God is showing us there is more than one way to harvest food. For two years in a row now we haven't been able to harvest much out of the garden. But I walked out in the front yard one day after a heavy rain the night before and God gave me a huge harvest of Oyster mushrooms. There was a log laying there that we just hadn't had time to cut up & get out of the yard yet. That log was about 6 foot long and just covered with mushrooms. We're so thankful, God is still providing for us.
I just love the fact that y'all realize how Blessed y'all are regardless of the small Harvest. The Great Lord Honors that and Blesses that as Im sure y'all are aware. Thanks for the lesson Danny. It seems like I learn something New everytime I watch yours and Wanda's videos. And Thanks for that !!!
Thx for sharing, you have great Wisdom that will help not just farmer's, but many others. That's a great idea to date your crops, reminds me we should all be thankful and count the number of our days!
Danny, we had some business in Vardaman last year and so after we were done, we went to one of the sweet potato farms and bought cases of them for about 1/3 of the price we pay for them on the coast from retailers. Then, I came home and boiled or baked them until they were cooked but still firm and then put them in the frig overnight. The next day, I peeled and sliced them and dehydrated them. I stored them in jars and pulled the air out. Well, that was Oct. 2018. Two days ago, I opened one of the jars and simmered some of them in a pan and in about 20 minutes, I had delicious potatoes. We decided that maybe for now we will do this again in Oct. and buy lots more boxes and try to put up as many as possible (maybe a hundred jars or more.) We are still going to work on our grow plan for sweet potatoes but for now as we don't have a crop, I think we're going to go that way. We also are finding that dehydrating is much easier and takes much less room than canning and can just open jars of dehydrated vegetables and potatoes and throw them together for meals. We work a lot and this helps us to have quick meals. We have canned sweet potatoes in the past and each jar takes so few potatoes to what we can get in a jar from dehydrating that it wasn't worth our effort, plus, they became so watery, we felt like we were eating water. The dehydrated potatoes taste so much better and have a nice density to them.
Wow, I'm amazed at the white potatoes. Even after gardening for so many years, you are still learning new things. I really enjoyed this video. and just loved watching you pull out the potatoes. Thanks. We learn a lot from you Danny.
Get a plastic 5 gal bucket or 50 gal plastic barrel. Cut 50 gal barrel into..add dirt ,plant. I've planted tomatoes in 5 gal buckets ,They did well.Same for barrel cut into. I put each cut barrel on side apartment door,grew great sweet potatoes.Vines also decorated doorway😺
You are right, you and Wanda are blessed. I really enjoy how real you all are. You talk about the good times, but you also talk about what's not working. God Bless You Both.
Still a fantastic and blessed harvest Danny and Wanda! Good morning to you both from here in Tifton, Ga and thank you guys for sharing your sweet potato harvest with us! This year's weather has caused us all some type of problems regardless to what we are growing and like you said my friend, it is a blessing to have grown and been able to harvest the amount that you did. Continued success in your gardens over there!
Danny those white sweet potatoes look soo good. Are they as sweet as the red ones ? You’re blessed for having that many with the soil soo dry. I can’t believe it it looks like dust. God bless you n I hope you get many more good ones ❤️🤗🙏
Thank you for your video.. I absolutely love how you shared your daddys storys... I beleive in the old ways like our fathers did..again thank you and God bless you and your family!
A few years ago I had a raised bed that was 20 feet long by 4 feet wide and made of 2x12s where I planted red sweet potatoes because the family wanted a few pies for the holidays, after the vines began dying off I began to pull them, well what I thought 2 store bought small potatoes should have ever grown. I ended up pulling over 200 pounds in just a few months with an investment of less than $20. Sadly I had missed a few that re-spawned a new crop, which never ended because you can never kill all of the roots and if you leave any part they will regrow almost like a virus. Sweet potatoes need square footage while regular potatoes need depth, plan accordingly. Use a crop screen like a shade cloth to stop the heat from cooking them in the ground.
Yaaaaaaaaas! The first ones look awesome. Im sorry they arent all like that Brother! You guys deserve a nice WIN so I hope you got a good bunch as well. Wholeness
I know what you mean about "new" weeds. A few years ago we put a huge load of well seasoned horse manure on our garden. The next year we had a weed come up all over the garden that had huge thorns on it. If we pulled them early, we could get around the thorns, but if they got any height on them at all, we had to have gloves. And, the root was really long. If we chopped them off, I am not exaggerating, they would grow back in 2 days. After about 6-8 years, they are almost gone, but still were a few this year. I'll take johnson grass and morning glories any day over those devils! I know you're thankful for what you got, but I also know that it makes you sick that so many rotted. Like you said, "Lesson learned!" We learn something every year.
I had no clue the work and challenges a famed faced growing sweet potatoes. Sure gives me a different perspective. I will be more than thankful next time I buy my sweet potatoes. Thank you Sir and farmers for all your hard work just so we can eat.
Now I want to go find white sweet potatoes! Thank you for letting us have a peek at life on the farm these days. Take care and be safe, much love from Ma 2.
OH, Danny, I am a BIG FAN of the white sweet potatoes too!How funny as MY daddy LOVED them also! Sweet... Luckily my grocery store sells them. Not the same as having fresh ones like you have, but still good... How AWESOME that your plants did so well! Wish I lived close enough to buy some from you.
@@DeepSouthHomestead even grass clippings help, as long as it hasn't went to seed. Just let it dry for a week or 2, the only other option would be shade cloth, or composted mulch. I grew up in north FL, so I feel y'all on heat and dry soil.
@@DeepSouthHomestead Can you make contact with a local tree trimming service and get loads of chipped tree trimmings and bark? If you just stack up piles of the chipped up mulch it will compost itself down to humus in a year or so. Till the composted bark and trimmings into your soil and it will really improve your soil and help it to retain more moisture. Also, are you composting all of your own plant waste and using the resulting compost to feed your plants and improve your soil?
Great video. We too have been experimenting with sweet taters. The fertilizer is a problem. Rats are a protein for us as well. Northern central AR and ours rotted a couple yrs back with the heat being so bad. But, want to share that we are now planting and harvesting for our area with the almanac. And by the moon. So far, doing the best for us. Thought I would share that. Been gardening for over 45 yrs.
Kind of like a student telling the teacher he's wrong, but, I think maybe if you double compost that stuff, when its done for a year, roll it into a new pile for another year, it might help kill the seeds. I'm not good at getting it to work, but you need to get the pile so hot it steams. I am loving all the sweet potato and farming expertise I am picking up from you. I worked on farms, ranches, gardened with my Dad and my uncle, there is always more to learn. Thank you.
Would it be possible or helpful to start the slips earlier and get them to bigger sizes before putting the slips out in the garden earlier? Might the slips make potatoes before it gets so hot? The flagging and marking would still help for certain. I have no idea how dependent, determinate, potatoes are on growing time. Your little greenhouse could be real handy. You have put most of another garden year behind you. Best of luck to you and Wanda.
Root crops do not transplant with much if any success simply because the root is the crop! And sweet potato's require heat and time. If you don't have enough heat and time, no potato's. The example of this is that he had big potato's in the ground but didn't think so after the tops died thinking the heat killed the plant and it didn't make any tubers. Well he found out that indeed they did make tubers and they were rotted because they were left in the dry soil far too long unfortunately.
Thanks Danny. Growing in the beginning of the GSM is definitely a learning experience. All we can do is trust in the Lord. He will lead us and guide us through these difficult times. My sweets didn't even grow vines. I planted twice before giving up on them. I'm not sure if I will even be able to grow them next year. My blue lake bush did great early in the season but gave up completely when it got hot so I will be either planting them earlier or later than I did this year. I will definitely be planting my english peas earlier than I did this year. All I got from them was enough seeds to plant next season. I've got to check my soil temp to see if it is beginning to look like I can plant my fall crops. The soil has been way to hot to even consider planting but with the cooler night temps we've been having maybe it won't be long. Much Love
I used to grow very nice sweet potatoes up here in Indiana. I found the white sweet potatoes would rot very quickly in storage. I can keep red ones over a year. I am now 84 and no longer plant sweet potatoes. Your soil looks very dry. Much dryer than up here. Glad you got some potatoes, lots of hard work. Grandma Sue in central Indiana and Izzi Too
I hope they are not rotten potatoes as much as they are the seed that was planted. Sometimes I come across the same thing even mushy rotten like...and or really hard / greenish potato that was actually the one I planted. But it was and has always been limited to the seed potato planted and not affecting any of the new tubers growing. I have not tried to save the hard greenish one for next years planting but will try it in the future even though it should not be greenish in color due to it being 6+ inches below ground level. I have 0 experience in sweet potatoes but plenty in regular types. I live in WA and our weather is a lot different.....I would follow you Dad's advice, he sounds like a smart man!
@Steve Slade Yes and I do plan on growing sweet potatoes next year, both white and the orange colored. I like using them too here and there in meals. I let a few of them sprout and they grew out a lot of slits just to see if they would as they came from the store. For the regular potatoes I use whole , half or quartered cut potatoes depending on there size , I still call them seed :) I harvested a couple Yukon golds and from one plant I got 5.13 lbs and one tuber weighed 1.78 lbs.
@Steve Slade While a virus is always a possibility, I believe his rotten ones were because of lack of soil moisture coupled with being left in the dry ground way too long before harvest. And definitely rotate your crops! I grow in the Mojave desert where temps are above 110 all through the summer and grow both regular and sweet potato's with no issue at all with rot. I have to irrigate so there is no dry soil, even when I harvest which is only a day or two after shutting off the irrigation.
The rotted ones you come across are indeed the actual seed potato and the reason it's rotted is that it is providing all the moisture and nutrients for that eye to send up a shoot and sprout and let the root hairs reach out enough to grab any soil moisture. So the plant literally eats itself from the inside out to stay alive. Growing sweet potato's are for me at least, actually easier as they are nothing more than a vine crop like how melons and cucumbers are, but underground. You don't need to hill them up like regular potato's and their vine like foliage is a natural mulch and weed barrier! The other difference is sweet potato's require heat and time, about 4 months depending on how much heat your area gets. If judging by your handle I assume you are in Washington state. You would need at least 90 degree constant heat for 4 months for sweet potato's to do really good. But you can still grow them if you don't get the heat for that long. Just expect to have smaller sizes of tubers. And you could probably grow them right up until the first frost but not longer before harvesting them. The reason why you don't want to let them get a hard freeze is that the tubers are closer to the surface and any freezing temps will ruin the tubers.
How did that happen without rain??? Ours didn't make. I'm so happy for y'all! Man! I wish we could make that happen! My husband and I have decided we have to plant spring/summer crops in fall now with this weather. Just crazy!
The rotting happened because of the lack of rain. The potato rotted because it became a new seed and was providing all the moisture and nutrients for the new plant that sprouted. He let them stay in the dry ground too long because he didn't think there were any tubers there. All the heat did was advance the harvest time. You need to irrigate when there is a lack of rain so your soil doesn't dry out and kill the plants. And don't leave root crops in dry warm soil for more than 2 days before harvesting as those root crops will turn back into seed!
@@ivabiggin5407 just harvested my sweet potatoes and I'll be honest I haven't watered my plants like that so far I got a pretty decent amount of good size roots along with big abnormal looking roots lol
@@demetriuspowell29 I know you'll be here next year as you have sweet potato's to plant and harvest! LOL Where do you live? As long as the soil has enough moisture and the plant gets enough heat and sun, your sweet potato's should do just fine. But remember, with heat comes shorter time to maturity day's for heat loving crops. And with potato's, you can dig carefully around the vines and look at the potato's to see how they are doing and go from there. But be careful as they aren't deep like regular potato's are. They are shallow and if you nick or tear the soft skin, just carefully break it off or cut it off the vine. Don't leave it in the ground. And don't leave any in the ground when they are ready to harvest for more that 2 days.
From watching your video about sweet potatoes, I checked my small patch which hadn't even flowered yet, and they were ready to harvest. Terribly strong radiation and high heat here in southern AZ. I've had to use solar screening on plants to keep them from burning. So thank you for the idea to check my plants even though I had figured almost another month for them.
Heat loving plants like sweet potato's and others especially melons where you live, that get the high heat and sun, will always mature earlier than what is given for info about when to harvest. I always recommend for potato's in general, to dig around the plant to check on them to see how they are doing. And like you found out, yours were ready almost a month before their expected harvest time. It's the same here in the Mojave desert where I grow.
I’ve never heard of white sweet potatoes before they’re beautiful. I planted my Georgia jets 90 days ago they should be ready, I just went out and checked them and most of them are no bigger than my thumb and I did absolutely nothing different this year than I have my whole life of planting sweet potatoes. They all should be ready but I’ll have to give them another month now.
Wow. So sorry 😢. It is definitely a harder time growing food. We didn't do nearly as good as we normally do, but you are blessed to have those whites 😊.
Thanks for a possible solution to our mushy sweet potatoes. I just dug up our sweet potato patch today (Nov. 18, 2020). They were probably in the ground 140 days. We live in San Diego County. We have spot spitters to water (we have only gotten 1 inch of rain in 7 months). Some of the sweet potatoes were almost as big as a soccer ball. A 6 1/2 pounder is splitting badly but I hope it cures. Some were teeny tiny, itsy bitsy. Some were medium to normal large. There were 6 plants. One didn't give anything. One had a lot of rotting and mushy sweet potatoes, from medium size to soccer ball - just rotten. I didn't know if something underground had eaten them. One did have a hole in it. The soil wasn't absolutely dry where the rotting ones were. We did have a hot summer for San Diego County, but probably not like the South. Maybe we just left them too long, though all were planted at the same time. We have had root rot nematodes in the past. Sprinkling clam shell in the soil has helped our raised beds and pots to be root rot free. If anybody has other ideas on the mushy sweet potatoes, let me know. Thank you in advance.
Start small. Every year you grow knowledge. Don't take on too much. Learn what grows the easiet in your zone and just try it. I just started 2 years ago and loving how much I've learned
I had my first garden last year was a great success I just started small, potatoes peppers cherry tomatoes and one jalepeno and 1 packet of corn, this year I plan to do the same with alot more quantity to share to others the hardest part is setting everything up such as soil preparation ,boxes, containers, or some sow directly in the ground it just all about your preference and don't worry about the fancy tools if you have the space just stick it in soil, we learn every year, as you study the plants and all their pests and diseases you are gaining knowledge thanks to youtube alot of them have already been through all the do and don'ts and still come across issues but you keep going and never give up I don't think we could ever be that bad of a food shortage it just depends what you eat and for survival we can never be too picky, I survived on a mangos rice and plantain when I was on the island no one ever knew I was on a different diet then them I was grateful to eat what I had and I didn't have to beg, the biggest thing is sharing the knowledge and encouraging others to grow so they can become more self sufficient some way. Mangos and the plantains grew all around the island so I only had to buy rice, I foraged some other fruits by the beaches I never felt sad I didnt feel like I was missing out I know that god blessed me with the greatest gift life.. when we have too much of a good thing we don't appreciate the few things we have. I hope and pray more and more people are growing some type of food you can barter with your neighbors never have fear the world is making changes to grow their own food more now then ever. That will disrupt the system. God bless everyone who touches the soil to grow food in jesus name amen
Great crop! I like the white sweet potatoes better as well. Have you done a video in how to overwinter slips? How long would you say is ideal to leave them in the ground? I grew a couple of plants(Beauregard) this year in a raised bed just for kicks and they did ok. I found out the leaves of sweet potatoes are actually edible like greens and tried it. They were pretty good. I plan on an actual sweet potato patch next year. I'll try to find the white ones. Keep putting out the great content👍
Happy you all are Blessed with the white sweet potatoes,and the red one's also.I am going to buy some white sweet potatoes in the store or a Farmer's Market if they sell any there.Never had a white one before.It called for %70 rain this morning and some for Wednesday here in the Ca.Bay Area.We will see about that.It has gotten much cooler past few day's.Praying for cooler temps for you all there.Be well you all.♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡.......
I LOVE those white ones too! I threw one under the kitchen cabinet to start the slips....... I forgot it and one day saw it and it was like a mutant monster it went NUTS!! No water no sun no sprouting and slit propagation. Just toss it I to the dark and forget about it.... it’s planted now and still growing super speed.
I'm growing the white ones for the first time this year. I can't wait to harvest them. Digging for potatoes is like Christmas, you never know what you'll end up with. I'll have some of the red or orange ones too. I'm not sure what kind my white ones are either. I got them in a box of mixed produce from Azure Standard and I think I like those better than the others.
Heat is not the problem as sweet potato's love heat being a tropical plant. It's lack of soil moisture. I grow in the Mojave desert with temps above 110 all through the summer and I don't have any problems with sprouting potato's. We don't get any rain at all so I irrigate. And this is what you must do if your not getting rain and it's hot. Don't let the soil dry out. When the soil is as dry as what you see in this video, then the top dies first. But because there is a potato in the ground that is full of moisture, it will send a sprout up and send out fine hair like roots looking for moisture so it can continue to survive. If you are seeing sprouts coming up, then your soil is too dry and not able to give the original plant the water it needs. And basically at that point, new sprouts, it's too late to save the original sprout if you were to irrigate, unless it's only 2 to 3 weeks after planting, then your new sprouts will take over. Your harvest date will be later because of the stress on the potato, and because it's starting over again at the later sprouting date, but you should still be fine and get good harvests if you regularly irrigate when you don't get enough rain and you harvest just before frost comes or within the time frame for that variety. But remember, if you have a heat loving plant and have a lot of heat where you grow, harvest dates will be sooner than what is given. Example is these white sweet potato's. They are shown to be ready at 90 days. But if you have a lot of sun and heat all through the summer, they will be ready for harvest sooner than the 90 day time frame. You can always dig carefully around the plant and look at some of the potato's to see how they are doing. If they look good as far as size goes, then wait a day or two and then harvest them. Don't let them sit in the ground past 3 days as this will trigger them to send out sprouts and root hairs.
Good information. I hope 2019 wasn’t suppose to be the last good crop year for mine didn’t produce well this year due to the heat and humidity. Also.... it may be problems on my end but I didn’t see and can’t find Saturday night at the cabin video. One of Deep South Homestead And one of Crazy Days have been removed. It says “private video” with a gray square with a frowning face 😟. I sure hope nothing has happened for y’all are my favorite youtubers!! I’ll be watching for y’all’s next video.
Seems like those white sweet potatoes are good insurance. I hope you guys are going to sell some of those slips. This year was my first growing red sweet potatoes here outside Ft Worth and I'm happy with my results, but I would definitely like to try the whites and see how they do. I think it will be important to have more than one variety just in case.
Sir plants all over for a couple of years,have been burning up.Even with proper waterings.Sun rays have changed TOO burning hot. I've had better harvest planting in shade . Thank you for up date🙏🙏🙏
They look great. I love sweet potatoes. I bought a brown one that had white flesh and it was so sweet. Probably an Asian one,could not tell no label. It made me think how many varieties and uses for them. Versatile tuber.
Great what you got! Have you considered using drip irrigation tubing and micr sprinklers on risers. Your plot isn’t that big so it is doable. We have to irrigate everything here in CALIFORNIA.
They should not use micro sprinklers. Too much danger of getting disease through the leaves because of where they live and all the natural humidity they get. Instead use drip tape. I've been doing drip irrigation for 10 years here in the Mojave desert with rows about 150 feet long and maybe 20+ rows of vegetables 100 foot wide across, so about a quarter acre and my water bill is not high at all. The drip irrigation is the way to go no matter where you live. And where he is, it's more of a supplement instead of a necessity where we live.
I got a white sweet potato in with the regular ones that I had bought at the grocery store. I loved it. I have been looking for slips ever since. The only ones that I could get were all shipped in May which to me is a little late for sweet potatoes. I ordered some slips anyway and grew them a little bigger in pots and then planted them in the ground. Something ate them ALL overnight. If you are willing to sell some slips this spring, I would be interested. Thank you. Oh yeah, just to let you know, one of my banana trees, of the same type that I passed on to you, has grown a stalk of several bunches. If it gets cold anytime soon,tho, they will not be big enuff to ripen. The bananas are about 6" long, but they should be about 8-9" to ripen.
The reason sweet potato's are sent out so late as you say, is because they are a tropical plant that requires heat to grow successfully. If they send them earlier in the year, sweet potato's will not grow because of low soil temps and people will think they got a bad batch of slips, which they didn't. Even some corn varieties won't sprout until the soil temps are above 60 degrees. Sweet potato's are the same way. And it has to be consistently above 60 degrees and not just a day or two.
Danny, you can eat the sweet potato leaves, it' very healthy, it's cures a lot of diseases. We plant sweet potatoes, just to get the leaves. you can put in some soup, you can just steam a little bit and add lemon and salt or dressing or apple cider vinegar and make it into side dish with fish and meat, you can include it with some vegetables like string beans, okra, squash, eggplant, with shrimp, sauté in garlic and onion - asian cooking.
I had to keep replanting mine because deer kept eating them. I have a good patch growing near the chicken coop since I decided to move it there instead of the big garden.
I realy like white sweet potatoes. I've never found them for sale in any store in Wisconsin. I've also talked to many porduce managers and most have never heard of them. Whenever we travel out of state, I make it my mission to find some. I found some in Vegas and bought ten pounds and scattered them in my checked luggage. I wonder if the TSA scanner thought they were?
Hi Danny, Do you think this years weather has matured the plants faster than normal. You said the 1st planting were large but rotted. I planted blue lake bush beans and in 1 week I was getting full mature beans. I got a feeling this isn't normal but have you noticed anything similar? I was thinking of switching to short term maturing varieties next year but not so sure now. Your Thoughts
Heat loving summer vegetables like sweet potato's will always mature sooner when they get the heat and sun they require. So yes they did mature sooner than he expected. And his first planting rotted because of a couple reasons. First they didn't get enough water and the plant died. Second after the tops died, he left them in the ground and they literally ate themselves from the inside out to try and stay alive. If he had harvested them as soon as he saw the tops die, he could have gotten them before any rotting. Don't let root crops stay in the ground for more than a couple days especially if it's still hot out.
My Grandmother said her dad use to plant his sweet potatoes in the area on the farm that had the old red dirt here in N.C. said it made the best sweet potatoes ?
Where can we order your Dad's Old Black fertilizer ? Are you going to be selling white sweet potato slips? My little patch of purple/purple and beauregard potatoes had rot and ant problems. The best potatoes were found deep and heading deeper. Many had hit the clay. Thankful for what I got. Ready to try your whites! and the goat amendment you mentioned. Cannot find so far.
You mentioned “number of days”, when talking about marking the first planting. How many days do you think you would wait before harvesting those first plants that died?
Mister Danny I understand about the slips I just wanted to see you put it in the ground did you cover the Swift completely or did you leave a little bit out of the soil that's what I needed to know you left the important stuff out!?!
I don't think your summer heat is the problem as sweet potato's are a tropical plant and they need heat, around 4 month's so heat should not bother them. I live in the Mojave desert and have grown sweet potato's from June through October and have harvested them about two or three weeks before Thanksgiving. Our normal summer temps average 110 with several day's higher than 120! None of my potato's had any problem with the heat and in fact seemed to thrive on it. Being desert, I irrigate the plants. When I harvested them, I got an average of 20 medium large potato's from each slip I planted and didn't have any rotted ones at all. Now on my regular potato's that I also grow, if I have left them too long in the ground after the tops have died back before harvesting them, then they will sprout as they are really the seed and will do what seeds do, sprout! And the rotting might be because of the dry soil as the potato's will literally eat themselves from the inside out looking for moisture without a green top or fine hair like roots that the parent plant provides. So my thinking is that you might need to irrigate when it's hot and try to harvest them sooner and not let them stay in the dry soil as long. Variety make a difference too as far as when to harvest. The white's like you grew are a 90 day type give or take. With heat loving vegetables, they will mature faster so if you plant the white variety again, when it's about 2 weeks before the 90 day time, gently dig down and look at the potato's to see how their doing. If they look good and have good size, then you can stop watering for a few days and then go and harvest them. Hopefully that will help for your next crop!
@K Barnes Your welcome. Been growing potato's and other vegetables here in the Mojave desert for 35+ years. In fact there are commercial potato growers of regular potato's that is, out here that grow them from early spring through September during the hottest time of the year without any problems.
Danny and Wanda, im in the city near Chicago, financially i cant leave, love your show, i need to know how to grow potatoes in a 5 gallon bucket the right way, i cant find one potatoe with an eye or chit, how can i get eye going on them, sorry for a stupid question but i am running out of time.
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God is showing us there is more than one way to harvest food. For two years in a row now we haven't been able to harvest much out of the garden. But I walked out in the front yard one day after a heavy rain the night before and God gave me a huge harvest of Oyster mushrooms. There was a log laying there that we just hadn't had time to cut up & get out of the yard yet. That log was about 6 foot long and just covered with mushrooms. We're so thankful, God is still providing for us.
I just love the fact that y'all realize how Blessed y'all are regardless of the small Harvest. The Great Lord Honors that and Blesses that as Im sure y'all are aware. Thanks for the lesson Danny. It seems like I learn something New everytime I watch yours and Wanda's videos. And Thanks for that !!!
So happy to see something finally go right for you!
Thx for sharing, you have great Wisdom that will help not just farmer's, but many others. That's a great idea to date your crops, reminds me we should all be thankful and count the number of our days!
your harvest is a blessing for all your hard work
Danny, we had some business in Vardaman last year and so after we were done, we went to one of the sweet potato farms and bought cases of them for about 1/3 of the price we pay for them on the coast from retailers. Then, I came home and boiled or baked them until they were cooked but still firm and then put them in the frig overnight. The next day, I peeled and sliced them and dehydrated them. I stored them in jars and pulled the air out. Well, that was Oct. 2018. Two days ago, I opened one of the jars and simmered some of them in a pan and in about 20 minutes, I had delicious potatoes. We decided that maybe for now we will do this again in Oct. and buy lots more boxes and try to put up as many as possible (maybe a hundred jars or more.) We are still going to work on our grow plan for sweet potatoes but for now as we don't have a crop, I think we're going to go that way. We also are finding that dehydrating is much easier and takes much less room than canning and can just open jars of dehydrated vegetables and potatoes and throw them together for meals. We work a lot and this helps us to have quick meals. We have canned sweet potatoes in the past and each jar takes so few potatoes to what we can get in a jar from dehydrating that it wasn't worth our effort, plus, they became so watery, we felt like we were eating water. The dehydrated potatoes taste so much better and have a nice density to them.
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Danny, I love watching you pull up a bunch of potatoes!!!!
Wow, I'm amazed at the white potatoes. Even after gardening for so many years, you are still learning new things. I really enjoyed this video. and just loved watching you pull out the potatoes. Thanks. We learn a lot from you Danny.
I just love yalls farm. Every video takes me back to my childhood. Hoping to get our own again someday soon.
Get a plastic 5 gal bucket or 50 gal plastic barrel. Cut 50 gal barrel into..add dirt ,plant. I've planted tomatoes in 5 gal buckets ,They did well.Same for barrel cut into. I put each cut barrel on side apartment door,grew great sweet potatoes.Vines also decorated doorway😺
You are right, you and Wanda are blessed. I really enjoy how real you all are. You talk about the good times, but you also talk about what's not working. God Bless You Both.
Very nice
I've never had a white sweet potato before! Lessons learned will hopefully help next year
Still a fantastic and blessed harvest Danny and Wanda! Good morning to you both from here in Tifton, Ga and thank you guys for sharing your sweet potato harvest with us! This year's weather has caused us all some type of problems regardless to what we are growing and like you said my friend, it is a blessing to have grown and been able to harvest the amount that you did. Continued success in your gardens over there!
God has blessed your hard work.
Thank you for your continued videos. You are helping us all make informed decisions for the future. God bless you and Wanda!
Thank you for your videos . Good information. God Bless
Danny those white sweet potatoes look soo good. Are they as sweet as the red ones ? You’re blessed for having that many with the soil soo dry. I can’t believe it it looks like dust. God bless you n I hope you get many more good ones ❤️🤗🙏
White sweet potatoes are as sweet as other varieties, but they are a bit drier in texture.
I got teary eyes with joy for you
Any harvest is good harvest
Your dad was a wise man! 💕
Thank you for your video.. I absolutely love how you shared your daddys storys... I beleive in the old ways like our fathers did..again thank you and God bless you and your family!
A few years ago I had a raised bed that was 20 feet long by 4 feet wide and made of 2x12s where I planted red sweet potatoes because the family wanted a few pies for the holidays, after the vines began dying off I began to pull them, well what I thought 2 store bought small potatoes should have ever grown. I ended up pulling over 200 pounds in just a few months with an investment of less than $20. Sadly I had missed a few that re-spawned a new crop, which never ended because you can never kill all of the roots and if you leave any part they will regrow almost like a virus. Sweet potatoes need square footage while regular potatoes need depth, plan accordingly. Use a crop screen like a shade cloth to stop the heat from cooking them in the ground.
My daddy loved the white sweet potatoes too. I’d love to get my hands on some slips to plant. Love you and ms. Wanda
Excellent informative video!
Yaaaaaaaaas! The first ones look awesome. Im sorry they arent all like that Brother! You guys deserve a nice WIN so I hope you got a good bunch as well.
Wholeness
Danny God be with us 😇
I know what you mean about "new" weeds. A few years ago we put a huge load of well seasoned horse manure on our garden. The next year we had a weed come up all over the garden that had huge thorns on it. If we pulled them early, we could get around the thorns, but if they got any height on them at all, we had to have gloves. And, the root was really long. If we chopped them off, I am not exaggerating, they would grow back in 2 days. After about 6-8 years, they are almost gone, but still were a few this year. I'll take johnson grass and morning glories any day over those devils!
I know you're thankful for what you got, but I also know that it makes you sick that so many rotted. Like you said, "Lesson learned!" We learn something every year.
Great job 👍
I had no clue the work and challenges a famed faced growing sweet potatoes. Sure gives me a different perspective. I will be more than thankful next time I buy my sweet potatoes. Thank you Sir and farmers for all your hard work just so we can eat.
The struggle continues but the fight is worth it.
Now I want to go find white sweet potatoes! Thank you for letting us have a peek at life on the farm these days. Take care and be safe, much love from Ma 2.
Thank you.
Looking great!! Hope and pray for strength in your heat to get them harvested!
He DOES provide, doesn't He?!👍🏻❤️
OH, Danny, I am a BIG FAN of the white sweet potatoes too!How funny as MY daddy LOVED them also! Sweet... Luckily my grocery store sells them. Not the same as having fresh ones like you have, but still good... How AWESOME that your plants did so well! Wish I lived close enough to buy some from you.
Have you tried to plant then lay straw over it to shade the soil, it has helped my soil tremendously
We can't get straw this far south. Everything here is hay.
@@DeepSouthHomestead even grass clippings help, as long as it hasn't went to seed. Just let it dry for a week or 2, the only other option would be shade cloth, or composted mulch. I grew up in north FL, so I feel y'all on heat and dry soil.
Where to buy white sweet potato plants never seen any.
@@DeepSouthHomestead Can you make contact with a local tree trimming service and get loads of chipped tree trimmings and bark? If you just stack up piles of the chipped up mulch it will compost itself down to humus in a year or so. Till the composted bark and trimmings into your soil and it will really improve your soil and help it to retain more moisture. Also, are you composting all of your own plant waste and using the resulting compost to feed your plants and improve your soil?
@@scrapshackfarms1349 Im trying the sweet potatoes but cold is a bit problem - maybe have to be in container in tunnel (Ireland)
God Bless!
I always loved the white sweet potatoes better when I was a child, now I can’t find them. So glad you have a good harvest.
Sprouts market in the Denver area has white potatoes. For anybody still Iooking, I have a few white slips available.
Great video. We too have been experimenting with sweet taters. The fertilizer is a problem. Rats are a protein for us as well. Northern central AR and ours rotted a couple yrs back with the heat being so bad.
But, want to share that we are now planting and harvesting for our area with the almanac. And by the moon. So far, doing the best for us. Thought I would share that. Been gardening for over 45 yrs.
Thanks For sharing your tips!
Kind of like a student telling the teacher he's wrong, but, I think maybe if you double compost that stuff, when its done for a year, roll it into a new pile for another year, it might help kill the seeds. I'm not good at getting it to work, but you need to get the pile so hot it steams. I am loving all the sweet potato and farming expertise I am picking up from you. I worked on farms, ranches, gardened with my Dad and my uncle, there is always more to learn. Thank you.
Would it be possible or helpful to start the slips earlier and get them to bigger sizes before putting the slips out in the garden earlier? Might the slips make potatoes before it gets so hot? The flagging and marking would still help for certain. I have no idea how dependent, determinate, potatoes are on growing time. Your little greenhouse could be real handy. You have put most of another garden year behind you. Best of luck to you and Wanda.
Root crops do not transplant with much if any success simply because the root is the crop! And sweet potato's require heat and time. If you don't have enough heat and time, no potato's. The example of this is that he had big potato's in the ground but didn't think so after the tops died thinking the heat killed the plant and it didn't make any tubers. Well he found out that indeed they did make tubers and they were rotted because they were left in the dry soil far too long unfortunately.
Never had a white sweet potato before.. Awesome harvest going there Danny.. :")
Thanks Danny. Growing in the beginning of the GSM is definitely a learning experience. All we can do is trust in the Lord. He will lead us and guide us through these difficult times.
My sweets didn't even grow vines. I planted twice before giving up on them. I'm not sure if I will even be able to grow them next year. My blue lake bush did great early in the season but gave up completely when it got hot so I will be either planting them earlier or later than I did this year. I will definitely be planting my english peas earlier than I did this year. All I got from them was enough seeds to plant next season. I've got to check my soil temp to see if it is beginning to look like I can plant my fall crops. The soil has been way to hot to even consider planting but with the cooler night temps we've been having maybe it won't be long. Much Love
We are waiting for the nights to cool down also still to hot at night.
Beautiful potatoes!
I’m learning to go stuff thanks from around our area. Looks like White sweet potatoes over purple 🤛
Great content
Great video! 💚
I used to grow very nice sweet potatoes up here in Indiana. I found the white sweet potatoes would rot very quickly in storage. I can keep red ones over a year. I am now 84 and no longer plant sweet potatoes. Your soil looks very dry. Much dryer than up here. Glad you got some potatoes, lots of hard work.
Grandma Sue in central Indiana and Izzi Too
I never ate a white sweet potato. That’s a terrific harvest per plant.
Thank you Lord for the Homestead Blessings!
He's merciful and our provider. Amein ❤👍😉
I hope they are not rotten potatoes as much as they are the seed that was planted. Sometimes I come across the same thing even mushy rotten like...and or really hard / greenish potato that was actually the one I planted. But it was and has always been limited to the seed potato planted and not affecting any of the new tubers growing. I have not tried to save the hard greenish one for next years planting but will try it in the future even though it should not be greenish in color due to it being 6+ inches below ground level. I have 0 experience in sweet potatoes but plenty in regular types. I live in WA and our weather is a lot different.....I would follow you Dad's advice, he sounds like a smart man!
@Steve Slade Yes and I do plan on growing sweet potatoes next year, both white and the orange colored. I like using them too here and there in meals. I let a few of them sprout and they grew out a lot of slits just to see if they would as they came from the store. For the regular potatoes I use whole , half or quartered cut potatoes depending on there size , I still call them seed :) I harvested a couple Yukon golds and from one plant I got 5.13 lbs and one tuber weighed 1.78 lbs.
@Steve Slade
While a virus is always a possibility, I believe his rotten ones were because of lack of soil moisture coupled with being left in the dry ground way too long before harvest. And definitely rotate your crops! I grow in the Mojave desert where temps are above 110 all through the summer and grow both regular and sweet potato's with no issue at all with rot. I have to irrigate so there is no dry soil, even when I harvest which is only a day or two after shutting off the irrigation.
The rotted ones you come across are indeed the actual seed potato and the reason it's rotted is that it is providing all the moisture and nutrients for that eye to send up a shoot and sprout and let the root hairs reach out enough to grab any soil moisture. So the plant literally eats itself from the inside out to stay alive. Growing sweet potato's are for me at least, actually easier as they are nothing more than a vine crop like how melons and cucumbers are, but underground. You don't need to hill them up like regular potato's and their vine like foliage is a natural mulch and weed barrier! The other difference is sweet potato's require heat and time, about 4 months depending on how much heat your area gets. If judging by your handle I assume you are in Washington state. You would need at least 90 degree constant heat for 4 months for sweet potato's to do really good. But you can still grow them if you don't get the heat for that long. Just expect to have smaller sizes of tubers. And you could probably grow them right up until the first frost but not longer before harvesting them. The reason why you don't want to let them get a hard freeze is that the tubers are closer to the surface and any freezing temps will ruin the tubers.
How did that happen without rain??? Ours didn't make. I'm so happy for y'all! Man! I wish we could make that happen! My husband and I have decided we have to plant spring/summer crops in fall now with this weather. Just crazy!
The rotting happened because of the lack of rain. The potato rotted because it became a new seed and was providing all the moisture and nutrients for the new plant that sprouted. He let them stay in the dry ground too long because he didn't think there were any tubers there. All the heat did was advance the harvest time. You need to irrigate when there is a lack of rain so your soil doesn't dry out and kill the plants. And don't leave root crops in dry warm soil for more than 2 days before harvesting as those root crops will turn back into seed!
@@ivabiggin5407 just harvested my sweet potatoes and I'll be honest I haven't watered my plants like that so far I got a pretty decent amount of good size roots along with big abnormal looking roots lol
@@ivabiggin5407 next year if I live to see it I'll make sure to keep my sweets irrigated
@@demetriuspowell29
I know you'll be here next year as you have sweet potato's to plant and harvest! LOL
Where do you live? As long as the soil has enough moisture and the plant gets enough heat and sun, your sweet potato's should do just fine. But remember, with heat comes shorter time to maturity day's for heat loving crops. And with potato's, you can dig carefully around the vines and look at the potato's to see how they are doing and go from there. But be careful as they aren't deep like regular potato's are. They are shallow and if you nick or tear the soft skin, just carefully break it off or cut it off the vine. Don't leave it in the ground. And don't leave any in the ground when they are ready to harvest for more that 2 days.
Nice white sweet potato crop. The heat has been hot this year indeed
From watching your video about sweet potatoes, I checked my small patch which hadn't even flowered yet, and they were ready to harvest. Terribly strong radiation and high heat here in southern AZ. I've had to use solar screening on plants to keep them from burning. So thank you for the idea to check my plants even though I had figured almost another month for them.
Heat loving plants like sweet potato's and others especially melons where you live, that get the high heat and sun, will always mature earlier than what is given for info about when to harvest. I always recommend for potato's in general, to dig around the plant to check on them to see how they are doing. And like you found out, yours were ready almost a month before their expected harvest time. It's the same here in the Mojave desert where I grow.
Awesome channel you guys are so helpful thanks
I’ve never heard of white sweet potatoes before they’re beautiful. I planted my Georgia jets 90 days ago they should be ready, I just went out and checked them and most of them are no bigger than my thumb and I did absolutely nothing different this year than I have my whole life of planting sweet potatoes. They all should be ready but I’ll have to give them another month now.
Wow , they are huge
Oh also if you want an organic fertilizer that will not spread weeds try alfalfa pellets. I use that and have excellent results!
Wow. So sorry 😢. It is definitely a harder time growing food. We didn't do nearly as good as we normally do, but you are blessed to have those whites 😊.
Thanks for a possible solution to our mushy sweet potatoes. I just dug up our sweet potato patch today (Nov. 18, 2020). They were probably in the ground 140 days. We live in San Diego County. We have spot spitters to water (we have only gotten 1 inch of rain in 7 months). Some of the sweet potatoes were almost as big as a soccer ball. A 6 1/2 pounder is splitting badly but I hope it cures. Some were teeny tiny, itsy bitsy. Some were medium to normal large. There were 6 plants. One didn't give anything. One had a lot of rotting and mushy sweet potatoes, from medium size to soccer ball - just rotten. I didn't know if something underground had eaten them. One did have a hole in it. The soil wasn't absolutely dry where the rotting ones were. We did have a hot summer for San Diego County, but probably not like the South. Maybe we just left them too long, though all were planted at the same time. We have had root rot nematodes in the past. Sprinkling clam shell in the soil has helped our raised beds and pots to be root rot free. If anybody has other ideas on the mushy sweet potatoes, let me know. Thank you in advance.
Beautiful! With food shortage on the horizon, I want to grow my own food but am working two full time jobs and have no idea how.
Start small. Every year you grow knowledge. Don't take on too much. Learn what grows the easiet in your zone and just try it. I just started 2 years ago and loving how much I've learned
I had my first garden last year was a great success I just started small, potatoes peppers cherry tomatoes and one jalepeno and 1 packet of corn, this year I plan to do the same with alot more quantity to share to others the hardest part is setting everything up such as soil preparation ,boxes, containers, or some sow directly in the ground it just all about your preference and don't worry about the fancy tools if you have the space just stick it in soil, we learn every year, as you study the plants and all their pests and diseases you are gaining knowledge thanks to youtube alot of them have already been through all the do and don'ts and still come across issues but you keep going and never give up I don't think we could ever be that bad of a food shortage it just depends what you eat and for survival we can never be too picky, I survived on a mangos rice and plantain when I was on the island no one ever knew I was on a different diet then them I was grateful to eat what I had and I didn't have to beg, the biggest thing is sharing the knowledge and encouraging others to grow so they can become more self sufficient some way. Mangos and the plantains grew all around the island so I only had to buy rice, I foraged some other fruits by the beaches I never felt sad I didnt feel like I was missing out I know that god blessed me with the greatest gift life.. when we have too much of a good thing we don't appreciate the few things we have. I hope and pray more and more people are growing some type of food you can barter with your neighbors never have fear the world is making changes to grow their own food more now then ever. That will disrupt the system. God bless everyone who touches the soil to grow food in jesus name amen
Great crop! I like the white sweet potatoes better as well. Have you done a video in how to overwinter slips? How long would you say is ideal to leave them in the ground? I grew a couple of plants(Beauregard) this year in a raised bed just for kicks and they did ok. I found out the leaves of sweet potatoes are actually edible like greens and tried it. They were pretty good. I plan on an actual sweet potato patch next year. I'll try to find the white ones. Keep putting out the great content👍
Overwintering slips is difficult and take a lot of work.
Just store tubers and make slips next year from them.
Looking Good :)
Happy you all are Blessed with the white sweet potatoes,and the red one's also.I am going to buy some white sweet potatoes in the store or a Farmer's Market if they sell any there.Never had a white one before.It called for %70 rain this morning and some for Wednesday here in the Ca.Bay Area.We will see about that.It has gotten much cooler past few day's.Praying for cooler temps for you all there.Be well you all.♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡.......
I LOVE those white ones too! I threw one under the kitchen cabinet to start the slips....... I forgot it and one day saw it and it was like a mutant monster it went NUTS!! No water no sun no sprouting and slit propagation. Just toss it I to the dark and forget about it.... it’s planted now and still growing super speed.
I'm growing the white ones for the first time this year. I can't wait to harvest them. Digging for potatoes is like Christmas, you never know what you'll end up with. I'll have some of the red or orange ones too. I'm not sure what kind my white ones are either. I got them in a box of mixed produce from Azure Standard and I think I like those better than the others.
I was wounding why ours were sprouting. To much heat thanks for sharing
Heat is not the problem as sweet potato's love heat being a tropical plant. It's lack of soil moisture. I grow in the Mojave desert with temps above 110 all through the summer and I don't have any problems with sprouting potato's. We don't get any rain at all so I irrigate. And this is what you must do if your not getting rain and it's hot. Don't let the soil dry out. When the soil is as dry as what you see in this video, then the top dies first. But because there is a potato in the ground that is full of moisture, it will send a sprout up and send out fine hair like roots looking for moisture so it can continue to survive. If you are seeing sprouts coming up, then your soil is too dry and not able to give the original plant the water it needs. And basically at that point, new sprouts, it's too late to save the original sprout if you were to irrigate, unless it's only 2 to 3 weeks after planting, then your new sprouts will take over. Your harvest date will be later because of the stress on the potato, and because it's starting over again at the later sprouting date, but you should still be fine and get good harvests if you regularly irrigate when you don't get enough rain and you harvest just before frost comes or within the time frame for that variety. But remember, if you have a heat loving plant and have a lot of heat where you grow, harvest dates will be sooner than what is given. Example is these white sweet potato's. They are shown to be ready at 90 days. But if you have a lot of sun and heat all through the summer, they will be ready for harvest sooner than the 90 day time frame. You can always dig carefully around the plant and look at some of the potato's to see how they are doing. If they look good as far as size goes, then wait a day or two and then harvest them. Don't let them sit in the ground past 3 days as this will trigger them to send out sprouts and root hairs.
Good information. I hope 2019 wasn’t suppose to be the last good crop year for mine didn’t produce well this year due to the heat and humidity. Also.... it may be problems on my end but I didn’t see and can’t find Saturday night at the cabin video. One of Deep South Homestead And one of Crazy Days have been removed. It says “private video” with a gray square with a frowning face 😟. I sure hope nothing has happened for y’all are my favorite youtubers!! I’ll be watching for y’all’s next video.
Seems like those white sweet potatoes are good insurance. I hope you guys are going to sell some of those slips. This year was my first growing red sweet potatoes here outside Ft Worth and I'm happy with my results, but I would definitely like to try the whites and see how they do. I think it will be important to have more than one variety just in case.
I would love some slips too. No one around here even sells slips.
Google them. U can order online
You might try mulching with grass clippings or hay or try growing in conditioned hay bales!
Sir plants all over for a couple of years,have been burning up.Even with proper waterings.Sun rays have changed TOO burning hot. I've had better harvest planting in shade . Thank you for up date🙏🙏🙏
They look great. I love sweet potatoes. I bought a brown one that had white flesh and it was so sweet. Probably an Asian one,could not tell no label. It made me think how many varieties and uses for them. Versatile tuber.
Great what you got! Have you considered using drip irrigation tubing and micr sprinklers on risers. Your plot isn’t that big so it is doable. We have to irrigate everything here in CALIFORNIA.
They should not use micro sprinklers. Too much danger of getting disease through the leaves because of where they live and all the natural humidity they get. Instead use drip tape. I've been doing drip irrigation for 10 years here in the Mojave desert with rows about 150 feet long and maybe 20+ rows of vegetables 100 foot wide across, so about a quarter acre and my water bill is not high at all. The drip irrigation is the way to go no matter where you live. And where he is, it's more of a supplement instead of a necessity where we live.
I got a white sweet potato in with the regular ones that I had bought at the grocery store. I loved it. I have been looking for slips ever since. The only ones that I could get were all shipped in May which to me is a little late for sweet potatoes. I ordered some slips anyway and grew them a little bigger in pots and then planted them in the ground. Something ate them ALL overnight. If you are willing to sell some slips this spring, I would be interested. Thank you. Oh yeah, just to let you know, one of my banana trees, of the same type that I passed on to you, has grown a stalk of several bunches. If it gets cold anytime soon,tho, they will not be big enuff to ripen. The bananas are about 6" long, but they should be about 8-9" to ripen.
The reason sweet potato's are sent out so late as you say, is because they are a tropical plant that requires heat to grow successfully. If they send them earlier in the year, sweet potato's will not grow because of low soil temps and people will think they got a bad batch of slips, which they didn't. Even some corn varieties won't sprout until the soil temps are above 60 degrees. Sweet potato's are the same way. And it has to be consistently above 60 degrees and not just a day or two.
Sweet potato king....
Danny, you can eat the sweet potato leaves, it' very healthy, it's cures a lot of diseases. We plant sweet potatoes, just to get the leaves.
you can put in some soup, you can just steam a little bit and add lemon and salt or dressing or apple cider vinegar and make it into side dish with fish and meat, you can include it with some vegetables like string beans, okra, squash, eggplant, with shrimp, sauté in garlic and onion - asian cooking.
I had to keep replanting mine because deer kept eating them. I have a good patch growing near the chicken coop since I decided to move it there instead of the big garden.
undertakerthedeadman hope the rats don’t get to them first. They ate all of ours
I realy like white sweet potatoes. I've never found them for sale in any store in Wisconsin. I've also talked to many porduce managers and most have never heard of them. Whenever we travel out of state, I make it my mission to find some. I found some in Vegas and bought ten pounds and scattered them in my checked luggage. I wonder if the TSA scanner thought they were?
Denver Sproats store has a very them. I found them 8n Jan. When I visiting my Son there.
Hi Danny, Do you think this years weather has matured the plants faster than normal. You said the 1st planting were large but rotted. I planted blue lake bush beans and in 1 week I was getting full mature beans. I got a feeling this isn't normal but have you noticed anything similar? I was thinking of switching to short term maturing varieties next year but not so sure now. Your Thoughts
Heat loving summer vegetables like sweet potato's will always mature sooner when they get the heat and sun they require. So yes they did mature sooner than he expected. And his first planting rotted because of a couple reasons. First they didn't get enough water and the plant died. Second after the tops died, he left them in the ground and they literally ate themselves from the inside out to try and stay alive. If he had harvested them as soon as he saw the tops die, he could have gotten them before any rotting. Don't let root crops stay in the ground for more than a couple days especially if it's still hot out.
Amen.
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Mr.Danny, i planted a sweet potato, i have three vines or slips , do I cut these vines off and plant them or leave them on the potato and let it grow?
We're in a totally different area than you, but we did well with white sweet potatoes. (I'm SO BEHIND on watching videos, we've been so busy!).
Ate the slips that you found that look to be in good shape worth replanting or do you just toss and start from scratch?
what is the link for the fertilizer your dad used?
I would also like info
Maybe you can google it
I would like to know as well as I live in Ky.
My Grandmother said her dad use to plant his sweet potatoes in the area on the farm that had the old red dirt here in N.C. said it made the best sweet potatoes ?
Where can we order your Dad's Old Black fertilizer ? Are you going to be selling white sweet potato slips?
My little patch of purple/purple and beauregard potatoes had rot and ant problems. The best potatoes were found deep and heading deeper.
Many had hit the clay. Thankful for what I got. Ready to try your whites! and the goat amendment you mentioned. Cannot find so far.
How long does it take for the slips to get to usable harvesting size?
The glow from the top of your head was blinding....lol
You mentioned “number of days”, when talking about marking the first planting. How many days do you think you would wait before harvesting those first plants that died?
Mister Danny I understand about the slips I just wanted to see you put it in the ground did you cover the Swift completely or did you leave a little bit out of the soil that's what I needed to know you left the important stuff out!?!
We have a sweet potato playlist that includes everything sweet potato.
I don't think your summer heat is the problem as sweet potato's are a tropical plant and they need heat, around 4 month's so heat should not bother them. I live in the Mojave desert and have grown sweet potato's from June through October and have harvested them about two or three weeks before Thanksgiving. Our normal summer temps average 110 with several day's higher than 120! None of my potato's had any problem with the heat and in fact seemed to thrive on it. Being desert, I irrigate the plants. When I harvested them, I got an average of 20 medium large potato's from each slip I planted and didn't have any rotted ones at all. Now on my regular potato's that I also grow, if I have left them too long in the ground after the tops have died back before harvesting them, then they will sprout as they are really the seed and will do what seeds do, sprout! And the rotting might be because of the dry soil as the potato's will literally eat themselves from the inside out looking for moisture without a green top or fine hair like roots that the parent plant provides. So my thinking is that you might need to irrigate when it's hot and try to harvest them sooner and not let them stay in the dry soil as long. Variety make a difference too as far as when to harvest. The white's like you grew are a 90 day type give or take. With heat loving vegetables, they will mature faster so if you plant the white variety again, when it's about 2 weeks before the 90 day time, gently dig down and look at the potato's to see how their doing. If they look good and have good size, then you can stop watering for a few days and then go and harvest them. Hopefully that will help for your next crop!
@K Barnes
Your welcome. Been growing potato's and other vegetables here in the Mojave desert for 35+ years. In fact there are commercial potato growers of regular potato's that is, out here that grow them from early spring through September during the hottest time of the year without any problems.
Old black joe fertilizer is 5-10-5.
Hey, your soil looks Sandy or dry. How often do you water them?
Danny and Wanda, im in the city near Chicago, financially i cant leave, love your show, i need to know how to grow potatoes in a 5 gallon bucket the right way, i cant find one potatoe with an eye or chit, how can i get eye going on them, sorry for a stupid question but i am running out of time.
You have to order seed potatoes from a vegetable catalog. Store bought potatoes have had sprout nip sprayed on them so they won't sprout at the eyes.
For future reference, I find organic potatoes work too. They don’t spray them (sure hope not!) a store like ‘Trader Joe’s” did well for me.
Deep South, How do you get your soil so soft.?👍🤔
AAA+++Bedford, Texas
Awe just see the older rotten ones..so sorry for loss.
I heard you should keep moving the vines around so they don't root. Is that true? And how?
Told ya!! They’re blooming in the ground like a slow cooker
I like fried sweet potatoes there good and baked lol.😆