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Check out this one if you can find it - Not cheap but I'm using it this year. www.humbleacresorganics.com/products

Yes, Glory to God. He is the master, and we are all servants. Thanks for watching.

What you do, is let the vines run and root to make new slips. Those slips will make the sweet potatoes. A different kind of plant, these sweet potatoes. Thanks for watching.

@@TheBackGardenYard Oh. I did not know how it worked. I did let them run, but it was a dry summer and they did not thrive. I just found and ate one of the potatoes from last fall. Tasted so good, just boiled, nothing on it. Satisfying. I am seriously going to have to try this again. Thanks for your help. Good channel.

@@watermelonlalala Cool - good luck this year.

@@TheBackGardenYard Thank you!

I agree - they are very tasty! Especially the young ones in soups or stir fry. Thanks for the comment.

That's probably a good idea to sterilize the soil also. I would then need to dry the mud though.

Thanks for the kind words yolanda, and thanks for watching.

I don't think the garden soil is that necessary. You could supplement with worm castings but that could get pricey.

Yes, the garden soil is free, and this mix is more than just seed starting mix, because it can be used to grow out your seedlings for a month or so until the weather is warm enough to transplant into the regular garden. I did a video of just playsand and manure last year, and got surprising results with just plain playsand doing very well as a seed starting mix by itself.

I would just 30 scoops of potting soil and 30 scoops of play sand, if you don't have garden soil to add to your mix.

You are absolutely right, and that's why I put up this video to warn people about what they are selling in those prepackaged bags with the pretty pictures.

Thank you. I think Walmart is not thought about often as a garden center, but they really do have competitive prices.

Yes, I did keep one sprouted sweet poptato plant (slip) and over wintered it in the greenhouse and in the basement during our 13 degree freeze, and I'm about to make a video on how to grow many new slips from the original one. Thanks for the suggestion.

I bought the sweet potato at the Asian Market, so I assume it is of an Asian variety.

@@TheBackGardenYard They are the very best imo.

Yes, I am overwintering some slips right now - you will see how to do that in a future video.

Thanks, I appreciate that!

Yea, after same problem last year, fool me twice, shame on me I guess, lol.

Yes, I linked last year's Walmart Strawberry video at the end of this video. I was able to coax a few to survive last year, but the plants were weak and by the time they got strong, the spring growing season was almost over. We should be able to buy the plants, get them going, and harvest strawberries in May. I have ordered from the mail order companies and received healthy live plants that produced the first year, but they cost quite a bit more.

Yes, and the plants will survive the winter. I have dug some up and over wintered them in the greenhouse, and they will do nice this year.

I didn't show it on the video, but I soaked them heavily after I planted them. I believe the roots had sprouted and died while in the packaging, and they just seemed lifeless. Usually there are some white roots if there is any life left in the plant. As I showed for most of them, black roots and dead.

Yes, I really like the prices they have, but I'm disappointed with those packaged plants... My strawberry video will be out Friday, and you will see what I mean. Thanks for watching.

And thank you for watching. Walmart still has some of the best prices on many items, but their seeds are not any cheaper than most of the competition. And those pre packaged plant items - they really need to change what they are doing there, imo. Thanks for watching.

They really are. A little chewier than asparagus, but packed with flavor.

Yes, since all the nutrients needed to sprout a seed are in the seed, I wasn't surprised. But I was surprised at how well they grew the first few days with no added nutrients. Thanks for watching.

Thank you - we had fresh veggies today from the winter garden. However lows of 12 and 3 days of not above 32 with more snow will likely finish it off. But the good NEWS is I start snow peas and more lettuce in Feb. Thanks for watching.

Lol, thank you very much. Yes, I should be just chilling and taking the month off, but us gardeners always have to be doing something it seems. Yes, the whole country is about to be blasted by the artic blast I'm afraid, but then comes the Jan. thaw, I hope. Stay safe and thanks for watching.

Yes, the wild strawberries make a great ground cover, but they are just too invasive... Stay safe with the coming freeze.

The link I put about Walmart bare root strawberries last year, shows the varieties. These didn't make a lot of berries, because it took so long to bring them back to life last year from the bare roots. I may make a similar video this year, but will start earlier.

@TheBackGardenYard oh OK, allstar and quinault should be fine. Keeping strawberries up on bush mounds and not watering directly helped me with rotting.

@@massriver Yes, I have problems with slugs hiding in the straw mulch that I use around my berries. But I agree with the mounding idea 100%.

@@TheBackGardenYard got the mound method from Asia channel. Was recently watching, they had must have been 5acres green knotted netting over hole field. The straw was off to the sides. SlugO works but, something eats it and have to hide most under flat rock or under weed block around perimeter.

Yes, I have never over wintered strawberries, but I'm excited they are already blooming. Hopefully I can get a big crop from these plants this year, now that I have got the imposters out. You stay warm and safe also...

@TheBackGardenYard yes Sir, yall too Brother

And thank you for the kind comments. Are you planting a garden this spring?

@@TheBackGardenYard Yes!! Last year was a disaster, this year I will stay away from Black Kow it ruined my garden. I'm hoping to find some local compost this time. I'm in Mi 6b growing season is short 😕

@@yolandawatson9949 As you see in today's video, I'm iced in right now. Hard to believe only 4 weeks until I start some lettuce and snow peas!

Believe me, in years past I've tried similar, but the results didn't justify the efforts. Thanks for watching though.

I've been using the bagged composts for over 20 years, and I have seen it change. The results of my video where I grow tested them against plain play sand is disturbing.

Thank you susan - I am about to start the 2025 sweet potato series with the slip that I am overwintering!

Yes, that was a common criticism of the video. I did unearth the pieces and show them in the next video in the series. Thanks for watching

Yes. My wife grafts cuttings onto some of the root stocks that have come up from previous trees that we had, and now we have 4 trees instead of one.

Strawberries are one of the easiest fruits to grow. Just about any brand of strawberry will be good, except I don't recommend the extra huge hybrid kind, as they seem to have as much flavor as the smaller berries, and I seem to lose more to birds, squirrels, chipmunks, and insects before they are ripened. In 9B you could probably buy the bare root plants sold in Walmart and Home Depot and just set them in the ground at the end of January and be eating strawberries in late April and early May. That's why I'm overwintering mine in the greenhouse, to get an earlier start this year, as last year mine didn't produce until late May, and it was mostly too late.

Thank you so much for being a subscriber and commenting Yolanda. I wish you and yours a Happy New Year.

Thanks for the kind words. And a Happy and a Green Growing New Year to you!

No, The heads of the old flowers are completely dead down about 12 inches until I hit green wood. I normally prune them back to that level every winter anyway, but decided to have a bit of fun and make the yard more interesting this year. Some visitors have been flabbergasted when they have seen them, lol.

LOL - just fun!

Thanks Melinda - We actually picked several stems and brought them into a vase in the house and can enjoy them all winter. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and yours.

@TheBackGardenYard Happy New Year and FATHER GOD bless you Brother and your family IN JESUS NAME AMEN AND AMEN

Thank You - I've been wanting to do that for several years and finally got it done. Happy New Year to you and your Channel!

I would try an Asian Market if you have one in your area. Otherwise, I'm sure you could find them on Amazon, however likely very pricey with that route. A yam is very similar in appearance to the Taro roots you see in my video, however they generally are much larger.

Yes, I found some chicken compost from South Carolina at my local nursery and it is giving me the best results now. I am starting to believe the folks that say the herbicides farmers are using in their fields are stunting the crops that are using the bagged cow manure compost for fertilizer.

@@TheBackGardenYard I agree, there is a ton of evidence that 2-4-D specifically can leech through into composted cattle manure. I personally have not experienced that problem yet, but there are people who are swearing by it. Mushroom compost is probably the best compost product I have ever used and is 100% safe to use, but it is not cheap at all.

Every now and then Walmart puts some prices on line that I wouldn't believe if they were on some unknown site. And I checked later and they were offering the same one for $139. I guess it was a close out, because I see the new models of the same tiller are now painted black and selling for $149. I used it several times for weeding between my rows last year, and it worked great for that job. Thanks for watching.