I am glad to see your smiling face again . I know it was so hot no one wanted to be out in the garden and filming your misery is not pleasant either ,. Thank for all the info as usual , great content.
@EastxWestFarms
9 ай бұрын
That is what I call the lazy gardener method 😂. Great work!
@anamariaguadayol2335
9 ай бұрын
You are back!
@delmadehoyos1946
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for showing part of your sweet tater harvest! 😊
@ronkincaid9107
9 ай бұрын
SCOTT - you can feed the leaves to your chickens. My chickens love the leaves. Thanks for the tip.
@ScottHead
9 ай бұрын
Yes, good nutrition for the birds.
@slowpoke4557
9 ай бұрын
Mine seem to of left my sweet potatoes alone
@amyschultz8058
8 күн бұрын
Cool. Im glad I saw this, we're growing sweet potatoes for our first time this summer, so i appreciate your advice.
@pd8559
9 ай бұрын
Glad to see you get a win for the year! My sweet potato made one the size of a basketball plus 9 more large potatoes on the roots. I replanted all of them into ten new plots. They are under wood chips so we will see if they survive over winter like the original plant already did the winter before. Ultimate lazy, banked food source.
@terrisheridan4316
7 ай бұрын
Hello Scott. I am praying that you and your family are doing well. I very much miss your videos. Hoping that one day before long you will be back. God’s Blessings to you.
@scottlarkin4748
9 ай бұрын
Black Gumbo Southern Jungling lol. Good video Scott
@lynnerskine3346
9 ай бұрын
What a great video. Thank you.
@cindynielson4231
9 ай бұрын
Great info! TFS 👍
@histeve1110
9 ай бұрын
This was my first year growing sweet potatoes, thanks for all the info! I got a very nice harvest from a few containers and was most impressed with what a single slip produced in a five gallon bucket. I may have cheated a bit with curing. With no other real options, I laid them out in seed starting trays on a heat mat for a couple of weeks. I think it kept the trays warm and sweetened them up nicely. What a great crop! Everyone should grow sweet potatoes, they’re just so easy and productive..
@tennesseenana4838
9 ай бұрын
My word - that's awesome! This year I grew some of my sweet potato vines vertically on tomato cages. I let some grow on the soil to get more. Had to make a Tulle protecting fencing around them because the deer in my area love to eat the leaves. Have never known to leave the roots in to get volunteers the next year - THANKS for that information.
@catharinephoto
9 ай бұрын
I also have a self-renewing sweet potato bed. It's great!
@debbybrady1246
9 ай бұрын
I didn’t plant sweet potatoes this year but I got 25 pounds of potatoes 🤣
@akersquarteracre8002
9 ай бұрын
Great to see another vid Scott! Sweet potatoes are easily one of my top favorites here in FL9B. They are just so hardy, so forgiving, so versatile, and sooooo reliable. I use them for both ground cover and of course for eating. During the growing season I randomly plug cuttings in the ground and that's pretty much it. They take care of themselves for the most part, which in my garden, is very high on my list of priorities. Great vid.
@wendyburston3132
9 ай бұрын
That is great! Any time volunteers show up in the garden from the year before I'm ecstatic! One less to babysit. So far my volunteer list includes summer savory, sunflowers, lettuce alyssum, and a few other small flowers. We planted sweet potatoes in a blue box and a 5 gallon bucket. The bigger box had a few bigger ones but not enough to make me want to do it again. But now you're saying they will come back. We are in zone 5b Ontario Canada. Pretty cold. Do you think they will come back in these temperatures?
@ScottHead
9 ай бұрын
Might not come back if they freeze but then we had an epic freeze the last two years and they still grew back.
@drago6576
9 ай бұрын
You know whats sweeter than those potatoes? Getting to see Scott and hear Pheobe. Best wishes from SC!
@raydel5732
9 ай бұрын
Good to see you==Ray Delbury Sussex County NJ USA
@GardeningWarrior
9 ай бұрын
you need to teach John how to grow sweet potato slips..lol
@iartistdotme
9 ай бұрын
Looks very promising - so many people had very good harvests this year but the best harvests seemed to be the ones deep down so yours are probably just cooling it and waiting for that first frost. Such fun digging up surprises like that.
@ScottHead
9 ай бұрын
Yeah we had a surprise early frost but it was very light. I'll let these vines just go until they can't.
@carleanr4051
9 ай бұрын
Great to know! Thank you😊
@You_Can_Grow_Too
9 ай бұрын
I know about the sweet potatoes coming back too! I am in Florida zone 10. We just harvested ours in September, and now volunteers are interfering with my Bok Choy😮😂
@PeachStateGarden
8 ай бұрын
Awesome video!
@zmblion
9 ай бұрын
Leaving them behind only works down in the south here in zone 5 thats a no go
@PrettyAliceNight
9 ай бұрын
I’m not sure what I did wrong this year but mine were all like carrots- super thin and long. Most weren’t even big enough to bother with trying to cure and eat because by the time you peel the skin you’d be left with barley anything. I planted 20 slips (not crowded) and wasn’t able to get a single decent one.
@ScottHead
9 ай бұрын
Sometimes they are like that, I had thin ones two year ago. Ugh.
@nolawarren3560
9 ай бұрын
Too much fertilizer
@PrettyAliceNight
9 ай бұрын
@@nolawarren3560 I only fertilized them once
@PrettyAliceNight
9 ай бұрын
@@ScottHead I’m thinking this year I need to start the slips earlier so I can plant out earlier and give them more time to grow.
@hopemorrison2367
9 ай бұрын
You can eat the sweet potatoe as soon as you take it out the ground and they sweet
@carleanr4051
9 ай бұрын
Good to know
@jenniferyellig7396
7 ай бұрын
Hi Scott. Anything new on the horizon?
@billmoore6688
9 ай бұрын
What happened to the bee project?
@ScottHead
9 ай бұрын
The bees were overcome by local competition and did not make it. The bee tubes are occupied by other types of insects though, whether they are all beneficial is to be determined.
@Thisisit120
6 ай бұрын
Could you please answer a question for me. As long as a fertilizer is organic is it ok to use?
@ann7318
5 ай бұрын
I don't know about that, but you can make your own garden soil with composting. There are many ways to compost to make good soil. I like to use kitchen scraps that I don't give to the chickens, leaves, clippings, wood chips, etc. Green things from your garden like spent plants are great too. Plain brown cardboard is good. If you are not using it as a weed barrier, it needs to be shredded up some to degrade quicker.
@ScottHead
5 ай бұрын
Any fertilizer is OK to use, organic is just a preference.
@1165slugman
6 ай бұрын
I'm in San Antonio backyard is an oven in summer. Do you use shading at all.
@ScottHead
6 ай бұрын
Never have, I typically just grow a summer garden that can take the beating but may reconsider in the future.
@1165slugman
6 ай бұрын
@@ScottHead Hopefully it's rainier this year. Drought was brutal even my cucumber crop was light last year only 3 jars of pickles. I was wondering if the city water was stunting growth. My yard is small only limited in ground planting. But I'm ready loaded up buckets with potting soil for bucket boss gardening.
@PatricesProjects
9 ай бұрын
Those will be cured by Christmas.
@lilyredcloud
9 ай бұрын
You had a frost? I live in Heritage Park Village and didn’t get frost.
@lilyredcloud
9 ай бұрын
BTW, Your video made me want to plant sweet potatoes and I don’t even like them! LOL…Good job!
@ScottHead
9 ай бұрын
Yeah I'm in HPV too and we did get just the slightest frost according to my outdoor thermometer and the frost burn.
@lilyredcloud
9 ай бұрын
@@ScottHeadactually I don’t know why I said Heritage Park Village. I’m in Heritage Park Pointe. Such short distances can make such a difference in temperature.
@ElvisAaronpresleybyRustyMartin
8 ай бұрын
@@ScottHead is that Houston 🤨. I'm originally from Heights. Then West University. I'm currently on Louisiana state line thanks for videos
@hopemorrison2367
9 ай бұрын
Hey Scott are you going to come back to utube or you done
@ScottHead
9 ай бұрын
I'm just in a reduced capacity right now but I'll be ramping up again soon. Bee a rough couple of years.
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