How to Grow Sweet Potato Slips For the Market Garden

We grow a lot of sweet potatoes every year because they are freakin delicious and stuff, but for those looking to produce their own slips we wanted to do a short video on our process.

In this vid we answer: how to grow your own sweet potato slips, when sweet potato slips are ready, can any sweet potato make sweet potato slips, how many sweet potatoes you need for slips, how many slips per potato, and more!

[joompah]

That song alone made me want to try growing sweet potatoes!

[chinatownboy]

Finally. Reality. You didn't put toothpicks into 1, 000 sweet potatoes, and put them into 1, 000 glasses of water.

[westlakefarms]

I planted about six of mine so far, but I didn't mud them. I'll mud the rest of them though.... thanks for that tip Jesse 👍

[christinapeterson]

Thanks Jesse! I love learning new things on your channel. PS I love your wacky sense of humor 🤣

[edwardpearce]

I find it is well worth the effort to cover the bed with 6 mil clear poly until the sprouts start coming thru. The extra warmth makes a big difference. Also, variety makes a difference. I have been bedding white Bonita taters for the past seven or eight years, and they are sloooow sprouting.

[Pinkpumpkingardener]

I’ve found that the shorter fresh slips root way faster & the survival rate has been better at least in my case

[KarlaRei]

Thank you for all the info! I'm grew sweet potatoes for the first time this year and I know I did so many things wrong (haven't pulled them up yet), but I have more knowledge now about growing them for next time.




Also, I very much love the hat. I kinda rag on my state a bit but I really do love it here.

[patriciatinkey]

Thank- you! 1st time watching you, Subscribed

[vansgardens]

Great video. I’ve found on the longer slips, that I can cut them into pieces with at least one leaf node and root them in water. Also, I leave the the slip attached to the tuber up to the first leaf and the slips keep growing longer then I repeat the process. That gives me dozens of slips per sweet potato.

[TheSare]

I'm curious, how well do the plants produce if the planted vines then root in other places? Will those new rooted areas then also produce sweet potatoes? Or just the original area?

I ask because I was given a sweet potato slip several years ago that I have replanted from roots that developed along the vines, but I've never dug those up to see if there's potatoes. The foliage dies back most winters (9b), but the vine always pulls through. The thing is massive, the main stalk is as big around as my wrist. It's stupid easy to propagate! Lol!

[tomsnakerootnet]

Where are you gardening? I'm in central Maine, so I have to kind of adjust what you're saying to my climate.

[cherylbertolini]

lots of information is a sort amount of time:)

[ArcsandSparks]

Hey Jesse you ever end up selling your berta plow. If so how did you break ground at your new farm? Love your videos and humor.

[ednace]

This is helpful, thank you! Your videos are really well shot and edited. Question: in many of the videos out there people just bury it halfway. I'm sure that's a lot of follow-the-leader. For you, what's the principle behind burying them all the way?

[MrMadalien]

Question: If you literally just planted the sprouting sweet potato in the ground and let the slips grow without pulling them off, wouldn't the sweet potato eventually become composted and you would have a sweet potato plant growing in that spot and eventually new sweet potatoes?

[richardmackin]

Great video but I cannot find anything on the internet that addresses “mudding”. Nobody posting YouTube videos even refer to it. Any thoughts?

[paolaki]

So: you cover them in compost in early May to eventually take the slips and transplant them when? Or: How long does it take?

[larryallain]

Jesse, where did you get those black bins?

[matiasishere]

Who sells slips that ships before the end of may? Zone 8 here and I’d like to plant way earlier than

[ronaldcummings]

I would like to see the "mudding".