How to Easy Grow Sweet Potato With Lots of Tips

This is the easiest way to grow sweet potato. In the video, I show you how I harvest, and replant sweet potato for all year round crops plus I throw in several top tips on growing and using this excellent vegetable.

[MDestron]

I will never be tired of sweet potato! It's so delicious and easy to grow.

[johnwilliamson]

I live in Washington PA (western PA) in zone #6. It gets to 15 below zero ferinhite some winters. I thought that I couldn't grow sweet potatoes. I was wrong there! I planted Georgia Jets and they really took hold. I make my own compost and use raised beds. Thanks for the nice videos on things that I will never be able to grow here.

[diannedrechsler]

We live not far from you Mark, in the Goldilocks zone, and I made the mistake of planting six runners into a garden bed. Even in heavy clay soil, it took over and smothered all the other plants. Some of them rotted and nematodes got into them but there were hundreds of them and they grew to enormous sizes. It took us a month of weekends to dig them out and we filled up the wheely bin plus took a whole trailer load to the dump. Hubby still brings it up - 'remember that time you planted sweet potatoes???'.

[wendyrowland]

Just a little tip, if you water the bed well and then add the mulch, then wet the mulch, you will then get much better moisture retention using less water. Apparently the people of Okinawa live long active lives eating lots of purple fleshed sweet potatoes.

[nicolaiitchenko]

Really like the voice over style...Recently harvested my first crop of sweet potato grown from 'slips' and in a 6 foot by three foot store bought raised bed using 75% sawdust and 25% sand mix as the growing medium. Lots and lots of sweet potato tubers and all in a really good shape having very soft and friable medium to grow in...
Found the idea in a video on youtube about August last year. Planted the slips in late October last year (2016) and harvested the week of Goof Friday... About seventeen kilo came out...

[nicholasnapier]

goats and chickens love that sweet potato leaves and I've ate them and they're really good raw or cooked the leaves

[kflan]

I am from Texas and have eaten sweet potato for years.  I grew mine last year the first time.  I discovered last year you can eat the leaves like spinach!  Saute with garlic and a  little butter or olive oil, yum!  And in Texas heat it grows like a week during the summer.

[hereiknowmyself-jeaniealks]

I’m so glad to see you use the smaller tubers to replant! I’ve watched multiple videos and they seemed to just be tossing the little ones when they harvested the ideal sized. I was wondering why they didn’t just pop them back in. Maybe because of the weather in that area not being sunny or warm enough?

[diannaskare]

I LOVE THAT YOU ALSO "SPREAD YOUR SEEDS !" WHO KNOWS MAYBE SOMEONE 100 YEARS FROM NOW WILL HAVE A FEAST BECAUSE OF YOU :-)

[CarnevalOne]

When the new vine sprouts out of the potato, bury sections of it, creating a spiral pattern, for example, and you may harvest 4x that amount in 3 months. Each section should make its own tubers. Around here, people eat all the tubers and plant the vines.

[punkyroo]

Sweet potatoes are truly amazing. I don't think I will get a chance to grow them this year (cold climate, northern hemisphere, short season and it may already be too late), but I imagine they will be part of my homestead in the long term.

[christopherjohnson]

Never thought of using an E tool for gardening, haha. Used one plenty in the US Army, mostly for filling sandbags. Great video Mark!

[freesaxon]

As live in Britain, we never see sweet potato growing naturally, amazed

[mariaelisacolendres]

Hi Mark! I love watching your videos! It´s winter in Canada and I thank God that I find your videos, they make my days easier and I am learning a lot from you...

[HannahViera]

I work full-time, so if I don't have time to roast them but want to eat a bit in the morning, I'll cut them very thin, and pop a couple slices into the toaster. You have to toast it a few times to cook it through, but it's pretty convenient, and can be a good bread substitute.

[Growveguk]

We have a near impossible time growing them here in the UK. They need a really long season and the only way to get them a long enough start is to produce slips in Jan / Feb indoors and them root the slips all indoors and get them out at the last chance of frost, I also put mine under glass cover in a blazing summer and harvested just before first frost so they had in total 10 months of growing and the final result would was a small bucket of sweet potatoes. I think to make it happen here it would have to be done in heated and lit greenhouse but then the cost outweighs the results. It was a fascinating experience as I was assured I could not do it but I managed. I may look into a solar powered greenhouse using a powerwall system (DIY) to extend the season without any costs other than the initial setup fees and see if it can be done. I would use triple glazing for heat storage and LED lighting for 12 hours constant solar bombardment with some underground heating for the tubers. I have a number of ideas to utilise as I have a good few free 120W Solar PV panels (Around 20 or so) I could set up and feed a grid tied inverter to push back the power into the grid to negate additional electricity bills and maybe even a rocket mass storage heater for the really poor weather and even tie in a DIY wind turbine to top off an additional set of Lithium Ion batteries to cover any With I lived in Brisbane.. The irony is that my sister lives there and has little interest in production of veggies, sure she has delved into it but soon gets disheartened by those pesky possums eating everything in sight. If I lived in the sub tropics I'd be growing year round like you and producing all my veggies with excess going to market to subsidise the purchase of seed stock. Keep up the wonderful videos. It's always a pleasure watching your videos.

[TheGreenThumbGardeningChannel]

Another awesome video! Am growing beauregard sweet potatoes in one of my huegel culture container gardens right now and looking forward to a nice harvest in late July here in Tifton, GA. Thanks for all of the great grow tips !

[azzaman]

Also it's important to fertilise sweet potatoes with phosphorus to encourage growth of the tubers. It takes a while to break down so the sooner the better.

[sallysmith]

I really enjoyed your video on sweet potatoes. I planted mine about 2 weeks ago and they are beginning to grow. Thank you for the tips you offered. I think I might try some.

[bccaveman]

That sweet potatoes look like A bodybuilder's arm flexing muscle lmao...