This is the easiest way to grow sweet potato. In the video, I show you how I harvest, and replant sweet potato for all year round crops plus I throw in several top tips on growing and using this excellent vegetable.
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Wow this is the first I've heard of people harvesting sweet potatoes so early, and even rinsing the dirt off right away :O Most people I've seen wait about 8 months or a bit longer to harvest, then leave the dirt on before curing for up to a week. They say it helps to develop their sweetness and overall flavor profile . But as you've mentioned, its all about preference since you prefer them a bit smaller. I might try this technique one day though.
How often do you put water after u planting into the soil
lmao a bunch of little sweet potatoes
That huge sweet potato is judging me for not going to the gym
I'm trying some purple ones this year (inside and out), but the ones that are white inside are the tastiest to me so far, actually after growing them I found the orange sweet potatoes really boring! Shouldn't have any trouble with them taking over here in right way up land though (England), they'd never survive the winter.
P.s I think my phone might be broken, shouldn't you be upside down?
Is that a sweet potato or a bad dragon?
I was just able to grow roots no potatoes
What am I doing wrong
Not going to lie but that last potato looked like a scorched rodent…lmao
Hi Mark, when I was a kid my dad used to grow them on our farm on an Island in Redland Bay SEQ, We used to pick the runners and lay them in a trench with the tips showing out, after a time the runners would root and when we dug them up every root had potatoes on them. I know this was a commercial way of doing it but we got tons of sweet spuds from them. Try a few with the runners laying in a trench. Cheers!
HAHA "Look at how odd it looks – the sweet potato not me."
I grow it from the vine.
We live not far from you Mark, in the Goldilocks zone, and I made the mistake of planting six runners into a garden bed. Even in heavy clay soil, it took over and smothered all the other plants. Some of them rotted and nematodes got into them but there were hundreds of them and they grew to enormous sizes. It took us a month of weekends to dig them out and we filled up the wheely bin plus took a whole trailer load to the dump. Hubby still brings it up – 'remember that time you planted sweet potatoes???'.
Sweet potato!…. Thought it was hellboys arm!…
That's huge sweet potato. Will try growing in UK next year. If I dont succeed at least Al have the leaves to eat
That sweet potatoes is gigantic
I’m in south Brisbane and having trouble growing my sweet potato as we just get no rain here.
oh man i wish i could do that, another 20 years with global warming and maybe ill be there lol. Here in Western NY, the historically most giving crops are Corn, Oats and Potatoes.
I have trouble digesting a lot of carbs so sweet potatoes pack in so much nutrition I normally wouldn’t get. Potatoes and rice are healthy done right.
Different from yams.
Yams are good too just saying I bought some yams marketed as sweet potatoes at Walmart more than once.
Little sweet potato
Have you tried growing the NZ kumera? Daley’s stock it. They have such a beautiful taste, different to the Australian variety.
I’m so glad to see you use the smaller tubers to replant! I’ve watched multiple videos and they seemed to just be tossing the little ones when they harvested the ideal sized. I was wondering why they didn’t just pop them back in. Maybe because of the weather in that area not being sunny or warm enough?
That sweet potato look radioactive
My experience is the bigger the sweetpatato become it become stringy