The Ultimate Food Security Crop - How To Grow Sweet Potatoes Almost Anywhere
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2023
- Now is the time to start your sweet potato slips for this upcoming growing season!!.. With the right knowledge, you can grow sweet potatoes almost anywhere and you most certainly SHOULD grow them due to very high vitamin and mineral content as well as extreme storage ability.
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Last year was my first time growing sweet potatoes 🍠.
Followed your instructions ~ Beautiful results!
Thanks 😊👍❤️
I'm watching this getting ready for 2024 garden.
for you I definitely recommend the soil method for starting the slips!!... its so much faster and more care free!!
@@gardenlikeavikingjust started one in soil& already have 3 slips 48 hours 😯
Started late in my journey so ordered a few slips online in a hat of watering rooting now
Until I get my own ☺️
Haven’t tried the water method to produce slips might try another project within a project 😅
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Never boil vegetables and toss the water,, some vitamins are water soluble,, make a sauce using it,, or even cool it down and add fruit juices to make a nice drink full of vitamins 🥗🙏
Hmong people hid sweet potatoes all over to avoid starvation during their decades of oppression. def. a survival food. The shoots are great for FPJ too. Great vid Nate!
that is really a great idea I have not used the shoots for an FPJ but I will give it a try this year!
What is FPJ?
@@TearDrop455 www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/SA-7.pdf
@@TearDrop455 just looked it up as I didn't know either Fermented Plant Juice!
@@TearDrop455 FPJ like Deborah☝🏾 mentioned, is Fermented Plant Juice, and the concept behind it stems from Korean Natural Farming(KNF). Highly recommend looking at more of Nate’s vids speaking about the KNF/JADAM methods, as well as from Chris Trump. Great content to help you grow bigger, better, and regeneratively. Stay blessed!
When I first started growing them, I purchased organic sweet potato slips because I knew I would be growing them year after year. Besides, I only "do" organic. I bought 2 kinds and after these years, the two have made a third kind! Too cool!
Do sweet potatoes even cross pollinate? 🤔
@@DebRoo11 Yes they do! If you read my comment, I proved that. I bought an orange (solid orange inside and out) and a purple (solid purple inside & out), for the life of me, I can't remember the names of them, it is clear that they cross pollinated and created a rosy colored sweet potato (solid rosy inside and out).
@@momcomputer6461 well that's pretty neat! Do you like them?
@@DebRoo11 I love them! Started w/organic slips and kept them organic over the years. The taste is wonderful and they store well. The bonus is that "I" created a brand new sweet potato! haha Isn't nature wonderful when you work with it, not against it?
@@DebRoo11 It doesn't look like my 1st response showed up here. Forgive me if this is a repeat....I love them. The taste is wonderful and they store until the next season. What's even better is that "I" created a brand new sweet potato! haha Isn't nature wonderful when you work with it and not against it?
Cube them, toss with olive oil, salt, pepper Italian seasoning, garlic powder, then air fry 360 for 15. Drizzle with a thick Vinigarette or maple syrup or nothing. Divine!
Oh man, oh man, im so excited. I put my potatoes in, I think, a week ago using the soil method. I recently fell in love with the taste of sweet potatoes, probably because the prices for these tubers went up.😂 im tired of spending money on bags of sweet potatoes, so this year, im growing them by myself. Bring it on 2024. Thank you for this clip.❤
yes my friend and the quality and flavor of homegrown sweet potatoes is far superior to anything from the store!!!... be sure to grow many more slips than you think you'll need so you can choose the best ones!!
Same same 😅 i call it my defiance garden this year. Sick and tired of fruits and veg being so expensive like produce is a luxury now or something. Filled my back yard full of new garden beds for 2024. Only growing what I like to eat. Not 20 types of tomatoes for fun. It will.still be fun I'm sure but vegetable gardening has a new seriousness to it this year
I like it! Everything I wanted to know, all the parts I wanted to see, and not terribly long. You got yourself a new subscriber with that one.
Commenting to help the algorithm. Much love from Los angles
I used my old sweet potato to get some slips. I just pluck the little vine growing from the sweet potato that's been sitting around waiting to be cooked and put them in water. They grow roots pretty fast. Sometimes I just cut the part of the sweet potato with the little vine growing and plant them directly to the soil. They grow slow at first then vines overflow and crawl everywhere. 😂 They are good fried. I like to cut it 1/4 inch if you like soft and creamy sweet potato dessert or cut it thin if you like sweet potato chips. You can sprinkle sugar on top or cook the sugar with the sweet potato to make a caramel coating the sweet potato. Yum! 😊
I like the way you think! I must give these ideas a try. I like them baked with butter and cinnamon.
Love that you show videos of how each stage looks. Thank you!
Kalo/taro > Cassava > sweet potatoes.
Here in Hawai'i, kalo was and remains the ideal crop. Although sweet potato ('uala) was cultivated for the dry months, cassava far outperforms it in both ease of cultivation and caloric load.
For people in the tropics, these three crops will cover all your starch needs. And if you have the space, get yourself at least one breadfruit ('ulu) and banana/plantain tree and you'll have more more food than you can handle (ex: one fruiting breadfruit tree produces upwards of 100-150 lbs of fruit per season)
It is simple and easy and say plain language without any extra super hard words it is please listen this guy 👍 so go with him and You will have your own sweet potato don't worry only one root it can be grown without root at all longer shoots can be cut to twice or more pieces just put them in moist soil and they will go but i cooler climate it is better to have roots already develope well:-)
How long from planting to reaping ?
120 to 150 days.
Hey Dude . Good to hear from you. You have a good energy. You always get to the point. Teaching us how to get to business and growing our food. I am 71years old and use my time wisely. So thank you. I am going to plant my sweet potatoes in trash bags. Will let you know when it’s ready to eat 🎉.But first of all. I need to get my potatoes to grow slips to grow.
thank you for the positive energy my friend!!... the sweet potatoes will grow great in the bag method but be sure to place at least 3 slips into each bag.... even 4 slips if the bag is nice and full..
@@gardenlikeaviking In the video you said keep the bag shaded. Can sweet potatoes can grow without direct sunlight? I am trying to grow some in an apartment, but I have some doubts whether it will work.
Few people know that George Washington Carver held the sweet potato at the same level as the peanut in regard to food security. He said between the two, humans could survive and be healthy.
yes the sweet potato IMHO surpasses the peanut simply because the greens are so delicious and edible during the growing season and then the tubers store for well over a year with ease!... but I have never grown peanuts
I'm trying a grocery store "yam" I had leftover from Thanksgiving dinner. First try at sweet potatoes. I started it under a light with a heat mat around the 1st of the year which I know now was way too early. It's in the window now (hoping to slow it down a little - didn't work) and it's insane! It's blocking out half the window! It's an ideal houseplant, it's beautiful! There's 10 or 12 slips on it like 3/8" in diameter and 20" long already. I think I'm gonna trim it back a little and try eating the greens. I'll root some slips off it in a month or so. My plan is to do the black trash bags with them around the 1st of June. I've got some stinky JLF I made last summer to fertilize them with. I think I'll also try a couple of the purple varieties when the slips become available from Baker Creek. Thanks for the video and all the info Nate, always a treat!
Okra and sweet poatoes are some of the best crops. You can use okra in cover crop blends. Then go out and grab some. Okra and Sweet Poatoes can be eaten whole thing from leaves to everything.
Thank you! This will be my first year growing sweet potatoes. Every year I include a new plant or two to grow. This year it’s sweet potatoes, ginger, and multicolored carrots. ❤
make sure the sweet potatoes have very mild (not rich) soil.... and make sure the ginger has extremely rich soil its the hungriest plant in the garden!!
Thank you for your thoughtful tips! ❤
Please explain "rich" container soil. Thank you.
The root color of your beard 😂😂👍. ALWAYS enjoy brother .😊
Dude you make it look easy. Lol
Didn't know they can store so long. Thanks.
Good tip on burying the sweet potatoes. I used to start them exposed but they would get big bites from rodents (The slips would still grow though 😂). I grow mine in sacks and trellis them so I can harvest the greens. Also growing in sacks means easier harvest. Just cut the sacks open and voila. You can also let the vines trail on the ground and put soil on top and they will root quickly. Those starts with roots are more robust than those that have no roots yet when you put them in water.
Here in florida I grow sweet potatoes year round.
Another great video Nate 👍🏼👍🏼
What zone, if you don't mind me asking.
@@bsweat9230 I’m in 9a - 10a
@@bsweat9230 oops 9b 10a
Definitely going to try them in containers this year. Also excited to cook up the leaves throughout the summer.
What's the recipe for the leaves may I ask?
@@samueljudah4777just use any way you would spinach.
I love when baking them they get a delicious char on the bottom.
2-3 slips per bag 👍
First thing that came to mind- I like his voice 😂
But also- thank you. I put some slips I bought from the store into my clay soil not knowing what I was doing. Now, I need to go get some more slips and put them in some loose, deeper soil.
Just ordered my slips for Zone 9 (Central California). Loved the video. Love them Sweet-Taters.
Just found the channel and I'm hooked!
Appreciate the teach! ✌🏼
welcome to the channel my friend you will find everything you need to know here and if not then just ask and I can probably do a video about it!
Nice 👍
Impressive. I hope I have as much success as you. Thank You for sharing.
Thanks to your videos, I've started sweet potatoes for the first time. Thought your idea for curing them was genius!
Can’t wait to plant mine this year!
Thanks for this video. Perfect timing.... now I know what I am doing wrong ...
Going to bury under the soil.
Beautiful potatoes.
Ah-ha the mystery of the Viking beard is finally solved!! :o)
Helpful video! Thx!
the slips are so expensive this year and a lot of garden places will not have them due to high demand, definitely growing my own slips, using the soil method mostly :) Eva
Sweet I just found you!❤
This will be my first time never have done it before and want to thank you for the advice
I love the contractor bag method. Can't wait to try that
Thank you for such an informative, well-organized, easy to understand video. Can't wait to start growing my own sweet potatoes!
God bless you, wonderful video for a first time grower in the UK. Keep up the good work.
It will be my first time with sweet potatoes. I’m a little nervous about the curing process, but can’t wait to try it all.
don't let that daunt you my friend its very simple and I'll make another video this late summer to illustrate but check out the one I already made a couple months ago
I growing sweet potato for the first time this year looking forward to the harvest that will come
I am NZ Maori and was always curious about sweet potatoes. Until I found out I grew up eating them lol, we call them Kumara
I needed this, I ordered 25 Okinawa sweet potato slips last year way way way too early for zone 5b, they Ded!!! Then again way to late in August... I'm buying 10lbs this year to be in control and try for this beautiful ube purple potatoes again.
you will have success this year my friend just get them started soon and be certain to use a heat mat
Last year, I learned from a local farmer who purchased 5,000 slips from a supplier, that you don’t need any roots on the slips (if you have moist soil). He used Covington sweet potato slips, so I’m not sure if it’s true for all. I tried it, just stuck about 20 cuttings into the ground. They looked droopy and terrible for about 10 days, then took off and grew like crazy. Try a few slips this next season and tell us if it worked for your varieties.
yes this is true!... I have done it this way many times and I've also just trimmed the vines and immediately planted the trimming and more begins to grow... BUT.... that is not the ideal way for beginners because the soil has to literally be soaking wet the entire time and if you let it dry out even once the whole thing dies... so focusing on success for beginners I always recommend getting a nice set of roots happening before planting it and its far more forgiving that way
I had tried it both ways but had a lot better success letting the slips grow roots. This year I
will try the water in a jar method rather than than putting slips in potting soil.
Grateful for your diligence in giving the gift of your knowledge to us!
Hello i love your videos all the way from Denmark 💪💪💪
I really appreciate all of your information . Thank you so much.
Wow money sweet potatoes.thank you sir!
Yay Love the Sweet potato leaves, yummy
This was a great video. Ive grown a few times in containers but now im have a large plot to grow in.....excited
The "root" cause. Nice
The root color for your beard. I love sweet potatoes.
Thank you for a good chuckle and the
Great tip about cutting vines during growth. Maybe I can do this with success.
I steam my sweet potato or bake them.
Maple syrup etc. Hmmm
I was thinking cinnamon, brown sugar, butter, sea salt. We'll be checking your recommended videos.
Good video. Thank you very much, Mr. Sweet Potato Beard!
Yummy 😋
Thanks for sharing. Like the trash bag idea, will definitely try it.
Growth alot my king the best
Got my slips growing going to plant soon. Yay
Damn, I wish I had seen this video three months ago! My sweet potatoes that are only half covered in the soil aren't pushing out sprouts as well as I feel they should be after watching this video. I'm cry. Lol. I will cover them fully like you said next season. Thank you, friend!
Haha I get it, the ROOT cause of the color of your beard...ugh...
Just sitting down to a sweet potato with butter and sea salt! But w maple syrup .. oh my gosh...imma hafta try it sometime.
Thank you, my favorite Viking!!
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Great video!! Love the idea of growing them in a trough. I have a horse trough I didn’t know what to do with, looks like I’ll be using it for sweet potatoes now ❤❤
Outstanding, cheers Nate
hahahaha 😅your right about your beard. Nice and informative video man...watch you every day. I am in Jamaica, so I do not have frost or snow...so I can plant these tubers year round. Bless up and one love🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Thank you.
Killin it. New subscriber and loving it
welcome my friend!
My heat mat just.came today
Always great instruction and tips. thanks Nate!
I appreciate all this info!! More than one way, you had videos on them all, you answered all the questions and made it very easy! THANK YOU!!
Love this channel ❤
great tips, thank you very much!
Cube your sweet potatoes with regular potatoes, extra virgin olive oil, and roasted garlic seasoning. Put on a baking pan in the oven 350 until done. Perfection!
Sweet potatoes were my biggest crop failure last year. I put them in the the richest soil I had but it grew almost all slips. Some other times I grew them in soil that wasn't as good and my yields were much better.
hmm I wonder what the issue was?... you grew the slips like normal and planted each slip itself?... fertilize?
@@gardenlikeaviking yep. I did it just like you mentioned with them being in soil. The nitrogen was too high. I accidently said slips, I meant leaves.
I found the same results from experimenting over the years. In Kentucky, mostly clay soil, I had a bumper crop of large sweet potatoes. No fertilizing and they were in ground. Grew 20' long vines but that's ok because they produced more where they re-rooted themselves. Now, the crazy thing is that there were still some rocks in the ground and I had some that grew long & skinny and made their own crazy shapes. Actually measured the longest, twisty turny one. It was 38" long, the size of 2 basketballs together! That's ok, I sliced them into medallions and baked them in a casserole pan. Most of the rest were "normal". Problem was that I had to start growing them in very large pots because the voles started chomping on them the next year. Didn't ruin them badly and they still cured well, just not as impressive to look at. The worse ones got trimmed and eaten first!
Can't wait to try this next spring!
I left a couple sweet potatoes uncured last fall to see if slips would develop faster, and they did. In less than 10 days I had slips a few inches long. I used the 1/2 covered soil system.
Next year I will try fully covering the sweet potatoes with soil.
Stay Well!!!
Great video! Thanks. Will definitely give this a try
Yes 😂. WONDERFUL.Have you tried gingeroot like This. Nice ...
Excellent information. Thank you!
WOOOOOO!!!!! just got some japanese s.p. from the organic store a few days ago!!!! WOOOOO
Thank you! Highly educational, enjoyable personality. I am excited to grow my first sweet/ purple
potatoes 😀🙏🍀👍Fiona
Got my potatoes ready to go. Will be planting them tonight!
Thanks Nate!
I love sweet potatoes and have been using them as one of my main meals for bulking in the gym. Definitely want to try growing them when I come home from Uni :)
yes they're a fantastic complex carb ideal for the bulking cycle!... especially if used with lots of grass fed butter!
Started my last weekend in dirt but did not bury will add more dirt, on heat mat of course. Let's go!
Thanks I am grow some right now and I see where I went wrong.
Thank you for sharing this! Very helpful to a new homesteader.
Well I don't want my hair to turn 'red', but appreciate the information on starting and growing sweet potatoes. I put a couple in water a couple days ago, so I'm going to follow through with those. Next time I try, I'll try the soil system. Thanks again. Lynn
Thank you for the information 😊
Thank you for this video. Lots of good information.
AMAZING INFO !!
You have the most awesome beard ever. And I am going to attempt to make my own slips like you showed.
thank you my friend and you will have great success with this method just be sure to use the soil technique and use a heat mat to keep it really warm for best results
I've always loved them, too. I usually bake them then add butter and salt.
Try sprinkling with cinnamon - delicious
@@kathynix6552 that does sound good. Now I'm craving a baked yam
My 2 yr old grandson is very fair and has ginger hair. His favorite foods are sweet potatoes and carrots..he eats them everyday. I think its all he would eat if mama let him. He's had orange hands and feet for half of his life, but the doctor said it was ok. We also had a pet skunk whose white hair was slightly orange because she also loved sweet potatoes and carrots. I thought your comment on your beard was funny, but it really can happen if you eat enough of them. Thanks for your videos, I've learned a lot from them. 🥕🍲
Greatest help thanks
Awesome Nate - definitely going to try sweet potatoes this season - thanks for the knowledge as always bro!
Sweet!!
You are a delight to watch! I must do more planning for my garden. I dont get the yields I used to because I was in pain and let my garden go. But i can keep trying.
Just found your channel. I have grown my slips with sweet potato half buried and on top of soil. I get good slips but I'm going to try the completely buried technique in Sept/Oct. I'm about to harvest my crop here in New Zealand as we're close to frost time. I noticed tonight they're popping up through top of soil.Thanks for your knowledge. ❤
I would love to see some pictures of your harvest if you care to join our free Discord chat (link in description) you could post pictures and tag me in it so we can see the bounty!!
Thank you!!