The Best Guide To GROWING SWEET POTATOES On The Internet!

This video is the best guide to growing sweet potatoes on the internet! I teach you everything you need to know to grow sweet potatoes including how to plant sweet potatoes, what type of soil to grow sweet potatoes in, how to root sweet potato slips and how to fertilize sweet potatoes. These tips will unlock massive harvests of sweet potatoes!

Sweet potatoes are actually not potatoes. They are roots in the morning glory family. Therefore, they grow differently than most plants we grow in our vegetable garden. They tolerate hot, humid, wet conditions where other more fragile, disease prone plants often fail, but sweet potatoes need the right conditions to develop a big root harvest. This video will teach you how to grow sweet potato roots instead of vines for the biggest harvest you've ever grown!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Sweet Potato Growing Tips
1:22 Tip #1: Containers VS Soil
5:09 Tip #2: Sweet Potato Soil Mix
8:05 Tip #3: Rooting Sweet Potato Slips
12:56 Tip #4: Fertilizing Sweet Potatoes
14:42 How To Plant Sweet Potato Slips
19:55 Tip #5: Vine Management
22:19 When To Harvest Sweet Potatoes
25:27 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about how to grow sweet potatoes, want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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[TheMillennialGardener]

If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share it to help spread its reach! Thanks for watching 😀TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Growing Sweet Potatoes
1:22 Tip #1: Containers VS Soil
5:09 Tip #2: Sweet Potato Soil Mix
8:05 Tip #3: Rooting Sweet Potato Slips
12:56 Tip #4: Fertilizing Sweet Potatoes
14:42 How To Plant Sweet Potato Slips
19:55 Tip #5: Vine Management
22:19 When To Harvest Sweet Potatoes
25:27 Adventures With Dale

[bostonchoir]

Sweet potatoes saved so many lives of Koreans through the generations just before me. There, rice runs out around April, and barley isn't available until June. Sweet potatoes filled the gap. It grew very well even without fertilizer, and the petioles were made to kimchi, which tasted better than nappa.

[poochieman]

Excellent video sir. Just some info for all you growers : at the end of the season, cut some big slips off and put them in a vase of water, keep in front of window ( or grow lights in basement ) and it will last thro winter into spring when you can plant them again. !!!

[thekarenszoo]

This is the absolute BEST explanation I’ve ever seen on sweet potato slips.

[ChristyThorington-zpdx]

Just in time!!! I’m about to plant my slips today!! Thank you!!

[sherrygardensallaround]

What an absolutely awesome tutorial vlog on sweet potatoes. As an organic gardener for decades, I actually learned something I did not know. I can rectify the situation as per your instructions. Amazing video that I'm sharing as we speak.
Blessings for you, your bride & Dale - and your gardens. Sherry 🥰 🙏 💞 🐕

[veronicadoggone]

Literally spent the day looking into growing sweet potatoes and then... THIS VIDEO 🙌
It's like you have a crystal ball into what people are thinking of growing 😂😂😂

[percisionshot]

Wow just planted my sweet potatoes today.

[lawrencemasterson]

Anthony gotta say great content, happy gardener New Zealand

[joshuahoyer]

So excited for this year! Here in the PNW (very different Zone 8b here in Oregon, near Salem) we need to squeeze out some extra growing degrees before and after the peak of summer. I got a pack of 15gal fabric grow bags, and I've been planting out some slips over the last couple weeks. I'm experimenting with planting a tomato, a pepper, or a basil plant in some of the bags with the sweet potatoes, to see if we can get a dual harvest and gobble up some of the excess nitrogen. I have most of them in our 6x8 hobby greenhouse for now, since our average daily temps are still around 55°, where it's about 10° higher in the greenhouse, and they are all living their best life right now! I'm still waiting for our garlic and potatoes to finish in our main garden before I lay down some clear plastic on rows, cut slits and plant the slips. Then I'll drape some fabric row cover over the pvc low tunnel there to hold additional heat in. Last year we grew sweet potatoes for the first time, and got about 35 lbs without all this heat management or grow bags, so I'm hoping we can really ramp it up this year. 🤞

[beeyangclass]

Great tips on growing sweet potatoes. For Okinawan sweet potato, here's what I do that worked for me in the ground in zone 9a. Everything is similar but here is what worked for me: 1) I fertilize 15-15-15 All Purpose Granular Fertilizer every 2 weeks for the 1-2 months; 2) switch to 6-30-30 Water Soluble for the rest of the season every 2 weeks; season ends in month 4 or 5 when the tubers are the size I am after. For growing in pots, I am still experimenting, hopefully this season experiment will produce more tubers.

[alexxdaye]

This is INDEED THE BEST GROW GUIDE FOR SWEET POTATOES ON THE INTERNET!!! So very detailed. I truly appreciate you, thank you! New subscriber!

[ashleys]

Hands down, this is the best gardening advice channel. Anthony uses a scientific approach, without being pretentious or providing content that isn't user-friendly because it's overly complicated.

I got an okinawan sweet potato from a farmstand at a market in Asheville, NC early last fall, stored it properly, and now I have slips for sweet potatoes growing per this channel's past advice (in grow bags). Solid, solid stuff.

[val]

Even I who live in the North of England 🇬🇧 can follow your tutorial and grow sweet potato. Thanks for the great information. I planted my sweet potatoes 2wks ago.they ok considering the weather but I will now be adding bone meal and watering more frequently and crossing my fingers for the best 👌 🎉

[eMac_]

Great video! The math I came up with to make your ratios scalable (based on 7:42) are as follows:
- Peat Moss: 3.28 parts
- Topsoil: 2.99 parts
- Compost: 2.99 parts
- Perlite: 1 part
- Play Sand: 1.34 parts

[michaell]

Another great video! Here in SE Louisiana I planted Japanese purple sweet potatoes (according to Whole Foods' description) almost 6 months ago. Two scrawny sweet potatoes produced dozens of slip that I likely planted no later than June 1. I kept waiting for the leaves to turn yellow here in early December even the recent 40 degree chill didn't greatly affect the leaves. I pulled them yesterday from two raised beds (one 20" deep 30" by 6' and the other 12" deep 4' by 6'). I likely saw this video before planting as I added plenty of bone meal! With a couple of roots left to dig up I measured a beautiful harvest of two tubs of sweet potatoes with approximately 44 pounds each. I did plant a couple of orange sweet potatoes in one bed (possibly jewel) and 6 months was apparently too long as they began to slightly split. Some of the Japanese purples are possibly 3 or 4 pounds it appears. Now I know that I need to pay more attention to the time they are in the ground! This was my best sweet potato harvest by far! I need to determine the best way to preserve some of the smaller ones for next year!

[pixelkitty]

Planted sweet potatoes yesterday, it's the first year trying. I have clay soil .keeping my fingers crossed! 🤞
You have a lovely, lush garden!

[audreypatterson]

😊 yep sweet potatoes is my favorite thing to grow

[wendycol]

I was wondering how to grow sweet potatoes. I put one partly in water and it is growing a vine and now i know to cut the vibe into slips and plant those.
Looks like I'm ordering more 25 gallon grow bags and making more soil. Thanks for your recipe for sweet potato soil. I'll get some play sand.
Great video and so glad to cone across this when I did!

[vidasustentavel]

Nothing better than planting and harvesting our own food. It's good for the body and mind. Congratulation