Grow Grocery Store Sweet Potatoes with this One Weird Trick

This is the most reliable way to start sweet potato slips that I have ever found.

Growing sweet potato slips from store-bought sweet potatoes is easy. Today I show you how I start sweet potatoes and I plant them in my garden. If you buy a few sweet potatoes you can grow bed after bed of roots - they are super easy! In the past I used to grow sweet potatoes in water but I abandoned that method some years ago and now just start them in flats of soil. They don't rot this way and do better.

[davidthegood]

This is really the easiest way I have found to grow a lot of sweet potato slips for cheap... hope you enjoy it!

[mollytrap]

David, just needed to share that I watched this video with my three-year-old and then went outside to plant our sweet potatoes. She saw me bring the potatoes outside and got all excited. “Are we gonna do it like David the Good?!” I told her yes and then she proceeded to do it herself “showing me how”. 😂 …and she yells in unison with your videos “may your thumbs always be green!” At the end of each one. She’s your biggest littlest fan.

[cliffordbolen]

Planted slips in a hay bale turned with straw ends up along with two handfuls of potting soil, watered and fertilized---95 days harvested 36lbs of cleanest taters just by cutting strings and kicking bale (which turned to compost about 30 days later.

[pimanboek]

I cut the end of a sweet potato that had started to sprout then planted it in my small 5 x 10 garden plot. The vines took over the entire plot. Once the first frost came I found that along the vine it would put down a root and then a sweet potato, a root then a sweet potato. That one plant gave me dozens and dozens of sweet potatoes so I had to give a lot away to people at church and find recipes for cooking them in different ways..

[jtharp]

Thank you, I trust Mr. Danny at Deepsouth Homestead & you Sir .
Josette Tharp
Montgomery County, Texas 🙏🏻
I started re-gardening after several years of deep deep dark grieving when our Youngest & only Daughter
April ann Ulrich age 19
5 months after Graduating High School was killed in front of myself her momma, her dad & my Father .
This yr because of our country, I started gardening again & have been teaching my granddaughters like I taught all my children, my Sons are glad im teaching their children to garden, fish, hunt etc

[heathergilreath]

My first year using the BTE gardening method, I planted three tiny slips and harvested 149 lbs of sweet potatoes. I picked up my Publix organic sweet potatoes a couple weeks ago, and waiting impatiently for slips to emerge. :D

[MargaretMcGill]

Thanks from Scotland. This 73yo will definitely give it a try

[luzgiraldo]

Maybe you should show us how to harvest them when the time comes. Thanks.

[oaklandcpa]

The t shirt was the first thing I noticed. Love it.

[baddriversofcolga]

I agree with doing the soil method over water. Beyond the rot issue you also don't have to worry about changing the water out and I feel like the slips grow better with soil.

[Cheezitnator]

I bought a sweet potato at the local market here in Bahrain. It was huge (like twice the size of what I seen back home at the supermarket) so I cut it in half and made soup of half of it. The other half I put in a jar of water. It sprouted like twelve separate plants. I don't have a pot in my flat so I left it in the jar and they are still growing like crazy as long as I put water in. I'm actually surprised the potato hasn't rotted after a few months like that. It just keeps growing more sprouts and roots. I half expect it to start singing about being a bad mf from outer space.

[MalkiZee]

David, I used this method. I transplanted the slips months ago and they have taken off. I was turning over the pots today and found a small harvest inside.

[sarahb.]

I have some sweet potato vines growing in my apartment right now. They were growing all winter actually. I had bought a sweet potato and it had sprouted - didn't have the heart to kill it so i just let it grow. I admit at the time i didn't know anything about growing stuff so i just placed the potato on a plate by a window and it sent up lots of green shoots. The bit of green during the snowy winter was nice! The potato itself got rotten but i cut the green shoots off. Half i stuck in a jar of water and they are growing like crazy! The other half i stuck into a pot of potting soil and those are growing too. I'm using it for a house plant. It had been an organic sweet potato.

[LucyJazzy]

Florida here and starting slips in dirt is way better than water. They are in the morning glory family which you can really tell by the flowers.

[lisakukla]

fyi - SNAP, aka food stamps, can buy plants, seeds, even fruit trees. Lots of folks are new to SNAP the last year and might not know that. Walmart has a little seed rack off to the side of the big displays with 25-50¢ seed packs.

I'm so glad you did this. I'd forgotten about the "sticking them in dirt" method. I started orange, white and purple ones in January and nothing's happening in these stupid jars, except for once my cat pushed them off. 😒 It's a good thing she's cute.

Have you ever grown the red sweet potatoes? I saw them at Sprouts but passed bc they didn't seem very interesting, but maybe I'm missing out on something amazing?

[firecloud]

This is how I start my sweet potatoes, but I put them in my grow closet in the basement under lights where it's about 80 F. They develop slips very quickly.

[THECOUNTRYNINJA]

Ive already got about 10 taters going just like this, except they're from last year's harvest not the grocery store. Much better method than water and toothpicks.

[profhulk]

Your channel is the reason I started growing sweet potatoes. Yes this video reinforced my desire to grow more sweet potatoes. Great video. Keep it simple make it fun. :D

[nancyfahey]

The little sweet potatoes I missed last year are growing back. And I love the tips with new leaves for cooking. The first 6" of the plant.

[shpuply]

I know I love my shirts. They're the most frequently worn. Glad to know it's a family run business here in the states. I'm just dying to here the song again in a video soon. Be nice to your Mother... lol