If you would like to know how to grow a big harvest of sweet potato watch this video for my five top tips on sweet potato growing!
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I have liked it very much yielding.
Wait, they call weedwackers "whipper snippers"? 😂
Loved it! Super easy to follow! How will they do in a 15 gallon container?
Thanx but you did not show how do we produce a tone from on that small space
Thank you your insight and experience very helpful and your positive attitude is very Motivational I wish you a wonderful day
Thank you 💜
Thanks
Great video I am in Kona Hawaii… I am counting on my climate being similar to yours…LOL… thank you for all of your teachings…
thank you!
Are sweet potatoes, which have been exposed to sun poisonous, like white potatoes?
How long do you keep potato out of the soils before you plant them back as I have just dug up my ordinary spuds thank you yours Colin
How tall should I make a raised bed to grow sweet potatoes?
Thanks so much for sharing.
Great tips, thanks Mark. 🙂
New here from Fl thank you for the information.
Before you harvest can you cut off slips and start a new potato garden?
How deep the bed must be? 40cm is enough?
I love your work Mark, thanks a lot
LOL when you said you prefer 8 inch-ers, I LOST IT! 🤣🤣🤣
Hi there, this was good to watch and thank you for the make of same.
I have a question that may not get your attention being now several years on since it's making, but do this anyway in hope to hear from you.
Now I have been keeping some sweet potatoe slips going for some months because I had difficulties in planning my life due to covid and family members becoming ill.
Now I am trying to plan what to do with these as we are now about to go into winter (UK) and wonder if somehow I can save them into next year at the present time I have them
in a large seed tray that have seen them grow into some very large trailing runners that have been fed with LIQUID SEAWEED CONCENTRATE FERTILISER, which has done well
and although I could plant these out now, I am concerned that the winter could kill them off altogether and so am looking to you to learn what would you do considering the
situation.
The runners have just started to have leaves turning a little lighter green almost becoming a little towards yellow, perhaps needing less water as the weather has become
less hot.
I do have a small unheated green house but this does not stand a chance to get heated now with the heating costs becoming too great, here in the UK.
As you have experience of growing these in a much warmer climate, it may well mean that it's impossible to know how to save these runners to develop into sweet potatoes
as there is just not enough fair weather to allow them time now to further develop, I am asking because I would like to try to save them but just maybe impossible to do this.
What if anything can you or any of your fellow followers advise please?
Thanking you once more for your very interesting video's, stay safe and out of harms way of with still this Covid being around.
Regards, Maureen
So, Sweet Potatoes are 'Morning Glory Adjacent?' At my age that'll have to do.
What indication when ready to harvest?
You’re a wealth of knowledge! Thank youuuuu
hi Mark, i planted my first ever sweet potato plant in the beginning of spring here in belgium and i recently harvested. sadly enough i only had 1 big sweet potato. is that normal or should i get more of that plant? or should i dig deep to find some more?
thanks for the video. hope to hear from you soon.
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Ah yes mate this was just brilliant. Thank you
Thank you Mark
Wow.. chicken poo? I have chickens.. but I thought chicken poo needed to be washed out? That's wonderful..I'm going for it.. I live in Greece and 6 weeks ago I put two sweet potatoes in a bed to see what happens.. how long from planting to harvesting more or less? Thanks for the video!!
I'm in Florida I have the greens right now I use them for stir fry energy drinks salads so many things and I haven't even harvested my sweet potatoes yet looking forward to that in about 2 more weeks thank you for your video I learned a lot
Love ur vlogs
Thank you SSM. You are indeed an inspiration. 🙏🏾
Great video, very informative! @selfsufficientme : How long does it take for you to reuse the bed with new seedlings, since you layered it heavily with old tubers, leaves, manure, etc?
I live in zone 6b in the US. My sweet potato vines are begining to die back (late September here). Is it time to harvest them yet? We have not yet had frost, but will soon be in the 40s at night. I planted mine in a large tub, and they looked a lot like yours this summer. I hope they did well.
Awesome
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how do u know when it's harvest time!?
How long will it take to grow into a good sweet potato’s?
My biggest problem is deer. They love the leaves so fencing is a must. Do not forget the leaves are edible also.
When is the best time to plant and harvest them
Whipper snipper 😁
Excellent info. I'm looking into growing some in large half barrel planters. Good to know how aggressive these can grow and the soil compactness I need. I was impressed that you were harvesting some quite large tubbers but now I know it's the smaller ones that best makes for eating. Thanks 👍
I used a big container this year and I got a few large potatoes but many green little skinny potatoes. Do you know what I might have done wrong?
Great Video Mark! It always feels like Christmas when I harvest my sweet potatoes 🙂 This year I have realized the importance of worms in root vegetables. I have about 2 million worms that i farm in my barn for castings, but as I breed more, I am putting them in my sweet potatoes in the garden. This year I had the most unbelievable harvest! I believe it is due primarily to the worms composting, loosening & aerating the soil. 🙂
Just for clarification sweet potato is in the family convolvulaceae where as potatoes are in solanaceae. However, they are both in the order solanales so they are considered to be related but very distantly.