vue - How to Grow Sweet Potatoes - Complete Growing Guide
That is right... Sweet potatoes growing in Michigan. It is possible! Many think you need to live down South to grow them well, however they are very easy to grow and perfectly suited for our climate. Give them a shot! In this growing guide we will talk about how to grow sweet potatoes (not yams), by talking about nutrient requirements, watering, temperature, spacing, soil type, and different varieties. .99 Heirloom Vegetable Seeds: http://www.migardener.com/store ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIgardener Website http://www.MIgardener.com Join the fun on facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/MIgardener +1 me on Google+ @ http://www.google.com/+MIgardener Pin us on Pinterest @ http://www.pinterest.com/MIgardenerYT Follow the fun on twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/MI_Gardener Come tumble with us @ www.MIgardener.tumblr.com
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hey mate love your channel you explain things so well👍
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My sweet potatoes grew so big this year on Cape Cod!! After I handled a long hot season of organically dealing with bugs, I figured I had just enough time for the potatoes to heal, which they are MIRACULOUS at doing, to have something left to harvest. They grew so easy peasey as well as my blue potatoes, did awesome!! However, to break my heart I saw holes in my garden exactly the day I was going to harvest, and my sweet potatoes eaten in half which is how I knew how big they really grew! By the time I got to them I only got 2, TWO huge sweet potatoes for myself out of about 100!! The rest were eaten by probably a Norway rat of all things. Any tips on keeping these nasty creatures out of sweet potatoes? They didn't bother anything else, just my long nursed and awaited sweets. Boo hoo!!
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Hi there! Please checkout my video about how I harvest and prepare sweet potato leaves. Thanks! https://youtu.be/nKiqQSyY7Lk
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i bought (japanese) sweet potatoes, left them for several weeks in my dark, warm, slightly humid garage. they now have tall vines growing from the eyes. do i plant the vines, or the potato below the eye that has the vines coming out (in soil, or water)?
would tap water be ok for the potato? (im in OK).
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Do you start them as seeds, or from a sweet potato in water. Either way, when do you plant/start them? I live in NE Alabama.
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Is there anything special you have to do after harvesting them to keep them in the pantry or root cellar?
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Beauregards are the best and most prolific sweet potato for here in Georgia. Soil temperatures preferably above 70 degrees Fahrenheit. They do indeed love hot weather and a prolific even at around 95 degrees Fahrenheit. They don't even wilt back like some of my other garden plants. Sweet potatoes mature in 90 to 120 days. Sweet potatoes prefer a soft "loamy" or slightly sandy soil and should planted in pretty good-sized hills. Planting sweet potatoes in a soil that packs easily will produce very small potatoes. They do well planted in hills that are at least 6 to 10 inches tall. If you plant them this way, you won't need too much fertilizer. Be sure to harvest your sweet potatoes before first frost, as they will not do well for storage.
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What if I want to grow sweet potato vines in a pot in the house? Is that a viable suggestion? I'm wondering if that'll work... Not sure why it wouldn't. We bought a couple from the store and they started to get a few leaves so far, without putting them in dirt yet. I'm waiting for them to get a few more before I put them in anything. Any ideas what I ought to do Luke?
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The best luck I've had with sweet potato s is sweet potato pie.
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How do you know when they are ready to harvest???
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Luke, are coffee grounds a good nitrogen source for sweet potatoes? congratulations on the birth of your baby.
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I planted mine in a 20 gallon Rubbermaid tote with drainage holes. They are in a full sun location and doing unbelievable! We'll see what we get at the end of the season. I have chicken "poop" that is in a container from earlier in the year. Can I use that for fertilizer?? Love the video BTW - extremely helpful!
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Tanks
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How late can you put them in ??
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Great video, Luke! I've been meaning to learn how to grow sweet potatoes because I love to eat them and have always heard they are a more challenging crop. It would be cool to see you cure them when you harvest later (if you do that). Thank you!
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Great video, I looove sweet potatoes :-)
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I've had bad luck with sweet potatoes. My soil has wireworms. They eat them.
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Oh mercy....tons of luck with them. I had no idea when planting that I had the type that would put them EVERYWHERE! It was crazy ... everywhere I started to dig up there were more and more and more! They took over lol
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I've found that if you put your sweet potatoes in the ground when the temps are not consistently above 50 degrees they will be slow to grow. Sweet potatoes are drought tolerant but they do not tolerate cool temps. Slips planted in mid to late June will catch up to and pass those planted in spring. I just put my last slips in today, July 5th. I usually grow just Beauregard this year I'm adding some purple ones.
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I grow the purple variety here in Chattanooga. It seems very ambitious to grow them in Michigan.
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