How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Containers Pt. 1 | Planting, Soil, & Varieties

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Sweet potatoes are one of the most productive plants to grow in the garden, and quite easy as long as you set them up for success! In this video we show you how to plant them and mix the correct soil.

00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Slips Prep
01:44 - Varieties
02:54 - Moving Slips Into Shade
03:23 - Planting Slips
04:56 - Container & Soil Mix
07:39 - Planting Slips
09:57 - Watering

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We started ours from slips that were mailed to us a few weeks ago. They did not look very happy, so we simply placed them in a cup of well water with a bit seaweed fertilizer and set them under grow lights for about a week. They bounced back, developed new growth and roots. Then we planted them in a 30" deep x 3 x 4 cardboard box. They are loving it! First time, hoping for a great fall harvest! Looking forward to seeing your progress!

texartisanstudios
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Growing sweet potatoes is the best plant to grow because it's easy to grow. You can eat the tubers and the tops/leaves. You can put the leaves in a lot of dishes like boiled or steamed and make ensalata, or stir fry it, or add them in Filipino stews like sinigang or nilaga.
The tubers are generally sweet, you can just boil them and eat them by dipping in some sugar, or frying sweet potato slices and sprinkes sugar while frying, or putting them in adobo, sinigang or nilaga.

majoyap
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Is there a Part 2 ? I am curious to know how this approach worked.

kimberlyshearer
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Taking your advice to use an auger to mix my soil has been the best thing for me this year! As a Lady Of A Certain Age, I have found mixing my ingredients with a shovel results in excruciating back pain days later (you'd think it would let you know as you're doing it, right? Ha!) The drill is fun! Thank you, so much!

pbsjones
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my sweet potatoes, started slips in the pantry this fall, so am working on planting them in starter soil and putting them out into my garage by window an my grown light to see if can produce more slips. with longer runs to plant in my out side garden this spring. zone 8b/9a in Washington state on the coast of Ocean Shores. mild winters about 28 for coldest and average 40's until later in January when start to warm up. average heat it 65-70 for warmest part of spring and summer. 76 year old lady learning from you young guys. Thanks

karenyhogan
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Wish I would have had Jacque's "pot up in semi shade idea" years ago. I lived in zone 10 South east of Phoenix. The growers won't ship slips until May, which is WAY too late for that area. Even with partial shade from my Mesquite tree, the heat was just too much in May. Now that I'm in 7a, I'll try again. Thanks guys.

Neenerella
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We're in a tropical climate when we plant potato slips we make a loop ➰ with the slip and cover it. That encourages them to grow quicker without spreading that much. We harvest between 10-15# per plant

jenniferrosario
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Growing sweet potatoes for the first time this year so perfect timing as always! Thanks as always for the interesting and informative videos 👍

sumpop
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Perfect timing!! I had just sat down to take a water break and learned about the sand. I literally had a bag laying 10ft from me. Jumped up and added that to the soil before I got the slips planted. As always, you’re the bomb!!

kpratt
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I am so sorry but I am laughing at the moment- OMG I have just harvested probably 30lbs of sweet potatoes from a 4 x 4ft bed & have never seen such a procedure just to grow slips- I honestly am a fan of your channel & try to never miss but I have never seen so much trouble to grow them.
Hey buy a sweet potato- throw it in the garden bed- let the slips come up & transplant the slips around the garden bed & Wow heaps of sweet potatoes. Don't forget to water them though. Cheers Denise- Sub tropical Australia. :):)

denisebrady
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Where is part 2? I'm really curious about how this went with such a thorough and good start for the sweet potatoes

Fixajo
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I've been growing sweet potatoes the exact oppposite - part shade, poor clay soil, loads of watering, and they're still growing great. Says something about the versatility of this crop. One crop that's difficult to get wrong.

sabitboss
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I love my half whiskey barrel. I planted a raspberry bush in it. I’ll be getting one for each of my blueberry bushes and another two for potatoes. They look good, smell good, hold up to time good and are certainly large enough to hold what we need.

catiepower
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My new food find. I love sweet potatoes since you can also eat the leaves. They are delicious

jenniferarmer
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Sweet potato gang where you at? 😎 love growing these. Making sweet potato fries after they have grown is the best feeling!

BackpackComics
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Did you ever do a harvest video for the sweet potatoes? If not how did they do and did you get a good harvest?

Tommyatoms
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Interestingly, though sweet potatoes don't like muddy ground, they grow wonderfully in a flood & drain hydroponic bed. So it's not really the amount of water - it's the lack of air. But they are super easy to grow and super tasty. I am currently using them as a groundcover plant for my new berm because the vines spread super-fast and I wanted something pretty and edible to fix the soil/mulch in place as quickly as possible.

wjm
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I just got Pumpkin Yam sweet potato slips from Baker Creek. I put them in water to soak overnight. I'll pot them up today and harden them off for a few days before I plant them in the 20 gallon grow bag. I would've gotten the purple variety, but hubby wanted orange for our first attempt at growing them.

RachellesGardenDiary
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Glad you took a Vacation, you deserve it. I've been away for some time, I can't believe how far the epic garden has come! What a gorgeous property. Glad all is well. 🕉

on_another_level
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Your videos on container gardening I find fascinating. I grow potatoes sweet potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables in pots between a quarter and a half an acre each. Keep up the great contentAnd watching your rural Homestead grow has been amazing.

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