How To Harvest, Cure and Store Sweet Potatoes For A FULL YEAR without Refrigeration
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2022
- Its actually very simple to harvest, cure and store sweet potatoes so you have a supply of nutrient dense food all winter long and even into the following summer as you will see in this video. If you do not have access to a place that maintains 50-60 degrees Fahrenheit then its also acceptable to just leave them in a cupboard for a number of months and that will still get you a solid 2-3 even 4 or 5 months out of them.
great idea using the heat in your car. I love it
Being that I am on the Illinois/Indiana border, I am so glad that I found you! Literally everything that you talk about can be applied to my garden.
thats right they can be!... also follow the instagram account because I'll be posting pics and videos of things as I'm doing them and that'll give you a good time cue
If only people realised how easy it is to grown their own food and become food independent instead of relying on Big Food, the chemical and oil industries, to produce garbage they pass off as food. The money saved paying for health insurance, would be better invested in DIY healthy food gardens.
I can't believe all the people I know on 4 meds with 2 M.D.s. I'm in my 73's w. great health insurance. I haven't seen M.D.s or using any meds. weaned myself off. I'm healthier than most considering all the years in that med sys. pharma game
Amazing amount of sweet potatoes from just one bag!!!
I'd love to see a video of your food storage space(s)...
Thank you for making this video! The world is abundant, and you are helping people join in it.
Great idea about leaving them in the car, I had been wondering about how to keep them warm.
I did not know about the need of "curing" the sweet potatoes. Thank you!
Great content as always! Thank you for providing us with clear concise information !
Thanks! I have my first ever harvest of sweet potatoes coming up this year, glad to be prepared for it!
LOL....that's a brilliant solution for curing them!
I'm glad I found you! I'm in Northern Indiana too so your advice will be greatly appreciated. I expanded my garden this year for next season and am looking forward to growing more!
I am growing sweet potatoes 🍠 for the first time this year got the slips delivered through the post I have put them in big containers with my own rotted down leaf mould which has turned to soil and mixed some of own potash with it 🍠 I rolled out a sheet of wire and put the containers on top of the wire because I have a lot of rodents that chew through the plastic pots and would probably eat the potatoes inside the container From Devon England thanks for the video I didn’t know about the curing method👍
I can see why you’re just gonna bring down the whole onion shelf this year. Your cellar is beautiful 🙏🏻
I always wondered how this was done. Thank you my friend.
Your education quality is really high and the integrity is amazing.
Thank you for providing amazing knowledge for us.
you're welcome my friend thank you for the positive energy and feedback!!
Thank you so much for posting this! I didn’t think we would have sweet potatoes this year because before watching your video on how to plant sweet potatoes, I just put the whole potato in the ground. I went out to my moms garden this evening. Just digging around and sure enough there were sweet potatoes. Now I know how to cure them, thanks to you!
Love that garlic stash of yours Nat. thanks 4 da vid
I love that back of the car trick.
Just harvested my first crop ever, tried a few small ones straight out the soil and they were damn good, excited to see the change after curing, thanks for the info
I'm digging how you get straight down to biz. Keep up the good work my friend
Hello Nate from zone 6B southern Indiana! I’m glad that I read your answer about the pruning of the vines. I’m excited to harvest my Hugelkulter sweet taters but haven’t pruned at all- I’ll get on it tomorrow 👍
Enjoying uour videos & thankful that i live here in equator (Indonesia) which can grow this awesome food all year long !... God bless you bro 😊👍
I hope your channel takes off. You are so informative and a fun personality! Thanks
that is really kind of you my friend thank you!
Basement supermarket. Very cool
Sounds easy.
Thanks.
Very helpful! Thanks!
Thanks for the help!
Great info about curing!
Great video, as always! Thank you
So glad I found your channel!
Awesome idea thank you
Great video. Thank you
You are truly awesome!
Awesome video; complete and helpful! Thanks Nate!
Nice! Thanks a lot for your time. Much love.
Great content!
Wonderful!
Thanks again for your video good to know
Great info 👍🏼👍🏼
Awesomeness, Thanks
Wow!! Thanks. Never knew about curing.
Great information, thanks
I love your videos.. from San Antonio Texas
Thanks!
You're doing such a great job at showing everyone the way you see the world! Thank you for this!
Great video. I learned a few more things about sweet potatoes. 🙂
Thank you !!!!
I didn’t know you had the cure sweet potatoes thanks.
I live on Brazil and some people eat the sweet potato leaves, i love them on soup or salad.
Great channel, I like watching channels that I can learn things, thanks for all the great videos
This is a wonderful channel. Sweet potatoes are like Cassava that we grow in the Caribbean. Will try the this.
Very helpful
Another beneficial video. You are soo worth my time. Thank you for your time.
Thank you so much for sharing, well explained, more power to your channel sir🙏🙏🙏
Thank you! 🙏
Heck yes I wanna see the tomatoes dehydrated with garlic-N-such!! 👍🏻
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Great video!! I’m growing sweet potatoes for the first time this year… hoping for a good crop!
Thank you!!
thank you for your support my friend!!!
i appreciate you bro
A garbage bag? I’ll have to look that up. That’s cool. I can taste the French fried sweet potatoes right now with powdered sugar.
As your Vines grow, wrap them snugly in a circular pattern on the ground around the parent plant. Every other joint of the Vine bury with a couple handfuls of dirt and lightly pack it. This will greatly increase your productivity of your sweet potato hills.
On the islands, all our root crops, sweet potatoes, yams, minooka, tallo, etc... were harvested, dried, dusted off, wrapped in newspaper, stuck in a fruit or vegetable box and kept in a well ventilated area out of the sunlight.
this is great advice if you live in an area that can support this.... but I've found here in zone 5 if we let the plant start producing additional potatoes then we don't have enough time in the season for them all to mature so we end up with lots of tiny sweet potatoes
@@gardenlikeaviking I guess I should have clarified that we usually only do this with a few select slips and then only for the first few weeks to 2 months of growth. Then, on those slips only, we don't harvest any green, so all of the energy will go into the production of potatoes.
We also plant several other slips, and allow the greens to grow 10 to 15 feet long and then start harvesting greens from them.
On either way though, the primary Hill, or cluster, where the slip was planted, seems to mature to about the same size providing enough Vine is allowed per slip.
Great tips Nate. I'm going to grow some sweet potatoes or Kumara as it's known in New Zealand, this summer. It's just ticked over to spring here but it snowed yesterday so still too cold for gardening.
wonderful idea!!.. you have the best part of the growing season coming!!... so have you already started the slips?... you'll definitely want to start those now so they're ready in time
Kia orana Dave. Im Cook Islander. Yes we call it Kumara there too. Im living in the US Washington State, above Oregon.
I was just excited n happy to hear someone mention kumara. Thanks
Thanks
thank you very much for the support my friend I appreciate you!!!
I appreciate your video. To the point and very simple. About to plant a big haul of sweet potatoes in soil bags and was wondering how i can store them without going bad. Teaching myself how to grow my pwn food and sustain myself. Thank you for this video👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
sweet potatoes store very easily just in a cool and dark place like a basement... watch this video here to learn more ruclips.net/video/-paVxlYXYsU/видео.html
Lol Nate! Stop with the awesome content 😝! All jokes aside, glad for this video as I have some sweet potatoes yet to be harvested and was going to look up when to harvest
The car cure- genius !!
Bang on buddy
Aww dang! My next to do! I love sweet taters🤗
Thank you for another fab detailed video 👍 I don’t have a cellar / basement . Only a garage which possibly would get mice in if I leave them in there . Any other ideas how to store pls? I do have a ketter storage box thing but will be totally closed to stop pests . Would that be ok if they inside in open boxes ??
Cool
Thats so smart the car😅
A good way of likning your other videos is linking them at the end of the video, as if you link other video in the middle of your current video then we have to click off your current video or look for the link when we finish watching/
but if at the end of the video you will say something like " by the way if you want to learn (....) and i put a link to it here " then we stay on your channel and just watch all your videos one by one as they are ALL AWESOME!
that's a really great idea and I will do that from now on because this video has done the worst so far of any video I've made! lol thank you my friend
Your not kidding, I live in the tropics, I pulled up all my sweet potato patch because I have to move, and a month later half the patch has grown back again already 😰 I have peach sweet potatoes they are most similar to the consistency of a normal potato, they don’t get waterlogged when you boil them like sweet potatoes normally do. But they taste the best out of all the sweet potatoes 🌱🍑🍠🧡 🌱
wow I've never heard of peach sweet potatoes!!!... I want to get some!
I learn
How have you learnt all this? All your videos how/where have you obtained all this knowledge?
Gotta train myself to like them
you can do it!!... your body and health will thank you!
@@gardenlikeavikingfinally tried grilled sweet potato...I can do it if they're thin and have salt
@@joannmcculley8253 yes especially if you make a dipping sauce from plain greek yogurt mixed with a pinch of dill and cumin and sea salt.... then a splash of lemon juice... mix it all up and dip the grilled sweet potatoes in it!!!... so good
Thanks!
This is my first attempt at growing sweet potatoes.
QUESTION: my basement isn’t as cool temperature as yours. Will that be ok?
Thanks Nate, I've got slips with roots and I know it's bad timing, I was thinking of putting them in and see what comes but in the event of disaster do the ones in the supermarkets come cured and if so can I just store a few over winter and get slips for next year at the beginning of the season? Love your store, that's my dream and intention.
what are your winters like there?... and yes the ones from the store are definitely cured but by the time you get them in the store they're already LAST years crop!... so chances are slim they'll store all winter but I'd say give it a go and see!... you might get lucky
@@gardenlikeaviking winters?? Who knows with the air displays, I can remember as a child quite a bit of snow in winter but I can also remember seeing trails from planes back then, in the 70s I was younger than 7 or 8 so I really couldn't say to be certain, we have ab tropical stream meets Ireland on the SW coast at a place called Valencia, the gulf stream they call it but I have my suspicions about what it really is, just like sea tides.
I was going to say since I live down in the South but nights are getting a little cooler if you could just leave them in a black bag out in the sun if not raining for a few days? But wasn't sure if they would get moldy
You make me want to love sweet potatoes. But, my childhood included canned imposters cooked with fake marshmallows, an experience from which I have yet to recover.
If you like sweet like me try sweet potatoes w. a little butter and pepper. Steamed or baked. I even make fries with them. Like shoestring sweet potato fries. If you like them crisp. Fry them twice.
oh my friend you've been done a grave mis-service!... get a nice solid sweet potato and slice it into 1/2 inch thick slices... then rub with olive oil and place directly onto a charcoal grill... flip once they become blackened and sear the other side... about 15-20 minutes... then remove and sprinkle with coarse sea salt... delicious!!
Can you save the small roots to start again next year?
thanks! im gonna do better this year.
You Rock my friend 👍🫶🏼💃🏼
Sweet potatoes! My favorite! Well, I never have enough of your videos, bright ideas and garden tips. I suppose many could take a leaf out of Nate Muri's book and become better gardeners. However, I am actually in need of an advice from you. I am following your Jadam system to the letter and I have some nice zucchini growing these days as the tropical temp is about 24°C (75.2°F) just now. My problem is that my plant, which has just started fruiting, is producing only female flowers with lots of small fruits. There no signs of male flowers anywhere. What am I to do? Do I remove them? I know they won't mature. Please help. Awaiting a reply.🙏
this is very strange my friend as usually if the plant is stressed it will produce only male flowers!... I have never heard of a plant producing only female flowers... I would try pruning off the first couple of female fruits and seeing if that signals the plant to produce male flowers... honestly if you did nothing at all I think it would balance out eventually... let me know how it goes!
Kind of an off topic question but if i have a plant that is suffering nitrogen toxicity and i give it JMS will that help the plant to absorb more nutes and help with the nitrogen overload? Thank you again for all of your help and knowledge, your page has made me and my garden so happy.
nitrogen toxicity is only really possible if using synthetics... natural fertilizers cannot really become toxic unless applied in ridiculous amounts... either way yes JMS will help and also flooding the root zone with water to "flush" out the excess nitro will help greatly so long as you have great drainage in your soil
I’m in zone 5b in Idaho. Is it possible to grow sweet potatoes here? I’ve never seen anyone do it.
I’m a groupie. Love your channel!!
hello my friend YES! you can certainly grow sweet potatoes in Idaho... this winter around February time look for a video detailing the ideal way to start your sweet potato slips... I'll put the videos out in time you can follow along because I'm also in zone 5b
@@gardenlikeaviking Thank you so much. I’m telling EVERYONE about you. Every video is power packed and not a wasted second.
Thanks Nate. Not sure if zone 7b will be hot enough by the time I harvest my sweet potatoes. Can I tote them and cover with a towel for warmth and keep indoors?
yes you can... also if you watch my video about seed starting you'll see a heat mat I use with a thermostat with a link to get it in the description... you can place the tote on top of that heat mat and set it to 84f and its good to go... but this is the secret method I haven't made a video about yet lol
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I'm in zone 3 (high desert of Central Oregon) and I would love to be able to grow sweet potatoes. I've been told no way that's a deep south plant only. But if you can, can I? What do you think?
Am really loving all the new ideas you have been presenting! I didn't even know what/who Jadam was 2 months ago!! 💜🌱
Zone 3? Goddamn that’s fuckin cold. I’m in oregon as well , down in the grants pass area of it and here the zone is 7A-B perfect for sweet potatoes, potatoes, basically most things people grow in the “long summers” do fine where I’m at , like basil I direct seed it and it’ll still seed way before my last frost. If you are in zone 3 then you’re growing season is very much limited and you’ll probably have to start them indoors first then put them outdoors. My sweet potatoes i put in the ground popped up around June and still haven’t flowered… hoping that’ll change! Best of luck to you!
wow I didn't know Oregon had a zone 3!!.... what are your first and last frost dates?... that will tell me if its possible or not but I'm going to say already yes you can but let me know your dates
@@gardenlikeaviking I'm at 4200 ft. My last frost date is supposed to be April 30, but it froze last spring into June at night My first frost date is October 11 but it's already into the mid 30's at night (102° yesterday!! 90's all week). The books say we have about 75 days growing season??
@@Hotshoe333 This was my first year attempting to grow a garden here. I think I'm going to have to get a serious greenhouse so I can start a little earlier and finish up a little later in the fall.
GREAT VIDEO! When you leave potatoes in car, so they need to be in a single layer, not touching?
a couple layers deep is ok because it will add to the humidity
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I appreciate that you always leave a thumbs up comment my friend thank you
Any recommendations for purchased in bulk sweet potatoes?
Hi Nate, Is there a difference between a sweet potato and a yam? Do the grow the same?
I'm curing my sweet potatoes per your direction, in a tote in a tote at 86 degrees. Must the potatoes be one layer or can I fill the tote halfway. Thanks
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When do you take the dirt off? Do you wash them before you cu,re them?
What about the alternative way to dry them? Just low heat in oven or something?
I live in the Caribbean where there is no lack of heat or humidity but everywhere here the houses are built on a slab and finding a cool place like a basement provides a bit of a challenge. Do you have any suggestions
sweet potatoes will still do alright just try to keep them as cool as possible... perhaps dig a hole in the ground in the shade where you can place the bucket of potatoes or something like that.... sweet potatoes come from the tropics
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If you store them to cure in a hot place like your car or in my case a poly greenhouse, and the temperature drops at night, will that interrupt the curing process? I don't have a way to keep the temperature that hot constantly after sunset, so what would you suggest?
no it will not interrupt the process it will still work just keep them hot and humid as long as possible
How much time from sowing to harvesting.