Sweet Potatoes | How To Amend The Soil And Plant
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2021
- Sweet Potatoes ! How To Amend The Soil And Plant ! We'll show you how to plant and how to grow sweet potatoes in a raised bed or container ! We'll also talk about how we amend our Bumblebee Junction Super Soil to work with root crops like sweet potatoes ! Come along and learn how to plant and grow your own sweet potatoes from sweet potato slips !
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Thank you for posting this video! Blessings, health, prosperity and peace to you and yours and to all who read this!😘👍😇💖
"Potatoes with benefits...!!"😂😅
Great video! Keep up the good work!
Tina, the way you kicked the shovel into the dirt while you were out of the container was amazing! You go girl! Thanks for sharing.
LOL... I am developing more and more of Mark's habits... ahahaha
Lol. I thought that too 😱
Friends with benefits! You made me LOL. Enjoy your company. And thanx for a great video.
Hi iam from South Africa it's The first time planting sweet potato
Tina, never wilted, just sun kissed.😃
LOL... I love planting ! And harvesting ! And watering ! ahahahaha
I Love Sweet Potatos Too!❤😋🥔🤙🎄✌️
Miss Tina's rocking out while tilling dirt. Thats awesome
LOL... Its like a giant sandbox to me ! I love it !
@@BumbleBeeJunction unfortunately I'm here in IL? And I am limited to what I can do due to space. Thanks to you're videos? I created a bucket garden this year.
That is awesome ! Please keep us up on how it does ! We are getting ready to plant our buckets for more of a Fall garden planting...
Boop! Such joy and bliss.. Cheers!
Thank you so much! I’ve been growing my slips on the kitchen table for a while now. Time to get them in the ground.
You got this! Good luck!
Exactly what I was looking for . Fab video thank u 👏👏 u have a new subscriber 😊👍
Thank you so much !
What a sweet little girl! I absolutely love your channel ❤ thank you for helping us beginners.
Thank you so much for your wonderful support Melissa !
Wow that was a great video. Just found your channel while looking for information about sweet potato's. And yes I did Subscribe and plan on watching alot more of your video's later today. Thank you..
Great job!
Thank you, that was very informative
Hi Ms Tina yuo go girl. I have been a little slow in the mornings to get mine in work from home and been very rainy. Hot and humid this weekend in N Ar. But I will get them in.YOur place is sure looking good. Take care and enjoy your company!!!
You got this! Good luck with your planting!
I'm getting mine in later. I have slips, we are growing in bucket and bags . Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Tina, practicing her high kick 😃
LOL... I was always too short for cheerleading....
Weldone. I love your method. Happy New Year.
Thank you Tina! You are inspiring me to get my slips in my kiddie pool !
Have fun!
Love watching you work the soil. You have it down and your crops do so well. May God bless!
Thanks so much Kathy !
I enjoy watching you💜
Oh thank you! I appreciate you watching!
Great video. Thank you.
Thank you so much for watching Lee !
Tina, I love being in the dirt also lol. Happy planting!
I love it!
Good video, thank you! We’re planting sweet potatoes for the first time this year. Hello from Northern Iowa 👋🏼
Please let us know if we can be of any assistance !
Going to try my hand at sweet potatoes in buckets soon.
Keep that soil SUPER loose so they can expand... You'll do great I am sure !
👍👍 as always.. dinner sounds yummy..😁
Have a good evening 🌷🌷🌷
Thank you! You too! Thanks for watching Chele !
Hope you enjoyed your company. The slips look good, can't wait to see the harvest😀 following your advice of eat your colors🙂 have a blessed weekend ❤
Hope you enjoy! Can't go wrong eating your colors! LOL
@@BumbleBeeJunction you are absolutely right 😀
As you may recall, as are about 2 hours northwest of you in Sharps Chapel, Tennessee and I am just getting my sweet potatoes in the ground. I think with this crazy weather we are having, your timing is PERFECT. Vivian Ann on the side of the mountain
Mark is pretty set on the idea that we will have a deep Fall and time to spare... Fingers crossed he is right !
I had great success last year because of you. I'm not using a pool or raised bed this year, but I'm curious. Does your bed have any drainage holes? Thanks.
Yes it does! We turned it downhill (toward the creek) and put rocks over it so debris would not plug it (and creepies would not get in it)... Though as they get older, the galvanized metal gives out and rots (rusts) away... I doubt our older one has a solid bottom still...
Your an inspiration. I'm going to plant some sweet potatoes. Now to find the plants. LOL. G-D Bless
They are so much fun... Even if you just plant a sweet potato as a house plant, they are beautiful vines...
@@BumbleBeeJunction Yep
We love you too beautiful friend 😊
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I'm going to have to tuck my SP starts around the yard here and there but I'm going to use your dig it loose first and add those amendments too, then I'll let them run. Thanks for your knowledge sharing. It's plenty hot with drought here in zone 9B Ca. We're saving our grey water for the fruit trees. Best regards to all in these times. I really enjoyed the carrot video I watched last week. New subscriber here! 🕊 Planted my front lawn to a garden years ago.
Your lawn garden sounds wonderful !
@@BumbleBeeJunction Thankyou for your reply and OMG, I think that was THE biggest edible radish ever! Yes, our former front lawn is now producing citrus, olives, figs, grapes, pomegranate, along with some annuals. Best regards and I'll be watching and learning.🕊
Hi will you please do a harvest video when they are ready please
So once they are established; How often do you water them? I’m always afraid of over watering them. Also the “Potatoes with benefits” was hilarious! Pumpkins!
Usually twice a day on hot days... Then once a day (morning) when they can shade the bed themselves...
I love your video's! Do you can what you harvest? Do you cook anything special with your garden food? And what is your garden space?
We have a cooking / canning playlist you may enjoy ! We have 26 raised beds, the corn plot, the 2 round trough planters, and some assorted pots we use also... Oh, and the porch hanging pots (cukes)...
Saludos saludos ..
Gracious !
Nice job. What was the amendment in the red and white bag.
Fantastic video, thank you. Do you add any more fertilizer during their growing cycle? If so, what do you use and how often do you use it?
Its really kind of a judgement call... They dont need much... Foliar feeding with a liquid fertilizer is pretty easy to do... Just be sure you rinse (clear water) them afterwards if you do it during the day...
Thanks for your videos! I’m going to try to do some potatoes now (zone 7) in big containers. Do you add perlite for the potatoes? God bless you all!
Yes I do ! They need as much room (light airy soil) as they can get to expand...
Lovely background music, & oh my, you stopped the music at the speaking part, so we could concentrate on what you say! Thanks
Hello! We're (my family), are new subscribers to your channel. Just getting started with gardening. What growing zone are you in? We're in 7a/7b in northern AZ. What's the latest in the year sweet potato slips can be planted?
Love the idea you had for growing in the pool. Is there a bottom on the pool or did you make drainage holes on the bottom or sides. Thankyou for the great videos😊
They are metal cattle watering troughs... They have a drain plug we turned to face downhill... Thanks so much for watching !
@@BumbleBeeJunction i like that it's a raised bed and you don't have to be on your knees to plant
Do you ever trim back the vines? Is it ok to do so? I’m about ready to plant some slips in the next couple of weeks for the 2nd year, sure learned some lessons last year, lol. My 20’ vines were all over the place last year, don’t want to repeat. Great video, thanks.
Not only can you cut them back, they are edible ! LOL Though I will tell you up front, we have not eaten them, nor could I advise you on how to prepare them... I am sorry...
I am from South Africa what I have noticed you people that side you use spade when tilling your soil and we use fork m just wondering if it makes any difference in softening the soil otherwise thanks for sharing❤️🇿🇦
Do you plant them in the same bed year after year??
Have you tried eating the sweet potato leaves? I heard that they taste like like spinach. Love your demo on prepping the bed. I wish that I was strong like you.
LOL... We could eat them if we had to... Mark likes to say "Just because you can chew it up without dying does not make it food..." ahahaha Not sure I can win him over...
Do you ever eat the leaves? They're supposed to be like spinach. I might try it this year. I'm glad you mentioned they look pathetic after planting, I wasn't sure mine were going to decide to live!
They like to complain a lot, but they will perk back up, they always do... I dont think I have ever lost more than a couple... We do not eat the vines / leaves, BUT our chickens do, and they love them !
Looking good..I wish my slips looked like yours..mine are getting ate up by bugs
Oh no! We are really lucky that nothing around here bothers our slips... They may get some japanese beetles later in the season, but we'll keep an eye out for them...
@@BumbleBeeJunction I want to thank you 😊 for always answering my questions...and that's why I watch you always you and Mark are true...
What is in the red and white bag
I love sweet potatoes but have never grown them, how late in the year can you wait to plant them? All my beds are full at the moment. It doesn't get below 35° till around the end of november. I need to wait till someone finishes their growing before I can plant something new. Much love from So.Cal.💟
They can take up to around 120 days, but you can also sneak them in early around plants you know you will be cutting down sooner than others... Just leave the old roots in place so you dont disturb the slips and you may get away with it...
OK I'll do that. Thanks so much💗
By the 21st you may be seeing left over storms from the hurricane. Lots of high winds too, so stay safe.
Thank you so much for the heads up !
What is the Peet for?
Where did you get this large bed? Ive been looking for one like this for years and can't find these anywhere locally. Do you know the size or brand of it? Thanks.
They are large watering troughs (galvanized metal) and we get ours at TSC / Tractor Supply...
@@BumbleBeeJunction Thank you, I'll check a couple other locations. The stores near my location have the watering troughs but not as sturdy looking as the one you have. It still gets me on the right path and I thank you for that. :)
Hey there love sweet potato time at bumble bee junction 😁.
I've been topping off my beds with the peat moss and blk kow this year b cuz I hadn't been able to pick up my garden soil from the landscape place I normally get it from. My question is with the peat moss should I or shouldn't I be adding some garden lime? I forgot to put some in one of my beds and I already planted some bush beans in it should I go back and scratch some in the bed.
Sure, you can just add it back in like a surface feeding and it will water in... Should not be a problem at all... And peat is not as acidic as some say... But lime helps sweeten the soil, and is always good since it contains calcium as well... To which you can add some epsom, which has magnesium which plants need to utilize the calcium...
@@BumbleBeeJunction thank you its funny how I could hear your voice saying this lol.
Your garden is looking awesome as always.
That's a nice big bed. Where did you get it? I'd like to get one for sweet potatoes.
They are 8' diameter stock tanks from TSC... Tractor supply...
@@BumbleBeeJunction Thank you so much for your response. If I'd seen this before I'd get it instead of the 8x4 vego garden bed and a 4×4 from somewhere else. I'm still considering one like yours anyhow. Your big bed makes total thanks. Your energy is uplifting and inspiring.
Want that recipe for buttermilk fried chicken please?
Click my logo in this comment... Will take you to our main page where our playlists are... It is in the Cooking / Canning playlist !
Hello Ms Tina, I have been unable to find sweet potato slips anywhere in California, does your place ship?
I am not sure... They are shutting down for the season though... We had to pick our own slips and pay with the honor box they leave out...
We have not had rain since it flooded in May. A sprinkle dont count or does it? Need rain here!
We have had more than we know what to do with ! Been a crazy year....
Tina you went there lol. Can we see some videos with Mark in them?
He knows y'all are asking... He is really trying to get caught up... When I called him for dinner he was under the zero turn mower, which he had hanging off the bucket of the tractor... LOL Might of made for good video, minus the colorful language and occasional thrown tool... ahahaha
@@BumbleBeeJunction sounds like most men with colorful language. My personal favorite word when I am working on stuff is the f word
My slips are almost ready. I’m late too. 🤷♀️
Mark thinks it is going to be a long warm Fall season, so we should be ok...
Where on earth did you get that huge raised need made of metal????? I neeereereed one
TSC... They are 1000 gallon stock tanks, 8' in diameter...
Are the slips expensive, I remember last year you planted some you started yourself, if I remember correctly you were not happy with results, smaller instead of the giant ones you pulled out of the garden Tina just planted. I also was curious do you have a well or city/town water. Tina should plant a big old blooming flower in the middle, probably something edible.
It is 25 for $3 so we cannot complain... We use 75 for the main planter, and the harvests are usually worth the money... LOL... The main crop of sweet potatoes did fine... It was the ones we planted late that just didnt have time to really mature... We use city water, but it has been through a whole house carbon filter, as well as a water softener, before it gets to the garden... We get a lot of rain though too, so we try not to water unless we have to...
Oh my! Just curious as to what prices are lookin like this year? Good thing they weren't 3$ otherwise my garden would overrun with the things! I payed 37.75 for 25 slips.......:( heard they could arrive slimy or rotten so I went to the grocery and got purple Japanese sweet taters and started makin slips. A week yet. Nothin.
Tina, was that all 75 of your slips? If not, will you plant the rest elsewhere?
I got all 75 in the round planter this year... Not sure if we will try any more, but I would like too :)
What do you do with all the sweet potatoes?
They store really well when kept cool... We eat most of them... LOL
Did you grow the slips yourself or did you buy them ?
We get our slips from a local family run nursery that we have been friends with for several years...
Have you ever been surprised at a plant growing in the bed in the spring from a missed potato, or does that not happen with sweet potatoes just regular ones?
Oh it happens... And not just from sweet potatoes that were missed, but from just tiny roots left behind you would never think could do it...
Put projects for winter out of your sight for now. Wait for rainy ☔ days, extremely hot days when in airconditioning and winter. 😂😂 😂. Don't get over loaded.
LOL... There are always 120 plans up in the air... Around here, you just learn to juggle... LOL
@@BumbleBeeJunction But when you juggle, one can fall on your head. Heeee, haaaaa. Or things get started, and nothing gets completed..
Can you plant carrots with sweet potatoes?
Probably not the best idea since carrots do better with less nitrogen than sweet potatoes....
We tried propagating some slips this year. Suspended sweet potatoes in
a jar. Nothing, loads of roots down in the water, no slips. From "memory"
we suspended them pointy end up last year and got many slips. Didn't
work this year. Any suggestions?
TYFS Tina, Mark and Rosa
I talked to the nursery about it... They grow them in about 6" of dirt, barely enough to cover them... They start them WAY early, like Feb... And they toss the early ones... You want them in full swing before you need them...
@@BumbleBeeJunction That makes sense
TY
I tried to grow my own slips. I had my garden all planned out and dreamt hard on how I was going to have it. Then my husband told me we were going to live at our other homestead and not have a garden here. My dream was so crushed.
Are you doing 3 sisters ?
LOL... And you didnt send him kicking his lunchbox down lonely street mumbling to himself ??? LOL And no, not this year...