I’m in the Pacific Northwest (US) and plan on growing them for the first time next summer. In my specific region we actually get very dry, hot summers-over 100F but they are short. Some years less than 100 days between spring and fall frosts. So I plan to start my slips quite early and experiment with planting some in a raised bed outside against the south side of our shop and then a couple in large containers so we can move them into the greenhouse in the fall to hopefully get a few more weeks if needed. Fingers crossed!
Also in the PNW and have only grown them ornamentally indoors. Am here to see about growing them vertically. Hope you had great success with yours!!! ❤❤❤
@@LovelygreensI always describe them as tasting more like potatoes - I'm not a huge sweet potato fan really (but love my potatoes!)... But the big reason we grow them is because we prefer the taste of fresh ones, which is something we will never get in the shops... I think the texture is slightly different too.
I tried a sweet potato plant the other year but didn't get much potatoes 🤔. I bought a plant at a local garden centre. Last spring I tried to chit some organic potatoes I had bought. It was cold on my balcony so I did this indoors but zero shoots grew. I might need to try a different variety. 🤷🏻♀️
At the beginning of summer each year (May) we plant sweet potatoes (Murasak). In are flower beds every year. They produce a lot of coverage and Leaves, In are flower beds. I'm not trying to brag or boast myself up. But they produce about 200 to 300 pounds of sweet potatoes 🥔 each year. We learned that from a landscape photographer, She did it at her house. Our flower beds are quite large and it can be hard to maintain them. But with sweet potatoes there is no maintenance for weeds. Thanks for sharing about your garden. 😊
That's wonderful 🙂 In warmer climates, growing sweet potatoes outdoors is pretty easy. It's more challenging here because it rarely gets above 28⁰C/80⁰F. This video is to help others also growing in mild to cool climates.
I live in central n.y.. I liked your video and will try it next summer. Sweet potatoes always have been a hard project to the point I don’t try it anymore. Thanks
They can be hard because they can't stand any bit of cold weather. Keep them someplace warm, bright, and protected, and I'm sure that they'll reward you 🍠👌
I've never tried growing sweet potatoes, mainly because I am not that struck on their taste personally. They do seem to be a crop that the further north you are the less yield of a crop you get - this is what happened on 'Beechgrove Garden' the BBC gardening programme from Aberdeenshire in NW Scotland (but now broadcast across the UK) - they had a fairly low yield up there!
Hello! Question...once the sweet potato plants started to spread, can we cut some of the spreading plants to make new slips so that we could multiply the plants?🤔
Sweet potatoes need a long growing period. If you're growing them outside, just let them be, and hopefully, they'll produce tubers where they attach to the soil. If growing undercover, it's unlikely that the vines/plants you detach and try to grow individually will produce much of a crop.
When did you start your slip? And when did you plant out? My sweet potato’s did well this year, but they could have been larger. I may have not started them early enough.
I planted the sweet potatoes in the house in compost in late February, and the first slips started growing a month later. I twisted them off the tuber and rooted them in water once they were about 3" tall - that was in April. In the first week of May, they had good root systems, and I planted them up in small pots of potting mix and let them establish for a few weeks. Finally, I planted them in the raised bed in the Polycrub in late May.
Thank you, I’ll get them going earlier. This year I grew some in ground, sometimes fantastic crop sometimes not, this year nothing. Weather too variable and wet I think. and some in a large water tank, they did surprisingly well, I’m in London. I don’t have greenhouse space so keep experimenting outside.
You have long and light summers, and I've seen some spectacular giant veg grown in Alaskan greenhouses. I would not doubt that there are also people growing sweet potatoes in their undercover growing spaces.
Its late spring where i am. I grew my own sweet potato slips. I planted them about a month ago but the blimmin wild cats in my area dug them up to use it as their litter box. Killed all but one of my slips. That one recovered and i found it dug up this morning and replaced with cat poop. Grrrr. Cats are a feral nuisance where i am. I planted kebab sticks with the pointy end up to keep the cats away but they seem to just navigate around them. Any tips for keeping cats away would be greatly appreciated.
Hi How do you space out your sowing so you have a continuous supply of vegetables. So sweet potatoes, for example. Do you sow every month? How do you store them until next year? Greetings from Pretoria,.South Africa 🇿🇦
Hello 👋 Sweet potatoes need around five to six months to produce a crop. They aren't a crop that you succession sow but grow for an annual harvest. When you harvest, you cure the sweet potatoes sothat they can store for the year ahead
I pull the slips off the tuber and root them in water in April. The rooted slips get planted in pots of potting mix after a few weeks. Then, another three weeks growing in pots before planting out in late May.
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That first sweet potato was HUGE!!!! I love it!!!! ❤❤❤
I’m in the Pacific Northwest (US) and plan on growing them for the first time next summer. In my specific region we actually get very dry, hot summers-over 100F but they are short. Some years less than 100 days between spring and fall frosts. So I plan to start my slips quite early and experiment with planting some in a raised bed outside against the south side of our shop and then a couple in large containers so we can move them into the greenhouse in the fall to hopefully get a few more weeks if needed. Fingers crossed!
Your plan sounds like a good one! Good luck for next year's harvest 🍠💚
Also in the PNW and have only grown them ornamentally indoors. Am here to see about growing them vertically. Hope you had great success with yours!!! ❤❤❤
I love sweet potatoes! Your harvest is amazing! I love watching your channel, thank you so much!!
Thank you, and I'm happy that you enjoyed seeing the harvest 🙂
So jealous of your set up !
OMG you have a beautiful veg garden 😍
Thank you 💚
lovey harvest tanya and great vldeo
Amazing harvest! I didn't realise you needed to cure them but I also really, really like the taste of them fresh!
Curing helps harden the skin and helps prepare them for storage. It also makes the sweeter! How do fresh sweet potatoes taste to you?
@@LovelygreensI always describe them as tasting more like potatoes - I'm not a huge sweet potato fan really (but love my potatoes!)... But the big reason we grow them is because we prefer the taste of fresh ones, which is something we will never get in the shops... I think the texture is slightly different too.
I tried a sweet potato plant the other year but didn't get much potatoes 🤔. I bought a plant at a local garden centre. Last spring I tried to chit some organic potatoes I had bought. It was cold on my balcony so I did this indoors but zero shoots grew. I might need to try a different variety. 🤷🏻♀️
Perhaps also a warmer growing area. Perhaps a DIY cloche?
At the beginning of summer each year (May) we plant sweet potatoes (Murasak). In are flower beds every year. They produce a lot of coverage and Leaves, In are flower beds. I'm not trying to brag or boast myself up. But they produce about 200 to 300 pounds of sweet potatoes 🥔 each year. We learned that from a landscape photographer, She did it at her house. Our flower beds are quite large and it can be hard to maintain them. But with sweet potatoes there is no maintenance for weeds. Thanks for sharing about your garden. 😊
And they stay luscious and green, very beautiful all year.
Low maintenance flower beds.
We have an English Tutor House.
That's wonderful 🙂 In warmer climates, growing sweet potatoes outdoors is pretty easy. It's more challenging here because it rarely gets above 28⁰C/80⁰F. This video is to help others also growing in mild to cool climates.
Hello Tanya Lovely Greens . It sure looks like the Polycrub is paying for itself and some . Lovely Harvest .
It's been the best garden investment I've made!
I live in central n.y.. I liked your video and will try it next summer. Sweet potatoes always have been a hard project to the point I don’t try it anymore. Thanks
They can be hard because they can't stand any bit of cold weather. Keep them someplace warm, bright, and protected, and I'm sure that they'll reward you 🍠👌
Thank you, so helpful!!!
You can eat the leaves. Cook it like spinach.
Only the young ones are nice, though. The older ones are pretty tough.
You can eat the sweet potatoes live leaves as greens.
Only the very young ones at the tips are nice. As they mature, they get too tough to be worth eating.
I've never tried growing sweet potatoes, mainly because I am not that struck on their taste personally. They do seem to be a crop that the further north you are the less yield of a crop you get - this is what happened on 'Beechgrove Garden' the BBC gardening programme from Aberdeenshire in NW Scotland (but now broadcast across the UK) - they had a fairly low yield up there!
Growing undercover has definitely helped for me. Did Beechgrove grow theirs outdoors?
Tana you are cool chic..
Hello! Question...once the sweet potato plants started to spread, can we cut some of the spreading plants to make new slips so that we could multiply the plants?🤔
Sweet potatoes need a long growing period. If you're growing them outside, just let them be, and hopefully, they'll produce tubers where they attach to the soil. If growing undercover, it's unlikely that the vines/plants you detach and try to grow individually will produce much of a crop.
I was really interested to hear what you had to say, unfortunately I was unable to. Using a mic would be helpful. Adele
Turn your volume up, perhaps? 😂
When did you start your slip? And when did you plant out? My sweet potato’s did well this year, but they could have been larger. I may have not started them early enough.
I planted the sweet potatoes in the house in compost in late February, and the first slips started growing a month later. I twisted them off the tuber and rooted them in water once they were about 3" tall - that was in April. In the first week of May, they had good root systems, and I planted them up in small pots of potting mix and let them establish for a few weeks. Finally, I planted them in the raised bed in the Polycrub in late May.
Thank you, I’ll get them going earlier. This year I grew some in ground, sometimes fantastic crop sometimes not, this year nothing. Weather too variable and wet I think. and some in a large water tank, they did surprisingly well, I’m in London. I don’t have greenhouse space so keep experimenting outside.
I wish I could sweet potatoes but it is too cold here, I am in Alaska.
You have long and light summers, and I've seen some spectacular giant veg grown in Alaskan greenhouses. I would not doubt that there are also people growing sweet potatoes in their undercover growing spaces.
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Can you please indicate what type of soil you use in your garden bed. You grew many other crops in the same soil I see.
I show the exact mix in the video I made showing how to build and fill these beds czcams.com/video/iXAI5IE6RlA/video.htmlsi=3--6wesvS8APeVss
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Its late spring where i am. I grew my own sweet potato slips. I planted them about a month ago but the blimmin wild cats in my area dug them up to use it as their litter box. Killed all but one of my slips. That one recovered and i found it dug up this morning and replaced with cat poop. Grrrr. Cats are a feral nuisance where i am. I planted kebab sticks with the pointy end up to keep the cats away but they seem to just navigate around them. Any tips for keeping cats away would be greatly appreciated.
If you have any chicken wire, or other wire 'fencing', you can make a little dome with it to put over your plants. The vines will grow right through.
Why keep the vines?
I'm kind of playing with idea's to do column growing for potatoes but I wonder if I can do it with this.
The vines are where the leaves grow. If you remove the vines, you'll have less photosynthesis and a poor yield.
@@Lovelygreens And there's no trimming the vines? I guess I can look into a spiral trellis to all the column growing to occur.
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How do you space out your sowing so you have a continuous supply of vegetables. So sweet potatoes, for example. Do you sow every month? How do you store them until next year? Greetings from Pretoria,.South Africa 🇿🇦
Hello 👋 Sweet potatoes need around five to six months to produce a crop. They aren't a crop that you succession sow but grow for an annual harvest. When you harvest, you cure the sweet potatoes sothat they can store for the year ahead
When did you plant the potatoe slips?
I pull the slips off the tuber and root them in water in April. The rooted slips get planted in pots of potting mix after a few weeks. Then, another three weeks growing in pots before planting out in late May.