Turn ONE Sweet Potato Into 100 LBS Of Sweet Potatoes By Growing SWEET POTATO SLIPS! [Complete Guide]
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- This video will teach you the BEST WAY to start sweet potato slips! Using this method, you can turn one sweet potato into 100 lbs (45+ kg!) of sweet potatoes by growing sweet potato slips from a store bought sweet potato. One sweet potato yielded me dozens of slips in only 22 days!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Why Every Gardener Should Be Growing Sweet Potatoes
1:24 My Favorite Sweet Potato Varieties
2:48 When To Start Sweet Potato Slips
4:44 Starting Sweet Potato Slips In Potting Mix: The BEST Way!
6:36 How To Remove And Separate Sweet Potato Slips
10:32 The Best Way To Plant Sweet Potato Slips
11:52 Planting Sweet Potato Slips
13:13 Sweet Potato Vines Progress After 7 Days
13:58 How To Root Sweet Potato Slips In Water
14:51 The Sweet Potato Slips Keep Coming! Amazing!
17:17 Adventures With Dale
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6/26/22: Hi, I'm from the Philippines. During my high school days gardening is part of our vocational/agri subject. We plant the slips the way you showed here directly to the ground & yes, you have to water them regularly because they easily wither when the sun dries the soil. The other thing that I want you to know is.. if your slips are already "crawling" on the ground & you see a lot of leaves, you can pluck the top most part about 4 or 5" wash it well & steam it just enough.. set aside. Slice some tomatoes, diced onions with a little seasoning to taste & pour that on top of your steamed sweet potato leaves. It's a very good combination if you have fried or grilled fish! Enjoy a Filipino way of eating simple but nutritious meal! 😋😍
Thank you for the wonderful Information.😃
Thanks so much! Since I grow sweet potatoes, & small but plentiful tomatoes, & lots of green onions, this recipe is perfect for me. I have written down your words so I won't forget them. Good Harvests & Health to You!
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Great Work Josephine😁🙋
⁉️ QUESTION ⁉️
Do you prepare this a similar to a cold salad, or steamed/boiled like Stewed Tomatoes⁉️
As a trained horticulturist I can't say enough how accurate this is and explained extremely well. So many RUclips gardeners only usually give the quick and dirty methods (which can also work) but fail to take the time to really provide these type of details and truly superior methods. Makes me super glad to see and proud that a fellow North Carolinian is providing this type of content. Keep up the good work, you've earned a permanent subscriber!
Thank you. I try to research a lot so the info I provide is accurate. A lot of these things are just learned experience, but I try to be accurate in the terminology I use where I can.
How long to harvest? After rooting do you move them to a new planting area? How deep do you plant? I imagine keeping slightly moist. Thank you so much
What is your recommendation on washing store bought sweet potatoes to get them to grow slips please?
Definably one of the most direct accurate no BS tutorials I have ever seen RUclips.
I like to pull the slips and pot them to grow a better root system before setting them in
My mom is from Okinawa , I was born there(dad in marines) we used to eat roasted potatoes from the side of the road the most delicious memory as well !!
This is one of my favorite videos. All time. I’m counting on surviving the apocalypse on sweet potatoes. 😂. Maybe.
In the Apocalypse, you can bring the pie! A vaguely related anecdote: A few years ago I was living in Miami, and there was a big hurricane. The next day of course the power is out, the roads are impassible, lots of damage... it could have been much worse! I had been growing cassava plants, and one of them was pulled up by the storm, it was rolling around like a tumbleweed in my yard! So I peeled one root and set it to boil on a gasoline stove out on the sidewalk, while dragging dead trees out of the road... and that's what I ate in the post-hurricane day, and it was really good! Cassava root ("Yuca") is very familiar, but I had never had any fresh like that, and it was noticeably better, just ate it boiled with a little salt. So that pleasant experience sort of took the edge off the disaster feeling. Otherwise I would have been eating something out of a can or an M.R.E. you know? Since then I've put more effort into different plants that have tubers, I like the idea that there are potato-like things out in the yard! Since then I've eaten different kinds of sweet potatoes from the yard, and they were also really good! Some of them are not really sweet but heavy and starchy, a staple in Hispanic markets. As our host says they might be kind of expensive and also have to be shipped and stored. If you just dig one up and cook it, maybe put butter and salt, it's surprisingly good! I also noticed that sweet potato plants get around, I find them growing like fifty feet away from where they're planted, so the vines are just out in the general yard where they are going to get mowed! So you can collect those to eat, without feeling too bad about it.
In September or October take some 8-12 inch cuttings and stick them in moist potting soil . I use small pots or solo cups and they will root easily if you can keep them warm . Keep them as houseplants in a window or a grow light . They won’t grow very fast inside a home . In spring plant them into your garden . I do that every year and then you won’t have to grow slips every spring .
They actually will grow where I live. It is pretty sunny in our winters, so they’d never make it. It is a lot of effort changing the water, too. I personally prefer just rooting new tubers. It is so easy and low effort that I don’t mind. They grow like weeds in the south. You can’t kill ‘em.
Where I am the winter is so long and dim many houseplants don't even make it, just due to lack of light.
What grow zone?
How do you keep the pest away, wit hi out using chemicals?
cool
I’m from the Philippines and how we grow them is like this: we cut slips from the top portion and plant it directly into the ground on a wide cultivated field and wait 3-4 months. After that dig where you planted them and you’ll see lots of potatoes, we get the bigger ones let the little ones grow more. You’ll know when they’re about to give up when you see the leaves on the vine aren’t healthy anymore.
Thank you for sharing this valuable information. I think I’ll give your method a try. Again, thank you so much.
Thank you so much. Extremely informative.
Thank you !! Gods blessing over you !!
Which way do you plant the cut piece? Do I want the "eyes" pointing up or down?
This info is exciting.because here in. Florida they should do well. Thanks
I just took my first slips off one of my sweet potatoes. I'm blown away. Especially since they are so expensive in the stores. We purchase only organic so that makes the price higher. Now I can not only get free sweet potatoes but share them with my friends.
I'm an Horticulturalist of quite a few years and I've watched many YT vids of exotic plants, veg and fruits but yours is the clearest, non bs video I've ever seen, Kudos.
Im gardening noob and I been watching all kinds of sweet potato videos, this is the best I've seen. Very detailed, efficient and well paced. Thanks!!
Exactly what I was going to say.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad it was helpful!
Thanks for watching!
@@TheMillennialGardener putting me on 7
Sweet potatoes make good looking hanging vines. I had an old sweet potato that was going bad so I stuck it in an empty hanging pot outside & it became the most beautiful hanging basket.
Wow you really, single handedly, explained how to feed your family with highly nutritional food during catastrophic event...Easily..But don't forget the leaves are edible as well, clean them in sink (while pretty and green) and cook them like you would spinach. Delish. Great job man...
Also blanch and freeze for later❤
When I see good videos like this I usually take my time to appreciate the experts who make these videos possible, it's not easy to help a lot of people make money
I would blame myself if I heard of an opportunity like this and let it go to waste, please am interested how can I do business with him
One of the things you said in the end I feel is worth repeating. Each slip only gives you "a couple of pounds of sweet potatoes". In the past, I would spend so much time digging up the soil very deep, hoping that each slip would travel really deep into the ground in order to produce more sweet potatoes per slip and I never got that. If you want more sweet potatoes, you need to plant more slips. That's the only thing that kind of sucks with sweet potatoes: you need a lot of area to get a ton of potatoes. What I WILL try this year is planting slips in the many large containers that I have and see how that goes.
Don’t forget about the young and tender leaves are also edible and has lots of vitamins! Blanch it and place them in the refrigerator for an hour, prepare a dressing (vinaigrette, salt and pepper) topped it with halves cherry tomatoes and thinly slices of shallot…. Or you can use them in your cooking in place of spinach.
I dehydrate, then powder the leaves, and add to my green powder … enhancing the dense nutrients!
Hi I live in the Philippines and we have sweet potato abundantly my tips to you is if you want to grow your sweet potato faster you don’t have to cut your slip into small pieces just plant the whole slip. We usually plant 3 slips in 1 whole.
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Much appreciated 🙏🏾
So blessed.. Perfect weather for growing anything over there🙏🏽
@@av1421*whole
3 root nodes on 1 vine = "3 slips in 1 whole"
Your spelling skills are useless without the reading comprehension to tell why a word was used in the first place.
you edited it !!! Thx@@Mel-qr5ob
I've watched many sweet potato videos. This is the absolute best I've seen. Ty so much
This video is a masterclass in a well-put together video. You deserve all the views and likes you're getting.
Thank You!!! I once picked up some delicious purple sweet potatoes from the farmers market. The peels grew in my compost pile, I transferred the slips to raised beds and grew my own. Yum
That's great! Sweet potatoes are *tough* to kill!
That's the best way to grow! 🍀
Incredible! I love it! ♾💎✨
This video was so detailed and I’ve never grown my slips this way before. This way seems so much easier. I’m so glad I cane across this one. Thanks.
It is very easy. I think it's easier than the water method. You don't have to worry about changing the water, and it's a lot faster. Just make sure the soil stays lightly moist and you can pretty much set it and forget it.
Yes absolutely a ton of information for me who had no idea how they grow
@@TheMillennialGardener I've been doing similar to this method for over 15 years thats the most efficient way for sure
Great video! I live in sub tropical part of New Zealand where sweet potatoes provide slits in the kitchen while waiting to be eaten. 😁 I do plant them. A friend of mine just puts the peelings in the ground and always ends up with huge sweet potatoes out of his volcanic soil. He grows them pretty much all year round as we don't get frost where we are. My favorite is one with red skin and purple inside. Even in our region they're expensive now. Thanx for the video.
I don’t know if you’re still checking these messages, but I live in zone five and came across your video a few weeks ago. I bought some potatoes and actually make up my own soil with various elements and use a plastic container just like you do. Surprisingly, within two weeks, my first slip appeared! Super exciting and I can’t wait to get more. Who knows where I will be at 22 days later, like you were in this video at 6 1/2 minutes! Thanks again
I have been an avid gardener forever. I am 69 years young. I have never attempted sweet potatoes until now. I live in a zone that will accommodate them. Your video is excellent at explaining what I need to do. It’s up to me, the soil, the weather and our Lord after that. I love sweet potatoes and I can’t wait. I am one who spent the money you were talking about for online sweet potatoes, lol. However, I am going to my local Asian market, which I love, and check it further. Thank you for a most informative video.
Yayyy for JESUS! You can make bread and pancakes with them too! Have you tried turmeric, galanga, and ginger root as well? Go for it!
@@xxyy1318hello, I started growing ginger and it’s amazing how fast they are producing. 😊
As a gardening noob, I've NEVER been excited about planting anything really but this video is so well done!
With supply chain issues we are facing, I am forced to start growing fruits and veggies....thank you so much!
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With the condition of the country I've decided to start a garden. Supply chain issues are a concern as well. I would rather learn depend on myself to help my family stay fed.
By far the most comprehensive instruction on growing slips, rooting and planting. Love it! Thank you so much!
This is the best homestead video I have watched so far. Clear step by step instructions. Thank you!
The first year I grew sweet potatoes I put three from the grocery in my 10x20 foot garden. It was summer, okra was already tall. By fall, my entire garden was covered with potatoes. Every year since then, I’ve grown sweet potatoes.
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Perfect! Too many folks struggle to grow stuff that just doesn't want to grow there. (I have!). You have found something that likes your dirt & climate. Wonderful!
What zone are u in?
@@francinewalker8696 I'm in zone 10. Don't know what zone he is in,,,but he's got happy sweet potatoes! They love my place, too, & the (young) leaves are a great spinach substitute. I made chicken florentine using canned chicken, bow tie pasta, & those chopped leaves in place of spinach.
No one detected the switch!
Perfect timing. I was just looking at the sweet potato that's sprouting about 8 or 9 plants sitting in my pantry lol
Turn that baby into dozens of plants!
See? At one time you might have thought those were spoiled, and now you can see them as having MORE value, thanks to RUclips!
Short, sweet and to the point. Loved it. Thank you!❤
I love to eat the sweet potatoes leaves. Cook it with garlic is delicious and it soften easily like spinach
If you found this video helpful, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Why Every Gardener Should Be Growing Sweet Potatoes
1:24 My Favorite Sweet Potato Varieties
2:48 When To Start Sweet Potato Slips
4:44 Starting Sweet Potato Slips In Potting Mix: The BEST Way!
6:36 How To Remove And Separate Sweet Potato Slips
10:32 The Best Way To Plant Sweet Potato Slips
11:52 Planting Sweet Potato Slips
13:13 Sweet Potato Vines Progress After 7 Days
13:58 How To Root Sweet Potato Slips In Water
14:51 The Sweet Potato Slips Keep Coming! Amazing!
17:17 Adventures With Dale
I have to do garden containers, so can I do them in that? How deep does the dirt need to be? Will worm castings suffice instead of having 5-5-5?
Excellent video! Subbed!
Seriously, really good video on how to easily grow you’re own food..
Great idea
You can buy sweet potato and let it lie down in a plastic container soak with water. It will sprouts, as soon as it sprouts, you can take off and plant in a glass bottle, after you see roots (at this time 2 month usually passes) it's ready ṭi plant.
You gave the absolute BEST demonstration and instruction I have EVER seen. No one has given clear concise instructions like you. Thank you so so much.
I'm glad to hear it was helpful! Thank you for watching.
@@TheMillennialGardener Sending big love from Indonesia 🇮🇩❤️🙏.
Thanks you Sir for the beautiful method
@@TheMillennialGardener but I didn't catch how often, how much to water in the tote, and what method, spray bottle or..?
Hello! This video came at the perfect time. I had some sweet potatoes sitting around and start sprouting. I inadvertently did your method. My container is next to the window and growing slips! It is mid Feb, and now I see I’m right on time! Thank you so much! When it comes time to plant I’ll do as you explained. Woot!!
I LOVE this video!! I've watched it a few times to get all the info. I'm very new to veg gardening and am definitely giving these a try. All your videos are very informative and good tutorials. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Your videos are so perfect that I give you a thumbs up before I even watch them...and I am NEVER disappointed! Best gardener on RUclips, no doubt!
Thank you! I appreciate that so much! I’m happy to hear you’re finding them valuable.
I second that. Natural teacher for sure
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That’s why I’m vegan, lots of fibre if you eat plants and fruit and nuts and berries and tubers and lentils beans et cetera. PH 7, no smell.
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I've grown sweet potatoes for a few years now and always thought it was strange that the vines and flowers looked exactly like Morning Glories. You blew my mind when you said they were, in fact, in the morning glory family!
Yep! Sweet potatoes are in the family *Convolvulaceae,* known commonly as the bindweed or morning glory family. They are not potatoes at all, and it's a misnomer.
I have watched a lot of others but this video is by far the most comprehensive process. Thank you so much!
I am just outside the Atlanta area and just about to start my sweet potatoes in potting soil tomorrow with my kids. I have watched several videos but this will be the one I show them because you have so much information and the bonus dog footage at the end they will love!
I live in zone 6a and so I started my slip production in January. As an experiment I planted my rooted slips on 5/14 on the top of a hot compost pile, that is moist, and mulched lightly. Night temps are in the 40's and my slips are thriving. The deer won't get to them because the compost pile is too soft for their footing. Today I am going to add a cover to encourage humidity as the wind dries out the surface. Thanks for your video; I learned a lot. I am experimenting in ways to beat the season and be more self sustaining.
You can get the Murasaki at Trader Joe's for $3.99 for 3 pounds. My family buys a few bags at a time and I got one small potato to produce 7 slips about 3" tall and took about 3w now, I'm near Seattle in zone 8b. I used the same method you did, using an old ziplock container.
Wow! I got some last week for .69/ lb at El Super!
Stumbled across this in my search of informative videos for growing things I’ve not grown yet. Watched your video and is exactly what I was looking for. Your advice and presentation isn’t annoying. You get right to it and don’t add any drama. Greatly appreciated! Thank you for sharing!
I just found your channel. I really appreciate how thorough you are in teaching us the hows and whys of gardening. I can't wait to try your planting tips.
I'm growing orange and purple sweet potato slips from my last year's harvest 😋
Yep! You can save some old potatoes keep reusing the same harvest every year! It’ll never end. Endless potatoes for free!
@@TheMillennialGardener How do you save potatoes without them getting rotten?
Question: Do you know which Sweet Potato grows with purple leaves?
Totally explains why the organic potato I bought at our Natural Foods store never put out slips after 2 months in the potting soil. It rooted itself, but I never thought about it being a fresh potato and taking longer to produce slips. . Great video, as always!
So glad I’ve found your channel. I’m in north east South Carolina so my climate is just like yours and I can follow along knowing your advice is good for my area. Getting ready to start my slips more in mid February. Thanks again
This is, by far, the best tutorial I’ve seen on growing from sweet potato slips! Thank you!
Dear Dale, you did a fine job describing the best way to propagate sweet potatoes. You explain everything in a clear and concise manner. For those new to gardening, the dvil is in the detail. Thanks for making those detail interesting and fun to learn. Best Rob
I have a question:would regular russet potato be considered the same method used to grow?
@@mrsbougie1402 No, regular potatoes are started differently and require less preparation. You don’t create “slips” like you do with sweet potatoes. Instead, regular potato plants that grow from the eyes on the potato.
One RUclipsr used seed potatoes purchased at the store... 10 seed potatoes in two large containers grew 12 lbs of potatoes!
You did good sir. I have something to add, if you chose to use cuttings, you can buy root harmone bottle, it will help speed up the root growth. Also you forgot to mention the depth of the soil bed, normally 12" deep this give you a little insulation, and aids in nutrients in soil. Collect rain water to use in first week of watering. Rain is higher in nitrogen then tap water. Rain water is far more pure then tap water without all the chemicals! I was stationed in Okinawa, I remember seeing the purple sweet potatoes there!
Hi Former Marine,,, Thanks,,, i know they grow deep: he should have said that,,, They are totally different from white potatoes. Rain water,,,, great idea,, thanks, Those japanese purple potatoes,,, Yum,,, im trying to get it to make slips... (first time),,, thank you
I showed this to my husband and I think we will be doing this. One of our favorite foods!
Great information. I have never planted sweet potatoes before but this year I wanted to give it a try and your video has taught me a lot. Thank you
As always, you give a very detailed instruction on planting. My mom loves that purple Japanese sweet potatoes. I got a few at home. I will try to see if I can sprout them
They’re incredible! I wish you luck. They seem to be notoriously tricky.
Me too, they are so expensive at the grocery store now. I have kept one for 2 weeks now, not sprouting yet 😟
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Awsome vid ❤️ buy xrp that will well
I just bought two from the store yesterday. I am going to try this method today.
My mother grew her sweet potato slips under a cold frame.
When planted in the garden she made a "hill" for each slip. We always had plenty sweet potatoes!
She sold slips as well as harvested sweet potatoes!
This is the best tutorial I've ever seen for starting slips. Well done!!
Thank you for encouraging gardening RUclipsrs such as myself, especially new ones.
You do it EXACTLY the same way I do. I grew 750 slips last year and just stuck them straight into potting soil. 100% success, no fuss, no mess. They tend to rot in water.
How many slips did you plant in each hole??? New Jersey...
Wonder why sweet potatoes always are so expensive when they are easy to grow?
@@Walter-wv6wyeven though easy to grow, i guess not many grow them
Do you take the lid off at all in the beginning? How do I prevent them from getting moldy? Thanks!!
750?wow!!! Good job
This was incredibly informative, very practical, and easy to follow. Thank you so much. Will work on sweet potatoes next season!
Thank you so much! I did exactly as you said and the slips grew beautifully and are ready for planting. 🤗
2/18/2023 You are very detailed in how to root sweet potatoes. I live in central lower Michigan and have raised sweet potatoes in the garden from slips purchased from a seed company. With our short growing season, the potatoes did not get very large but can start them very early inside next time with the instructions you have given. Thanks much!!!
If you have your own slips, planting late means you harvest late, so the temp is a little more tolerable. Also, consider planting in separate planting so they are not all ready to harvest at the same time,
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yep, in Louisiana I replant tomatoes and squash again after the first spring harvest. My new squash are coming up and my San Marzano tomato plants are Beautiful, will have more of these veggies soon, only 50 days till harvest in crooked neck squash. oh and my eggplants took so long to get up big enough to plant but they're up about 30" tall now.
why? they are a food that can be stored. you want them to grow as much as possible before winter and they can be stored through the whole winter in a cool dark dry place.
@@BCzepa Living in South Florida- I don't have any "cool, dark places"! Succession planting works better in the tropics/subtropics!
You are correct. Separate plantings are definitely the way to go, especially in the south. More folks should garden! Health & Peace of Mind, & less politics!
Thank you for your video. I just want to say something. If you plant several sweet potatoes, you can also harvest the leaves. They have amazing health benefits. (it's almost $3 a bundle at the Asian stores). I am going to start this in the morning. I have 2 old sweet potatoes in the kitchen that have started its own slips without my help. Thank you again.
this is the best list of instructions... Thank you.
This is one of the best videos.
Very well explained step by step. Good job
Excellent video. I intend to use these tips to grow sweet potatoes. I’m now a new subscriber because I found your videos to be packed with great info & your teaching style is very easy to follow. Excited to view more of your videos. Ty for sharing your expertise.
Definitely one of the most useful gardening channels.
Thank you! I appreciate that a lot!
I am blown away by both the sweet potatoes and this complete tutorial! I always have questions and I not only now feel confident with what I’m doing with my slips but I don’t have any questions!! Ty😂
I'm very happy to hear that! Definitely give it a try. The key will be moisture regulation. You must keep your potting mix moist, but not wet. If it gets too dry, the potatoes won't root. Too wet and they rot, so be sure to provide enough fresh air by venting the lid to prevent a wet condition and rot from setting in.
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What kind of soil do sweet potatoes like?
I amend with home made compost and coffee grinds, and mulch with pine needles, acidic soil.
My potatoes love it, but do sweet potatoes?
Sweet potatoes are great for arthritis. I give my dog grated sweet potato, carrots & tuna in oil. She's lost all the additional weight she put on with a pet carer ... and she loves it! It also means that she's able to fill her tummy without putting on weight ... and she's back to being reeealy healthy now!
Thanks for the great video. My husband recently purchased a few different types of sweet potatoes, and one of them was dark skinned with dark purple flesh, so I saved one, as I’d never seen one before. The common ones we get in NZ are the orange flesh ones, the dark red ones with white flesh (firmer flesh), and the light brown ones with cream flesh. But the Maori people have always grown a variety of potatoes and sweet potatoes. Hopefully, I might get a sample of those too. After seeing this video, I’m now confident enough to start with the slips. Happy planting everyone.
Never seen a red sweet potato here in USA
@@DarkangaelBrokenwing We get different types here in NZ, but the most common ones sold in supermarkets are the orange skin with orange flesh, purple skin with white flesh and cream skin with white flesh. The other great varieties are difficult to source, but can be found In farmers’ markets. You could look in farmers’ markets.
My best experience growing out slips has been in a worm bin. Incredible growth in a week.
I think the age of the sweet potato has a lot to do with it. How fresh the potatoes are at the store matters. Sweet potatoes have very long storage life, so it's possible what you buy at the store could be quite fresh or quite old. It's hard to say how long it'll take, because you could be buying sweet potatoes left over from last fall, or something imported that's much fresher.
@@TheMillennialGardener I used my own from last fall. They were well cured, so that may have had something to do with the success. They worked very well in peat too, but I was surprised how quickly the worm bin slips sized up. Just the right amount of moisture and beneficial microbes I would guess.
99% of ALL tators in box store's ARE.last year's crop kept in storage. I'd say 80% of apples also.
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finally! I been looking for exactly what you showed me and have watched a dozen videos who still left me with questions! Thank you! ironically I am from SJ too--cherry hill. I've been in Tampa Bay (9b) now for almost 10 years and am finally starting to garden again. This climate is intimidating to deal with, thank you for being a great resource for us novices!
Great video! Best I've seen on the subject. I'm in zone 6b and have an indoor greenhouse to grow in year-round. I started to root a variety from the Asian food market that I had gotten back in the fall, so it was ready to sprout. I used his method, in a simple plastic storage bin from the dollar store, and right now, in early April, I have tons of leaves and slips. The vines/stems are over a foot high and growing daily, sprouting new leaves constantly. It's amazing to watch. The roots in the storage bin are extremely well-established. I will be planting them in the ground in late May. This is definitely the method I will be using each year. Can't wait to try this variety, as I've only ever had the basic orange flesh version. Thank you so much for your amazing video!
Great video with great tips! My slips are rooting now and I'm about three weeks away from planting.
Thank you! Outstanding. What variety/varieties are you growing?
@@TheMillennialGardener Good question because I normally choose specific varieties, but I bought a generic "organic red sweet potato" from the store produce section and will do a video on the process through harvest.
Interesting. I’ve never grown a red sweet potato. Curious to see how it works out!
Cool! The two of my fav garden channels chatting it out.
Great video watch you both!! I'm in N.Y. this is my 3rd year growing sweet potatoes. I bought an organic sweet potatoe 3 years ago. I start my slips in potting soil in a aluminium pan from the dollar store and place the pan ontop of my hot water heater in my furnace room. Got around 40 already planted in the ground . Rooted them in water first because it was to cold to plant them out but stuck them right in the dirt when i did. This weekend gonna be in the 90s here. And we're having lots of rain.
Hi from Australia.
Great tips. I have a bed of two varieties and they're so easy to grow and I've had several kilos (pounds) of potatoes this way. You can't kill them, they grow like a weed, it's so simple to do, every gardener should be doing it. Great channel, love your content and the clear explanations of how to grow plants for food. Keep it up.
Thank you! Most of the coastal cities in Australia stay frost-free, so sweet potatoes can be grown year round. They'll do especially well on the east coast in the subtropics, because they like humidity and rainfall. If you live around Brisbane/Gold Coast, these would do well year round.
@@TheMillennialGardener that's exactly where I am. Yep, they slow up a little at the moment but there's no frost here near sea level. Even after all the rain we've in recent times, that hasn't seemed to bother them too much, the tubers are just starting to bulk up a little. The only significant pests that I've experienced here are the dreaded native bush turkeys, who love to dig up the bed and chomp out the tubers. Easy fix with a wire grating from the hardware store to cover the bed space. 😎
In Toowoomba I've not had luck with slips I've grown or those from Bunnings, nor from PNG method shown on ABC Gardening. I'll have another go as I too am a fan of the Okinawan type; health types say it works as an adaptogen.
Can't get them to grow in limestone coast SA too cold n frosty
Wonderfully informative! Thank you for sharing!!
Most Americans don't realize the HUGE variety in sweet potatoes, and just how widespread they are and how good of a food it is.
Hey, EVEN those sweet potatoes you buy at an American grocery store can be excellent, but I would advise learning different ways to cook them. My friend did a cook on them, which is leaving them mostly crisp still and mixed that up in a WONDERFUL salad, a kind of pickled salad.
I had my Filipino wife cook up some, where instead of going to the Asian grocery store and spending more on almost the same thing, she used ones from Walmart, and you slice them in fairly big pieces, about a 1/3" thick, cutting down through the entire potato and then fry those in oil, but ensuring they DON'T get soft. You sprinkle some sugar on them and they're excellent.
This was the best how to video I've seen. Showing us the roots and the slips from that same potato was great.
This is exactly how I do mine..I use clear shoe box containers to be able to examine the roots on all my food.Awesome channel. Glad I found ya!
I am so happy with your advice. I purchased two new types of sweet potatoes and have slips! I also used your method and made my own slips from last years harvest! Nothing tastes as good as those who come from my garden!
Nice job! Lived in Wilmington for 30 years, moved up north of Durham a couple of years ago to give us more land. Getting ready to start my slips, I also have found this the best method. :)
I loved using the leaves and cuttings of sweet potatoes as salad with lemon; sour soup from tamarind with either one of fish, pork, chicken or beef and with lots of other veggies - like eggplants, greenbeans, okra, stringbeans, etc
It’s mid January, in zone 7b. I have just planted 4 sweet potatoes to start getting my cuttings. I love fresh home grown sweet potatoes!
Fresh red potatoes are pretty amazing too!
You will never taste more flavorful food than if you grow it yourself
My goodness, do I learn SO MUCH from you!. Thanks for taking the time to make all of these videos. My husband absolutely loves sweet potatos.
Most informative sweet potato growing video I've seen. Well done. Thanks
2 tips. 1) put a sprinkling of microrhizal funghi in the bottom of your hole, this establishes root growth quickly. 2) cover the bottom of your hole with the soil/compost and sprinkle your bonemeal etc on the TOP. If you put it in the bottom, the roots will not spread as well. Watering carries the fertiliser down to them over time.
This will be my first year growing them. I plan to use RootWise Micro and aloe powder in the slip-water, let them sit for 8-ish hours, and plant with worm castings in the bottom of the holes as a one-day project.
Thoughts are appreciated, and thanks in advance!
On top of the planted sweet potato?
Or on top of the covered sweet potato (on the surface)?
This is one of the most informative videos I have ever seen on YT. And I am very grateful for it as I just planted some sweet potato that was just budding out of the end. But I wasn't sure how to optimize it and get it to grow better. I am very focussed on my garden this year for obvious reasons. So thank you for helping me get this part of it off to a good start. These will grow in Texas into the early winter as it is always hot as hades here. You probably saved my life because the cats keep digging up everything else!
I particularly likes the tip on what time of day to plant, as people often overlook these things. I find if I plant anything during a new moon it also grows much faster. Wonderful video!
Yes planting at the dark of the moon is good for all below ground plants. My granddaddy was one that followed the sign n watched the phases of moon carefully.. always made abundant harvest.
This is the best video! You answered all of my questions!!❤ Thank you!!
Wow! This is the best video I've seen about growing sweet potatoes! Thank you! I'm SO excited about getting started! 🤗
It’s nice to see the alternative method to starting the slips, thanks for sharing this! I got some going in my garden and I’m so excited to get my own fresh sweet potatoes! 🍠
I followed your advice and now have a bunch of slips. Planting right before a week of showers. I'm so excited! Thank you!
It is very much appreciated for sharing your valuable knowledge and instructions, Thankyou very much
I just want to thank you for the BEST Sweet Potato guide I found all day and I went through a LOT! You’re the best ❤️. Liked, subscribed and recommended to my friends.
I have listened to literally hundreds of videos trying to find the quickest easiest method to start sweet potatoes this one is by far 100% the best most detailed most informative video I have ever watched this is my first year to raise sweet potatoes and I really appreciate the information you have provided. Excellent video! Thank you!
I live in the southern part of Australia. My ears perked up when you said nights not below 10C. I had some slips growing on leftover sweet potatoes and thought that I was going to lose them. We are in the first month of winter but our nights don't go below 10C. After listening to you I have planted my slips into small pots and put them in a window inside the house.
So glad that RUclips recommended your channel. Thanks very much.
My goodness! I thank you for that food you just fed us prospective planters. I am so excited to grow some sweet potatoes. I have a1/2 of one purple ones in water since Friday, today is Sunday, but I think I’m going to definitely get some at the farmers market this week. Thanks for your ideas.❤ Happy harvest!
Thank you for all you wonderful gardening tips. I really appreciate that you begin each video with the date. This helps me plan when to begin growing. Thanks again. Hugs to Dale.
I always try to document my location and the date so it gives everyone a point of reference. It's hard to get value if you don't know where someone is and when they're beginning. Thanks for watching!
I agree - zone 9 here and just harvested some sweet potatoes and cut the vine tips off (14-16”), stripped the lower leaves and stuck them into the ground and they are easily growing more sweet potatoes.
Just picked up a few certified organic purple potatoes and will plant them in mix as you have shown. A bit late in the season but since this is my first year gardening, will see how this works. We may or may not get a frost until December or January. I’ll post an update later in the year if this worked or not.
Really enjoy your videos and have learned so much from you. Very appreciative.
I live in Florida coastal Zone 10a. I planted slips from a Hannah and a violet sweet potato. I harvested several shopping bags full of sweet potatoes. Anyway, pieces of the vines I left in the garden or put in compost piles have rooted and stated spreading all over the place. The vines send out underground runners that pop up several feet from the main vine mass. I don't mind because it makes nice looking ground cover of purplely vines and I dig up the runners if they get into my tomato or cucumber mounds. And when I do dig up the runners there are baby sweet potatoes growing.
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Beginner gardener here with no green thumb but lots of desire! Thank you so much for your video!! I been trying to find that plant that I could grow and that would actually make it in wet, humid, hot Florida (no frost here, lol.). I found this very educational and hopeful. You are an excellent teacher and your enthusiasm was infectious!! Thanks again! :)
This is the only video I've found that makes me feel confident 😊 just bought a huge Okinawan potato...$5 ! Hard as a rock. Then a few of the small reddish Murasaki one's . Very excited! Thank you!
Thank you! Looking forward to planting for the first time this year
I just found your video today! Excellent and very informative. It’s too late in the year for me to plant this year but will do next year! I really enjoy how you show and explain every step. Thanks you!
I followed your method and now I’m getting my new slips starting to sprout from the sweet potato! I’ll plant next week sometime. Thanks for your videos.
Outstanding! Congrats! There is still time to plant them and get a nice harvest. The faster you can develop them, the better!
@@TheMillennialGardener I'm in Redding, Ca... do you think we still have time?
Great video! Best I've seen yet on growing sweet potatoes...LOVE your enthusiasm and how you get straight to the point. Thank you so much...love your channel.
Omgosh, I got sooo much great info from this video!! I thank you so so much!