Blog Post & Podcast: Starting Sweet Potatoes: Timing, Variety, Growing Slips, and Planting in the Garden: https://journeywithjill.net/gardening/2021/03/23/starting-sweet-potatoes-timing-variety-growing-slips-and-planting-in-the-garden/
Youtube video: Comparing Sweet Potato Harvests in Raised Beds, Ground Beds, and Containers: https://youtu.be/YYbMthYBwl0
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New to gardening. Do you leave your grow light on 24/7 ? Thank you.
I done this in saw dust last year in a 12 x14 greenhouse and a tote
I honestly wish I could give you 10 thumbs up. Best video yet. Including the seasoned gardeners:D.
Consider using two containers. Punch holes in the first container. Place the first container into the unpunched container. The first container with punched holes will drain excess water into the second container.
why not put some suran wrap over the containers
If your sweet potatoes make roots during the time we wait for the slips, when you take them off to put in water, what do you do with the potatoes who gave the slips?? Planted them or composting them???
Hi Jill, great video…. I’m new to gardening could you do a video about from seed packet to raised bed?
I’m not sure what soil I put my S potatoes in, but I know it was nothing special and my slips are doing fantastic! I LOVE this method! Thank you so much for posting this, it’s a winner!!
Very informative video. I started using this method last year and I was glad the sweet potatoes sprouted more quickly than when I used water in a jar. Thank you.
Jill in the Philippines we plant our sweet potato or Kamote using the vine cuttings.
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How many varieties of sweet potatoes are there?
Thank you for this video. You explained the process very thoroughly! I am hoping to grow some and this will help me very much!
Thanks. Beginning gardening and so helpful to have your expertise.
Thank you
I just leave a few in the back of my cupboard and forget about them. They soon grow long legs/sprouts lol
Hello Jill. Thanks for the information about slips and planting. Be well.
You really like hearing your self talk dont you ..basically you could have made this video considerably shorter ..besides dont you have clothes to wash ..meal to cook ..kids …run your husbands bath ..but here you are bumping your gums on social media as he bust his azz to support you ..
Thank you this is very helpful.
My sweet potatoe plants didn’t have as large of potatoes last year. They were about half the size as normal with same spacing etc due to a wetter than usual summer here in middle Tn. I always plow my sweet potatoes with cultivators on my tractor to put more growing energy into the potatoes instead of the vines. The plants don’t look good after I plow them but the tops quickly recover and you get nicer spuds this way.
Making slips is a waste of time. Plant the tubers and be done with it.
First year growing sweet potatoes growing roots in water on windowsill but now gonna try growing in the potting soil. Thank you for sharing Information
Thank you!
Thank you for getting to the point., good job
How did you save those sweet potatoes for 2 years? I’m in Tennessee, zone 7a with humidity.
How close do you keep new tomato plant seedling to the grow light,,also do you keep light on 24/7..im trying to grow plants but they get long and leggy,,added a fan to help with circulation,,friend suggested cuttingback light time..love your videos
Mine seem to be molding and rotting. Not over wet. Maybe mine were irradiated and are dead?
Great video ! I just got my sweet potatoes and I have an empty salad container. Do I need to poke holes in the bottom of my salad container for drainage, or can I just plant them without the holes?