This REVOLUTIONARY Way Of Curing SWEET POTATOES Changes Everything!

I developed a REVOLUTIONARY way of curing SWEET POTATOES, and it changes everything! Before, curing sweet potatoes was challenging, sometimes requiring heaters and humidifiers. This new method requires just a container and a seedling heat mat!

I am growing two varieties of sweet potatoes: the Beauregard sweet potato, which is a Southern favorite, and the Japanese Murasaki sweet potato. Both are delicious and very different from each other, and I recommend growing different sweet potato varieties to keep things interesting.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 When To Harvest Sweet Potatoes
1:21 Removing And Mulching Sweet Potato Vines
2:22 Harvesting Sweet Potatoes From My Raised Bed Garden
3:27 My Sweet Potato Harvest
4:40 My #1 Tip When Growing Sweet Potatoes
6:03 Restoring The Sweet Potato Garden Bed
6:32 How To Cure Sweet Potatoes: 2 Step
10:47 My Revolutionary Method For Curing Sweet Potatoes
11:59 How To Set Up The Seedling Heat Mat Thermostat
14:03 5 Days Into the Warm Sweet Potato Curing Process
14:56 The Cool Sweet Potato Curing Process
16:26 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about how to grow sweet potatoes, how to cure sweet potatoes, want to know about the fruit trees and vegetables I am growing in my vegetable garden, are looking for any gardening tips and tricks, or have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, please ask in the Comments below!

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[TheMillennialGardener]

Do you grow sweet potatoes in your garden? Let us know in the comments below! TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 When To Harvest Sweet Potatoes
1:21 Removing And Mulching Sweet Potato Vines
2:22 Harvesting Sweet Potatoes From My Raised Bed Garden
3:27 My Sweet Potato Harvest
4:40 My #1 Tip When Growing Sweet Potatoes
6:03 Restoring The Sweet Potato Garden Bed
6:32 How To Cure Sweet Potatoes: 2 Step
10:47 My Revolutionary Method For Curing Sweet Potatoes
11:59 How To Set Up The Seedling Heat Mat Thermostat
14:03 5 Days Into the Warm Sweet Potato Curing Process
14:56 The Cool Sweet Potato Curing Process
16:26 Adventures With Dale

[brianfreeman]

Millennial Gardener- I live in Japan and we grow sweet potatoes as our main cash crop. You mentioned wanting to fertilize next year for a larger crop. Our rule of thumb here is to absolutely never fertilize our sweet potatoes and to grow them in the worst possible soil. You don't want any energy going into leaf production. Adding phosphate won't help produce larger potatoes. Make sure you have a large and very deep soil bed-that's the key. We grow ours in long mounds and each mound is at least 50cm deep. Looking at your soil bed in the video, it may not be deep enough. I would double the depth of it next year and see what happens.

[davesrvchannel]

I take my sweet potatoes out of the ground with dirt still on them. I put them in milk crates so air can circulate. I stack the milk crates to take up less space. No hoops to jump through. They’re in my hallway and I’m eating on them 10 months later with no signs of them going bad. I wash off dirt as I need one.

[anitabellefeuille]

Sweet potato vines and leaves are edible and taste wonderful. I use tender young shoots and leaves in salads and cooked as a side dish. The spent vines are also a good animal feed. Sweet potato “hay” can be bundled like regular hay. It will turn dark brown- black but they have not turned bad.

[kingdomcitizen]

Thank you! You're the first person to show a reasonable way of curing in a cold climate. Thank you so much!

[apost]

Great video! One tip I heard from a sweet potato farmer is to never let your potatoes reach a soil temp under 55 degrees in the beginning or end of the season. He would always harvest before a frost came. Apparently they will store longer if you harvest earlier and don’t let the leaves die. Also don’t store them for cold storage under 55 degrees.

[nellanddudley]

Once again, you've convinced me to try something new. First, it was citrus. Now, it's sweet potatoes. Another terrific video. As an engineer, I love the processes you follow to gain knowledge. Well done! Thanks!!!

[championhomestead]

Dude! Even your longer videos are fantastic! I love your quick and concise delivery of information. Nicely done ✅

[wildwoodnaturescapes]

I cure my sweet potatoes in my greenhouse in a feedsack for 2 weeks, then just bring the feedsacks inside and put in the bottom of my pantry. I've had them stay good for over a year with this method. So easy.

[kenbellchambers]

The heat mat with thermostat is so potentially useful, perhaps as a desiccator or even as an incubator for hatching eggs, then to keep the chicks warm. Also might be nice for warming up the bed before retiring. Brilliant video - had no idea that the sweet potatoes get sweeter if treated properly. Thanks so much for sharing.

[boinerz]

Though I observe it in video after video, that engineering mind of yours astounds me. Moreover, I'm blown away by how much you plan to do and how much you get done, given that you have a full-time job. Your time management skills must be as great if not greater than your gardening skills. All of which attests to why I'm such a fan. I couldn't help noticing that Dale's first thought on going outside was neither the urge to pee nor the cold. His immediate action was to check to see if anything strange had entered or happened to his yard.

[lvc_on_call]

I found your video when I needed it most, that is after harvesting for the first time ever almost 25 lbs of sweet potatoes in zone 5b in south east of Quebec. Having started this as an experiment, I am super happy with the result and I’ve started 2 days ago to cure them using your method and so far it works great! Thank you so much!

[Oodb]

The most important thing I learned from this video is it’s a whole lot easier to just buy sweet potatoes than grow them.

[derrickwilkerson]

This was my first year growing sweet potatoes. It was a huge success! Thanks to your curing process using seedling mat and the plastic storage container, in 15 days my sweet potatoes were cured perfectly! Thanks again!!

[virginiamoss]

My Beauregard tubers come out large, even massive, with standard-sizes accompanying them; only compost for fertilizer. Your soil depth is one-third what my depth is and I space at two feet. Maybe they need more depth as well as more spacing. I'm going to try the Japanese one next year. Thanks for the suggestion.

I do rotate my sweet potatoes and I don't have the root problem because I have the vines grow up a tall, sturdy circular "tomato cage", six plants around the outside and one in the center. They grow up and then down and sometimes out along the ground a little if I let them; they are on top of pine straw and they don't readily root through that, though they can. If I don't harvest them well before frost I find they tend to split in the ground, inviting bugs to feast. I just bring them into my garage in October to harden the skin for 24 hours, then wash them off, towel dry them and place them on my kitchen counter for a week or two. Then they go into a crate on the floor of the laundry room and we are still eating them in the spring.

[patriciastewart]

Why NOT let them take over your whole yard!
Heaven!
Paradise!
Great ground cover.
FOOD!
Highest quality dark leafy greens vegetables 🙏♥️

[dannamadura]

Yes, the Ipomeas (water spinach and sweet potato) are persistent little things. They are sturdy AF. If you are planting in containers, planting in a sack is a good idea, just cut it open afterwards.
The purple sweet potatoes are absolutely delicious when steamed and dehydrated. They are very popular in Korea as a snack known as goguma malaenggi.

[johnkm]

Thanks for including your dog in your video. You should include him more... 😊

[beinganddoing]

We eat our sweet potato greens. We also dry them to add to soups or grind to powder for supergreens .in protein shakes.

[lah]

You make the best videos. Probably now my favorite gardening guy. You explain the process from beginning to end and as a beginner gardener, I need to see all the steps.