Want to grow sweet potatoes in Florida? Learn how to plant your potato slips with Elise Pickett of The Urban Harvest. She’ll show you how easy growing sweet potatoes in a raised bed garden can be. Sweet potatoes are a great cover crop for your garden beds over the summer months with very little maintenance on your part.
0:00 Intro
0:35 Benefits of Planting Sweet Potatoes in the Summer
2:04 How to Plant Sweet Potatoes
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16 Comments
New subscriber, new gardener too. North Florida is where I am located.
I started planting sweet potatoes in beds a couple years ago. Mainly to harvest the leaves to eat. And as a way to contain them from going everywhere. I have been very happy with the results. It's hard to grow in the Florida summers. I'm in eastern central Fl. Look forward to more ideas. Thanks.
I only planted to where I rooted the slips to. Do I need to go back and bury to the leaves?
Where do you get your slips/ starts from?
Grow Bio-intensive calls for a 9 inch offset spacing for sweet potato. I see that you just have a single trench down the middle of your bed. Have you tried the tighter spacing and what did you observe?
My Beauregard Sweet Potatoes grew nice vines, but no flowers or buds. I have them in the ground and in a very large pot, which has the same situation. Also, now in July the leaves are becoming opaque. Suggestions?
Are you mulching your bed? If so, how deep (inches) are you planting the vine below the mulch? If you're not mulching how deep are you going into the soil with the vine? Just enought to cover the vine? We planted ours just below the mulch and they didn't grow as fast or as big as we'd hoped.
Hi, I am in Charlotte County. What month should I be putting my slips into the ground? March? April?
Those look way different than my sweet potato slips…weird..lol🤷♀️
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I found this video educational and helpful. Thank you! Much appreciation from BC Canada 🙂
how deep of a bed are you planting them in?
Where do get the sweet potato starters
Hmmm, I just hill the soil (mostly homemade mix of peat, compost, sand, perlite, vermiculite, soil, small amount of gypsum wetted down with an epsom salt solution) and plant the slips on top of the hills. Water them 2-3 times a week with drip irrigation depending on temperature here in SCal. Four months later I harvest them. I use a 4’ x 4’ raised bed, also 10 gallon grow bags. I also mulch the area around the slips. Sweet potatoes are pretty resilient and will grow no matter how you treat them.
I planted my slips as you have shown here and now the vines are sticking straight up and new roots are growing where it is exposed from the soil. This is my first time growing sweet potatoes so I’d love some guidance on how to handle them as they grow as I’m not really sure what to do next.
I Live in Southwest Florida Fort Myers, I’m just wondering which variety of sweet potatoes would grow well here, and which leaves taste the best and which varieties?