Tips on Sweet Potatoes: How to Tell if Your Sweet Potatoes Are Ready to Harvest

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[fayecorbett]

Till in a little gypsum two weeks before planting, it runs voles and they don’t usually come back for that season. We learned the hard way. Great channel, great information, thank you so much for making this video.

[leahs]

If I were you, I would have left them in for longer.
You seem like a great person, God bless you!

[jessicasturm]

Pro tip from someone that lives in a colder climate (I live in Austria): don’t harvest your sweet potatoes before the end of October. November is even better.. I found that the sweet potatoes grow a lot of leaves during the warmer months and need the cold weather in October and November to grow the potatoes.The lower temperatures trigger the potatoes growth. If you pull them up before that (even if the plants were in the ground for 90 days or longer) you will only harvest thin roots or at most carrot sized sweet potatoes.

[kalinystazvoruna]

I'm jealous of your property with all those trees!!!! Love it! Love your channel!

[Livingsamsara]

The ladies could make a delicious stew or side dish; adding the bonus tubers to the black eyed peas in veg/chicken/beef stock, cooking with onions, garlic, ginger, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, tomatoes, chives, and all the hearty deliciousness we enjoy in the winter.

[patientlywaiting]

I’m looking forward to my harvest in a couple of weeks! My potatoes are flowering! They are so pretty!

[robertasereno]

Thank you Sir!
My first year growing sweet potatoes. You have been more helpful to a new gardener than any other person

[geraldinemcguire]

Just dug up my resting garden for planting. Was blessed with a basket full if Okinawan purple sweet potatoes. They are a wonderful potato that has a❤n almost perfume flavor. So unique and pleasant flavor. Am planting more. There is much food in the fallow land of the ppor...says Yahuah 😊

[williammaxwell]

The appropriate term is"Tuber", not "potatoe" (not related botanically)
If you want to grow these in a cooler climate, try to get New Zealand "Kumera"
Also, putting a small stake next to where you plant a tuber helps finding the tubers when it comes to harvest.

[TimetravelerMN]

Our first time panting potato’s thanks

[naturaljoy]

Perfect timing! I have to get out in the garden and see if mine are ready. They were volunteers from last year, so I have no planting date. Thanks for this video 😊

[Still-Learning]

How to tell readiness...
1) Scratch n dig
2) Look for Cracked ground
3) Know variety maturation time
4) Use calendar to track development/harvest time

[mrssibelius]

How edible are the vines? Abraham may just be getting the best part of the plant!

[bluefoothomestead]

Im about to pull up some of mine. The got a frost about 2 weeks ago. Time to eat.

[lavernabouzspain]

September 01, 2024. I live in zone 9a Pacific Northwest. Hello and thank you for your very informative video! Wow! So, my question is whether some of those vines can be rooted and replanted to grow more sweet [beauties] potatoes? I don't have acres, on my property but I have planted several slips in tubs and fabric planters. I have a lot of beautiful vines and am out of sweet potatoes slips to plant. Can I cut several of those vines, then root them and use as slips for another harvest? Please answer when you get a few moments. Thank you again for your great video.

[polywog]

Did you order a few hundred slips early in the spring? Or did you grow your own slips? I have done both. I like growing my own slips, but to have a hundred or more slips I can't imagine growing that many. If you do grow that many, can you share your technique? If you buy the slips, who do you purchase from? Thank you for your wonderful videos and peaceful spirit.

[lesliejackson]

I thought the sweet potatos had to cure for 2-3 weeks to get the desired sweet potato flavor.

[MyCountry]

I grew sweet potatoes for the first time this year. I have them in the ground for about 120 days in a big container. I guess I‘ll harvest them now. Thank you, this was very helpful. Also some potatoes are coming out of the soil. Are these bad? I saw another video where they said that potatoes out off the ground would be toxic?

[Amarie]

Does the cracking apply to containers as well. I can't wait to see the harvest.

[joijoi]

8:08 Ground cracking or soil breaking away for potatoes coming up ❤