I’m growing purple sweet potatoes. They are my favorites. Did you know that 60% of the diet of centenarians in Japan consist of sweet potatoes? There are a Blue Zone culture. Thanks for sharing!
My grandmother use to make me a sweet potato cobbler made with sliced sweet potatoes ,butter and water. When the potatoes got tender she added sugar and dumplings and that cobbler was soooo delicious. She said it was better if you made it just after the dig. Oh was she right. Yumm
I've found that the more roots on my slips equal more vines which give more potatoes and size is determined by time, soil, water and nutrients that they get. I once had a vine take root in a pottery container that had flowers in it. I thought they just grew over the pot. The potatoes grew so large that they split the pot and put roots down into the ground. These two potatoes were the largest and strongest shaped sweet potatoes I've ever seen. They actually spiraled around the inside of the planter and each other until they broke the pot! They sure did taste good chopped and fried up in bacon fat however, lol
Whoever moves in next is so lucky. I would be so excited to have that soil. Haha but that's just me. Haha I love watching your channel. Very new to sweet potatoes 🍠, your channel is the first I have s good n and so glad be you get so excited when you dig them up and that is exactly how I get when I grow anything. Thank you so very much for your amazing tips BTW. I learned so much about sweet potatoes 🍠 watching your videos. You rock
@@witnesstoitall1144 I wasn’t talking to you😏. In the Kingdom of God we are blessed to be a blessing. He still was able to get a harvest that he wasn’t expecting and also be a blessing to the family that bought the home.
Questions: Are you going to have a garden at your new home? How long does it take for a sweet potato to cure? Can you purchase a sweet potato from the store and plant it? 🥔🥔🥔
Yes, my father planted purple stoke sweet and orange sweet potatoes when I was a child. So good; so healthy; note professional sports athletes eat sweet potatoes for endurance before a game - especially futballers. Thanks for this video, keep them coming. I have subscribed, liked and noticed.
Just an FYI you can eat the greens of the sweet potato you can steam them or saute them you can even eat them in a salad there really nutritious and they taste pretty good
Great little harvest considering the amount time the slips were in the ground. Looking forward to seeing how you establish the new garden in the future entertaining with a lot of useful information that you share. How do your children feel about knowing where you get some of the food that I'm sure ends up on the table?👍🏾
I have struggled with sweet potatoes the past 3 years. Mine are always very small. I harvest at 90 days. Any tips are appreciated. You continue to have awesome results each year. Happy gardening fam🌱
I've had potato worms get my potatos before I could harvest. My 1st time growing them. I used a raised garden bed. Maybe the ground would have been better so they could grow deeper.
Well done loyal and faith servant that abundance God give harvest. I had planted Stoke purple potatoes too. Y'all will be eating good this Thanksgiving season. I ya'
Ok Hawaiian sweet potatoes have long leader roots that lead to sweet potatoes that might grow a few feet away from the plant. If you find a kind of thicker root follow it. I have found them about 3 feet away from tho original plant at times. I do give them 110 to 120 days to grow. I live in Ohio were our summers are a bit cooler. For me the hotter the summer the larger the sweet potatoes.
I planted sweet potatoes for the first time this year I got 50 gal. Tubs from a friend who has horses they had horse feed in them so I put potting soil a black cow manure mixed it up mine are still growing can’t wait to see how I did I planted in the tubs because I live in the country and I have moles bad didn’t want them to get into my sweet potatoes
Beautiful harvest! ;) so you guys sold your house and found another? Tip: you can harvest some of the vines and plant the nodes on the vine with one leaf to start more plants - I grew a second bed from just the vine growth from my spring planting.
Great harvest!!! The purple potatoes are beautiful. It’s rare for our stores to have purple potatoes. Not in every store. I hope my potatoes do as well as yours. Thanks for the videos!
I see one bit of information I got from a friend was wrong. They said for container gardening I could grow them in just 12 inches of soil. The length of your potatoes is amazing to me! I need to go ahead on go deeper. 💖🌟
Excellent production from those first ones. After a reply to my comment on your last post about them, I went looking to see some had indeed had quite some good success here in the UK. Your first variety looks like the sort we'd need here to get some good growth before our first frosts. Lucky new owners getting a ready made harvest to pull in a few weeks time too.
Excellent video. Causing me to reconsider how next years harvest will be planted. I've never heard of a purple sweet potato. I heard of a white one a few weeks ago.. Thanks for sharing 😊 🙇♀️
Garden Talk Jamerican here. That's an awesome sauce Stokes harvest man! And it's interesting that your soil is somewhat clayish but it looks pretty loose. Did you condition your soil? I live in Austell, GA and I harvested 40+lbs of Stokes Purple from an 8x4 raised bed. I planted 21 slips and harvested over 140 days. I intended to harvest sooner because they were way too big last year.
This is my first year growing sweet potatoes and I am so curious how it is going under the ground. I am in Oregon and our climate is so much different here. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Beautiful harvest you got
All I can say is "WOW! Im glad your harvest proved to be so fantastic for you! Im new to your channel and growing any kind of potatoes but, am going to give it a go this season. Can you tell me how you got your soil to the condition it is in? What did you add to it? I noticed how light & fluffy it is. Happy Gardening!
It seems if the soil is too deep and also soft, the roots will keep going instead of stopping and then expanding. Experiment with soft soil of different depths and the same variety of plant and the same harvest time. I planted sweet potatoes their were in soil only the depth of a cinderblock on its side and one of the potatoes was the size of a shoe box.
You need gloves to protect your fingernails. I have not harvested mine as yet. This is my first time, I am growing them in a container, it is not ninety days as yet and it is now October in Boston,we still have warm weather. As soon as we expect the first frost,I will harvest them. Boston. Massachusetts.
I think days to maturity must include how long the slip itself has been growing, or at least a good chunk of the time. Little 4" slips probably need closer to the stated 90-120 days. But a slip that has a foot or more of vine already has probably been growing out for weeks already, which could explain why your sweet potatoes were so far along even at 60 days. Not to mention how much heat you get there. Up here in the PNW I pulled the very first slip I planted recently. After 118 days of moderate growing temperatures (avg 24hr temps about 70°) I got about 2lbs of sweet potatoes. Most were quite a bit smaller than the first ones you pulled. Maybe I missed some further underground, but I didn't want to disturb the bed quite yet, just a quick rummage. I'm definitely sitting on the rest until we get closer to our frost at the end of October (fingers crossed).
I am also in PNW, started my slips in April, planted outside in end if may. My vines are only like 3 feet long and scraggly looking so i too am waiting until closer to Mid October . One pNW gardener i watch says wait til after the first frost kills the vines. I am definitely curious whats happening in the ground but scared to check them. 😂
@@marymorris8690 it's kind of nerve wrecking, isn't it? I got my first handful of slips in at the end of April, tempted by that early string of warm days we had. But the rest were progressively added every couple of weeks as they arrived or sprouted in my garage. I'm actually considering putting a low tunnel back over top once our deluge rains arrive next month, to help keep the heat levels a bit higher, possibly extend the growing time a bit more, and keep the roots from waterlogging. It's actually pretty quick work if you can manage it, with just some thin stakes, 1/2" PVC, PVC clamps, and some 6mil plastic or agrifabric (the fabric tends to shred in our windy days, though).
I have some in ground, some in big black 100 gallon plastic planters and the rest in wooden planting boxes built off ground. I wanted to experiment which way would work better in my area, I am out between Sandy and Estacada. If I feel my tubs or wood bed need longer, I can move them inside. However either way I am sure I will get something as a few have pushed up the soil in the wooden raised box
@@marymorris8690 oh wow that's nice, bulging seems to be a good sign for sweet potatoes 😀. We are close to Salem, so pretty similar growing zone. I haven't noticed any bulging up here, but there's definitely a sea of vines out there. Just clipped some and cooked it up with breakfast this morning 😋
I have heard of purple sweet potatoes. Yummy...and freaky of you mash them as mashed potatoes. This vid was really cool. I always wondered what the size differential might be if pulled early. Question: Do you know if the Stokes the only variety of purple sweet potatoes...aka: Hawaiian or Okinawan)? I have seen multi names for the white and orange, but not the purple. Thanks :)
I could use some tips. I grew sweet potatoes this year for the first time. They were a purple fleshed Okinawan. However they look just like your Stokes. I let them go 112 days and they all came up the size of yours at 72 days. Suggestions for bigger ones next year?
Here's what I've discovered, the sweet potato that you made slips from after you've removed most of the slips continues to produce smaller slips. If you plant that potato with several slips (heads) you end up with several healthy vines from that potato and huge potatoes many times. I find this true with Japanese and Stokes Purple.
I grew the Korean Sweet Potato this year and was somewhat pleased with my small harvest… But next year I want them to be larger…. Can you provide some tips??
The new owners got some free food! What a blessing!!!
I hope they appreciate it. 🙏🏾
I pray they don't leave that soil. Thats there money
Grass maintenance is very costly and YOU CAN NOT EAT GRASS🤦🏽♀️ Their lost! God has blessed this family with GREATER things! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽
@@clynthia0510for real, I hate when people just lay concrete over everything. But, it’s their home.
I'm so excited! You just made me do the math on my sweet potatoes. 120 days. Wish me luck on a good harvest today!!!
How It Work Out For You?
God did it !!
They still mash up, and they still can up. Great harvest!
Thank you Family!!!💚🌱
You're right....be not mad...be forever grateful to the potato Creator who provides.
I’m growing purple sweet potatoes. They are my favorites. Did you know that 60% of the diet of centenarians in Japan consist of sweet potatoes? There are a Blue Zone culture.
Thanks for sharing!
My grandmother use to make me a sweet potato cobbler made with sliced sweet potatoes ,butter and water. When the potatoes got tender she added sugar and dumplings and that cobbler was soooo delicious. She said it was better if you made it just after the dig. Oh was she right. Yumm
That's sooo crazy all that growth and only 2
That’s craaaazzzyyy right.💚🌱
Thanks, my friend. God bless you, keep going on . 2023 25 October
I love the Dragonball socks combination with the Iversons!!! 😂😂
Pretty Sweet Potatoes
Thank you Family!!!💚🌱
I’m a beginner and thank you for the suggestion. I happy I saw you on UA-cam.
I've found that the more roots on my slips equal more vines which give more potatoes and size is determined by time, soil, water and nutrients that they get. I once had a vine take root in a pottery container that had flowers in it. I thought they just grew over the pot. The potatoes grew so large that they split the pot and put roots down into the ground. These two potatoes were the largest and strongest shaped sweet potatoes I've ever seen. They actually spiraled around the inside of the planter and each other until they broke the pot! They sure did taste good chopped and fried up in bacon fat however, lol
Whoever moves in next is so lucky. I would be so excited to have that soil. Haha but that's just me. Haha
I love watching your channel. Very new to sweet potatoes 🍠, your channel is the first I have s good n and so glad be you get so excited when you dig them up and that is exactly how I get when I grow anything. Thank you so very much for your amazing tips BTW. I learned so much about sweet potatoes 🍠 watching your videos. You rock
You need to send me some of those purple delights.
They would go well with my regular purple potatoes 😁
We just harvested our sweet potatoes today herein Houston Tx ☮️❤️💡
I’ve had purple sweet potatoes and they delicious 🤤
We can’t wait to try them Fam!!!💚🌱
You didn’t know that you were moving but God did 😇 He blessed y’all
Nothing would be possible without God💚🌱
Why didn't God tell them not to bother planting cause they'd be moving
@@witnesstoitall1144 I wasn’t talking to you😏. In the Kingdom of God we are blessed to be a blessing. He still was able to get a harvest that he wasn’t expecting and also be a blessing to the family that bought the home.
@@theprolificfamilystead Amen!!!
And the leaves are edible too 😋
That's fantastic 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Love it ..
Questions: Are you going to have a garden at your new home? How long does it take for a sweet potato to cure? Can you purchase a sweet potato from the store and plant it? 🥔🥔🥔
Yes, you can grow slips from a sweet potato in the store.
I have been growing these for years. they are always long and skinny and grow very deep.
I love sweet potato's!
Thank you. Push this in the algorithm.with times like they are we need this
Great harvest. You should take some of the slips with you to your new place
Chad mode harvest, got my notepad out. Keep up the good work my man!
This is so relaxing to watch. This is a beautiful harvest. I'm growing boniato at this time.
Thank you sooo much Family!!!💚🌱
Yes, my father planted purple stoke sweet and orange sweet potatoes when I was a child. So good; so healthy; note professional sports athletes eat sweet potatoes for endurance before a game - especially futballers. Thanks for this video, keep them coming. I have subscribed, liked and noticed.
Perfect!!!!! Congratulations!!!!! 😁👍❤️💖
Just an FYI you can eat the greens of the sweet potato you can steam them or saute them you can even eat them in a salad there really nutritious and they taste pretty good
The man you are a sweet potato grower I think those are the best I've seen on UA-cam
I enjoyed watching . I need all the tips I can get in growing sweet potatoes. I barely get a harvest in 70 days.
Great little harvest considering the amount time the slips were in the ground. Looking forward to seeing how you establish the new garden in the future entertaining with a lot of useful information that you share. How do your children feel about knowing where you get some of the food that I'm sure ends up on the table?👍🏾
Sweet potatoes are very good for the digestive system.
I am growing stokes this year ! First time growing any kind. Glad I found this !
I have struggled with sweet potatoes the past 3 years. Mine are always very small. I harvest at 90 days. Any tips are appreciated. You continue to have awesome results each year. Happy gardening fam🌱
Same. The ones I harvested last year I kept in a raised bed 110 days and they were tiny.
@@onemoredoll5791 I plant mine in raised beds also. I wonder if that could be the problem. Prolific grows his Inground mostly.
@@NorthCarolina1024 how often do they need water? I think I water 2x a week unless its super hot. We have 105+ weather right now
@@onemoredoll5791 yes I water twice a week One drenching on Monday and one on friday.
I've had potato worms get my potatos before I could harvest. My 1st time growing them. I used a raised garden bed. Maybe the ground would have been better so they could grow deeper.
That's an eye opener for me boss! Thanks for this vid, really educates and inspires me a lot❤️
Beautiful harvest. I'm have to extend my sweet potato variety, never heard of purple stokes.
Thank you Family!!! I can’t wait to tell you how they taste💚🌱
So excited looking at your potatoes
You can use them for a new group of slits at your new home. In a greenhouse if the start getting cooler where you at.
Greetings. Do you have a video on how to save slips for the next growing season?
All you have to do is save a sweet potato from your harvest. You can also bring a slip inside and plant it as a houseplant💚🌱
Well done loyal and faith servant that abundance God give harvest. I had planted Stoke purple potatoes too. Y'all will be eating good this Thanksgiving season. I ya'
I hope y'all family have good and safe move to new home
Ok Hawaiian sweet potatoes have long leader roots that lead to sweet potatoes that might grow a few feet away from the plant. If you find a kind of thicker root follow it. I have found them about 3 feet away from tho original plant at times. I do give them 110 to 120 days to grow. I live in Ohio were our summers are a bit cooler. For me the hotter the summer the larger the sweet potatoes.
Thank you for your awesome advice on the potatoes! It really help us Gardners to know what to do and not to do!!
I planted sweet potatoes for the first time this year I got 50 gal. Tubs from a friend who has horses they had horse feed in them so I put potting soil a black cow manure mixed it up mine are still growing can’t wait to see how I did I planted in the tubs because I live in the country and I have moles bad didn’t want them to get into my sweet potatoes
Beautiful harvest! ;) so you guys sold your house and found another? Tip: you can harvest some of the vines and plant the nodes on the vine with one leaf to start more plants - I grew a second bed from just the vine growth from my spring planting.
Wow I had no idea how long sweet potatoes 🍠 take to grow! I started a bunch of slips.. might have to bring ‘em in and grow indoors in totes!
I never grew purple sweet potatoes but definitely have to add it to my list 😊
Great harvest!!! The purple potatoes are beautiful. It’s rare for our stores to have purple potatoes. Not in every store. I hope my potatoes do as well as yours. Thanks for the videos!
Hello sir very nice you are good farmers watching from Qatar new subscribers
Can u bring the vines that u dug up purple potatoes to the new land ? By saving it in water?
Wow!!!!🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽 I’m going to plant some purple sweet potatoes!!!!
To see you grow your own food😍😍😍
The first one you harvest they looks healthy and delicious,the second you harvest are small makes me laugh.I enjoy your video thanks for that.
I see one bit of information I got from a friend was wrong. They said for container gardening I could grow them in just 12 inches of soil. The length of your potatoes is amazing to me! I need to go ahead on go deeper. 💖🌟
Your a great gardener!!!!!!!
Thank you my 💜
Wonderful gardening and thank you for sharing aloha from hawaii
I am curious. You said you’d keep those first Covingtons for slips. Why not use current vines and place in a vase?
Excellent production from those first ones. After a reply to my comment on your last post about them, I went looking to see some had indeed had quite some good success here in the UK. Your first variety looks like the sort we'd need here to get some good growth before our first frosts. Lucky new owners getting a ready made harvest to pull in a few weeks time too.
I have not been successful. I did learn a lot from you though so I am confident that I will get a good harvest this year. Thanks!
Have you ever try stir fry sweet potatoes (tender ) leaves. Remember to use fresh garlic, salt and pepper.
Hell yeah, dude!
Have you read up on how to make 'seed potatoes'?
Excellent video. Causing me to reconsider how next years harvest will be planted. I've never heard of a purple sweet potato. I heard of a white one a few weeks ago.. Thanks for sharing 😊 🙇♀️
Amazing! ❤
Thank you Family!!!💚🌱
Gorgeous💜💜💜💜🍠
that awesome harvest.
Those are BEAUTIFUL sweet potatoes!!!
What a great harvest even though you have to harvest erely
Erley
Early
Hi there am a new subscriber and am enjoying this video. I want to be a farmer in my country Kenya 🇰🇪 Africa. I will check your other videos✌️
I am looking forward to harvesting my sweet potatos next weekend
Garden Talk Jamerican here. That's an awesome sauce Stokes harvest man! And it's interesting that your soil is somewhat clayish but it looks pretty loose. Did you condition your soil?
I live in Austell, GA and I harvested 40+lbs of Stokes Purple from an 8x4 raised bed. I planted 21 slips and harvested over 140 days. I intended to harvest sooner because they were way too big last year.
This is my first year growing sweet potatoes and I am so curious how it is going under the ground. I am in Oregon and our climate is so much different here. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Beautiful harvest you got
All I can say is "WOW! Im glad your harvest proved to be so fantastic for you! Im new to your channel and growing any kind of potatoes but, am going to give it a go this season. Can you tell me how you got your soil to the condition it is in? What did you add to it? I noticed how light & fluffy it is. Happy Gardening!
Thanks!
Awesome harvest! I'm glad y'all able to harvest before the move.
I have seen purple sweet potatoes. I have never eaten them. Very nice present to leave the new owners.
It seems if the soil is too deep and also soft, the roots will keep going instead of stopping and then expanding. Experiment with soft soil of different depths and the same variety of plant and the same harvest time. I planted sweet potatoes their were in soil only the depth of a cinderblock on its side and one of the potatoes was the size of a shoe box.
I cannot wait to harvest my sweet potatoes. But I can wait 3 more weeks
I'm currently growing two types of purple sweet potatoes. Can't wait to see how they produce.
Where did you get your purple potatoes
I never had them. Will look for some . They look delicious..!!!!
You need gloves to protect your fingernails. I have not harvested mine as yet. This is my first time, I am growing them in a container, it is not ninety days as yet and it is now October in Boston,we still have warm weather. As soon as we expect the first frost,I will harvest them. Boston. Massachusetts.
Man been following you on Facebook now i had the time to lock in to youtube
Beautiful
Thank you for sharing your gardening experiences with us. You know what's in it when you grow it. It's more healthy. Blessings to you and your family.
Wow ❤
Wowee! Fantastic
I think days to maturity must include how long the slip itself has been growing, or at least a good chunk of the time. Little 4" slips probably need closer to the stated 90-120 days. But a slip that has a foot or more of vine already has probably been growing out for weeks already, which could explain why your sweet potatoes were so far along even at 60 days. Not to mention how much heat you get there. Up here in the PNW I pulled the very first slip I planted recently. After 118 days of moderate growing temperatures (avg 24hr temps about 70°) I got about 2lbs of sweet potatoes. Most were quite a bit smaller than the first ones you pulled. Maybe I missed some further underground, but I didn't want to disturb the bed quite yet, just a quick rummage. I'm definitely sitting on the rest until we get closer to our frost at the end of October (fingers crossed).
I am also in PNW, started my slips in April, planted outside in end if may. My vines are only like 3 feet long and scraggly looking so i too am waiting until closer to Mid October . One pNW gardener i watch says wait til after the first frost kills the vines. I am definitely curious whats happening in the ground but scared to check them. 😂
@@marymorris8690 it's kind of nerve wrecking, isn't it? I got my first handful of slips in at the end of April, tempted by that early string of warm days we had. But the rest were progressively added every couple of weeks as they arrived or sprouted in my garage. I'm actually considering putting a low tunnel back over top once our deluge rains arrive next month, to help keep the heat levels a bit higher, possibly extend the growing time a bit more, and keep the roots from waterlogging. It's actually pretty quick work if you can manage it, with just some thin stakes, 1/2" PVC, PVC clamps, and some 6mil plastic or agrifabric (the fabric tends to shred in our windy days, though).
I have some in ground, some in big black 100 gallon plastic planters and the rest in wooden planting boxes built off ground. I wanted to experiment which way would work better in my area, I am out between Sandy and Estacada. If I feel my tubs or wood bed need longer, I can move them inside. However either way I am sure I will get something as a few have pushed up the soil in the wooden raised box
@@marymorris8690 oh wow that's nice, bulging seems to be a good sign for sweet potatoes 😀. We are close to Salem, so pretty similar growing zone. I haven't noticed any bulging up here, but there's definitely a sea of vines out there. Just clipped some and cooked it up with breakfast this morning 😋
I have heard of purple sweet potatoes. Yummy...and freaky of you mash them as mashed potatoes. This vid was really cool. I always wondered what the size differential might be if pulled early. Question: Do you know if the Stokes the only variety of purple sweet potatoes...aka: Hawaiian or Okinawan)? I have seen multi names for the white and orange, but not the purple. Thanks :)
Love tour video thanks for the info.
I could use some tips. I grew sweet potatoes this year for the first time. They were a purple fleshed Okinawan. However they look just like your Stokes. I let them go 112 days and they all came up the size of yours at 72 days. Suggestions for bigger ones next year?
WOW!
Great harvest! Thanks for sharing!
I have 2 purple varieties this season and the standard Beauregard
Ive been watching your videos because i want to grow potatoes on my balcony, we dont have a yard. I like how you explain everything. Subbed.
Here's what I've discovered, the sweet potato that you made slips from after you've removed most of the slips continues to produce smaller slips. If you plant that potato with several slips (heads) you end up with several healthy vines from that potato and huge potatoes many times. I find this true with Japanese and Stokes Purple.
Nice!
Just found your channel... .love it!
I grew the Korean Sweet Potato this year and was somewhat pleased with my small harvest… But next year I want them to be larger…. Can you provide some tips??