of slips on vines..now thst its sept..I'm goingvto put in buckets and sprout the slips..try to grow inside once it gets too cold.. how long before potatos??
LOA at work! I’ve been affirming for maybe a week now that I’m a multimillionaire and as I go about my day caring for chickens, foraging food & gardening, I am “living my best multimillionaire life!” This morning you appear on my cell. Love it! Congrats to you. Btw, I’ve been growing potatoes in large barrels this way for several years with great satisfaction- easy peasy!
You want as long as possible, a lot of the times if you can get to 120 days plus that's the best. I ended up pulling them around 85 to 90 days last year, and the results were basically a lot of roots but no potatoes. Maybe you could say the roots were starting to get fatter, but I definitely did not get enough time.
Loved this, especially the concise and professional way you presented the topic. I got here by way of Haxman's growing towers video, and am curious if it's possible to grow these in something similar. I live in a city in a desert, so growing space is at a premium.
I am not sure about that specific product as I have no direct experience with it. HOWEVER, I know usually the growing tower kind of systems usually are tough for root vegetables to grow. I know some soil based towers you can get carrots and radishes, but aquaponics/aeroponics style systems often produces really small roots. (which is the parts we want to eat). I know there are tons of patio gardeners using these container pots with success. I helped my friend setup his garden as he has limited space. amzn.to/3qTKfNP. For watering you can try these globes. Since you're in a desert environment, they get water directly to the roots where it's needed, w/o drying out. Its also easy to see if/when you need to rewater. amzn.to/3LslbqL
You're welcome! I hope I can earn your subscription and bring you more content! As for the pool, my father grew up very poor in the 1930's. When he had a family of his own he built a house with a pool so us kids would enjoy what he didn't get too. That has since passed to me to take care of.
Make sure you use food safe buckets. Typically local small to mid size grocery stores that offer prepared foods or food trays have buckets to give out for free.
I really like your style Funny, snappy, special fx, I have a dry place lots of sun and warm dry wind, need to Compost and nourish the soil. Step by step. How would you do it the lazy efficient cheap way?
If you have the ability to dig swales outside, contour the land to start holding water when it does rain and it can soak in. If it's possilbe to divert AC unit condensation, or grey water from a sink, those can be used to water raised beds. Most important part is keeping everything moist. if you can spend $20-50 on tubes and pipes, you could probably make something that self waters.
Hey! Fantastic question. Sweet potatoes are definitely a tropical plant so they tolerate absolutely 0 cold weather that would produce a freeze. If you can control your temperatures above freezing inside of a greenhouse then it'd be definitely possible. I actually was doing exactly what you were thinking in the fall, I brought my sweet potatoes inside but unfortunately I left a window open for the greenhouse and cold air got to it and killed off the sweet potatoes immediately. So I can't give you direct experience answer but I know there are tons of people who successfully grow all the time so long as they can control the temperature inside. I believe it's something like 120 to 150 sunlight days of warmth that will go from slip to actual harvesting. The follow-up video to this 1 you see I only gave mine like 90 days so I had extensive root systems but did not really have the time for new sweet potatoes to grow. Seems like you can control your temperature, time in the soil is better maximized.
Had luck with slip growing from potato but cuttings never prospered so I just planted the potatoes.havent been home for few months to see results .ps like lamp shade hat well ventilated shade.
It's a super awesome hat for sure! The most efficient for any work outside. I take the cuttings, and put them back into the water to root again. I haven't had any issues yet unless I don't change the water and they start to rot.
“climatechange” yeah. geo-engineering. Good stuff, thank you do much for the high vibes and straight talk. lost my Mom, too soon, this year, who was a big-time gardener, trying all sorts of things, back decades ago before it was cool. She introduced me to “stalking The Wild Asparagus” and fiddleheads, back when people would laugh at you for eating them. And for how they grew in the shade beside the stoop. 🌹✨🌹
Sorry to hear about your mom! That is so cool about the wild asparagus! I'd love to learn more about that, especially since it mean's they're already acclimated to the local environment.
I plan on a Philippines retirement. I have bananas and mangos and coconut growing in my lease now. I wanted to grow every sort of sweet potato I can find with my bananas. I figure a bamboo trellis between bananas would make for better use of the land. I understand that it is 120 to 140 days to harvest for these and peanuts. I’m concerned with food security also. I can grow the yams better then I can rice and corn
Absolutely! Sweet potatoes are also largely typhoon resistant. I know its some of the only crops that can be grown on islands consistently. You may be southern enough that you can grow all year round. If you don't get a frost, you cant just keep growing and growing and growing. About 1month before you harvest, i'd cut a section and put it water so it can start forming roots.
Watching here Sir at Saudi Arabia from Philippines... And love farming so much and want to learn more about farming strategies..your vedeos Sir is super inspiring hoping lots of people will learn and love to plants too even just in the continer.. God bless and keepsafe.
Let me know how it turns out! Is the weather all weird there this year too? We just had a frost come through and wipe out anything that was planted already.
Hey there, 😁 I am getting ready to try to grow some sweet potatoes and guess who was in my feed?? You!!! Thanks, this video is right on time. I've always had the long leafy plants in the house for decoration, but now I want to eat some 😂🤣. New subscriber today.👏👏👏🎉🎉
You're gonna rock it! If you can, go to an Asian store near by, they always have the best kinds of sweet potatoes! More than just the yellow ones we normally see.
I'm actually going to be making a video about it. Store bought ones SHOUD work. They'll naturally start to sprout if you can catch them in time. However, you can put them into water (change the water every few days) and put it in indirect sunlight, it will likely sprout. Best method which i'm making a video about is to half bury them in soil. It'll start t send some roots down, and start to send sprouts up then you can harvest. NOW, dirty secret about store bought ones. They could have been irradiated and it'll never grow. This kills all the bacteria and stuff initially so can be shelf stable also, but it'll also not sprout again from what I understand. I have a 70/30 ratio, 70% of the time i can get slips, 30% of the time It'll just start to rot. If it starts to rot, you can try cutting the rotten section off, but it's likely too late at that point, just start over.
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You should've gone to an Asian supermarket, they usually have okinawan sweet potatoes there and sometimes they have the molokai sweet potatoes too. Lol
@@desertgardener777do they have a different taste or texture?
Exactly what made me subscribe. He likes cheap low effort growing and I'm all for that. I'm glad I came across this video today
"Why? Because I'm cheap and I like making money." You're my hero 😊
Hey yeah! Too many folks overlook that part! My other YT channel is all about making money and financial independence.
Absolutely love this video.
I did planted sweet potato last yr. During winter I put them indoor but the root rice aphids came in too with them or with other plants from outside and keep.sprsying them with all kinds of spray neem oil with soap water solution, but doesn't work. Their population decrease but I still see them around... I tried amonia bleach also 3 % hydrogen peroxide. Their population become lesser and lesser. I hope sooner or.later they are gone. Can't wait for the summer to bring them.out to remove the flying aphids gin the house. They attacked all my plant, kalamansi, snake plants they live inside the soil.., oregano... my sweet potato died too due to rice root aphids..
Maybe sell pool then
I think here he encapsulates his audience quite well. None of us want to pay any more for anything than we need to, and if there's a cheat code we'll pounce on it.
You can plant extra sweet potatoes next to the chicken coop. The chickens fertilize the sweet potatoes, and you can feed the greens to the chickens as they grow. Then at the end of the year you harvest the sweet potatoes and the chicken meat.
That's such a great idea!
Wonderful idea! I planted some in the garden which is so poor nothing grew. The ones that were next to the chicken pen had potatoes under them!
How do you not have more subscribers? This video was perfectly edited and perfectly done. Keep at it man, you've got a gold mine here.
It’s the hat. He is a Vietnamese, he loved his hat. The guy is great. The subject matter is crucial in order to attract subscriber. Once he find his nitch, he will propel to success. I wish him good luck. Loved your surroundings.
1st time watching...interesting so I'll check a couple more out.
Thanks so much! I've been trying hard at it! I'm glad we're making content that people love to watch. And thanks again for watching! Let me know if there's something you want me make a video over and I may try it!
@@hillbilly-homestead tips on a fall garden for us Canucks cause its freezing out in October eh!
Thanks so much! I do love my hat. It's actually the mathematically most effecient form of headware if you'll be outside for long periods of time! Also, I am Taiwanese, but I LOVE pho. It's awesome.
I like your style. Easy and convenient! I am just growing sweet potatoes. Thank you
You're welcome! Let me know if there's other things you'd want me to try out and I can try and make a video around it.
When you called yourself cheap I said this is my kind of guy. I too, am cheaper than a free lunch. Great video.
Exactly! No need spending money! Or, see if you can make money or get the most from any that you do!
I like your style. Energetic, funny, Quick to the point and thoroughly explained. I can hardly wait to see you do more videos.
Thanks Sam! More to come fore sure!
Why can't anybody make videos this good, succinct, and entertaining?
Bravo brother.
Thanks so much! I am gad I didn't disappoint!
I bought the purple sweet potatoes at ‘Food 4 less’ for a few $. Thank you for the wonderful video. ❤❤❤ very informative.🌺🌻🌎🙏🏻💓🌿
Exactly what I needed! I can’t wait to do this! I love the ones they are purple BOTH inside and out. They are hard to find AND expensive!
Yes! I forget what those are called. I'd like to plant all of them!
And you can sell the slips!
What a nice place you have my friend☺️ I am a former iranian and also a former muslim been baptized for 34 years half my life to Christ you as a Christian and since Statless too a man with no country! I like your place and the way you planting those potato's. , I like potato's and staring tomorrow I start to see if can have tons of Potato's ☺️☺️☺️ have a blessed day and night. Stay Safe🙏
P.s. Moving my comment after while! A thumb up from me👍 here where I am in this country of south east asia the sweet potatos are cheapest to buy and very healthy to eat☺️🙏
Glad you're enjoying the channel! Good luck with your grow!
Right now I have a bucket garden of toms......successful...strawberries is one
Strawberries are growing in the kiddie pool...lol don't 4get the holes on the bottom...
Sadly,pumpkins were eaten by bugs..it's totally different growing here in MO. than it was in Cali....
That's awesome! Glad to hear things going well with the strawberries! Sorry to hear about the Pumpkins!
Even your dog entertains us in the background of your videos! 6:44 Give that dog a bone/treat! 😂
And great advice - not everyone knows you can eat sweet potato leaves (like spinach) but also an important warning for those who may not know you shouldn’t eat regular potatoes leaves (or green potatoes).
Love your content and sense of humor! New subscriber. 😁
Thanks Rebecca! I'm so glad I could earn your subscription!
I lovecthe leaves!
thanks a lot for the info !
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I'm curious why you removed the leaves from the slip when you planted it
I think it's so I didn't want it to rot in the ground and cause the plant to die while it's so young, but I've never tried just planting both kinds and seeing what happens.
I did the same thing for both Okinawa and Murasaki sweet potatoes. I went to the Asian market closest to me, bought a few of each and now I've got tons of slips that are already 8 inches long and I've got another month and 10 days to go before putting them in the ground!
Let me know how it goes! That's so exciting! This year I found a Japanese purple as well. It's purple on the outside, and bright orange on the inside.
Love it love it love your energy you are a cool dude thank you for sharing your knowledge and God bless
Thanks for watching Rebecca!
I would put a layer of gravel or sand in the bucket first but love everything else about this
Great idea! I may have to try that!
Would it be okay to use some straw/hay on the bottom too?
Yeah I do leaves or mulch at the bottom to save some soil
Great video- well done! I'm trying sweet potatoes this year- just about to plant my slips. Love the happy dog rolling around in the grass too!
Thank you so much for checking the video out! Good luck with the sweet potatoes this year! I just put mine down into the ground this year, looks like the deer got to them. But I do have backup slips which is nice!
Fantastic video! I'm doing this tomorrow! .. Thanks from London England 👍😎🏴
The sweet potatoes are great! Being that you're in London and have access to tons of foreign markets, you make be able to find TONS of potatoes that aren't available here. You could grow like 20 different kinds and see what works/tastes best for your climate! FYI, sweet potatoes are tropical only plants, so the first frost WILL kill them. Keep an eye if you're planning on growing through winter.
Least work as possible.Love it!
Yep! Works out pretty well!
This dude has a (inside) backyard... or inside pool/backyard..... nice...
Thanks!
Love your tips and editing! Am gonna enjoy watching more of your videos.
Thank you! I'm glad you're liking the content!
I love how from one fruit or potato you can produce a ton of food! So cool! Great video!
They're awesome for sure!!! And don't forget you can eat the leaves the whole year like spinach before you harvest!
@@hillbilly-homestead Sure you can eat the leaves but at the expense of what is growing underground. Not something you want to do all of the time.
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I live in Memphis n go to the Asian Sto n buy my Sweet Taters to make my slips. I got a mixture of White, Purple n Regular Sweet Taters Growing.....
That's exciting! I hope you post about the progress!!
Thank you. Didn't know could grow in bucket. Like your hat and fur babies.
Thanks! Yeah, they do good, your prop should vary depending on variations in species, rain and what not. It's better to use a 25gal pot, but 5gal pots are more relatable to people.
yes regular potatoes can be grown the sane way. be sure you have drain holes in any bucket or you'll have a swamp bucket w rotten potatoes
Would sweet potatoes grow in a 2-gallon bucket? Just wondering if that's enough room for them. Great video, by the way. I'm inspired.
All of the yes! Thank you
You're welcome!
Thanks for sharing bossing have a great day
Thanks for watching! Have a great one!
I'm getting ready to start sweet potatoes and regular potatoes in 5 gal buckets, grow bags, and bins. I've never had a garden before this year.. Tried to grow veggies in containers, here in 100+ daily heat in Ca. What a disaster! Hoping fall and winter will do better.
I'm not giving up. :)
PS: I also love that you keep right to the point and don't drag out the video with unnecessary info. You go straight for the gold! I subscribed today! Thank you. 🪴
Thanks! I am glad I earned your subscription! I used to live in Santee, so can relate a bit. You could try using shade cloth to reduce the heat in the summer. The good news is there is a good chance that you could grow right through the winter!
it was too hot when you tried gardening. sheer cloth over the containers would give garden shade but keep the heat. sheer fabric will provide some light but keep the hottest heat in check.
@@cmaggie5748
Thank you! I will definitely keep both of these ideas in mind for next summer. 🤗
beautiful outdoor area.good video.cheers from Sydney Australia. 😊
Thanks 👍I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thank You for showing me the answer to my question... I rooted a sweet potato and put it in a pot outside it's got a really long vine now. But i guess I've got to cut a part off at the node and root then replant? Not so sure. But I know now so in the morning I'll go out and check for a.potatoe...
Yep! Any part of the vine has the ability to become another plant. You can snip a section with leaves, then place it in water. It'll start to sprout and look like what I have at the beginning of this video!
@@hillbilly-homestead ok,. So it doesn't matter if the cut is above or below the node? Thank You Sir....I enjoyed the video and the surroundings. Loved the doggies....Where do you live?
Excellent and thank you from New Zealand. I too love what is cheap and grows and grows
It's the best! And a lot can be had for cheap or free!
Thank you
You're welcome!
Hi from Brazil
Olá! Thanks for watching the channel!
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I read on another site that you can eat the greens if you don't want to make more potato slips. Funny recipe though: tomatoes, onions and slips ??? Seeking more information.
Yep you sure can! It's one of the few crops that you can eat the greens the entire summer then have the actual harvest you wanted!
Just discovered your channel, deep fried gold. Look forward to more. 😀🌱🐢
Thanks so much!
Thank you Sir... Hillbilly..
You are very welcome!
Its my first time growing sweet potatoes and know this will sound stupid to most people, but is that just a regular sweet potato you can pick up in the produce dept?
Not a stupid question at all! Short answer is yes, try to grab organic if you can. The best bet is to go to a whole foods, sprouts, local organic place or farmers market. Most of those places will have better quality.
One of the best videos I’ve seen today! 👏😊
In glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
I see you have 469 subscribers...I am 470. 😂I can't wait to see your growth in numbers!! You Rock!!!👏👏👏👏
Thanks so much for subscribing! I feel blessed! Let me know in the comments if there's a video topic you'd like me to make and I'll try too!
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Thanks, I Love your style, great simply described, positive information, brilliant!
Thank you kindly Had! I hope i was able to earn your Sub!
I love them, and you just reminded me that they are the easiest to grow. Like your hat too.
Thank you so much! I really want to do a top five most efficient hats video but I'm unsure if there'd be enough interest. 😂😂
Awesome video, I got mine growing, Happy Gardening!
Thanks so much!
Beautiful mansion 🙏🏻
Thank you so much! Thanks for watching!
I saw this video and it was so informative and interesting. Thank you so much for sharing this information. You are a real educator.
I just subscribed. 🧡
Thanks so much! I'm happy I could earn you sub! Let me know if there's something you'd wanna see a video over and I'll try and make one!
Thank you Ali it's my first time thoroughly enjoyed it feeling rested
That is for watching.
I enjoyed your video, I can't help to notice the beautiful place you have there, just wondered what you do for a living?
Howdy Donna! I was in IT, then went into manufacturing where I learned about "2 Second Lean". I then applied 2 Second Lean to my finances, and retired 15 months later. Got bored and started a company and am now working on retiring the company.
I actually have my other UA-cam Channel, Hillbilly Millionaire, and it's dedicated to helping people life hack their way to financial freedom.
thanks for sharing this great video............I've been doing this for the past year and am generating tons of vines I've been harvesting to add to dishes all the time. They seem to overwinter fine down here in Zone 8b. Sweet potatoes down here can serve as a survival crop.
That's awesome! I'm glad to hear 8b they can make it all year.
I'm zone 6. bought some sweet potatoes at safeway. I wanted them on hand. they had to be fairly old as they produced vines very quick. but it's gonna be cold here in a few weeks so I'll probably need a bucket grow.
C Maggie, you'll have to let me know how they turn out! Hopefully you can grow them inside by the window or something!
Today a friend and I were just discussing using 9 buckets, Planting 3 at a time, after some growth, going to try to grow 3 more after 1 month, then another 3 after than. 1 Month later, the first 3 buckets should have yeilded 15-30 sweet potatos to last a month. Then replant. Not sure if it'll work, but then we'd always have one set of 3 buckets coming into harvest.
I too grow sweet potatoes in addition to EVERYTHING else!!!! Literally... We're not cheap, just very frugal!!!! 😄
Financially Frugal! Fiscally Conservatives!
I LLLLLUVE the leaves and stems. Tastes better spinach and more versatile
You taught me some things..thank you
You're welcome! Glad I can help out. How do you use them that you make them versatile? I was just talking salads.
You are so fun to watch even trough I already know how you plant sweet potatoes plant but still watching. 🥰
Thanks for the compliment, and thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any tips idk about!
Love Okinawan sweet potatoes! Awesome video, also how do I get a hat so I can be cool like you?
Thanks Albert! I actually weare the hat because it's the most efficient hat for the outdoors! Side effect is it looks cool. Here's the hat I have: amzn.to/3wp857C
Nice video. I like how you have everything set up ahead of time for each step.👌
You give me too much credit! I just made it up as I went along!
@@hillbilly-homestead Really?! Wow, well then your property is pretty well organized and you are an efficient person. 👍
I'm a first time watcher, do you share which country you do permaculture in? I thought I saw an American flag.
Even the matured leaves and the leave stems can be cooked and eaten ... a popular dish among Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore
They are very good to eat! I enjoy them! Like spiniach but not bitter.
I planted a few sweet potatoes, and tons of slips on vines..now thst its sept..I'm goingvto put in buckets and sprout the slips..try to grow inside once it gets too cold.. how long before potatos??
Howdy Joan! Great job! They will start to turn brown and die off and turn yellow. Normally its like 90-120 days.
Very informative! Well done sir!
Thanks Becca! You rock!
What a fabulous place you have
Thanks so much for watching!
LOA at work! I’ve been affirming for maybe a week now that I’m a multimillionaire and as I go about my day caring for chickens, foraging food & gardening, I am “living my best multimillionaire life!” This morning you appear on my cell. Love it! Congrats to you. Btw, I’ve been growing potatoes in large barrels this way for several years with great satisfaction- easy peasy!
That's awesome Christy! I thought back early and was was like, "Man, gotta enjoy the journey!" Congratulations on the wealth and opportunity to enjoy!
Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome! Good luck on your growing adventure!
That's a rad hat!
Thank you! I actually wear it (outside of branding) because it's one of the most efficient kinds of hats on earth!
how long it takes to expect to have sweet potatoes ready to eat from the time you plant them from that root cuttings?
You want as long as possible, a lot of the times if you can get to 120 days plus that's the best. I ended up pulling them around 85 to 90 days last year, and the results were basically a lot of roots but no potatoes. Maybe you could say the roots were starting to get fatter, but I definitely did not get enough time.
Thank u so very much !!!!
You're welcome!
Loved this, especially the concise and professional way you presented the topic. I got here by way of Haxman's growing towers video, and am curious if it's possible to grow these in something similar. I live in a city in a desert, so growing space is at a premium.
I am not sure about that specific product as I have no direct experience with it. HOWEVER, I know usually the growing tower kind of systems usually are tough for root vegetables to grow. I know some soil based towers you can get carrots and radishes, but aquaponics/aeroponics style systems often produces really small roots. (which is the parts we want to eat).
I know there are tons of patio gardeners using these container pots with success. I helped my friend setup his garden as he has limited space. amzn.to/3qTKfNP.
For watering you can try these globes. Since you're in a desert environment, they get water directly to the roots where it's needed, w/o drying out. Its also easy to see if/when you need to rewater. amzn.to/3LslbqL
Dude, you have an indoor pool?? Nice! Hey, thanks for the video! Great info.
You're welcome! I hope I can earn your subscription and bring you more content! As for the pool, my father grew up very poor in the 1930's. When he had a family of his own he built a house with a pool so us kids would enjoy what he didn't get too. That has since passed to me to take care of.
Make sure you use food safe buckets. Typically local small to mid size grocery stores that offer prepared foods or food trays have buckets to give out for free.
Great tip! I know old pickle buckets and honey buckets are pretty good!
I was here to say the same thing. Grocery stores with bakeries usually have frosting buckets you can use too
Just came across this video and was wondering if a trellis is needed to grow sweet potatoes when growing in a 5 gallon bucket?
I will let mine sprawl out because I have the space, but you can trellis them no problem. It may make it more difficult to move if you need to.
Great video! (Take the hey to the buckets instead of the buckets to the hey, and save your back)
Great idea! Thanks for suggesting it! I hope to have compost and straw piles in a few strategic locations next time.
I really like your style
Funny, snappy, special fx,
I have a dry place lots of sun and warm dry wind, need to Compost and nourish the soil. Step by step. How would you do it the lazy efficient cheap way?
If you have the ability to dig swales outside, contour the land to start holding water when it does rain and it can soak in. If it's possilbe to divert AC unit condensation, or grey water from a sink, those can be used to water raised beds. Most important part is keeping everything moist. if you can spend $20-50 on tubes and pipes, you could probably make something that self waters.
@@hillbilly-homestead thank you hillbilly maestro!
Great job. Thanks much 💞
You're welcome!
Nicely explained! Subscribed
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Here in the PNW we have weeks of rain at a time, what are the temperatures do I need to grow sweet potatoes? Can I grow them in a greenhouse?
Hey! Fantastic question. Sweet potatoes are definitely a tropical plant so they tolerate absolutely 0 cold weather that would produce a freeze. If you can control your temperatures above freezing inside of a greenhouse then it'd be definitely possible. I actually was doing exactly what you were thinking in the fall, I brought my sweet potatoes inside but unfortunately I left a window open for the greenhouse and cold air got to it and killed off the sweet potatoes immediately. So I can't give you direct experience answer but I know there are tons of people who successfully grow all the time so long as they can control the temperature inside. I believe it's something like 120 to 150 sunlight days of warmth that will go from slip to actual harvesting. The follow-up video to this 1 you see I only gave mine like 90 days so I had extensive root systems but did not really have the time for new sweet potatoes to grow. Seems like you can control your temperature, time in the soil is better maximized.
omg dude you just made gardening fun for us in nz again your funny and talk through the process with energy thank you very much worth the sub
Glad you're having fun! It's what life should be about!
Had luck with slip growing from potato but cuttings never prospered so I just planted the potatoes.havent been home for few months to see results .ps like lamp shade hat well ventilated shade.
It's a super awesome hat for sure! The most efficient for any work outside. I take the cuttings, and put them back into the water to root again. I haven't had any issues yet unless I don't change the water and they start to rot.
Cool video, I will be back to see more
Thanks Mario! Let me know what you think of the other vids in the comments and I'll use the feedback to improve the content.
smart thanks for sharing 👍.
Thanks Veronica! I hope I earned your subscription!
I planted a couple of purple ones got them at my local market
That's so awesome! How did they turn out?
@@hillbilly-homestead they already had some sprouts on them I put mine in the ground I'll let you know just planted two days ago thanks
Thank you for sharing 💙
Thanks so much for looking! I hope I was able to earn your subscription!
Subscribed. Keep at it. Good video.
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Very helpful to me. Thanks
Glad you liked it and I could help!
“climatechange” yeah. geo-engineering.
Good stuff, thank you do much for the high vibes and straight talk. lost my Mom, too soon, this year, who was a big-time gardener, trying all sorts of things, back decades ago before it was cool. She introduced me to “stalking The Wild Asparagus” and fiddleheads, back when people would laugh at you for eating them. And for how they grew in the shade beside the stoop. 🌹✨🌹
Sorry to hear about your mom! That is so cool about the wild asparagus! I'd love to learn more about that, especially since it mean's they're already acclimated to the local environment.
Geo-engineering - EXACTLY!!!!
@@hillbilly-homestead quit promoting climate change. You probably took the poison shot too.
Your a STAR - knowledgeable and entertaining!
Keep up with your great work, bro!
Thanks! I appreciate it! What else do you want me to try or cover?
Excellent ideas. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Many thanks!
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
I plan on a Philippines retirement. I have bananas and mangos and coconut growing in my lease now. I wanted to grow every sort of sweet potato I can find with my bananas. I figure a bamboo trellis between bananas would make for better use of the land. I understand that it is 120 to 140 days to harvest for these and peanuts. I’m concerned with food security also. I can grow the yams better then I can rice and corn
Absolutely! Sweet potatoes are also largely typhoon resistant. I know its some of the only crops that can be grown on islands consistently. You may be southern enough that you can grow all year round. If you don't get a frost, you cant just keep growing and growing and growing. About 1month before you harvest, i'd cut a section and put it water so it can start forming roots.
Watching here Sir at Saudi Arabia from Philippines... And love farming so much and want to learn more about farming strategies..your vedeos Sir is super inspiring hoping lots of people will learn and love to plants too even just in the continer.. God bless and keepsafe.
Thank so much! Please pass my channel to friends that you think can benefit!
How nicely 👌 😀
Thank you!
Awesome and very informative! Really enjoyed it.
Thanks Hondamom!
Crazy beautiful idea! How do you know when the full size tubers are ready for harvest?
The top of the plant will die off and start to turn yellow. That's when you know.
Thank you I learned something today
Glad you did! Thanks so much for watching!
I'm in sw Florida and we aren't having a lot of luck growing anything.. I am now doing sweet potatoes. I'm planting them everywhere..
Let me know how it turns out! Is the weather all weird there this year too? We just had a frost come through and wipe out anything that was planted already.
Thanks, I will use hay for mulch. Why didn't you just run and get a pile of straw, instead of carrying two 5 gallon buckets to and fro?
Agreed. That would have been way easier. I've since changed to that method and moved the hay entirely.
Hey there, 😁 I am getting ready to try to grow some sweet potatoes and guess who was in my feed?? You!!! Thanks, this video is right on time. I've always had the long leafy plants in the house for decoration, but now I want to eat some 😂🤣. New subscriber today.👏👏👏🎉🎉
You're gonna rock it! If you can, go to an Asian store near by, they always have the best kinds of sweet potatoes! More than just the yellow ones we normally see.
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I'm going to take you up on that! There's an Asian grocery store close by..
Great video, so clear, brilliantly illustrated.
Thanks for the compliment!
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Thank you!
How do you get the sweet potato to sprout? The store ones never seem to do that
I'm actually going to be making a video about it. Store bought ones SHOUD work. They'll naturally start to sprout if you can catch them in time. However, you can put them into water (change the water every few days) and put it in indirect sunlight, it will likely sprout. Best method which i'm making a video about is to half bury them in soil. It'll start t send some roots down, and start to send sprouts up then you can harvest. NOW, dirty secret about store bought ones. They could have been irradiated and it'll never grow. This kills all the bacteria and stuff initially so can be shelf stable also, but it'll also not sprout again from what I understand. I have a 70/30 ratio, 70% of the time i can get slips, 30% of the time It'll just start to rot. If it starts to rot, you can try cutting the rotten section off, but it's likely too late at that point, just start over.
Do you have to plant sweet potato in the Spring?
You do not have to wait. I planted mine in July or August. With the 5gal bucket you should be able to grow all year if you can move them inside.
Where do you live!?
I want to come over and play!
In Missouri!
Absolutely love this. Hilarious, short, to the point. Only improvement is that it needs more mustache.
Thanks Deatry! You'll have to let me know what you try to grow!