Easiest Way to Grow Sweet Potatoes

In this video I take you step by step through last years sweet potato season. I'll show you three easy ways to make sweet potato slips. How to root sweet potato slips and how to plant sweet potato slips. I'll show you how to fertilize sweet potatoes for maximum production and then end the video showing you a massive 70 pound harvest out of a very small space garden. I'll also tell you how to store sweet potatoes so they taste great and last a long time. Sweet potatoes are a great self sufficiency crop and after this video, you can't say you don't know how to grow them. Give them a try. They'll give you one of the most fun harvests!

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[emilyvanwinkle]

“I probably have too many for this bed but I’m going to do it anyway” - said every gardener 😂

[Sushijohns]

I put a store bought sweet potato in a bowl of water (covering about 1/4) for a couple weeks. It only produced about 4 slips, which I planted in a container. It grew vines with pretty green and purple leaves which I kept for aesthetic purposes. When winter came, it looked like the vines had all died and I assumed the experiment failed. But when I started to dig out the vines to plant something else, I found the container was FILLED with various sized sweet potatoes! I was so surprised!

[asiahunter]

The squirrel planting the macadamia nut in the grow bed was so cute to me lol 🥰

[donahonra]

Liked the video immediately because he said “this video took one whole year in the making”. Props, because one whole year of video making is some real commitment and dedication. Super educational and informative.

[deborahmarlewski]

I started a light colored sweet potato in water back in 2/2021. It set sprouts all year. In fact, I still have the potato in the jar of water . It has two small shoots. I have started a few new sweet potatoes this year in potting soil and will see how they do. From my water rooted sweet potato I did grow many sweet potatoes. the biggest was 4lbs 10 oz!!!! It was delicious!

[karensinclair]

This first year of gardening I did indeed plant sweet potatoes indoors in planting mix and was amazed at the speed we got huge slips. Those we planted outdoors.

[anniecochrane]

Here in NZ we bury the whole sweet potato in light free draining soil in a warm place. When they produce the tipu (slips) they always have roots, being under the earth, and so we just gently pull them off. Being buried they also have a long stem before the leaves form, and this we bury/plant under the ground in a J shape, with the lower tip of the J pointing North, in the northern hemisphere it would point south. So its the same basic way, but this way enables the growing of a long stem and roots so it doesnt need to be trimmed and rooted in water. The tipu/slips can be planted straight away, or put in water if you arent ready to plant them out yet. Planting with a J means the sweet potatoes form nearer the surface, rather than deeply, so are easier to harvest. Both ways work, clearly from the magnificent harvest you have.

[sanskritiscreations]

Grew sweet potato slips for the first time following your method! I now have too many for me to manage... 😄 ...but I'm excited for the day I harvest my own sweet potatoes 😁

[jasonsharp]

I'm really glad to see your kids involved in your videos and growing foods. It's something that's not taught as their electronic devices usually tend to be the center of most kids'lives. Gardening is a forever skill.

[patriciahane]

Couple years ago I noticed a sweet potato on my counter was sprouting. I did not have any idea what to do but guessed to but each slip in water to root and later planted them. What fun!

[tiffanyhooley]

I put mine in dirt last week! Fingers crossed that I’ll grow my own slips! Last year I bought 12 slips and grew over 90lbs in a raised bed! I sounded just as excited as you all!! ❤️ so glad gardening season is upon us 😁

[jcjones]

I just watched your video, it's march in Alabama. I run a small farm and will keep you updated in 6-8 months

[ivahihopeful]

Your video is the one I watched last year to figure out how to plant my sweet potatoes. I grow slips in the soil in aluminum foil loaf pans with holes poked in the bottom. I grew slip’s for months! I planted out beds each time I got enough slips. I had a continuous harvest from August through December and overwintered some plants indoors. I greatly appreciate your work! Congrats on your harvest!!

[norsk-fil]

Wowwww. I will try this way to grow sweet potatoes with soil. Fast growing and easy to get seedlings. Thank you for this video.

[bhavanikirnak]

I started growing sweet potatoes by just cutting the chunks with sprouts off an organic sweet potatoes left too long in the cupboard and sticking them in the ground. I was away 7 months during the lockdown; when I returned, the garden was half taken over by sweet potatoes plants. I let them grow. Like you in the video, when fall came, I got at least 75 lbs harvest. Now I can't stop them from coming in each year.  

I moved some to under my fruit trees where they can have the run of the place. This provides double benefit as it keeps the area under the trees free from weeds, and the vines look beautiful (triple benefit I guess when you count the harvest).

Suggestion: add a digging fork to the video. My soil has a lot of clay; the digging fork makes it way easier to get them out.

[jeanniewesterfield]

You are such a good teacher! I’m looking at foreign sweet potatoes…wondering what a slip was ! What a teacher. I’m now ready to start growing some slips…..yoo hoo. Thanks for the good info…

[johnenglert]

Your three test methods was GREAT! I will never do #1 again! ;-))

[dionisiacruz]

Wow the potting soil is how I’m gonna do it. Looks great!

[jolenee]

Best growing video yet! Informative from start to finish. Thank you Brian!

[lindajames]

Love that you still use pounds in the states instead of kilograms. Thanks for the vids. I will definitely be growing sweet potatoes 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧