Tips on Sweet Potatoes: How to Tell if Your Sweet Potatoes Are Ready to Harvest
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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Till in a little gypsum two weeks before planting, it runs voles and they don’t usually come back for that season. We learned the hard way. Great channel, great information, thank you so much for making this video.
Pro tip from someone that lives in a colder climate (I live in Austria): don’t harvest your sweet potatoes before the end of October. November is even better.. I found that the sweet potatoes grow a lot of leaves during the warmer months and need the cold weather in October and November to grow the potatoes.The lower temperatures trigger the potatoes growth. If you pull them up before that (even if the plants were in the ground for 90 days or longer) you will only harvest thin roots or at most carrot sized sweet potatoes.
thank you so much for this tip, because now I'm in Texas, and we're going into the cooler months, and I thought i had planted too late. but thank you so much!
How to tell readiness...
1) Scratch n dig
2) Look for Cracked ground
3) Know variety maturation time
4) Use calendar to track development/harvest time
Thanks, Guys
@HollenbergR You're welcome.
Thank YOU for the video and the opportunity to be educated.
Just dug up my resting garden for planting. Was blessed with a basket full if Okinawan purple sweet potatoes. They are a wonderful potato that has a❤n almost perfume flavor. So unique and pleasant flavor. Am planting more. There is much food in the fallow land of the ppor...says Yahuah 😊
Thank you Sir!
My first year growing sweet potatoes. You have been more helpful to a new gardener than any other person
Our first time panting potato’s thanks
I thought the sweet potatos had to cure for 2-3 weeks to get the desired sweet potato flavor.
Agreed. I've tried curing and not curing. Didn't make a lot of difference to taste.
@@barbarajoybuchanan2799And for the Oriental ones they do not need during.
Curing also helps the skin toughen so will store better.
@@barbarajoybuchanan2799nah curing brings out the sweetness
This is sort of a myth. Yes the flavour intensifies with curing, but they still taste darn good right away, just a little “softer” taste.
I’m looking forward to my harvest in a couple of weeks! My potatoes are flowering! They are so pretty!
is that another sign and indicator?
September 01, 2024. I live in zone 9a Pacific Northwest. Hello and thank you for your very informative video! Wow! So, my question is whether some of those vines can be rooted and replanted to grow more sweet [beauties] potatoes? I don't have acres, on my property but I have planted several slips in tubs and fabric planters. I have a lot of beautiful vines and am out of sweet potatoes slips to plant. Can I cut several of those vines, then root them and use as slips for another harvest? Please answer when you get a few moments. Thank you again for your great video.
Me,2. The rabbits love them so I want a continuous supply
Yes. I cut vines for rooting before I harvest my sweet potatos. Going on 3 years for growing them from the original potatos. Have some rooting now. Here they grow year round.
I hope you will continue to show us your traditional cooking. It’s better than watching all those world famous chefs . Also your traditional attire and lifestyle are so wholesome , healthy and peaceful. It’s very soothing watching your videos . And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
3:19 Caribbean Sweet Potatoes ❤
Nice🎉👍🍠🍠🍠
The appropriate term is"Tuber", not "potatoe" (not related botanically)
If you want to grow these in a cooler climate, try to get New Zealand "Kumera"
Also, putting a small stake next to where you plant a tuber helps finding the tubers when it comes to harvest.
Thanx for the info because I have been calling them potatoes too. I live in the mountains, so I'll try the Kumera type if I can find them.
Sweet potatoes are not tubers they are just roots. Regular potatoes are tubers.
Thanks for sharing ❤
How edible are the vines? Abraham may just be getting the best part of the plant!
The vines are very much edible. Just cute the tender shoots, and they're great for soups or salads. Just blanch in hot water followed by an ice bath for salads. Use any dressing you want. They're eaten all over Asia, and have lots of vitamin B and folic acid.
The leaves are edible too. Use the first 3 leaves of each vine.
My bunnies love the leaves!
2:25 sign #1❤
8:08 Ground cracking or soil breaking away for potatoes coming up ❤
I grew sweet potatoes for the first time this year. I have them in the ground for about 120 days in a big container. I guess I‘ll harvest them now. Thank you, this was very helpful. Also some potatoes are coming out of the soil. Are these bad? I saw another video where they said that potatoes out off the ground would be toxic?
The ladies could make a delicious stew or side dish; adding the bonus tubers to the black eyed peas in veg/chicken/beef stock, cooking with onions, garlic, ginger, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, tomatoes, chives, and all the hearty deliciousness we enjoy in the winter.
That sure sounds pretty tasty.
It very much is, my friend!! I'd also add okra if I had some but alas, the okra season is over for me. ::boo hiss::@@humbleservantshomestead7974
Perfect timing! I have to get out in the garden and see if mine are ready. They were volunteers from last year, so I have no planting date. Thanks for this video 😊
I have no planting date either. My friend (a regular sweet potato grower & harvester) gifted his slips to us and I planted a few not making a note. He always harvests after the first frost when the vines die out. But I need the space [unlike him who has a huge plot across the road] & the vines look great still [South Carolina, 8a] so I'm still reluctant, unfortunately. And also at a loss since it's apparently going to be back to the high 70's and 80's next week.
It's always when volunteers appear in a garden. We see them as nature's way of sending blessings out way. Happy harvesting family
@@Livingsamsara that's interesting that he digs after the first frost. Does it affect the tubers at all?
Apparently not since he was able to give us - I'd say - a large Amazon sized box worth maybe 40 to 50 lbs last year (which lasted us all Fall & Winter) while HE was eating them for lunch and also dinner throughout the Spring. His potato patch looks as large as yours looks. Maybe try an experiment and see which one yields the best? I bet your viewers would love to see it; I know I would. But may be one caveat? His garden, as huge as it is, is super sandy (almost would just call it dirt) & he does no amending. SO... may be a difference?
ALSO, thanks to you, I came out this morning and looked in our patch, and saw red skin, so I pulled it up. Nice size! I'l dig again in 4 days after no rain because now you've given me the fever!!! @@humbleservantshomestead7974
All that to say is that with climate change & our potential for "Indian Summers" my Mimi would call them... I was never keen on waiting til First Frost so I'll say YOU inspired me to get them out earlier so I can get to planting my Fall crops. 🥳
Beautiful and natural... thanks!
That's a beautiful Billy.
2:52 90 days to harvest ❤
Thanks for the information.
Im about to pull up some of mine. The got a frost about 2 weeks ago. Time to eat.
Yeah its sounds like it's time for you! We definitely want to pull ours before our predicted frost date of Nov 2nd.
4:27 take out some slips ❤
Well.. I literally planted my slip like 6 in apart 🤣 what's going to happen?
Did you order a few hundred slips early in the spring? Or did you grow your own slips? I have done both. I like growing my own slips, but to have a hundred or more slips I can't imagine growing that many. If you do grow that many, can you share your technique? If you buy the slips, who do you purchase from? Thank you for your wonderful videos and peaceful spirit.
Hey there! We grew our own slips. Its something we do every year. Here are a few of our videos from earlier this year that may help you out with growing your slips as well. Blessings family
ruclips.net/video/apP7b9-FRYw/видео.htmlfeature=shared
ruclips.net/video/xygNXWD5MHM/видео.htmlfeature=shared
@@humbleservantshomestead7974 Thank you for including the two videos. I watched them both. Great info. I learned something new about growing slips that I will incorporate going forward, which should help increase my yield of slips. I grow beauregard, but next year will include Covington. I store my sweet potatoes in my root cellar through the winter and spring, and I heat that Covington's store the longest.
Thank you for this video I learned Lot. Just stumbled across it. Does that Solar panel trick really work? Just wondering😁I’m new to gardening . I always love learning all the hacks of gardening.
Is it true that you should stop watering 2 weeks before harvest? What about if it rains during that time?
Do people know you can eat pototo leaf it nice as veg
Bake the sweet potatoe with some ateam cLlaloo and a slice of salmon
Thanks
Does the cracking apply to containers as well. I can't wait to see the harvest.
It does but it depends on the type of soil used. If loose soil was used then look for bulging more so than cracking.
How long does the potatoes take to be ready
7:02 but Boss?! How you know it’s no snake in there!!!? 🙂↕️😵💫
I’m stepping into things and the approach around being preventative about planting in a fashion that is snake preventative.
- Keeping things “clear” with vines over the ground in a large space just screams snakes to me. Maybe I’m wrong but that’s why I’m asking. 😂❤
Did you know you can eat the sweet potato leaves they taste like spinach you should try them
How often do I have to water the sweet potato?
Does the korean potatoe have any similarity to jamaican sweet potatoe
Yes they are similar to us! They are both "dry" and sweet. They are as close to the Jamaican sweet potaotes as we can grow in our zone.
14:28 🪱🐛
90 days
Do you have snake where yiu live if si are you afraud
Too long , I'm off.
This is not an airport so no need to announce your departure🤷🏾♀️
@@humbleservantshomestead7974 matter of opinion
Thanks for sharing 💜