They are coming in! Did you plant when I Did? Get to checking now. You can get loads of sweet potatoes in containers. Don’t let lack of space stop you from growing this healthy nutrient rich crop. When curing, do not rinse the dirt off, in fact don’t rinse them until you’re ready to use them.
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Those look great! We can't grow them here with much success. Yet we can grow almost everything else save citrus, sugar, and coffee. So, we import those and export everything we grow well here like wine grapes, pears, apples, peaches, etc.
Wild hogs got in the garden and dug up the sweet potaroes.
Looking good! We planted ours in April and had to dig them two weeks ago. Normally would have dug them next month. Several had gotten too big, one was 2 1/2 lbs. Not sure why they grew so quickly. Stay blessed!😊
Where did you get your original potato from to start slips? I am pretty close to you and would love to try some next spring.
We can't seem to turn the rain off here. Take care!
This is the first year we planted sweet potatoes so i appreciate this video. We are in Virginia, so we planted in May here. We're estimating October here. 1st frost date is October 19th so we have to get them by then.
Yours look amazing!! I hope yall have a great harvest
Yes, I would dig them up. I’m pretty sure they’re good
Your garden is looking quite healthy!
I have the small squared wire mesh in the bottom of all my raised bed containers. This has save my plants from vermits.
They're ready. Possible rain coming next week and they will try to sprout and they won't keep well. Its so dry that animals are looking for moisture and food. Plus if they get too big they get stringy
Sweet potato leaves are delicious. Those are beautiful sweet potatoes❤
Depending on the variety that you are growing, most have a date of 90 to 120 days. I HAVE to count the days over the appearance of plants, because here in Florida, the vines don't die, unless the bugs get them. I have never had vines just up an die because they were done growing. The reason is, every single notch on the vine, if it can find dirt, I will put down new roots and grow a whole new plant. The size of yours, you are actually running the risk of them being stringy and not so edible. If I were disciplined enough. 😆I would go out every 4 weeks and cut off the end of the vines, and stick them in the dirt. Sweet potatoes do their own succession planting. You just have to be willing to snip the tips, poke them in water for a day or 2..start those roots and you know the rest. Again- If I were disciplined, Not you- ME, 😆I would not plant all of my beds at once. Start one, when the leaves hit the ground from my raised beds, snip, root, plant the second bed. You know as long as you have heat, they will keep on growing.
I love baked sweet potatoes and keep a lot to eat through the winter and spring. I also can them–the way you are supposed to can them, I find to be so insipid–so I bake them first, them peel and chunk them up and then can them. Usually just with water, but this year I'm going to try some with OJ. They are perfect to make pie filling or just custard with a can of sweetened condensed milk, eggs, and spices–put in the blender and bake. Nummy
Thanks Jill. My husband made a poisoned feed holder for rats/mice out of a yellow kitty litter container and a bit of wire. He made it so that mice and rats can go in, but our free range chickens cannot. It abruptly stopped the pests a few years ago when we had the problem.
Those sweet potatoes look delicious!
I have no idea why I had no potatoes yielded but a few bulb and root . I used grow bag. Please let me know what can be my mistake . So did sweet potato .!!
😍those look so good!!
Those paprika peppers are gorgeous!
Maybe the heavy rain you had accelerated the sweet potatoes' growth. I watch a channel that farms 400 acres in Pennsylvania. In 2023, they had a year's worth of rain in one month. They don't grow sweet potatoes, but their red and white potatoes and cole crops loved all that water. It accelerated growth and produced their best harvest. A significant percent of the spuds and heads were huge.
This year has been drier, but Debby and preceding rain bands dropped 7+ inches in a week. Waiting to see what that does to them.
Vermin hate peppermint so try mixing in some peppermint or peppermint spray to hopefully ward off those pests.
They say the sweet potato leaves are very healthy. Mix them in your salads.
The vermin have been eating the sweet potato leaves on mine… not sure how to prevent that. Maybe there will still be tubers??
The deer love he vines hence no potatos again this year.
You are my favorite person to watch on YouTube. We live in the Mojave desert, California and other than the humidity, our temperatures and challenges are similar. The humidity is maybe close to being the same, since to avoid getting stung by those horrible little ants I have to water all around the ground before I tend to my plants! I love your advice and videos. Thank you. oh, except for the rain, we pretty much NEVER get rain.
I wish mine were that big. Mine are small and long.
Beautiful harvest thank you for sharing!! About the metal Vego beds everyone is getting- just a heads up- we got a raised metal bed (different comparable brand) 4 years ago & our hard water has already caused them to rust inside where the dirt is. Still using them this year but don’t see them lasting too much longer & a little worried about the rust in the dirt.
You guys stay steady. Be good Jill. Love ya
And ill watch your videos. and wont say anything else you guys be good
We dug our sweet potatoes last weekend. They had been in 140 days. The leaves were still green. It was a wonderful harvest. Have them in the barn for three weeks. About a 60 foot long chicken wire table. I’m pleased. They are cueing now. How are your chickens doing in this heat? I’m trying to keep them cool with frozen milk jugs. Peppers are still growing. I have quite a few cherry tomatoes producing as well as seven foot tall tomatoes that are covered in shade cloth. Praying they start to produce as the temps go down.
I'm in Northeast Oklahoma. We plant in mid May and harvest at frost. You're look good!
I’m so glad you posted this video. I am trying sweet potatoes for the first time this year & was starting to wonder how I’d know when they were done. Thanks for all you do. I’m a better gardener because of you.
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Have never seen anyone harvest sweet potatoes like this before. You keep scratching off the skin when you dig them up and then they don't store well. Suggestion: Cut off the stems and let the sweet potatoes be for two days. Then come back and pull them up by the remnant of the vines and a harvesting fork. Best of luck…
What you pulled looks perfect -hope you can deter the critters!
I saw someone plant some sweet potatoes in an Amazon box. They were pretty successful at it too 🍠
This is so timely! I've been wanting to ask you if it was time. I knew to look for dying foliage, but not that I could replant tubers. Totally makes sense now that you say that. Thx!