In this video I’m harvesting sweet potatoes from two 4×4 fabric raised beds. Sweet potatoes work very well in raised beds as you will see.
Fabric Raised Beds: https://www.grassrootsfabricpots.com
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MENTIONED VIDEO
Sweet Potato Complete Growing Guide: https://youtu.be/KQKVniLsqS4?si=Obu93cj9tOltCFg0
TIMESTAMPS
00:07 – Grow from slips or tubers?
00:30 – When to harvest sweet potatoes
01:00 – How to harvest sweet potatoes
02:38 – How to cure sweet potatoes
03:27 – How to store sweet potatoes
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22 Comments
Looks so good😊
Mine just started blooming…. Never seen sweet potato blooms before. So pretty! Great job on your harvest!
Some of my sweet potatoes were miscolored too. Do you know the cause? Do they still store as long?
Wow! Pretty interesting experiment. Like those raised beds! Great info.
I've had success with just little chunks of sweet potatoes thrown into garden. Tried the slips and my results were about what you had there.
I already have next years going. I just sip off part of a vine before harvest to keep in water over the Winter. When the vines get to long I cut it and put that in water as well. So when Spring arrives the are ready to be planted.
Interesting comparison. You also got a great harvest!!!
This is my second year growing from slips. Orange and purple sweet potatoes and for the second time it all came out looking like strings with the biggest maybe the size of a pencil. What am I doing wrong?
I harvested 4 out of 14 plants the other day. They were still a bit small even though they had already bloomed. Leaves a re still green so going too leave them a couple more weeks as long as the frost doesn't kill them. Does a deep water help them fatten up? They are in a poly tunnel to extend my short Canadian season
How often did you water? We got tons of rain and I also watered 2-3 times a week and their skins were wrinkled or rotten.
Thanks Brian. 🎃🍁🍂💚🙃
Good info. I don't grow sweet potatoes.
Nice harvest! I grew them 2 years from potatoes because I didn't know at the time that you have to grow them from slips and they were fine and a lot of foliege. This year I grew them slips and looks terrible, will see!
MAKE SURE that you have SWEET POTATOES (not yams) for eating the vastly nutritious vines and leaves. Only sweet potatoes (constantly mislabelled yams for sweet potatoes in American grower markets) have edible vines and leaves – yams vines and leaves inedible. MAKE SURE.
If a "Vegetti" (or clone) machine can handle a sweet potato chunk, you can then process and make curly spaghetti fries, alongside all the other carrot, beet, cucumber. et al spaghettis. Also make sweet potato fries, potato chips. Air-dried, or especially freeze dried, these are one of the long-lasting high density foods (potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, … bull rush water chestnut corms).
Biggest issue about coloring and suspected sweet potato failures. There are NO real sweet potato failures ! You were sold yams (mistakenly or deliberately mislabelled as sweet potatoes – for a higher price point – and sales) instead of real sweet potatoes ! Yams are smaller, lighter-colored as pink or red-pink – and smaller production. True sweet potatoes (with higher pro-Vitamin A carotene aka coloring) have greater size, greater production … and the more glaring red, red-orange, and orangey bright colored tuber skins. If you find you have lighter-colored and various smaller tubers – suspect that you got "yammed" (suckered) into buying yams. MAKE SURE.
Impressive harvest from the volunteer plants. I grew some last year from slips and had a HUGE, good-looking harvest. Unfortunately, I had trouble properly storing them after curing and lost many due to rot. You've inspired me to try them again next year. P.S. It was great to see Bella wandering around free in the background!
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I hope they taste as good as they look. I'm growing my second batch this year in my old wheel barrow and last year I got about 15 pounds. These are plants from slips from last year's harvest and I will likely do it again next year. They were some of the biggest, best tasting sweet potatoes I've ever had. Another nice video Brian. Thanks.
Nice Tatters! Im in Florida 9B, I grow them year round in 30 gallon containers and vines are on trellises . Harvest is easy, cut vines, remove trellis, dump them onto a tarp and let treasure hunt begin. Since I grow them year round, I save some of the vines to root for the next crop.
Major difference!!!!
I harvested mine 1 1/2 weeks ago. I was surprised and shocked that I was even able to get any.
Due to a very late transplant of 5 slips… I was able to harvest 6 large tators and 3/4 of dozen partials.
I am looking forward to eating them, as well as growing them next year in a dedicated bed.
Thanks for all the advice and How To videos
I make my own curing chamber with a deep, lidded plastic storage bin with an open mason jar of water inside and a seed starting heat mat underneath. Works great!