It's my first time ever growing sweet potato! I planted about 15 slips in beginning of June. I live in the panhandle of Florida and just checked them and I saw some potatoes! 🎉 I got so excited and now I'm searching on what to do next. This video helped me so much so thank you! I'm going to be following your videos.
Thanks. I live in an area which is not conducive to growing Sweet Potatoes. So I grew them in Laundry baskets in my greenhouse this summer. Thanks for the basic info for those of us who are Clueless!
I live in an apartment and no green house. Where should I put laundry baskets by my containers?? What size container would they fit in? I'm guessing larger than my kale? Would you use 5 gallon buckets for gardening? Any crop
Would think waiting for a nice rain then going to the middle of the vines and starting to pull would be cool. At any rate, this video is very nice and I appreciate your video. Have you ever just wet the ground and pulled all the potatoes up by the vine? Anyone? I am thinking old school and harvesting in the field on a mass process....pull it up by the vine...I am in California, central coast, Salinas. So we doesn't usually frost here. Merca
Great, thorough video! Thank you so much! This is my first year growing sweet potatoes! I started them in the house to grow slips from a store bought potato and they did great! Thanks for also teaching about curing, I did not realize this was a part of the process, so you are appreciated!!
Thanks to your video, I successfully grew Japanese Red Potatoes and Georgia Sweet Potatos. This is a FIRST for me. We harvested about 45 lbs and I am following your curing process. Hope they taste good!
All the way from sunny KZN South Africa. So glad I came across this video, thank you! This is so useful to me, I'm looking forward to harvesting, curing and getting my next crop in.
In the southern part of Australia and just about to harvest my first ever sweet potato crop (2 plants only!)! Leaves on one plant (orange variety) starting to die off, leaves on the other plant (purple flesh variety) are still strong green and healthy. BUT we had our first frost yesterday, so out they come tomorrow! such a fun experiment and I'm ridiculously excited haha! Thanks for the very imformative video 😀
Thanks so much for this video. We live in Michigan zone 6a. I believe we are going to have a good sweet potato harvest. I dug a small hole pulled up three nice sized sweet potatoes, I thought before I go any further, I better see about curing them storing sweet potatoes. Most UA-cam videos people are down south, showing how to cure And harvest. You did an excellent job and good suggestions. I do have a grow tent. I’m in the process of piping heat from our furnace and a pot of water in the grow tent. I am going to try your message and a couple other ideas to see what happens. Thanks again for your videos all the best.
I've grown sweet potatoes for the first time also. So I'm glad you went over harvesting them. Have you ever canned sweet potatoes? I grew regular potatoes for the first time and I can then with the pressure canner what can I do that with sweet potatoes and put a brine in with them ?
This my first time growing sweet potatoes, I am in the interior of B.C. Canada, where summer is short. I'm growing them in a green house as our temperature dropped to 4 Celcius at night by the end of August. I put in Georgia jet, and am now waiting for the leaves to start yellowing so I can harvest. This video was so helpful, thank you so much.
What do you do when the wife says Honey, grow some of these and some of those, and then Harvest time comes and she says, Don't bring those in the house! JK, I'll figure it out.
Do I save some to grow more slips for next year? This is my first time growing them. I cant wait to see how they do. I live in Imperial MO. Thank you for the video!
Honestly, I have so many other things going on that time of year that I usually just buy my slips. I know how to grow them myself but for me it is just more convenient to buy them.
YES, by all means set aside some select tubers and let them winter over in a dark, cool, dry place. Some varieties are expensive to always buy slips every year like my Okinawa and Murasaki varieties and there is no need to go to that expense. I winter over tubers and start my own slips. I'm in zone 9b and start my slips by half-burying 3 tubers in potting soil mix in a shallow plastic tub. Only about 2 inches of soil is necessary. Set the tubers in the soil laying on their sides, but only bury them about half way. Water to keep damp but not soaking wet. Keep in a bright (but not direct) sunny spot. It takes a while to grow a lot of good slips so I start my tubers in January to get the planting slips going in ground in March
Thank you for this video! My first time with sweet potatoes and planted Beauregards as the company said they were good for northern climates. I'm in northern MI, about an hour from the Mackinaw Bridge (between upper and lower peninsulas). Not sure when we will get first frost but will be ready to harvest prior if at all possible. I was wondering for curing if you have tried placing them on a rack above a grow mat? I can put in my basement, which is humid enough, but it is usually around 60 degrees. I've used the mat to keep my kombucha in the 75-80 range so thought this may work. It won't be anywhere near 80 here for another 10 months probably :)' I love learning new stuff so will check out your gardening academies!
@lorischiller1833 Lori, that's a really good idea that I hadn't thought of. I will experiment with that idea this year and if it works I'll let you know. I'd love to have you join the Gardening Academy!!
I live in Minnesota and dont have the 80 and humid in the fall either so i appreciate the info with the bags for curing. But once they are cured do we need to continue in the 50 to 60 degree weather for a period of time before eating the sweet potatoes or is it ok after curing 2 to 3 weeks? I just want to make sure Thanks for the videos!!!
How often should you water sweet potatoes? I live in TN and it rains a lot so I had a poor harvest (small wrinkled skin and rot). I was watetibg twice, not counting rain.
I live in TN I water at least 2 times a week but if I see that they are dry finger deep I water. I have been blessed to always get a good harvest but some years I have a lot of bug damage so I never plant them in the same place I rotate them all around the garden and sometimes have to pull them early if I see they're starting to get bug damage. I plant them in May and I've had to pull them a few times in August but I still got nice potatoes if I can wait till October I get really big potatoes and a awesome harvest hope that helps
They need plenty of air flow so I would avoid a plastic bin and the straw feels like overkill. Just keep them somewhere cool and dark and you should be good!
They do not grow like regular potatoes. Depending on the variety when they spread like that the vines can root down and grow potatoes at those spots where they root down. But that is more likely to happen if you live in warmer climates. For folks like me that live up north, we mostly get potatoes just around the original planting spot.
@@StoneyAcresGardening miners in the greenhouse in the UK I suppose next time I could cover the vines or with ground soil maybe that would help increase potato
It depends on how far along in the season you were. There could be some small potatoes in the ground, but they won't grow any more without tops so try digging them up. And get rid of that ground hog!
I've never been a huge fan of sweet potato leaves, and that time of year we have a ton of other greens coming from the garden so the sweet potatoes just end up in the compost. Besides, with 25+ plants, there's no way we would be able to eat them all! LOL!
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It's my first time ever growing sweet potato! I planted about 15 slips in beginning of June. I live in the panhandle of Florida and just checked them and I saw some potatoes! 🎉 I got so excited and now I'm searching on what to do next. This video helped me so much so thank you! I'm going to be following your videos.
Glad you went over harvesting sweet potatoes. This is my first year growing them in Georgia, and luckily we have a long growing season.
Glad I could help!
Thanks. I live in an area which is not conducive to growing Sweet Potatoes. So I grew them in Laundry baskets in my greenhouse this summer. Thanks for the basic info for those of us who are Clueless!
How did they do in the laundry baskets?
I live in an apartment and no green house. Where should I put laundry baskets by my containers?? What size container would they fit in? I'm guessing larger than my kale? Would you use 5 gallon buckets for gardening? Any crop
Would think waiting for a nice rain then going to the middle of the vines and starting to pull would be cool. At any rate, this video is very nice and I appreciate your video. Have you ever just wet the ground and pulled all the potatoes up by the vine? Anyone? I am thinking old school and harvesting in the field on a mass process....pull it up by the vine...I am in California, central coast, Salinas. So we doesn't usually frost here. Merca
Great, thorough video! Thank you so much! This is my first year growing sweet potatoes! I started them in the house to grow slips from a store bought potato and they did great! Thanks for also teaching about curing, I did not realize this was a part of the process, so you are appreciated!!
Thanks to your video, I successfully grew Japanese Red Potatoes and Georgia Sweet Potatos. This is a FIRST for me. We harvested about 45 lbs and I am following your curing process. Hope they taste good!
Educative, thanks.
Great video❤ getting ready to harvest sometime in the next couple weeks
Good luck!
This if my first time growing sweet potatoes. Ty for the video.
Thank you for your explanation. It has helped a lot!
You are welcome!
VERY HELPFUL. THANK YOU.
All the way from sunny KZN South Africa.
So glad I came across this video, thank you! This is so useful to me, I'm looking forward to harvesting, curing and getting my next crop in.
In the southern part of Australia and just about to harvest my first ever sweet potato crop (2 plants only!)! Leaves on one plant (orange variety) starting to die off, leaves on the other plant (purple flesh variety) are still strong green and healthy. BUT we had our first frost yesterday, so out they come tomorrow! such a fun experiment and I'm ridiculously excited haha! Thanks for the very imformative video 😀
Good luck!
This is my 2nd effort to grow Japanese Red Sweet Potatoes and Georgia Jet sweet potatoes here in Central Utah. Tks for this excellent video!😊
Thanks so much for this video. We live in Michigan zone 6a. I believe we are going to have a good sweet potato harvest. I dug a small hole pulled up three nice sized sweet potatoes, I thought before I go any further, I better see about curing them storing sweet potatoes. Most UA-cam videos people are down south, showing how to cure And harvest. You did an excellent job and good suggestions. I do have a grow tent. I’m in the process of piping heat from our furnace and a pot of water in the grow tent. I am going to try your message and a couple other ideas to see what happens. Thanks again for your videos all the best.
Glad I could help!
Nice job, thank you for clear instructions. Happy growing to you!
Thank You
You're welcome!
I've grown sweet potatoes for the first time also. So I'm glad you went over harvesting them. Have you ever canned sweet potatoes? I grew regular potatoes for the first time and I can then with the pressure canner what can I do that with sweet potatoes and put a brine in with them ?
Great presentation thanks
This my first time growing sweet potatoes, I am in the interior of B.C. Canada, where summer is short. I'm growing them in a green house as our temperature dropped to 4 Celcius at night by the end of August. I put in Georgia jet, and am now waiting for the leaves to start yellowing so I can harvest. This video was so helpful, thank you so much.
Beauregard, Bayou Belle, and Georgia Jet take only a few months to mature❤
What do you do when the wife says Honey, grow some of these and some of those, and then Harvest time comes and she says, Don't bring those in the house! JK, I'll figure it out.
LOL!!
Thank u for this well informed video. U r awesome😊
Thank you so much 😀
Do I save some to grow more slips for next year? This is my first time growing them. I cant wait to see how they do. I live in Imperial MO. Thank you for the video!
Honestly, I have so many other things going on that time of year that I usually just buy my slips. I know how to grow them myself but for me it is just more convenient to buy them.
I had some that I saved and got my slips for this year and it worked great!!
YES, by all means set aside some select tubers and let them winter over in a dark, cool, dry place. Some varieties are expensive to always buy slips every year like my Okinawa and Murasaki varieties and there is no need to go to that expense. I winter over tubers and start my own slips. I'm in zone 9b and start my slips by half-burying 3 tubers in potting soil mix in a shallow plastic tub. Only about 2 inches of soil is necessary. Set the tubers in the soil laying on their sides, but only bury them about half way. Water to keep damp but not soaking wet. Keep in a bright (but not direct) sunny spot. It takes a while to grow a lot of good slips so I start my tubers in January to get the planting slips going in ground in March
Thank you for this video! My first time with sweet potatoes and planted Beauregards as the company said they were good for northern climates. I'm in northern MI, about an hour from the Mackinaw Bridge (between upper and lower peninsulas). Not sure when we will get first frost but will be ready to harvest prior if at all possible. I was wondering for curing if you have tried placing them on a rack above a grow mat? I can put in my basement, which is humid enough, but it is usually around 60 degrees. I've used the mat to keep my kombucha in the 75-80 range so thought this may work. It won't be anywhere near 80 here for another 10 months probably :)' I love learning new stuff so will check out your gardening academies!
@lorischiller1833 Lori, that's a really good idea that I hadn't thought of. I will experiment with that idea this year and if it works I'll let you know. I'd love to have you join the Gardening Academy!!
In less than ideal curing conditions you can get around most problems just by curing longer.
Thank you!
Sweet potatoes also freeze very well. We cook them up, then freeze them.
I will have to try that. We usually just cook them up as we need them.
Use a warming mat & thermostat plus heat blower
Thank you for the video. If i may ask,If I leave those vines on the ground, will they grow potatoes back?
I live in Minnesota and dont have the 80 and humid in the fall either so i appreciate the info with the bags for curing. But once they are cured do we need to continue in the 50 to 60 degree weather for a period of time before eating the sweet potatoes or is it ok after curing 2 to 3 weeks? I just want to make sure
Thanks for the videos!!!
After I have them bagged in a warm humid place for 2 to 3 weeks and transfer them to a pool Drive place, do I take them out of the bag at that point?
Yes, store them out of the bag in open baskets that have plenty of air circulation.
You said temperature for storing but what do you store them in?
We keep ours in some $5 laundry baskets.
How often should you water sweet potatoes? I live in TN and it rains a lot so I had a poor harvest (small wrinkled skin and rot). I was watetibg twice, not counting rain.
We have to water about every 5 days during the bulk of the summer here. But we usually go from May to October with very little rain.
I live in TN I water at least 2 times a week but if I see that they are dry finger deep I water. I have been blessed to always get a good harvest but some years I have a lot of bug damage so I never plant them in the same place I rotate them all around the garden and sometimes have to pull them early if I see they're starting to get bug damage. I plant them in May and I've had to pull them a few times in August but I still got nice potatoes if I can wait till October I get really big potatoes and a awesome harvest hope that helps
Yikes! I’ve never had them either. I will check asap! Thanks for warning.
After curing, can i put them in a plastic bin with a layer of straw in between and store in a cool area?
They need plenty of air flow so I would avoid a plastic bin and the straw feels like overkill. Just keep them somewhere cool and dark and you should be good!
Did ypu wash them before curing?
No you should never wash them until you are ready to eat them. Washing shortens storage life.
Does pruning vines affect the production of sweet potatoes?
Yes it can reduce your yield. Better to just manage the vines by moving them to areas of your garden where they are out of the way.
Do they grow like normal potatoes
I planted one plant spread everyone does that mean I've got lots of new potatoes
They do not grow like regular potatoes. Depending on the variety when they spread like that the vines can root down and grow potatoes at those spots where they root down. But that is more likely to happen if you live in warmer climates. For folks like me that live up north, we mostly get potatoes just around the original planting spot.
@@StoneyAcresGardening miners in the greenhouse in the UK I suppose next time I could cover the vines or with ground soil maybe that would help increase potato
I came because I forgot to write the date of when I planted my slips
Where do you purchase your sweet potatoes slips?
George's Plant Farm:
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You can eat sweet potato vines and leaves
Leaves yes. I'm not sure about the vines, I've never tried them.
Oh my gosh.
Never waste the sweet potato leaves .
You can eat them.
Cook them just like you would collards or kale!
Thanks for telling me this was bout ready to throw them away 🗿
@@cyanryann64 cook them and eat them.
I love them. They taste good and easy to make, freeze and can.
What if a groundhog at all my greens
It depends on how far along in the season you were. There could be some small potatoes in the ground, but they won't grow any more without tops so try digging them up. And get rid of that ground hog!
👍🏾🤗🌿⚘️☘️
Don't throw all of the leaves into compost you can eat them just like you would eat spinach
I've never been a huge fan of sweet potato leaves, and that time of year we have a ton of other greens coming from the garden so the sweet potatoes just end up in the compost. Besides, with 25+ plants, there's no way we would be able to eat them all! LOL!
Learned that deer love sweet potato vines 😡
They sure do! It can be VERY annoying for sure!
Oh no!
And wood chucks
Bruh I only found 1 sweet potato think I harvested a little too early
How long have them been in the ground? You might have watering or nutrient issues if you only had one?
ah yeah to much talking everybody's knows how