Never Buy Sweet Potato Slips Again! Do This!

There’s never a need for you to continually buy sweet potato slips. You can take clippings from your own plants this year, root them, plant them, reroot them for the spring season. That’s not only saves you money, but it saves you time on waiting for your sweet potato slips to come in the mail. Some nurseries do not ship until later in the season which could put you behind. Get ahead of the game and save your own.

[centraltexashomestead-mike]

Hey Jill we do the same and we also take a sweet potato and put in a paper bag and store in a cool place for the winter. Around February we will put in a pan with soil and the slips will grow. Getting some light rain here. 🌧🌧 It's nice a cool this morning. God bless..

[sharonparker]

Good morning, Jill. My oldest sister remembers our grandmother always having a sweet potato vine growing around the kitchen! She would wrap it around the hanging pot, I guess to have enough for starting slips in the spring. That would have been in the 1950s. Smart lady. I'm going to try that myself, along with saving some skinny ones for starting slips. Can't wait until the end of this month, mine should be ready to dig up here in Central Kentucky. Have a blessed day ❤

[jenniearnold]

First of all, Jill, so thankful for your cooler temps! God is good! I currently have slips in a jar that have plenty of roots on them so you're saying I can plant those in a huge pot, keep in my greenhouse over the winter and hopefully they should survive my north Ga. winter? I've never tried saving them before so I want to do this! Also, not sure if everyone knows this, but you can also dehydrate those leaves into a powder and have the benefits of sweet potato nutrients in a soup or other dish over the winter! I've done that for several years with my extra leaves before they die off.

[bettyturley]

This is a good idea I have some I was planning n doing this I wasn’t sure it would work

[DustyCountryRoad]

Hey Jill, great idea. We start ours from the sweet potatoe in soil. Going to try this way also, they are a vine. Thank you. ❤😊

[k.p.]

I have I think 3rd gens out there. I need to get out and cut my vines and get them going- again. Thanks for the reminder!

[an-alechianeathery]

I sent this video to a friend who I think was trying to grow sweet potatoes this growing season that she got from Lowe's. We both don't eat sweet potatoes, but I want to grow some. I hope you show us the harvest from all the different kinds of sweet potatoes. I only know of one kind, and Ube potatoes. I'm not similar to growing anything other than regular potatoes that you find in grocery stores. I actually learned something. Thank for the video.

[ZigZagzu]

Good morning! Bless this mess we need it! ❤

[ka]

I cut vines last year and over wintered. I lost a few BUT I still had quite a bit to plant earlier this year. I had a fantastic harvest.

Actually I missed a few sweet potatoes when I harvested last year and they sprouted this year. I was pleasantly surprised. So I did have a few extra sprouts that produced sweet potatoes for this years harvest.

I've cut vines from my harvest this year to over Winter for next year 😊.

I'm glad you are showing the steps on what to do 😊. Fantastic video!

[cherylhubert]

Good morning! Praise for cooler mornings.

[krisd]

Hi from Tyler I hear rain in your background I don’t hear any thunder and lightning and I don’t hear any wind blowing. Excellent Tyler‘s getting some good soaking rain to with no thunder and lightning no downpour. Just a good nice soaking rain. glory to God.

[lindalagarce]

Thanks! I’ll do that! Hugs, and love and lots of prayers from a fellow Texas!

[almostoily]

A memory I had as a child is that my great grandma had a sweet potato in a hanging basket in her kitchen window.
She had the vine wrapped around the top of the room and into the living room.
I believe she had a large ivy, too, but I was just so in love with that potato vine 😅
The first time I went to her new house, I was grown and I kept looking up around the ceiling of the rooms. Grandma asked what was I looking at. I said your sweet tator vine. Where is it?
She said she left it at the other house. I was visibly disappointed, I guess, because she laughed and said, Baby, I can grow another one, just bring me a sweet potater. 😂

[renajones]

Jill you are a jewel ! Thank you so much for this help ❤

[patriciasweet]

Thanks I learned a lot. Prayers from neighboring state

[Dni]

I’m gonna try again this year, inside.
As I haven’t been successful yet trying to keep them through out winter.
Seems they dont like temperature below 60º and I left them out in my grow tent in the low 50º. 🥴

[HappyRunMe]

Great idea! Thank you! My goal is to never buy either sweet potatoes or slips ever again! Same for my regular potatoes! I’m working on it! I’m trying to figure out how many I want to plant next spring and save what I can if possible. I am growing sweet potatoes this year from two sweet potatoes I bought from the store in March (these slips didn’t get planted until July because I had to get more slips ready and plant in containers this time as the critters ate my in-ground patch entirely that I planted in early May). This video gave me some ideas for keeping these going! Yay! Thank you very much! I didn’t want to have to grow new slips in the spring because it took 8 weeks get slips from the store bought ones. I definitely want to get mine planted earlier this next spring. I’m sure this will really help!

[debbiemiller]

❤❤❤ what a whole year changes right sister

[Copper_centAZ]

Thanks! I didn't know you could over winter the vines.

[Angie-jgnz]

I’ve always hung a few of my, last years potatoes in jars, put near a window and collected the slips off those. I know you stated that as an option, or laying them in a pan and covering with potting soil, collect the slips. But the method you are using, will most likely, have bigger, sturdier stems, which is why I will have to try this, this year🥰