HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM MIKE AND JANE - LIVE!

So that was 2023! How did you do? Come along as Mike and I as look at what worked - and what didn't - over the last year! Grab a drink and join in!
Come say hi over here:

[christinebrooks]

Hi Jane & Mike, Happy New Year to you both 🎉🍾🎊 great video, sorry I couldn't make the live, I work nights, for me, I need to really do succession sowing. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hello Jane, this is how I grow my sweet potatoes. I find the ones I like at the store I look for organic ones and I will buy one or two of whichever kinds I want to grow. The way you do them is all exactly the same so if you take one sweet potato, any jar that has a larger diameter than the sweet potato does poke the potato, down into the jar so maybe halfway out halfway in right there you can take three toothpicks at the level of the top of the jar you poke a toothpick into the potato going around three different times about equally spaced Just poke the toothpick in an inch or so. Then then you just set the potato on the jar and the toothpicks will hold it up in the air. You want to use water that is as natural as possible? Fill the jar so that it’s covering maybe a third of the potato about up to the shoulder height of the jar. You want to do this about eight weeks before you want to plant the potato. The sweet potato will put out little sprouts, called slips, mostly underwater. The slips will also have roots trailing down towards the bottom of the jar as they grow. After about the 6 to 8 week mark, you can lift the potato out of the jar break off the different slip right where they connect to the potato. Be sure every slip has roots. You can place the slips into a separate jar of water if you’ve taken them off before the eight week mark. Be sure to keep the water clean and full so check it at least once a week if the water gets kind of cloudy you can pour it out you can rinse the roots off under the faucet Put in freshwater and right back in with the potato.
When it’s time to plant the sweet potatoes, do you want to poke a hole in the ground with a dimer 68 inches deep however, you can get it to go and drop the plant with all the roots down into the hole and they say you can take a water hose, run it into the hole and the hole will close up around the slip all by itself so give that a try if not add some dirt it’ll be fine. Sweet potatoes generally take 120 days from the day you put them in the ground. So the day you wanted to pick them you have to go back 120 days and then go back at least eight more weeks, and that’s when you start the whole process I start my slips surrounding March 1 in the house. If the slips get way too long, you can cut a piece off that may be 6 inches long at diagonal right below. Remove all the leaves that will be in the water or under the water, because leaves in the water would just make out terrible mass, so you’re doing this don’t have any leaves at all in the water. Then you can place that extra piece in a jar of water, and it was develop roots and it can be planted unless that takes too long.. if you decide to do it and want to ask me any questions feel free. And I loved the program today.7

[BumblebeeAdventure]

🐝 Thanks for the great video 💚 Sorry i missed you! Going to relax and listen to this with a cup of tea

[GardeningGloves]

Sorry I missed it live but have just thoroughly enjoyed it just the same. Wishing you both Happy New Year.

[gardentours]

Just missed it 🤔 Happy New Year 🎆 and all the best for 2024 🎊

[charissatroup]

I love the Musquee de Provence pumpkin. Really rich, bright flesh. I grow them for their looks, but I have used them for sweet and savory dishes, as well. They need a long growing season, though. 110-120 days, I think.

[LorraineG]

Sorry you two, I wasn't on when ye were live. Happy New year to you both. A beautiful couple you both are, happy and so chatty ye are, keep it up. Bless you both in 2024.

[sharon]

Sorry I missed the live (work) looked like a really good chat hopefully catch the next one, happy new year to you and Mike 🥰

[robbrown]

really enjoyed it, but couldnt keep up with the typing

[yvonnedelappe]

Happy New Year and all the best for 2024

[ingridskitchengarden]

Happy new year Mike and Jane 🎊 🎉. Spaghetti squash is quite popular in the USA. It’s great with a great bolognese or ratatouille. Canning in the USA is either water bath canning which is James chutneys. Pressure canning is meats and savory foods. Glass jars and metal lids are used to seal the tops. I do know a certain amount of moisture is needed to store roots. I’ve also know a man who stored his beets in sand. Hope you all have a wonderful new year

[Feelgoodgardens]

Fab live Jane, I've just caught up! I forgot about your live despite announcing it on Danny's live 🙈
I wanted to try growing my own sweet potatoes from my own slips last year so must remember to try it this year! I love sweet potatoes.
I quite fancy growing the smaller pumpkins too if we have room.
See you on Thursday. Happy New Year to you both ❤ x