Growing Sweet Potatoes - Gardening Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- www.veseys.com Heidi from Vesey's Seeds shows how to plant sweet potatoes from cuttings. Your FREE subscription to the Vesey's family of gardening catalogues www.veseys.com...
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Ken Pecota(head of the sweet potato breeding program at NCSU) and also the university of Georgia sweet potato production guide both say that its not recommended to pull up the sweet potato slips out of the ground but to use a sharp clean knife and cut them off 1" above the soil line being careful not to let the knife or the cut slip touch the soil . This is because most of the disease is soil borne .Yes these rootless cuttings will grow slower at first but it more than makes up for it that they have no disease .have you ever dug up a sweet potato plant only to find rotten sweet potatoes? If so consider Ken's advise .
I think you're excellent...love watching your videos...very informative and simple to understand.
Don't have to wait to put the cuttings out. They will root if you simply throw them on the ground. We start our plants ourselves. In about 4 weeks, we will take the draws (plants for those that don't know) and set them out at 8" apart. We use Beauregard. We can cut the vines with a coulter in 5-6 weeks and set out more potatoes. Yes, they do tolerate some drought conditions, but experience shows that it better to go 'bare ground'. We only grow 40-50 acres a year.
Thanks for clear presentation.
Very nice graphics you put in your video! That takes alot of work and it is appreciated.
thanks
R
Sweet Potatoes need very little nitrogen, but quite a bit of phosphate and potash. Both of those elements support root development, and a sweet potato is a root. We use 5-10-15 at planting and side dress about 3 weeks later with a mixture of 13-52-0 and 0-0 60, equalized to 8-39-15
Today, it's over 100-degrees and no rain for several weeks. Can sweet potatoes tolerate excessive heat and drought? Our first interest was ornamental, but now I'm leaning toward growing potatoes for food, and SWEET POTATO PIES.
Really enjoyed your video, thanks.
great video. i used this to help me learn how to plant the slips I grew :)
I'm going to try the black plastic way it keeps weeds down and warms the soil... I'll put a soak-er hose under the plastic.
+D Graf You don't need a soaker hose....just make a groove with a shovel handle all the way down the length of the plastic and pour water in it. It will soak in around the plants and the heat generated from the sunlight hitting the plastic will create warm, humid conditions in the soil. Perfect for sweet potatoes!
thank you
How do the plants get water through the plastic ?
So the top half is a vine but the potatoes grow downward? Can you tie up the vine portion on a trellis type system?
Love your videos, they are very informative.
Can you grow them up a pole? I'm playing with the idea of training them up sunflowers.
Hey Luke, some varieties can be trained up a pole or trellis but most just trail across the ground and root as they go along. Its a great idea about trying up sunflowers but it will not work as the sunflower leaves will just shade them out and the sweet potatoes would keep trying to come away from the stems. You would be best growing up a trellis But make sure you get a variety that is suited to climbing. "Ipomoea Batatas Scandere" is a good climber as good as morning glory climbs anyways. Good reddish peel and white inside with the taste of Chestnuts. Only thing I do not like is they are usually very thin Sweet Potatoes only about 2inch diameter but can get long so hard to dig them out with out breaking, Lovely flowers though
Thanks... I'll try it.
great vid, I tried to grow a single plant last year, but it was all vine and nothing happend beneath the soil.
I just planted 3 whole sweet potatoes 🍠 yesterday. We shall see what comes. 🤷🏽♀️😂
Did you put sunscreen on? Do you have any videos of how to put down the plastic and how the sweet potatoes look when mature? Thanks
What's better, on a mound or flat. I live in eastern Oklahoma and always been told a mound.
You said, "...six or seven tubers per plant..." What is the average weight of those tubers? Thanks.
What fertilizer do you use
Would the plastic usage work on other pataoes?
Gregory Fortner not recommended. The reason for using it here is sweet potatoes like to grow in very warm soil. Regular potatoes prefer cool.
How do the plants get water?
how do we water with that plastic
slips or draws?
any one know where to find that black plastic that cover the soil? and what does we call that plastic?
Plastic mulch. It is sold on Amazon or Home Depot.
JEvais vous commander des semences m (boutures ) de sweet potatoes
Try to put it in the soil directly and it will grows root in a week.
I am so sorry your soil looks so dead
Someone should take a look at that uptalk thing ya got there . . .
i think its better if you wear jacket under the sun, , ,
Sweet potatoe is not a potatoe, maybe that's the big difference with the regular potatoes
I don't see why you would put sunscreen on your sweet potatoes!!!
lol sweet potato's and normal potato's are not even in the same family of plants. One is a marigold and other is a tuber plant family........ I would hope they don't grow the same way lol.
Rich Morgenstein
Intro way too long!
She's too pretty, it's a distraction.