How to Grow Sweet Potatoes
Tips, Tricks
Watch more Vegetable Gardening videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/316225-How-to-Grow-Sweet-Potatoes You don’t have to wait for the holidays to get your sweet potato fix. Grow them yourself and harvest enough to keep yourself satisfied year-round. Step 1: Start early Start your crop early, since sweet potatoes require 100 to 150 days to mature. Begin your slips indoors, about 12 weeks before transplantation. Tip For best results, start your slips from a tuber that is already disease resistant so that this resistance is passed on to your crop. Step 2: Grow slips Grow slips by submerging the bottom third of a tuber in water until it sprouts. Then transfer individual sprouts of 6 inches or longer to their own growing medium to root. Step 3: Plant slips Plant your slips outside when all danger of frost has passed. Transplant into mounds 8 inches high and 12 inches wide, with plants spaced 12 inches apart and rows spaced 3 to 4 feet apart. Tip If you don’t have the space that sweet potato vines require, consider a bush variety instead. Step 4: Water them Water your sweet potatoes with an average of 1 inch per week, but make sure that the soil is well-drained. Excess moisture will rot the tubers. Stop watering 3 to 4 weeks before harvest. Step 5: Care for them Apply low nitrogen fertilizer and pesticide to limit insect damage. Step 6: Harvest Harvest your potatoes before frost can damage them. Use a gardening fork and start about 12 inches from the vine’s center, working your way inward. Step 7: Cure them Leave your crop in the sun to dry for a few hours after harvest, and then move them to a dark, humid space for another 2 weeks to harden. After that, indulge your sweet tooth. Did You Know? Although sweet potatoes are commonly called yams in the U.S., yams are actually a different family of plant that grows mainly in Africa.
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You forgot to mention the the leaves of sweet potatoes are extremely tasty and even more nutritious than the sweet potatoes. Also, the fact that they are edible is another thing to note since regular potato leaves are very poisonous. Weird video...
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lol
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Pesticides: The sign of a lousy gardener.
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I've had a big organic garden for decades.I use dish soap in water to discourage bugs...totally biodegradable and safe. Also, to keep the squirrels and other rodents away, save your citrus peels, break them up in one inch pieces and spread around your garden. Cayenne pepper will discourage cats and dogs (since they smell around first and get the stuff up their nose, they remember not to come back ) and cinnamon powder your plants) and cinnamon sprinkled over your plants will discourage insects.
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yep can made chips every day
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You missed my point. I don't use pesticides. Many things are toxic, doesn't matter if it's organic or not. Because something is extracted from the natural enviroment by a human doesn't mean it's not organic. Where the hell do you think we get all the chemicals from? The Earth. Organic is a overused advertising term.
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Use your damn brain! Pesticides are meant to break down the organic body. There are consequences, even for us, to ingest them. They come with warnings on the labels. If they weren't dangerous, why the safety warnings on the product labels, Einstein? Obviously they are toxic!
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Not quite right. Check this vid 5:50 for the explanation. watch?NR=1&v=EGFo3bZj_SM&feature=endscreen
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Actually, sweet potatoes and yams aren't the same thing. The true yam is the tuber of a tropical vine (Dioscorea batatas) and is not even distantly related to the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). Yams and sweet potatoes are both flowering plants, but they are not related botanically. Yams have one embryonic seed leaf (monocot) while sweet potatoes, often erroneously called ‘yams’ have two embryonic seed leaves (dicot) and are from the morning glory (Ipomea) family.
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I think the name sweet potato versus yam in America might be regional. At least in my area. We say sweet potatoes, not yams. The plants in this video do not resemble any of the sweet potatoes my family grew.
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stupidest thing Ive read all week.
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Their middle name is depop ulation.
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Great news! Did you know that all pesticides come from the environment? So all these 'chemicals' are actually made from elements all around us! Organic is simply another advertising term used to fool foolish people. Everything is natural!
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starting slips from a sweet potato,finally the definitive explanation of which end to place in water-after searching the internet. here is the answer,clear cut no confusion at all it's located in a google search.look for this title: "growing sweet potato slips update garden to wok" -it is a webpage not a video and full details, wish i could put the link you tube wont allow me to post the actual address, it's the best info available on the web for which end to place in water..
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sweet potatoes are vines thats why
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its a sweet potato guys....been eating these all my life......
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I always trim the suckers off my tomato plants and give them a drink of milk now and then and my plants arent diseased and are an avarege 7 ft tall and loaded!.
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What the heck is sweet tooth!
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