5 EASY TIPS TO GROW MORE SWEET POTATOES!

We've been growing sweet potatoes in our in-ground garden plots for years, but now it's time to give raised bed sweet potatoes a try! We'll tell you about a couple varieties that are great for growing in container or raised beds, and show you how we plant them in a couple of our Olle Gardens raised beds.

We'll also tell you 5 easy tips for growing sweet potatoes. These are tips we learned from talking to the sweet potato experts at Steele Plant Company, and they work!

0:00 Intro
0:29 Available Raised Beds for Planting
1:33 The Best Sweet Potato Varieties for Raised Beds
3:46 Planting Sweet Potatoes in Raised Beds
7:17 Sweet Potato Growing Tip 1
8:49 Sweet Potato Growing Tip 2
9:20 Sweet Potato Growing Tip 3
10:03 Sweet Potato Growing Tip 4
10:31 Sweet Potato Growing Tip 5

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[karenguth]

Hi Travis, my source for slips, didn’t get any because of vendor issues. Luckily i was growing my own and have them all planted. I have been watching you since you were at Hoss. I appreciate all your info. I live in SE south carolina. 30 min from Savanna. So we share the same weather. You are my #1 YouTuber. Thank you.

[jSheapullen]

I have Vining. One year deer found them. Ate a bunch of leaves off. I still got a huge yield with a few huge ones...bigger than a kleenex box! So, now I cut the vibes as needed and get a great yield. They can be eaten too. Thanks for your amazing vids!

[mysticmeadow]

How fortuitous of your video to come out. I just brought home a flat of beauregard sweets and it's going to be my 1st time planting them, in a raised bed no less. Hahaha Can't wait for the green cascade that will follow. Thank you for the watering advice, good to know. Blessings from Linda in middle Georgia.

[sharonjialanella]

Thank you for the tip! I just placed an order with the Steele Plant Company for Covington slips! So excited!

[nlkwhvs]

Good tips. In northern Uganda. We check the beds and take out big or early maturity bulbs and harvest the late maturity on a second harvest. Only be careful not to break the little bulbs off the stem

[jeanniemann]

Your garden looks good! Thanks for the advice.

[sheraldtaylor]

Excellent tips! I grew sweet potatoes in a 4ft x 4 ft raised bed last year. I will say, if you do not want them tops to sprawl all over the ground below, this might not be the way to go. My bed was in a spot that it did not matter. Excellent harvest for the 4 slips I put it in. They were quite easy to grow. Sounds like I could have put a couple of more slips in that bed.

[L.A.]

Great thorough information and helpfulness! Thanks.

[milkweed]

Wow! That was a great presentation/explanations. Thanks!

[dscott]

Steele Plants order arrived! Thank you for the link!! Man they're impressive compared to mine. First time trying to grow sweet potatoes. Thank you for the info you post on your channel.

[pilsplease]

My sweet potato slips arrive early next week, Beauregard and O'Henry slips cant wait to plant them and see what i get.

[charlescoker]

Just watched one of your videos talking about okra, and tomatoes. When it starts to get hot in late May. I put a white shade cloth over my tomatoes. They do not wilt down during the heat of the day. We had tomatoes all the way to late September. Try it on a couple of of your tomatoes. I’m in zone 8 B west of you.

[lawrencebeeles]

Those leaves are mighty fine stir-fried

[UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hey Travis, I hope y'all are doin fine. I been way too busy to comment much lately. I'm just gettin ready for the sweet potato slip to go out. I been getting onions and white potatoes in everywhere. I am squirrelling onions in and around everything in the raised beds new in ground beds next to others ect.
I started with 8 sweet potatoes in jars of water with the toothpicks holding them up. I have sooo many slips now about 5 varieties. I have been pulling off the real nice ones putting them in glass jar of water and those slips are full of roots 3-5 inches long lots of leaves and ready to pop in the ground. I whittled a stick like you had a couple years ago with the two points at the end for poking the slip in the ground. I love that stick tool esp since it was free!
Also since I have trouble bending I can do this standing up that is a great plus right there. So from now to the last day of September I have just at or about 120 days which is long enough for all my varieties here.
I hope y'all have a great safe summer with your kids!

[nnekababy]

I luuuuv the shirt. I use to read Word Up magazine! 🎤🎤🎤🎼🎧

[marysurbanchickengarden]

I don't have any idea what cultivar I have planted. I bought some a few years ago at the market that looked a lot like Beauregard's and I had some sprout and I planted the sprouts and have been growing them every year since. I've learned a few things from you today about the potassium and not cutting the vines. My son does all the yard work and if my vines have crossed the border he weed eats the ends off. I'll be giving him orders to not trim the vines.

[cbk]

I’m trying sweet potatoes for the first time this year in Vermont. I think I will try grow bags and keep them in my greenhouse because we don’t get 90 degree days very often here

[fancythat]

Great tips! I just planted my 3rd planting of sweet potatoes in 100 gal raised beds in NC 7B zone. I counted forward 120 days to our first frost date so June 1 is still ok. Bought the Steele plants, Jets and Orleans.

[jills]

Keep the tips coming. I’m a first time backyard grower in central Florida and your tips are so helpful

[judyhowery]

As far as collards go i built a wooden frame added some pvc used metal like wire holders to attach then bought some 7x100 ft bird netting from walmart and hinges on one side now my collards are covered and bugs aint hitting them like last yr or yr before using them to feed my lizards last yr got so few leaves it was unreal