If you ever questioned the value of having your own garden you NEED to watch the recent episode of Joe Rogan where he talks to Sadhgaru. They are saying that the nutrients in most of the commercially grown food is grown in such depleted soil that the the vegetables and fruits we buy from the stores have on average only 10% of the nurrients they had 50 years ago. Everything living thing on this planet comes from the soil, including YOU. Growing your own garden is literally LIFE. Mad love and respect to all you gardeners out there and to all the gardening youtubers. You are bringing life to a starving planet!!!!❤❤❤
I'd love to see more videos like this where you add in how your harvest from that container went. Maybe even a couple updates over time. It kind of helps a new grower to know what to expect.
This is my first year officially growing sweet potatoes. I experimented last year with a random slip I had from a store bought sweet potato. I have three different varieties, bouregaurd, a Japanese red, and Okinawan. I have two 30-35 gallon containers with 6 plants each. 8+ hours of sun and plenty of water. The weather lately has been hot and humid where I live and my sweet potatoes are looking gorgeous! I made some hoop trellises for some of the vines to grow up. I'm really looking forward to seeing what my harvest looks like!
I love that this method works for you, but just to prevent loss of interest from beginning or low-income gardeners I'd like to say I have always grown my sweet potatoes in low quality, almost inert substrate (mine is a mix of steer manure, coco coir, peat moss, and perlite) and I get decent foliage but amazing root/tuber development in 5 gallon containers! The variety is beauregard just FYI! Try it!
Before the last frost I like taking cuttings, root them in water, then plant them in pots inside over the winter. Then in spring, I'll take cuttings from the overwintered plants, root them and plant them in the garden as well as the overwintered plants.
My parents tried to grow sweet potatoes last year. The rabbits got to the greens within a few days, so it didn't even have a chance. Whatever we dug up, which is about 2, were the size of a regular/medium sized carrot.
I grow a very dark purple kind I got from the Asian market. Very smoky flavor and not as sweet but very good baked and the foliage tastes great in the heat of the summer!
To help keep the vines under control, harvest them. Unlike regular potatoes, the leaves of sweet potatoes are edible - and tasty! - as well as having a level of vitamins on par with spinach. I love growing sweet potatoes as much for the greens as the tubers.
I have some growing this year as well in some fabric containers just like those. In fact i just checked over them the other day and the soil around the base of the plants was bulging up, so i brushed some of the top of the soil away just to check, and sure enough im getting some starting to develop under there!
I’ve found that sweet potatoes grow best in soil with less fertility. I only fertilize them with a high phosphorus granular fertilizer before planting the slips. After that, I leave them alone. You shouldn’t use a high nitrogen fertilizer either because you’ll end up with nothing but vines.
@@juliehorney995I’m thinking about moving some into other containers and adding some perlite in all the containers. I wonder if that would disturb them too much.
Very good to know! I had the chance to grow purple sweet potatoes this year and didn't because I thought they wouldn't grow in North Dakota. I never thought of using a container.
I'm growing my usual : Beaureguard!! And we do have that heat/humidity combo thing going here in upstate SC! Thanks, Luke! I have a chocolate "cream" pie I make with sweet potatoes--you'd never know!
I used dog food bags! Recycle, recycle, recycle. We filled them with good soil and a tiny bit of cow manure, then aged 3 small holes in the bottom for drainage. So for, it seems to be good. I'll be checking for harvesting next week.
I’ve actually found that I get the biggest sweet potatoes when I grow them in grow bags vs in a raised bed. They are shockingly tolerant to high heat, dry conditions and lack of nutrients. It feels like the less attention I give my sweet potatoes, the better they do lol
I second the call for seeing a harvest video when the time comes. Some of the fertilizer advice in this is contrary to my understanding but I'm happy to be proven wrong with a harvest video! Over fertilizing produces pencil-thin tubers in my experience.
This is my first year to try growing sweet potatoes. I am in Ohio and didn't know if they would grow here or not. I got some slips and they looked almost dead. I put them in a glass of water for a week or so and a few of them looked better but not much. So thinking they would probably die I put them all in a 20 gallon grow bag. I think there were 7 of them. Well it appears they have all lived and are starting to grow. Yikes, I think I am going to have a mess. Thanks for the info, I will know better next year.
I live in Northern Ohio and sweet potatoes grow well for me. You want to avoid adding a lot of fertilizer to your plants because you’ll end up with a lot of vines and few sweet potatoes. I’ve found that sweet potatoes are one of the plants that like to be planted and then left alone.
Yep. They’ll just grow across the ground. If they run into an obstacle, they’ll climb up and over. Keep in mind that the vines can grow up to 15 feet long, so depending on your space, you may have to trim them.
I had beautiful plants and they started growing well. Then some critter came and ate the leaves off. And I have good fencing around the garden. I think chipmunks 🐿️
In my experience, sweet potatoes grow best in sandy, nutrient poor soil. And nitrogen should be avoided at all costs to prevent excessive leaf growth. Oh, and it’s criminal not to mention the leaves are edible & nutritious 🍠
Absolutely, and you can eat the leaves and vines of some varieties. I’m growing a very purple one I got at my Asian market a couple years ago. The vines grow very fast though so if you trellis them you have to do a lot of tucking. They try to grow to the ground to set more roots.
@@Gardeningchristine Please make sure your 'very purple' sweet potato is actually sweet potato and not ube before you try eating the leaves. I have both and the ube leaves are similar enough to maybe be mistaken (but different enough if you're paying attention). They're very different plants and ube leaves are NOT safe to eat.
@@wjm1319 thanks. I’ve eaten the leaves and vines the last 2 years with no ill effects. I’m fairly certain it’s Japanese sweet potato because I only have a 6 month growing season and ube takes a year.
@@Gardeningchristine Ok. Just wanted to pass on the warning. I like the purple sweet potatoes too, but you wouldn't want to get them and ube confused if you're eating the leaves...and some people don't realize there are 2 purple root veges to watch for :)
I’ve grown them in containers and raised beds, but never in a greenhouse. I would imagine that they would do very well because they like high humidity. The soil needs to be at least 12 inches deep for them to grow tubers. You can get sweet potato slips online. I suggest that you buy from a company that sells certified, disease free slips. A lot of people grow their own from store-bought sweet potatoes, but it’s really not a good idea to do that. They can have diseases that will be introduced into your garden. Also, most of the produce at grocery stores are treated with growth inhibitors that can prevent the tuber from producing slips.
If I mulch the sweet potato bed, will that prevent the plant from getting to set roots along the vine (because the vine will lay on top of mulch instead of the soil)?
I don't know if they're still shipping, but a few places to try would be Urban Farmer, Gurney's, and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Also for sprouting your own, I've never had luck with the toothpick jar of water method. I just cut off a piece and stick it in some damp potting soil. Don't overwater but keep it a little moist and warm (I leave mine outside on the porch to catch the sun). Slips should eventually sprout. HTH
I ordered from Sand Hill Preservation site this year. Order early in the spring. I didn't get my order in early and I had one variety substituted. I had told them I would take a substitute so it wasn't a big deal. I have had a great experience with them with seeds and sweet potato slips. They even reached out to me when they noticed the post office took a day longer to deliver than usual. The owner has also bred and selected some of their seed varieties.
Trying to grow sweet potatoes this year and find out there is sooo much vonfliiingo out there. Goving them sll day sin, inder black plastic mulch, and watering regularly. Gave them bone and blood meal ehen planted. Vining nicely. Keeping my fingers crossed. May give half of them some Trifecta to do a side by side comparison. Dtill keeping my fingers crossed.
I was thinking of putting containers in the greenhouse where we have an average summertime temp of 65-100+ degrees with an ave. humidity 80 - 100 (depending on opening windows and fan) Would this be beneficial? Would the varieties suggested thrive? Thank you for all your help! Our gardens thrived this year with your help. I will be buying seeds from your company. We are a short trip east on I-69.
I'd love to find sweet potato slips ready to plant. I'm in Michigan and never run across a place (or organic sweet potato) that I can start a "sweet potato growing journey" 😂
My problem now is too many slips. Im in north Florida and i started growing my own slips from 4 different varieties in spring. Got done getting all the slips i needed but the potatoes i used just keep producing. Go figure
Hi , I am growing sweet potatoes for the first time in my poly tunnel, I have taken slips from purchase sweet potatoes from our store, don’t know how they will turn out, but what ever happens, I will be learning this season think how to grow them, I did not know about the pearlite , they went straight in the ground.
The important thing is to dig them up before your first frost, or any risk of frost. I made the mistake of leaving them in the ground last year through the first frost, since they require a long growing season. They came out mushy and tasted awful because the sugars had rotted. I'm not growing them again this year.
Depending on the variety, they can take from 85-120 days. The Georgia Jet he mentioned is 90 days. Beauregard is 100-110 days according to my research. The leaves will also start to die back. I grew Georgia Jet last year. I got varied sizes at 90 days. My pot had way too many slips according to his guidelines.
Sweet potatoes like soil that is slightly more acidic. The optimal soil pH for growing them is 5.8-6.2, but they will tolerate a range of 5.5 to 6.8. You can increase the soil acidity by adding sulfur the year before planting, or you can add iron sulfate about a month before you plant. There are also fertilizers that are made for acid loving plants. If the soil is too alkaline, you can add lime to reduce it. Never add any amendments to your soil without testing it first though. Also, only add a little at a time to avoid altering the soil too much. I hope this helps.
@dawn19maria I planted from a store bought one so not sure what kind it is. Dis the same thing last year and they went to fall, September or so. It took forever for the slip to start then very slow growth even in my tent fir seedlings. Do you buy your slips? If so, from where?
I tried to grow sweet potatoes in a bucket this past season. When I emptied the bucket, there wasn't a single potato in it, but a few days later I noticed that the vines (that I had let run under my tomatoes) were still alive. When I started to pull them out I discovered that there were many pounds of sweet potatoes in the ground instead of the bucket.
I’m growing mine in grow bags and they have vines growing like crazy outside the bags and some of the vines have now rooted in the ground (clay or red dirt area) what do I do now? 😢
This is very confusing. All long time sweet potato growers scream that you shouldn’t over fertilize them, especially with nitrogen. Growers from all over the world proved it by side comparison. This is completely the opposite of what you are suggesting here. I’m your long term fan and a customer and I’m shocked now
![Turn ONE Sweet Potato Into 100 LBS Of Sweet Potatoes By Growing SWEET POTATO SLIPS! [Complete Guide]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0igp5IzO21g/mqdefault.jpg)
If you ever questioned the value of having your own garden you NEED to watch the recent episode of Joe Rogan where he talks to Sadhgaru. They are saying that the nutrients in most of the commercially grown food is grown in such depleted soil that the the vegetables and fruits we buy from the stores have on average only 10% of the nurrients they had 50 years ago. Everything living thing on this planet comes from the soil, including YOU. Growing your own garden is literally LIFE. Mad love and respect to all you gardeners out there and to all the gardening youtubers. You are bringing life to a starving planet!!!!❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing and I will give that a listen ❤
I've been using these for sweet potatoes for many years. Home depot sells them much cheaper.
I'd love to see more videos like this where you add in how your harvest from that container went. Maybe even a couple updates over time. It kind of helps a new grower to know what to expect.
Great suggestion!
This is my first year officially growing sweet potatoes. I experimented last year with a random slip I had from a store bought sweet potato. I have three different varieties, bouregaurd, a Japanese red, and Okinawan. I have two 30-35 gallon containers with 6 plants each. 8+ hours of sun and plenty of water. The weather lately has been hot and humid where I live and my sweet potatoes are looking gorgeous! I made some hoop trellises for some of the vines to grow up. I'm really looking forward to seeing what my harvest looks like!
I grew sweet potatoes for the first time this year and they did great, the vines even flowered.
I love that this method works for you, but just to prevent loss of interest from beginning or low-income gardeners I'd like to say I have always grown my sweet potatoes in low quality, almost inert substrate (mine is a mix of steer manure, coco coir, peat moss, and perlite) and I get decent foliage but amazing root/tuber development in 5 gallon containers! The variety is beauregard just FYI! Try it!
Before the last frost I like taking cuttings, root them in water, then plant them in pots inside over the winter. Then in spring, I'll take cuttings from the overwintered plants, root them and plant them in the garden as well as the overwintered plants.
Sweet potato leaves, especially the new shoots are a very good source of high vitamin greens
My parents tried to grow sweet potatoes last year. The rabbits got to the greens within a few days, so it didn't even have a chance. Whatever we dug up, which is about 2, were the size of a regular/medium sized carrot.
I grow a very dark purple kind I got from the Asian market. Very smoky flavor and not as sweet but very good baked and the foliage tastes great in the heat of the summer!
To help keep the vines under control, harvest them. Unlike regular potatoes, the leaves of sweet potatoes are edible - and tasty! - as well as having a level of vitamins on par with spinach. I love growing sweet potatoes as much for the greens as the tubers.
Love it. Ive got sweet potatoes inn pots for the first time this year. The video was very timely.
I have some growing this year as well in some fabric containers just like those. In fact i just checked over them the other day and the soil around the base of the plants was bulging up, so i brushed some of the top of the soil away just to check, and sure enough im getting some starting to develop under there!
I used coco coir for my sweet potatoes this year and they look great. I used chicken manure also
I’ve found that sweet potatoes grow best in soil with less fertility. I only fertilize them with a high phosphorus granular fertilizer before planting the slips. After that, I leave them alone. You shouldn’t use a high nitrogen fertilizer either because you’ll end up with nothing but vines.
I wish I had this when I planted mine. I have too many in my 15 gallon bags. Smh. Thank you I will definitely remember this.
Can you pull some out?
@@juliehorney995I’m thinking about moving some into other containers and adding some perlite in all the containers. I wonder if that would disturb them too much.
Thank you, Luke. 😊
Very good to know! I had the chance to grow purple sweet potatoes this year and didn't because I thought they wouldn't grow in North Dakota. I never thought of using a container.
I'm growing my usual : Beaureguard!! And we do have that heat/humidity combo thing going here in upstate SC! Thanks, Luke! I have a chocolate "cream" pie I make with sweet potatoes--you'd never know!
From Aiken SC here, am trying Carogold variety this year, and would kill for that recipe for your chocolate cream pie.🧑🌾
I used dog food bags! Recycle, recycle, recycle. We filled them with good soil and a tiny bit of cow manure, then aged 3 small holes in the bottom for drainage. So for, it seems to be good. I'll be checking for harvesting next week.
I'm doing the same thing this year!
Dog and chicken feed bags I ran out of bags so I have two buckets, too.
I’ve actually found that I get the biggest sweet potatoes when I grow them in grow bags vs in a raised bed. They are shockingly tolerant to high heat, dry conditions and lack of nutrients. It feels like the less attention I give my sweet potatoes, the better they do lol
I second the call for seeing a harvest video when the time comes. Some of the fertilizer advice in this is contrary to my understanding but I'm happy to be proven wrong with a harvest video! Over fertilizing produces pencil-thin tubers in my experience.
Solid. I prefer your videos like this, shorter and to the point. Well done. o/
This is my first year to try growing sweet potatoes. I am in Ohio and didn't know if they would grow here or not. I got some slips and they looked almost dead. I put them in a glass of water for a week or so and a few of them looked better but not much. So thinking they would probably die I put them all in a 20 gallon grow bag. I think there were 7 of them. Well it appears they have all lived and are starting to grow. Yikes, I think I am going to have a mess. Thanks for the info, I will know better next year.
I live in Northern Ohio and sweet potatoes grow well for me. You want to avoid adding a lot of fertilizer to your plants because you’ll end up with a lot of vines and few sweet potatoes. I’ve found that sweet potatoes are one of the plants that like to be planted and then left alone.
Great content! I'd love to see how you grow a sweet potato from another sweet potato.
Good timing..... I started my own slips by putting 1 sweet potatoe in potting soil.
Thanks Lucy, going to try this next year
Very useful information.
This was right on time. I'm propagating slips right now lol
Me too.... I started my own slips by putting 1 sweet potatoe in potting soil.
I have my grow bags on a high bench type table. Would that be ok just to let the vine cascade downward?
Yep. They’ll just grow across the ground. If they run into an obstacle, they’ll climb up and over. Keep in mind that the vines can grow up to 15 feet long, so depending on your space, you may have to trim them.
I had beautiful plants and they started growing well. Then some critter came and ate the leaves off. And I have good fencing around the garden. I think chipmunks 🐿️
Ghee...I was just thinking abt that and there pops up your video...thanks Luke
Good ideal,thanks a lot
Nice ! Great information, right to the point, thanks.
First question. Can you expand the growing season by starting them in these containers in the home?
Yes, my grandma had a sweet potato plant as a house plant when I was a kid.
Hot and humid?
That would be a great thing to grow here in Southern Quebec / Northern New York.
@@gferraro8353 Just the idea of a summer breeze (cool or not) seems like a good thing. That humidity does not want to go away.
In my experience, sweet potatoes grow best in sandy, nutrient poor soil. And nitrogen should be avoided at all costs to prevent excessive leaf growth.
Oh, and it’s criminal not to mention the leaves are edible & nutritious 🍠
how do you know when they are ready? do you wait till the vines go yellow?
When I ordered some the company said how many days to maturity for each type.
I've seen some people just harvest before the first frost.
Is there enough time to start sweet potatoes if I already have slips ready? I’m in zone 7 western NC
Can you trellis the sweet potato vines if you don't have 10 ft to grow them on the ground
They have beautiful vines and flowers.
Absolutely, and you can eat the leaves and vines of some varieties. I’m growing a very purple one I got at my Asian market a couple years ago. The vines grow very fast though so if you trellis them you have to do a lot of tucking. They try to grow to the ground to set more roots.
@@Gardeningchristine Please make sure your 'very purple' sweet potato is actually sweet potato and not ube before you try eating the leaves. I have both and the ube leaves are similar enough to maybe be mistaken (but different enough if you're paying attention). They're very different plants and ube leaves are NOT safe to eat.
@@wjm1319 thanks. I’ve eaten the leaves and vines the last 2 years with no ill effects. I’m fairly certain it’s Japanese sweet potato because I only have a 6 month growing season and ube takes a year.
@@Gardeningchristine Ok. Just wanted to pass on the warning. I like the purple sweet potatoes too, but you wouldn't want to get them and ube confused if you're eating the leaves...and some people don't realize there are 2 purple root veges to watch for :)
What are tour thoughts on growing them vertical?
2:08 haha that was gold
How do sweet potatoes do in a greenhouse raised bed? How deep of soil do they need to root? Where can I get sweet potato plants?
I’ve grown them in containers and raised beds, but never in a greenhouse. I would imagine that they would do very well because they like high humidity. The soil needs to be at least 12 inches deep for them to grow tubers. You can get sweet potato slips online. I suggest that you buy from a company that sells certified, disease free slips. A lot of people grow their own from store-bought sweet potatoes, but it’s really not a good idea to do that. They can have diseases that will be introduced into your garden. Also, most of the produce at grocery stores are treated with growth inhibitors that can prevent the tuber from producing slips.
I grow them have no problem but they do not produce sweet potatoes only lots of vine. I wound why I don’t have potatoes. Question??? I ❤ ur show.
Too much nitrogen. Sweet potatoes do best in low nitrogen soils. Mine do best in a rotted leaf mulch so they are apparently fungal dominant.
If I mulch the sweet potato bed, will that prevent the plant from getting to set roots along the vine (because the vine will lay on top of mulch instead of the soil)?
Haven’t yet but next year maybe!
100% humidity...that'd be rain!😂
Thank you!
Im in zone 5b, tried 2x's to get slips started...failed both attemps....would love to know where to get established slips. 👍
try your local feed & seed store if you have one.
I don't know if they're still shipping, but a few places to try would be Urban Farmer, Gurney's, and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.
Also for sprouting your own, I've never had luck with the toothpick jar of water method. I just cut off a piece and stick it in some damp potting soil. Don't overwater but keep it a little moist and warm (I leave mine outside on the porch to catch the sun). Slips should eventually sprout. HTH
I ordered from Sand Hill Preservation site this year. Order early in the spring. I didn't get my order in early and I had one variety substituted. I had told them I would take a substitute so it wasn't a big deal. I have had a great experience with them with seeds and sweet potato slips.
They even reached out to me when they noticed the post office took a day longer to deliver than usual.
The owner has also bred and selected some of their seed varieties.
Trying to grow sweet potatoes this year and find out there is sooo much vonfliiingo out there. Goving them sll day sin, inder black plastic mulch, and watering regularly. Gave them bone and blood meal ehen planted. Vining nicely. Keeping my fingers crossed. May give half of them some Trifecta to do a side by side comparison. Dtill keeping my fingers crossed.
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I hope you follow up this planting with the harvest.Please and thank you!
I was thinking of putting containers in the greenhouse where we have an average summertime temp of 65-100+ degrees with an ave. humidity 80 - 100 (depending on opening windows and fan) Would this be beneficial? Would the varieties suggested thrive? Thank you for all your help! Our gardens thrived this year with your help. I will be buying seeds from your company. We are a short trip east on I-69.
How far apart do you plant them in the container? Just curious.
I planted sweet potatoes for the first time about 6 in a 20 gallon before seeing this obviously so we will see what happens..
Is it too late to them. I started some last month, but it would be nice to have a bumper crop.
I'd love to find sweet potato slips ready to plant. I'm in Michigan and never run across a place (or organic sweet potato) that I can start a "sweet potato growing journey" 😂
I’m in Michigan too. I found some at Lowe’s.
@@karamellibra6202I'll check them out. Thank you😊
If potting soil is sterile what does it mean when it says it feeds for up to 3-6 months?
My problem now is too many slips. Im in north Florida and i started growing my own slips from 4 different varieties in spring. Got done getting all the slips i needed but the potatoes i used just keep producing. Go figure
Drop them off at your local Take-a-Plant Leave-a-Plant stand. Your neighbors will appreciate it.
@@sandkdearing4503 you can't do that with cuttings like these. But thanks
Hi , I am growing sweet potatoes for the first time in my poly tunnel, I have taken slips from purchase sweet potatoes from our store, don’t know how they will turn out, but what ever happens, I will be learning this season think how to grow them, I did not know about the pearlite , they went straight in the ground.
A groundhog ate all the leaves from my potato plants (7 of them) 😭😭 any ideas about what to do for the future?
How do you know when they are ready to harvest?
The important thing is to dig them up before your first frost, or any risk of frost. I made the mistake of leaving them in the ground last year through the first frost, since they require a long growing season. They came out mushy and tasted awful because the sugars had rotted. I'm not growing them again this year.
Depending on the variety, they can take from 85-120 days. The Georgia Jet he mentioned is 90 days. Beauregard is 100-110 days according to my research. The leaves will also start to die back. I grew Georgia Jet last year. I got varied sizes at 90 days. My pot had way too many slips according to his guidelines.
When the weather begins to cool, the foliage will begin to die back. When start the ends of the vines begin to yellow, you can harvest them.
Would love to know more about ph.
Sweet potatoes like soil that is slightly more acidic. The optimal soil pH for growing them is 5.8-6.2, but they will tolerate a range of 5.5 to 6.8. You can increase the soil acidity by adding sulfur the year before planting, or you can add iron sulfate about a month before you plant. There are also fertilizers that are made for acid loving plants. If the soil is too alkaline, you can add lime to reduce it. Never add any amendments to your soil without testing it first though. Also, only add a little at a time to avoid altering the soil too much. I hope this helps.
Can I throw a sprouting sweet potato in the ground?
Possibly but the new potatoes grow from the new slips. Gently take the slip off and put it in water for a few days and it'll send out roots
Absolutely!
I just put 2 in ground...we will see! Zone 5b
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Can I still grow sweet potatoes ❤now in in zone 7b
yes
Are you really going to get sweet potatoes planted now? I’ve had mine in since march, once the sweet potato produced slips.
@dawn19maria I planted from a store bought one so not sure what kind it is. Dis the same thing last year and they went to fall, September or so. It took forever for the slip to start then very slow growth even in my tent fir seedlings. Do you buy your slips? If so, from where?
Can we still plant sweet potatoes? It’s July in Ohio
Yes, it's dug up in the fall
I tried to grow sweet potatoes in a bucket this past season. When I emptied the bucket, there wasn't a single potato in it, but a few days later I noticed that the vines (that I had let run under my tomatoes) were still alive. When I started to pull them out I discovered that there were many pounds of sweet potatoes in the ground instead of the bucket.
I’m growing mine in grow bags and they have vines growing like crazy outside the bags and some of the vines have now rooted in the ground (clay or red dirt area) what do I do now? 😢
This year, we found that Japanese beetles love sweet potatoes. 🙄
My leaves were growing beautifully…until a gopher or woodchuck came and had a feast 😣🥺😤
I’m so sorry 😢
Interesting, milennial gardener says sweet potatoes need basically no nutrients and absolutely not nitrogen 🤔
There are no fertilizers where I live
How do I add nitrogen manually? any specific kind of compost or food waste?
Do sweet potatoes flower? I have amazing vines but yet to see a flower….. is this a bad sign?
Most varieties do not flower.
Don’t I need to tease the roots when planting?
This is very confusing. All long time sweet potato growers scream that you shouldn’t over fertilize them, especially with nitrogen.
Growers from all over the world proved it by side comparison.
This is completely the opposite of what you are suggesting here.
I’m your long term fan and a customer and
I’m shocked now
So, I heard the same 5 things over and over again but never learned how long to wait to harvest, whether there’s more than one harvest, etc.
Thank you, Luke. 😊