If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS here: 0:00 Intro To Growing Sweet Potatoes 1:02 Compost: Sweet Potato's Enemy 3:20 Container Grown Sweet Potato Tips 4:01 Harvesting Sweet Potatoes In Containers 6:07 Harvesting Sweet Potatoes In Raised Beds 7:42 Containers VS Raised Beds Results 9:29 Sweet Potato Growing Conclusions 12:42 Curing And Storing Sweet Potatoes 14:05 Adventures With Dale
@Ms.Byrd68
11 ай бұрын
Plus if you are growing for a small family those two buckets maybe 'doubled' are enough for fresh eating, storing till next season and regrowing your 'slips' when your space both _outside & inside_ are limited. What I hear, for the first time, is that certain veggies are actually INVASIVE and their growth should be controlled just like you do MINT or STRAWBERRIES. Good to actually be TOLD, thank you!
@myurbangarden7695
11 ай бұрын
I typically grow in containers. My mother used to plant potatoes🥔 and sweet potatoes 🍠 in ground beds. 3 years later we were still digging them up. Even when she needed work on her septic system and pool, we found sweet potatoes and potatoes
@livingtherufflife
11 ай бұрын
Now it makes sense why i had the best sweet potato harvest in central FL. It was horrible soil, and nothing grows in the summer so everyone said plant sweet potatoes to cover the soil and loosen the soil for the fall. We moved 3 times since and although this is my first year again ti grow sweet potatoes, I got lots of green but little roots. I thought i grew too late. But your explanation makes more sense. I’ll be growing sweet potatoes with cheap, dirt in grow bags and save my compost for the green veg and tomatoes.
@WilliamMiller-nr5gb
4 ай бұрын
I too learned the counterproductivity of fertilizing sweet potatoes. I will say though that I plant mine in containers because of bug damage that results from in-ground planting here in South Florida.... and that the leaves are also enjoyed by both me and my chickens.
@exvaxmama
11 ай бұрын
I'm soo glad you did this "experiment" lol I'm in se Louisiana and for the last few years I've done sweet pots in grow bags and have gotten the biggest potatoes!! Not very many but the size makes it for the lack of quantity lol ive been wanting to try them in my raised bed but now I think I'll stick to what works best lol ill never grow potatoes any other way!!
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
I wonder what would happen if you grew them in a kiddie pool...
@ss-kz9ee
4 ай бұрын
I've started growing sweet potatoes.they are easy and I harvest them when young. They taste better. I am planning to have consistent sweet potatoes because potatoes in shops are expensive and bland
@lennythomas7230
4 ай бұрын
Lol I love the intro. Consistent positivity every time. Be very awesome if you did a video while it was raining and be like "it's a beautiful day here in South Carolina" 🤣🤣🤣
@beverlyboyce1041
11 ай бұрын
Danny from Deepsouthhomestead did Murasaki sweet potatoes in Mississippi and they went through a bad drought. They did great considering and no insect pressure
@LB-vl3qn
11 ай бұрын
Very interesting. I had a similar experience growing sweets in a 3x4 raised bed. Most of the harvest was long, skinny tubers that looked more like snakes than sweet potatoes. How many slips did you plant in each grow bag? Thanks for showing the comparison. ~ Lisa
@lajwantishahani1225
7 күн бұрын
I grew them in a raised bed one year and got nothing but the vines! Maybe some rats got whatever tubers were in there. I do have a rat problem now coming from my new neighbor's backyard. I'm planning on growing sweet potatoes in pots near my bedroom window so we can hopefully hear if they rattle around in the night. I'm pretty sure they'll be able to chew holes into grow bags 😢
@joeypilgrim1269
7 ай бұрын
I'm going to try to grow sweet potatoes in a big round hay bale this year.
@joeprocopio9708
11 ай бұрын
How do you think sweet potatoes will grow in New York? I want to try next year.
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
Oh yes, absolutely. But you'll want to make sure you have them ready to go as early as possible in May once the weather agrees to take advantage of a maximum growing season. You may need to experiment with different varieties to see what grows best in your climate. Murasaki and Beauregard grow VERY well here down south, but I don't know about New York. I have a video on how to make slips here, because you'll probably need to start producing slips indoors with a grow light in February to get them ready in time: kzitem.info/news/bejne/kZ-d1ml_s4FjZJwsi=4sPxJpkb4JPZ0cy0
@joeprocopio9708
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for replying!
@kodiak1984
11 ай бұрын
I'm in the UK and growing sweet potatoes. Weather this year has been awful, not as hot as last year and was msuch wetter too. I use containers and have experimented with them over the last 3 years. My take is looking at the vines in the raised beds, they still look healthy because the soil is very fertile. Point is, they werent dying back. Much like regular potatoes, letting the plant die back will end up transferring all the plants energy into the tubers, hence get bigger. My take, the sweet potato vines in the containers had seen better days and perhaps were sending all their energy to the tubers whereas those in the raised beds still had some life. I think if you gave the sweet potatoes in the raised beds another 30 days, they would have been the same size as those in the containers. I did that experiment last year with murasaki sweet potato, I harvested a container on 90 days, another on 100 and another on 110. Those from 110 days batch were nearly double the size of the 90 days.
@kaikai2meripng
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for this. I had heard that you harvest after the leaves die back so I was wondering the same thing.
@kodiak1984
11 ай бұрын
@@kaikai2meripng you can harvest the leaves at any point. I dont think there is any nutrional value once the vines die back but if you find the vines and leaves growing well or overgrowing, pick the leaves and put it a meal. Its a good spinach substitute so where you would use spinach, you can use sweet potota leaves. The vines are also edible, some cultures eat them too as long as there are.not too woody in texture
@vlunceford
11 ай бұрын
Sweets have to be harvested ahead of first frost. Possibly he would have been up against frost if he had wanted another 30 days. I had that issue and harvested yesterday, but my sweets that I planted in mid-July yielded close to 50 pounds out of 2 raised beds. We are expecting a hard freeze tomorrow overnight. Zone 7b NW Georgia, planted in clay soil topped off with compost. The potatoes are HUGE.
@Cynthia_Robinson
9 ай бұрын
I grow my own slips. Using a potato from last season. So if you have a left behind potato. Leave it. That will produce a vine that has hundred of slips. Clip or break off where you see little nodes at the base of each leaf take the clippings and grow in water until you have a good root system. I use 4 cell seed trays for that. Once the leaves are growing and new vines appear. I transfer to containers to finish out. Young sweet potato leaves are delicious. Old saying a potato grows slip. Slips grow potatoes. If you don’t have pot ash as he recommended. Buy natural organic fertilizer. 3-4-3. Sprinkle into your container or bed mix into soil before planting. Water in new transfer slips until the whole bed or container is wet soil. Then water weekly or wait for rain. You’ll be amazed at your potato production. Other way to get slips is when a harvested potato starts to chit Allow that to grow about 3-4 inches. Then clip it off or break it where it attaches to the potato. Then move to water and watch it grow. Once it has leaves and roots. Transfer.
@pnmholdings4635
6 ай бұрын
@@Cynthia_Robinson awesome info. Thanks
@mamaabena8337
2 ай бұрын
Did you know the sweet potato leaves are edible and are great in stews? Really tasty harvesting them while nice and green!
@mamamuzic
11 ай бұрын
....and now I know what to do with the children's old sandbox area!
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
That could actually work pretty well if you add some bone meal and potash…
@kodiak1984
11 ай бұрын
Also thought of 2 other reasons why your sweet potato in your raised bed didnt do so well. It came to me as i picked my sweet potatoes today. Firstly, did you cover the ground in the raised bed? If the vines of the plant had touched the soil, it possibly re rooted. So the plant spent energy producing another root system, instead of concentrating on developing the one it already had into tubers. Secondly, how dense is the soil? Sweet potato like loose soil to allow the tubers to develop. If the soil is tight, they will not form and if they do, wont get big. And if they get big, they'll be slightly deformed. These 2 reasons may have contributed to your low yield from the raised beds
@IrisAzalea
11 ай бұрын
I followed your slips starting video and used 1 purple Japanese sweet potato. I harvested 14 lbs from one bed. Thank you thank you thank you
@TheMillennialGardener
5 ай бұрын
WOW! Awesome work!
@al451f
4 ай бұрын
What was the size of the bed?
@bobbun9630
11 ай бұрын
I grow my sweet potatoes in the ground, in clay soil. They grow great in clay, but digging them can be tough. The harvest was 256 lbs this year, and about half that came from a single 25' row with trellised plants (the vines have to be trained to climb a trellis, but it saves a lot of space). Lots of roots in the 3-5 lb range. Curing helps develop sweetness quickly after harvest, but they do sweeten up slowly in storage anyway. Curing is not necessary for storage, in my experience. Mine keep for about a year without it. I don't cure, as I prefer the roots to be less sweet.
@sunniharrison9639
5 ай бұрын
Do you live in AZ?
@bobbun9630
5 ай бұрын
@@sunniharrison9639 Nope. Arkansas, hot (not as hot as AZ), humid summers, just barely in zone 7 if that's relevant to you. I think you would need to irrigate regularly to grow them well in Arizona, even if it's not always obvious they need the water.
@mamamuzic
11 ай бұрын
I love your scientific experiments!who would have thought the containers would do twice as well?
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
Thanks! It depends on the soil. I think my raised bed soil is just too rich in organic matter and nitrogen. In my case, containers helped me.
@squeekytoys5911
11 ай бұрын
On a side note sweet potatoes are healthier to eat than regular potatoes. 😊
@nathanbales3702
11 ай бұрын
Dude, you're the BOMB!! I've been gardening for 40 years and still learn good info from you! I had the same problems with sweet potatoes but never figured it out! Thanks!!!
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
You’re welcome! I’m glad the videos are helpful. The best way to learn is to make a mistake 😂
@democracybacksliding
2 ай бұрын
I love sweet potatoes also. I started out drawing them for their leaves as an artist also I found out as I learned, In Vietnam sweet potato greens are a daily part of the people's diet. And I also learned or took an interest in sweet potatoes as a food for people with diabetes or kidney and liver damage. There are many reasons why I would we might eat sweet potatoes and they're called a superfoods, please understand I'm a student and learning to the best of my knowledge everything I said is true. Thanks for all the important tips like the heat match and wealth of knowledge.
@randbasic
11 ай бұрын
I’ve grown stokes in the ground before and had lots of huge success. I’m in a desert area now. I tried growing stokes , Murisaki, and a pinkish Asian variety in fabric pots. I got vines that went everywhere huge vines everywhere. However all the potatoes were small and nowhere near as many. I think. I must have used too much compost. That’s why I had the forest of vines and dinky tubers. Congrats on the harvest and thank for sharing the info! Keep on grow’n on! 😂
@Livingsamsara
11 ай бұрын
I love your experiments because I learn so much. Not harvested mine from the plot, yet -- that had, yes, organic matter -- but I bet I'll be trying them in the grow bags next year! Something else to validate your findings is my friend who basically has sandy dirt [South Carolina, Zone 8a ] and his potato patch is only slightly larger than your raised bed in this video. He doesn't fertilize. He does nothing to anything, ever. [He plays fast & loose in my opinion but damned if he doesn't have enough goodies to bring me!] ANYWAY, he gifted us about 50 lbs of sweet potatoes last year [seriously; one I brought back was the size of a large pumpkin] - that kept us stocked for months - and he lived on his own taters through the fall and winter as well. He REALLY likes sweet potatoes. He didn't turn orange though, which surprised me.
@nobodyreally8441
11 ай бұрын
I harvested my sweet potatoes a couple of weeks ago. I live in the cool mountains so they aren’t very easy to grow for lack of days above 50. I also experimented with containers vs raised beds. The containers were a big ZERO. I wonder if it was because I used 50% Black Cow? ( no fertilizer)
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
It sounds like too much nitrogen and not much anything else. I bet it grew some nice vines. When I planted my potatoes, I put in a lot of organic 5-5-5 and supplemental bone meal, plus I gave it a few supplemental top dressings throughout the year. I think that's why they did so well. I would recommend growing them with little to no compost but fortifying the containers significantly with bone meal and an organic fertilizer somewhere around a 3-5-5 or 2-5-5...something with a smaller N but a hefty P and K.
@happymusics
11 күн бұрын
Amazing results. I just planted slips in 2 growing bags, first trying out growing bags. Thank you for your video.
@MarjorieGeiser
17 күн бұрын
Question: I'm growing both sweet potatoes and potatoes in the grow bags. And I know I don't harvest them until the vines turn brown. But we're now in the middle of Sept and they still haven't turned brown. I'm in northern Arizona, at 6,000 feet elevation and apparently zone 7. Do I just keep waiting, until maybe frost or snow?? Thanks, Anthony. Margie
@ban9640
4 ай бұрын
hi am from saudi arabia in my openion i think sweet potatoes are water lover like rice even in poor drainage pot it s thriving like hell i have myself an excellent production of sweet potato in poorly drainage pots
@lillis887
Ай бұрын
😂😂Growing sweet potatoes outside in FL! All the right conditions!! Newbie loving all your tips!!❤❤
@austintrees
11 ай бұрын
I had seven grow bags of 50/50 sphagnum peat moss and potting soil, I don't think I had them out enough in zone 5B... But barely got anything of of size, next year should i turn a raised bed with a similar mixture and sand or just add sand to my container mix?
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
Keep in mind a decent potting mix is going to have around 50-60% peat, so it's possible you overdid it a bit. It's also possible Zone 5B just isn't warm enough long enough. Sweet potatoes *really* love heat, humidity and rainfall. Maybe they were planted too late or just didn't have enough warm season. I would recommend trying to plant them in large black grow bags heavily amended with bone meal. Then, consider pushing them up against the south-facing wall of your house, since that wall absorbs sun all day and radiates the heat back in the evening. That additional warmth may do it some good. You can also experiment with different varieties like Beauregard, Murasaki, Stoke's Purple, Georgia Jet, among others. You may have to take a few swings to find one that does well in Zone 5.
@suesherrill4557
4 ай бұрын
I'm confused about why you don't consider Peat Moss 'organic'? Isn't MOSS a plant?
@HealthPoliticsAndProtein
4 ай бұрын
I’m new to gardening so I don’t know the basics very well. Someone suggested I fill a few 30-gal fabric grow bags with top soil mixed with paver/patio sand for growing sweet potato. I used about 3.5 bags of 40 lb top soil and 3 bags of 1/2 cu foot sand per grow bag. Is this good? If I’m limited to big box stores in central OH, what would be better if anything?
@floridacustommerchllc7371
28 күн бұрын
Thank you for the great info. I think we could do without the negative about weather! Just saying! Wishing you continued success
@laurab8547
11 ай бұрын
I got 46 lbs of sweet potatoes in one 4x4 raised bed that is about 18 inches deep. The last two years I had dismal attempts trying to grow them in ground (in our hard, compact clay soil here in NTX) so I was thrilled to pull out huge potatoes that equaled about 45 lbs! I still have a second 4x4 bed to harvest because I planted that one several weeks later. All that to say, I do think the depth and composition of the soil really makes a difference in how well the sweet potatoes grow. Hope Dale feels better soon!
@NoLongerGullible2013
5 ай бұрын
How many slips did you plant in the containers compared how many you planted into the raised beds? I'm thinking of growing one slip per each 10 gallon planting bag. Another You Tube grower said he planted 6 slips per 10 gallon bag. The seller I'm buying the slips from said to keep them 8-12" apart. I think crowding them is going to result in smaller harvests overall. What do you think?
@farmerjacuzzo
5 ай бұрын
@TheMillennialGardener how many slips do you plant per 20 gallon conatiner?
@blebhan8213
3 күн бұрын
You can always add sweet potato leaves to a pot of lentils. Those are awesome.
@Endless_Endeavor
3 ай бұрын
Great video. Can you tell us how many slips you planted in the containers? I'm eager to try to duplicate your results. Thanks.
@tradergirl7067
4 ай бұрын
i just paid $20 for 5 okanawan slips and now im worried i wont get any yield.😮. I still need to buy like $40 worth of dirt. ugh
@imlew7853
5 ай бұрын
Ginger in containers seems to be more productive than in grounds also. Among all the sweet potato growers that I've checked, the container grown is the most productive. With the exception of one guy who used straw bales got the most harvest........kzitem.info/news/bejne/pmyw0ZdqrKx8oqw. Something I am working on now for our growing season in the Sunshine state. Mound gardening gives one of the best results. Mound gardening is a very successful method used outside the USA but more work and space than bales. Nitrogen is much needed for sweet potato before slips are established for leaves and must be stopped there after.
@MyJourneyOverseas
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing this, so much to learn from. One question though; what is the depth of your raised bed? Is shallow compared to your containers, could that be the reason for the lowered yield, that the sweet potatoes were constrained?
@sevnthhevn
6 ай бұрын
Don’t forget to cut the greens to eat!! I always see videos where when it comes harvest time they are cutting all the greens back, I just think “what a waste! That’s food you are throwing away!”
@Love-144
4 ай бұрын
How many slips did you put per 20 gallon container?
@nekomancer9157
11 ай бұрын
please learn to differentiate between raw compostable materials and finished compost. properly finished compost will have used up all the nitrogen breaking down the woody material that should have been in the compost.
@binxu7266
Ай бұрын
It seems like you do not have vole problem. Here in Minnesota the voles will dig out every tube if they are not controlled.
@laddieokelley6095
11 ай бұрын
I think I could grow sweet potatoes in my poor red soil. But why do it? The best-tasting sweet taters I ever ate are from the red dirt of some fields in East Texas and they're available every year. BTW I don't mind seeing dirt on a man or other signs of hard work.
@UVIcki
11 ай бұрын
Do you know how large your lot is? We also have a large neighborhood lot but have over 30 trees and two slopes. If I thought we were staying, I would cut trees and terrace for beds.
@ianh7710
11 ай бұрын
I use 2 litres of my stored urine pour in 20 litre bucket fill with water and table spoon of salt mix it thoroughly and feed to my sweet potatoes every 20 days works well.
@Mariefrancegrsce
6 ай бұрын
Me only care for leaves 🍃. .I grow them and earlt them daily.
@lchristmas65
11 ай бұрын
What type of fertilizer did you use please? How often did you fertilize?
@korinnemcchesney4545
7 ай бұрын
Love your videos! I’ve learned so much from you. I grow in 20 gallon fabric containers. It’s my first year attempting sweet potatoes . How many sweet potato slips can I put in one 20 gallon container?
@TheMillennialGardener
7 ай бұрын
Excellent! Probably 5-7 slips per 20 gallon bag. That's what I did, and it turned out excellent.
@andreagayle1972
5 ай бұрын
Thank u!
@HuongLe-cf5fo
10 ай бұрын
Should I plan them in plastic containers? I live in Indiana thanks
@jaydee4995
5 ай бұрын
How many slips would you plant in a 20 gallon grow bag? Thank you
@brandyburgess8267
3 ай бұрын
@TheMillennialGardener 1 month ago 5-6 worked well.
@ivan11h
4 ай бұрын
what is the best and most economical grow bag mix for growing sweet potatoes?
@tomciviletti
5 ай бұрын
Peat is organic matter, but it supplies little nitrogen to growing plants.
@Sunnylane02174
11 ай бұрын
Okay I’m definitely going to grow my sweet potatoes in my grow bags. Thanks for this video!
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
You’re welcome!
@ronaldthoms2147
11 ай бұрын
I've had good results growing in straw bales I cut area out between twine about 4 inches deep put potting soil in an plant slips an water good till thriving , sometimes theres sweetpotatoe's under bale or if lots of rain theres a pile to just pickup of sweetpotatoe's as bail mostly decomposed
@Lizzy514
3 ай бұрын
how many slips per container, please?
@amyk6028
5 ай бұрын
Love growing Sweet Potatoes! Last year I amended my soil with a big handful of 4-4-4 Organic fertilizer plus a big handful of Bone Meal in each planting hole. At the 1 month mark, I watered them well with a 4-4-4 liquid fertilizer. Then, at the 2 months mark I watered with a 0-1-3 liquid fertilizer. I got a GREAT harvest after the blooms started dying back around the 100 day mark 👍🏼 Planning to repeat that this year with some new varieties - Georgia Jet & Vardaman. We will see how it goes 🙌🏼
@EllieEmpen
6 ай бұрын
No sleeves for me or gloves. I like the dirt between my fingers
@obg7
7 ай бұрын
How many potatoes plant in the containers to get them started?
@RA-rf4nz
11 ай бұрын
Production probably more a function of air pruning with fabric containers.
@foxybuddy
11 ай бұрын
NPK suggestion please? There are so many different bone meal with NPK marked differently
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
All bone meal is going to have dramatically more phosphorus than nitrogen or potassium. That is all that really matters - you want low N, high P. Whether it is 2-14-0 or 0-16-0 or whatever doesn’t matter. All that matters is that P is highly dominant.
@icberg2glac
4 ай бұрын
Can sweet potatoes be planted without slips?
@STARFIRESOLAR
11 ай бұрын
I live about near Jacksonville not too far from you and have to share my sweet potato growing experience with you. I heat with wood in the winter and keep the wood chips I get from chain sawing my firewood. The best harvests of sweet potato I have ever had is mixing the wood chips with sand. 3 parts wood chips to 1 part sand. I also grow them in containers. The vines grew out of the containers and also rooted in my sandy soil so I got the harvest from the containers and what grew in the ground. Give it a try.
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
I imagine the nitrogen robbing effect of buried wood chips helped make tubers. Very interesting.
@STARFIRESOLAR
5 ай бұрын
@@rainbowvixen1429 Hey rainbowvixen, I live off Queen's Creek Rd. What's up neighbor! I hope you have great harvests this year!
@STARFIRESOLAR
5 ай бұрын
@@TheMillennialGardener No I used the wood chips I got using the chain saw to cut up the firewood, not burnt chips from the fireplace.
@Wisdomseeker_777
5 ай бұрын
@STARFIRESOLAR What size wood chips did you use, please? Planting my slips & would love to try this. Thanks in advance.
@STARFIRESOLAR
5 ай бұрын
@@Wisdomseeker_777 I used the chips that I got using the chainsaw.
@thebearman324
11 ай бұрын
I grew mine in a kiddy pool last year and they did fine. I think they actually did better in a shorter amount of time in the kiddy pool
@christiensgarden3325
11 ай бұрын
Great idea I will try that next year..how many slips per pool
@pnmholdings4635
6 ай бұрын
@@christiensgarden3325 I would put one every 1 square foot. I'm trying a pool this year.
@evelynwang1177
11 ай бұрын
sweet potato leaves are editable, don't waste them
@Pinochet1969
11 ай бұрын
Hey! How’s my buddy Dale doing?
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
Better. He can go on his full walks now. He still has 8 days left in the cone.
@charlesj.7978
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for the very informative video. Dogs are the best...just saying 😊
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
You're welcome! Dale is my best bud 🐶
@noreenworrell9524
11 ай бұрын
Awesome video great information. How much slips did you put in each bag.
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
5 or 6 per bag.
@ObsessiveAboutCats
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for making videos of mistakes so I can hopefully avoid them. I will be trying to grow sweet potatoes for the first time next year and this is very helpful information. It was also useful to see the structure you have for the vines to climb. One thing I was thinking about trying was burlap sacks, since I could cut holes in them to help the vines set roots. I was worried the sacks wouldn't hold up, and from the looks of your experiment, it isn't necessary. This is very useful info! Also it is good to know about the fertilizer because I definitely would have made that mistake too. PS - Dale is adorable!
@nic.h
9 ай бұрын
I've heard one report that burlap sacks work, but will only really last one season as the base rots out
@wiwingmargahayu6831
11 ай бұрын
use rat meat as fertilizer for a good growth
@stanleymcrae5952
11 ай бұрын
I've had success with a handful of granular fertilizer and about a cup of bone meal per slip. Then half strength fish emulsion the first 3 weeks. After that, just let them grow. I grew 2 slips per 27 gallon tote, that I converted to subirrigated containers. The last month or 2... I let the container almost dry out between watering. (Just to be sure the tubers don't rot in the soil). I've been harvesting them every few weeks as they cure and are eaten. I obtained 10 lbs from the last container harvested. So about 5 lbs per slip. It helps that the soil in my containers is very loose.
@Jordan_Makes
11 ай бұрын
Nice video! The chapters made it helpful to watch the parts I wanted to. Looks like I’ll be using containers next time I grow taters
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
Thanks! I’m glad it could give you a few ideas.
@AnyKeyLady
11 ай бұрын
Totally agree! Chapters make all the difference imo, especially to refer back to, plus they do an amazing job at metric conversions and include various growing zones. They also don't waffle, are clear and not overwhelming, whilst providing concise info. They also add a bit of comedy and light relief, either in the Adventures with Dale or in the main bit of the video content.
@NatureZone101
5 ай бұрын
Isn't that amazing how incredible animals are! Dale!
@karenmahoney2742
11 ай бұрын
Wondering how many sweet potatoe slips did you put in your 20 gallon bags. Great info, thanks
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
5 or 6.
@immortalgaiden
6 ай бұрын
how deep are your raised beds?
@Jenniferweiser-nh6vj
2 ай бұрын
How many slips did you plant per grow bag? Did you say 20 gallon bags?
@TheMillennialGardener
2 ай бұрын
5-6. These were 20 gallon, but this year, I'm growing them in 25 gallon bags: kzitem.info/news/bejne/lamanaZ3p3OQmJwsi=qirUQgLrI9c05jeY
@colleenmclaughlin4126
4 ай бұрын
How many slips did you put in each of your 20 gallon grow bags?
@brandyburgess8267
3 ай бұрын
@TheMillennialGardener 1 month ago 5-6 worked well.
@cassianyhvh7220
11 ай бұрын
what about straw bales vs containers as the growing media. Maybe next year's experiment or do you already have a feel for how that would turn out?
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
I think that would be tougher. They will dry out more quickly. Reusing the containers is basically free since I just reuse the old mix. If you’re starting from scratch, that’s fine, but I already have all this potting mix.
@justinmccall1458
4 ай бұрын
I really love the adventures with Dale at the end of your videos.
@brucewilkins5445
3 ай бұрын
You should trim the vines to increase tuber production just like other plants
@TheMillennialGardener
3 ай бұрын
In my experience, pruning stimulates vigor. If you prune a vine, you will actually encourage that vine to branch out from multiple nodes and promote even more vigor, which takes energy away from root production. It's best to let the vines be.
@rhondaburkett747
6 ай бұрын
When using containers do you worry about them not being organic anymore? Does the plastic buckets contain chemicals that will leek into the soil?
@TheMillennialGardener
6 ай бұрын
No, and no. Any time someone asks if I'm worried about plastic from a container leaching into my garden, I ask them if they've ever drank drinks out of a bottle or can (cans are lined with plastic), watered their garden with a garden hose, drank out of a tap where water flowed through plastic pipes, eaten at a restaurant, bought any food at a grocery store (since they're all either in plastic bags or wrapped in something), etc. I can't figure out why folks are so worried about their garden soil sitting in a plastic container, but they'll drink a bottle of soda, which is literally phosphoric acid sitting in plastic, or buy frozen food that comes in a plastic bag. One thing that I am certain is that out of all the things in my life that may harm me, the veggies from my garden is the least worrisome.
@TexasNana2
11 ай бұрын
I really enjoy your experiments. Thank you for taking the time to perform them. Looks like Dale is doing better. He's so smart ❤😊
@jo-annjewett198
11 ай бұрын
My sweet potatoes in grow bags were not that great. Maybe the soil was too fertilized. I didn’t seem to be able to keep them moist. I used cow manure mixed with organic raised up mix. Maybe I will try again with more sand and no nitrogen.
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
It could be either too much compost or maybe not enough P and K. Perhaps more bone meal, some wood ash or sulfate of potash and less compost would have better results. I will say they have high water demand, so if you can install drip irrigation, it's helpful. I put drippers in all my bags. The sweet potatoes in ground once established rarely require water because the roots are so invasive and spider-like they are expert moisture hunters.
@BadBoyBreeze13
11 ай бұрын
Four dollars a pound does anybody wanna buy some? I can get them.
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
The Okinawan variety is extremely expensive. They are almost always imported and from what I’ve seen, pretty unproductive, at least in my climate.
@JessPenner
3 ай бұрын
Great video!!! I’m planting in bags for the first time here in Hawaii… I’ve had pigs clean out over 300 ft.² of sweet potato patch twice in the last two years and I just can’t stand the thought of it happening again not to mention spearing so many potatoes with my garden Fork trying to harvest them 😅 looking forward to trying grow bags!! I grow the Okinawans here and harvested an 11 pounder last year…. One single potato 😂😂
@JimMeakim
11 ай бұрын
How many plants in the raised bed?? How many slips in a container?
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
5-6 in each container. In the bed there was probably around 24-30.
@nikitavanhoose405
11 ай бұрын
This video isn't fully true. Me and my wife have done very well growing different kinds of sweet potatoes, here in zone 6, Southeastern Kentucky. Yes you can over fertilize them, you can over fertilize any vegetables, but sweet potatoes do still need some food that their not going to get just from straight soil. If you don't do any fertilizer at all, your going to get long, skinny, undersized toobers. Here's what we do. First we put our slips in water for about a week to grow a bunch of healthy roots. Then we make a deep mound of soil where the soil is broken up fine and soft. You want your soft soil mound to be about 7 or 8 inches deep, at least Now we do add in a little compost. About three full cups per 5 gallons of soil and mix up everything thoroughly. Then we plant the slips about 3 to 4 inches deep and we plant the slips long ways, parallel with the ground. Usually after you put the slips in the ground, you will experience about 5 to 7 days where they will just sit there, and if you didn't know any better and were inexperienced, you would think they were dead, or dying. This is completely normal, this means they are setting their roots. Once this process is over they will begin growing vines and new leaves. Just as soon as we start to see this new growth, we give them one single dose of a nitrogen fertilizer. Then we leave them alone until the vines mature and start growing flowers. As soon as we see flowers we give them a light mound dusting of a fertilizer high in Potassium and Phosphorus and all the minerals and stuff and then we add several inches of soil onto the mound and then we leave them completely alone till harvest time. We do not water our sweet potatoes unless we get into a period of 7 days more without any rain, and even then we don't water much. We usually give at least 100 days, and with some kinds you can give them around 120 days. If you live somewhere with mild falls and winters, you can give them even longer and they will continue to grow to football size or bigger. Just be warned that the bigger they get, the tougher they will be. This is our process and it gives us great results. I can plant just 4 or 5 slips and fill a 5 gallon bucket leaping full with huge sweet tasting toobers. Just remember that every zone is different, every soil type is different and every sweet potatoe type is different. Here in Southeastern Kentucky, zone 6, our soil is about 45 % sand and the other 55% is an even balance of everything else. We've got pretty good soil here. As for our curing process, we do it a little different. We have an extra unused room in our house. So we block off the vent in that room, then we place our sweet potatoes in several large trash bags that we prop up to keep them open like a tent. Then we plug up a small electric heater to get just that rooms temperature up high. Then we place a bowl of water in the middle of each trash bag, surrounded by the sweet potatoes. This creates a hot, humid environment in each bag and we do this for 10 days and it seems to work well
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
I’m confused. Where in the video does it say not to use fertilizer? The conclusion reached in the video is that too much nitrogen inhibits tuber development, and that sweet potatoes prefer high levels of potassium and phosphorus, so wood ash and bone meal are what you want and to be less heavy handed with compost and nitrogen-based amendments.
@juliegholston6915
4 ай бұрын
You say you grew the sweet potatoes in peat. Did you add anything else?
@TheMillennialGardener
4 ай бұрын
Yes. I make container mix: kzitem.info/news/bejne/1Wmh3mmGoXV7iG0si=DBjqzdMrjYPPw3JK
@pascalxus
11 ай бұрын
sweet potatoes coming back every year, that's a great problem to have!
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
Until they take the whole place over 😆
@CKSHPS
3 ай бұрын
Nice😊
@PlantObsessed
11 ай бұрын
Yep, I put them in a new bed with new soil mix. Aka lots of compost. The vines grew like kudzu. I got about 15 pounds in a 4 foot square bed. Not awesome. I did better in the grow bags. Thanks for the great video. 🎉🎉 Ps also yes to the sleeves.
@rawreen
3 ай бұрын
How many slips to a 20gal container?
@TheMillennialGardener
3 ай бұрын
5-6.
@technical19d34
11 ай бұрын
Makes sense. Last year I had a bumper crop in a 2 foot by 8 foot 11 inch deep raised bed but it was crappy lower Alabama clay plus sand a little compost...but a pretty fair amount of wood ash. Plus lots of rain.
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
That is probably enjoyable to them. Add more potassium and phosphorus and they should do even better.
@diananazaroff5266
11 ай бұрын
I've had the same results. I use large, unglazed stone pots and have wonderful harvests. For my humidity box, I use an insulated plastic cooler with a heat mat inside. I put racks in the bottom to put the potatoes on and put some water underneath. One year, I put them in a little room in my attic inside a milk crate set on a tray of water. That worked too.
@broken10100
3 ай бұрын
Did you hill up your sweet potatoes in pots or did just put a single slip in a pot and call it a day? TIA.
@mariap.894
27 күн бұрын
I don't think hilling is for sweet potatoes❤
@TheRooflesstoofless
11 ай бұрын
I wonder if those roots could have overwintered.
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
Well, they grow back every single year since I always invariably miss some of the tuber remnants during harvest. My winters clearly are mild enough that some roots survive. However, I am not confident all of them would. I think my winters are probably cold enough and damp enough that a good portion of them would rot, but I can't say for sure.
@MsCaterific
11 ай бұрын
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@leslieyork8385
11 ай бұрын
What do you do with the cuttings from your vegetable plants ?
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
I will mulch those vines. I don't like the taste. Sweet potato vines are edible, so if you enjoy them, they can be cooked.
@leslieyork8385
11 ай бұрын
I thought you composted them ,I didn't think about mulch,Thank you,I love your videos they are so inspiring and helpful !!!!@@TheMillennialGardener
@DeadeyeJoe37
11 ай бұрын
What's funny is that Okinawan sweet potatoes are the cheapest sweet potatoes here in Hawaii. $2.50/lb. They also have taken over my growing area and grow great here
@TheMillennialGardener
11 ай бұрын
They’re grown heavily there. Here, they’re imported, probably from Hawaii or Asia. So we are paying what you pay plus all the transportation fees. For whatever reason, they don’t seem to grow them here on the mainland.
@DeadeyeJoe37
11 ай бұрын
@@TheMillennialGardener they are firmer and more dry than other sweet potatoes, which is different than most of the soft sweet potatoes that people in the mainland eat. However, cutting it into slices and steaming it, storing it in the fridge and eaten as a cold snack is my favorite way to enjoy these. They also are awesome in curries and in beef stew
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