I continue to grow Japanese sweet potatoes whether I want to or not! I grew several buckets a couple of years ago and the vines spilled over on to the ground.. Now they grow wild.. I've even harvested a few..
Soil is the fastest way I find. Seedling medium in a shallow container, put the sweet potato in at least a quarter of the way on its side water well and you'll have beautiful slips.
as a child who grew up eating roasted japanese sweet potatos, you just can't beat them with melted butter. i loved how u pronounced it. lol i'm sure someone else has already told you but it's pronounced: sa tsu ma ee mo. it's imo (eemo) means potato and satsuma is the kind of sweet potato. (Smile) thanks for the wonderful videos!! we love them.
I’m building a library playlist called interesting by others as well as my own videos. I like the way you deliver the video. It feels natural and unscripted. Any of your videos could have made the list but I chose this one. I also subscribed. The library is for anyone trying to garden so information can stay free accessible and flowing!
Hi. We grow those kind of sweet potatoes in the Caribbean. You can add them to soup, they are good with any kinds of meat or fish, stew, baked or fried. We also have the white sweet potatoes as well same color on the outside but white on the inside. Love watching your videos. Stay blessed. Am from St Vincent and the Grenadines.
You nailed the pronunciation of "satsumaimo"! Satsuma is an area currently called Kagoshima, located in the southern part of Japan, and "imo" means potato. Thanks for yet another amazing video! Blessings 🙏🏽❤️
I'm trying an experiment myself. Got 2 bonaito sweet potatoes from my local Food Lion, cooked one in the air fryer and grew a few slips with the other, and they have been in containers for about a week now and are thriving. They are purple skin with white flesh. Can't wait for September.
Watching Bing Bing happily run through the sweet potato patch brought joy to my day! I don’t know if you’ve tried the Okinawan sweet potato (purple flesh), I love it! It was a childhood snack for me. You can make a great haupia (coconut) sweet potato pie from it! Btw, thank you for your prayers…gardening heals my grieving soul.
What a massive haul! I can still remember the distinct tune that roasted sweet potato vendors play in Japan when they would pull their carts around the neighborhood in the evenings. Kinda like the jingle played by ice cream trucks here. Very nostalgic.
Great to see a new video post. I recently moved to central Florida and you two have taught me so much about growing vegetables in this very different climate from what I am used to in the Midwest. Thank you for all your hard work and inspiration!
BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL, FROM SOUTH TEXAS! Going to try those here. I've heard they are delicious. Thank you for the info. Sweet little hugs for Bing Bing too!
Thank you for another great video. I’m so grateful to see your harvest. We just ate a different variety of Japanese sweet potatoes about 12 hours ago. They were reddish purple on the outside and white on the inside “Murasaki” sweet potatoes. Wow they were so delicious. I wonder if I can grow more from one of these? You two are an inspiration to me. God bless you.
I grow Murasaki sweet potatoes and they’re the best sweet potato ever! I love that they have the drier, fluffier texture of a regular baked potato, but a hint of sweetness like a sweet potato. They’re amazing! And the one year I was able to grow them without deer pressure, they were extremely productive!
Thanks for another great video! I appreciate the information and you taking us along the journey. All the way! That’s a lot of work for you, but very helpful. Thanks!!
We are still working on growing sweet potatoes. Our last crop was in for 120 days, and still had healthy leaves. We should have left them in the ground as we only got a few, small potatoes. Next slips will be planted soon.
I've watched your videos for years. Always enjoy them. Would you possibly tell where you obtained the wire baskets that you gathered your sweet potatoes in?
That was fun to watch. Thank you for teaching all of us. Looks beautiful with the very red skin. Looked delicious. We love making sweet potato fries that we just bake in the oven.
I’ve been growing some purple sweet potatoes I picked up from the Asian market a couple years ago. They grow great and they produce delicious leaves all throughout the heat of summer and the sweet potatoes aren’t as sweet as regular sweet potatoes and they have a smoky flavor. They are good sweet or savory.
I love the white flesh sweet potatoes. They are delicious. I have eaten a different variety called Boniato. I want to try to grow some. Thank you for sharing. ❤
I love sweet potatoes. The outside color was beautiful when Nancy got through washing it. Good haul there!! Always learn so much from y'all. GOD BLESS YOU BOTH and Bing Bing .
I’m was referred to your channel and I’m so grateful to be here. I just bought 17 acres in the Ozarks and I’m new to this homesteading journey. I’m very excited and I know I can learn from you all❤❤
Another great tutorial Hollis. Thanks for all the sharing that you and Nancy do. All the best to you both. Good to see Bing Bing out. Awesome sweet potatoes!!! Hollis knows how to break that up! lol All the best!
So we can have them 2x a month or more? I know it was done last winter, but how is your mom since she moved in with you. what is the dish on hollis side in the square container, Is there a video on that?
I've heard that letting the vines grow SO long and letting them reroot as they sprawl severely hinders the sweet potato production because so much energy is going to the vines and new roots. I will be trellising mine high and any that spill over to root into the ground i will be pruning back and lifting the vines to prevent them from rooting
Got to say... You two know how to make beautiful videos! Love the chicks growing with the potatoes, i find i smile through the whole thing... Glad i get to meet you and be in heaven with you one day!... ✝️
Thank you both for NOT letting your gomesteading channel fall to nothing but pushing political propaganda. I just want to learn I don't want propaganda pushers from both sides. It's so exhausting .
For what it’s worth, if’n you’d buried the sweet potato instead of using toothpicks and water, you’d likely have gotten lots more slips, or at least that’s what Danny at Deep South Homestead recommends. If your experiment works out, maybe you can grow enough to sell slips in the future. At least you know you can get big taters. The biggest collection of sweet potatoes that I have found is Sand Hill Preservation Center, and they have hundreds.
After watching this channel for many years, I used the water, jar, toothpick method to create slips and it works tremendously well for me. I put my jars on heat mats and they create slips by the hundreds. In 2022 I had approximately 420 slips out of just a few sweet potatoes. I had to scale back a little since I didn't have room in my garden for that many slips. Since then, I normally stop around 200 slips.
Hi Hollis and Nancy, Question. I pulled a few garlic, and they don't have that outside paper skin, individual garlic have their skin, but not the skin that goes around the whole thing. I read that the garlic sheds its skin when you water. Will it grow back quickly, it's about harvest time in Ohio????
Ok Hollis, need to try a little harder. Nancy looks lovely sitting at the dinner table. You look like you just came in from the fields 😂 Love the channel though, i’ll be growing purple Japanese Sweet potatoes this year with purple flesh. These are the same purple potatoes the people of Okinawa eat that people believe is the reason for their longevity.
For what it’s worth, sweet potato vines, leaf petioles (between the stem and the leaf) and leaves are all humanly edible, and you can find MANY recipes online. Chickens, pigs, and cattle all consider them treats.
Nutrient deficient soil produces bigger sweet potatoes! Nutrient rich soil produces more leaves and smaller roots. Try replanting those vines in your Florida sandy soil and see what you get!
Old Scottish table grace. Some ha’ meat (food) that canna’ eat, and some that could eat lack it. But I ha’ meat, and I can eat, and sae the Laird be thanket.
I've had some sweet potato slips growing in a large container for a little over a month and I don't feel like they're growing much. It's full of roots but the vines don't seem to be growing much... Anyone have any suggestions?
I do it in a clear tub with a lid with air holes. I keep the temperature consistently humid and warm. They don't like the temps to go up and down day/night. A heating pad under works great. Once the roots form it isnt long before you get the slips and once they start it will go quite quickly. Don't do it in water like Hollis has it 😬 they need to be started end of winter really. You don't need the roots on the sweet potato to harvest the slips
I normally start the growing of slips on February 1st each year. By early April they are ready to be planted...and then harvested late October to November.
I started them in February and planted them in April and it just doesn't seem like they are growing. They're in a clear container so I can see all the roots growing everywhere but the vines themselves aren't growing that fast.
@@DebRoo11 I don't start them in water I start them in dirt and I planted the slips in a big clear container in April. I can see the roots growing through the container all over the place but the vines don't seem to be growing much.
the "tsu" pronounce like Sue but with a bit more of a z to it. The "Mai" is Ma (in Mama) with "e" like the letter in the alphabet long "E" sound pronounced "Sa Sue Ma e Mo"
i love satsuma potatoes they sell them roasted in the japanese market here in hawaii u love it with flake salt maybe i will try buy some raw potatoes n grow some shoots thank u for your video
I like the purple Japanese sweet potatoes (purple all the way through). They have a cake-like texture. They make really great sweet potato casserole.
I continue to grow Japanese sweet potatoes whether I want to or not! I grew several buckets a couple of years ago and the vines spilled over on to the ground.. Now they grow wild.. I've even harvested a few..
the sweet potato leaves taste great fried tempura style
So do the Satsumaimo itself.
Soil is the fastest way I find. Seedling medium in a shallow container, put the sweet potato in at least a quarter of the way on its side water well and you'll have beautiful slips.
The two of you are so inspiring. Thank you for bringing pleasant content. We need that in today's world🙏
Our pleasure!
Very much agree
as a child who grew up eating roasted japanese sweet potatos, you just can't beat them with melted butter. i loved how u pronounced it. lol i'm sure someone else has already told you but it's pronounced: sa tsu ma ee mo. it's imo (eemo) means potato and satsuma is the kind of sweet potato. (Smile) thanks for the wonderful videos!! we love them.
Love this info! Thank you for sharing!! Now I want to grow me some!
I’m building a library playlist called interesting by others as well as my own videos. I like the way you deliver the video. It feels natural and unscripted. Any of your videos could have made the list but I chose this one. I also subscribed. The library is for anyone trying to garden so information can stay free accessible and flowing!
Yum! Kimchi goes with everything!
Hi. We grow those kind of sweet potatoes in the Caribbean. You can add them to soup, they are good with any kinds of meat or fish, stew, baked or fried. We also have the white sweet potatoes as well same color on the outside but white on the inside. Love watching your videos. Stay blessed. Am from St Vincent and the Grenadines.
You nailed the pronunciation of "satsumaimo"! Satsuma is an area currently called Kagoshima, located in the southern part of Japan, and "imo" means potato. Thanks for yet another amazing video! Blessings 🙏🏽❤️
Thanks for the info!
I'm trying an experiment myself. Got 2 bonaito sweet potatoes from my local Food Lion, cooked one in the air fryer and grew a few slips with the other, and they have been in containers for about a week now and are thriving. They are purple skin with white flesh. Can't wait for September.
In NZ they are called Kumera. Delicious mashed with a good slice of butter (no milk or cream), salt and pepper 😋 blessings.
I grew these this year - my first year growing sweet potatoes of any kind. I pulled them a bit too soon, but they are so good!
Watching Bing Bing happily run through the sweet potato patch brought joy to my day! I don’t know if you’ve tried the Okinawan sweet potato (purple flesh), I love it! It was a childhood snack for me. You can make a great haupia (coconut) sweet potato pie from it! Btw, thank you for your prayers…gardening heals my grieving soul.
What a massive haul! I can still remember the distinct tune that roasted sweet potato vendors play in Japan when they would pull their carts around the neighborhood in the evenings. Kinda like the jingle played by ice cream trucks here. Very nostalgic.
Great to see a new video post. I recently moved to central Florida and you two have taught me so much about growing vegetables in this very different climate from what I am used to in the Midwest. Thank you for all your hard work and inspiration!
BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL, FROM SOUTH TEXAS! Going to try those here. I've heard they are delicious. Thank you for the info. Sweet little hugs for Bing Bing too!
Looks like a good harvest. I am partial to the solid purple sweet potatoes and the white sweet potatoes.
🌺cute it's Sa - tsu say "sue" - ma. imo means potato-say "emo". Sa sue ma emo, Hope this helps. We love growing satsuimo.
Thank you for another great video. I’m so grateful to see your harvest. We just ate a different variety of Japanese sweet potatoes about 12 hours ago. They were reddish purple on the outside and white on the inside “Murasaki” sweet potatoes. Wow they were so delicious. I wonder if I can grow more from one of these? You two are an inspiration to me. God bless you.
Dump the bucket onto a tarp to make soil reclamation easier.
I grow Murasaki sweet potatoes and they’re the best sweet potato ever! I love that they have the drier, fluffier texture of a regular baked potato, but a hint of sweetness like a sweet potato. They’re amazing! And the one year I was able to grow them without deer pressure, they were extremely productive!
Thanks for another great video! I appreciate the information and you taking us along the journey. All the way! That’s a lot of work for you, but very helpful. Thanks!!
In Jamaica we use the vines as New slips
We are still working on growing sweet potatoes. Our last crop was in for 120 days, and still had healthy leaves. We should have left them in the ground as we only got a few, small potatoes. Next slips will be planted soon.
That’s the right way how to grow sweet potatoe cause even me here in abroad too I’m doing that.
Everything Nancy cooks looks yummy!
I've watched your videos for years. Always enjoy them. Would you possibly tell where you obtained the wire baskets that you gathered your sweet potatoes in?
That was fun to watch.
Thank you for teaching all of us.
Looks beautiful with the very red skin.
Looked delicious.
We love making sweet potato fries that we just bake in the oven.
Hello folks and Bing Bing, always here supporting your channel. Love the gardening channel.
My husband's customer gave me some to plant. Very sweet . It is more starchy than yam.
I’ve been growing some purple sweet potatoes I picked up from the Asian market a couple years ago. They grow great and they produce delicious leaves all throughout the heat of summer and the sweet potatoes aren’t as sweet as regular sweet potatoes and they have a smoky flavor. They are good sweet or savory.
I love the white flesh sweet potatoes. They are delicious. I have eaten a different variety called Boniato. I want to try to grow some. Thank you for sharing. ❤
I planted japanese sweet potatoes around April this year. I followed your other videos using bone meal and blood meal. Hope to harvest soon
They have quite a few months to go for sure if you planted in April 😉
That looks absolutely delicious. I’m wondering how they do canned I bet those will be a good and a vegetable soup also
I love sweet potatoes. The outside color was beautiful when Nancy got through washing it. Good haul there!!
Always learn so much from y'all. GOD BLESS YOU BOTH and Bing Bing .
I’m was referred to your channel and I’m so grateful to be here. I just bought 17 acres in the Ozarks and I’m new to this homesteading journey. I’m very excited and I know I can learn from you all❤❤
Congratulations on your big ole homestead!!! You will love the simple life❤️
Another great tutorial Hollis. Thanks for all the sharing that you and Nancy do. All the best to you both. Good to see Bing Bing out. Awesome sweet potatoes!!! Hollis knows how to break that up! lol All the best!
Every time you pray before you eat, it makes me want to cry...its so beautiful. God bless you both.🙏💜
Looks beautiful glad you had such big success with your sweet potatoes I love eating sweet potatoes
Thanks so much
Love that you keep trying out new varieties of produce. Hope all is well with you. Nancy, and Bing Bing.
Looks good
Can we see Hollis try some spicy kimchi? Please I’d love to see that 😂😂😂
I like them!
I've missed you guys ❤
I would love to know, other than blood and bone meal at the beginning... what fertilizer, if any, did you use during the growing process?
God almighty bless your husband. He is a reminder as to why we woman need our men.
Great harvest.
Using a lot of your garden advise for the first time My garden is doing really good. Thank you so much !!!
Wonderful!
Thank you.
So we can have them 2x a month or more? I know it was done last winter, but how is your mom since she moved in with you. what is the dish on hollis side in the square container, Is there a video on that?
They looked so good
Awesome job!!👌💯💯💯
Satsuma imo kinda like the orange with a weird ending lol.
I love your videos.
One of my favorite ❤️, I couldn’t slip them period.
I've heard that letting the vines grow SO long and letting them reroot as they sprawl severely hinders the sweet potato production because so much energy is going to the vines and new roots. I will be trellising mine high and any that spill over to root into the ground i will be pruning back and lifting the vines to prevent them from rooting
Or you could harvest the greens and cook them. They are delicious.
@@humanbeing4368 it's an acquired taste. I grow enough other food I don't enjoy the sp vines
Yum!
That potato reminded me if a Christmas ornament when Nancy was washing it, all shiny. Almost too pretty to eat. Almost.
Great job
I've been meaning to ask... how old is Bing Bing in 2024? Love your channel!
Got to say... You two know how to make beautiful videos! Love the chicks growing with the potatoes, i find i smile through the whole thing...
Glad i get to meet you and be in heaven with you one day!...
✝️
Thank you both for NOT letting your gomesteading channel fall to nothing but pushing political propaganda. I just want to learn I don't want propaganda pushers from both sides. It's so exhausting .
For what it’s worth, if’n you’d buried the sweet potato instead of using toothpicks and water, you’d likely have gotten lots more slips, or at least that’s what Danny at Deep South Homestead recommends. If your experiment works out, maybe you can grow enough to sell slips in the future. At least you know you can get big taters. The biggest collection of sweet potatoes that I have found is Sand Hill Preservation Center, and they have hundreds.
I’m Japanese so here I go.
Satsuma-eemo. Imo means potatoes.
Satsuma as satsuma orange.
Does look yummy! I love your gardening videos
After watching this channel for many years, I used the water, jar, toothpick method to create slips and it works tremendously well for me. I put my jars on heat mats and they create slips by the hundreds. In 2022 I had approximately 420 slips out of just a few sweet potatoes. I had to scale back a little since I didn't have room in my garden for that many slips. Since then, I normally stop around 200 slips.
This is the method I used. My first attempt at growing sweet potatoes. From one potato, I got 15 slips. I'm thrilled. ❤
You are correct. If you bury a tater, you would produce many more slips.
Good job
Hollis I have a question bro ok I was wondering can I use the same containment soil mixture for my seed trays or does it have to be different mixture
What did you put in the hole where you planted your plants
Once they are planted and growing should i fertilize the sweet potatoe plants?
Hi Hollis and Nancy, Question. I pulled a few garlic, and they don't have that outside paper skin, individual garlic have their skin, but not the skin that goes around the whole thing. I read that the garlic sheds its skin when you water. Will it grow back quickly, it's about harvest time in Ohio????
Hello! My family and I are curious what kind of dog do you have!
Bing Bing is a Jack Russell and Daushund mix
@@HollisNancysHomesteadthank you!!
My sweet potato vines grew big beautiful vines like that no potatoes.
Too much nitrogen?
Ok Hollis, need to try a little harder. Nancy looks lovely sitting at the dinner table. You look like you just came in from the fields 😂
Love the channel though, i’ll be growing purple Japanese Sweet potatoes this year with purple flesh. These are the same purple potatoes the people of Okinawa eat that people believe is the reason for their longevity.
For what it’s worth, sweet potato vines, leaf petioles (between the stem and the leaf) and leaves are all humanly edible, and you can find MANY recipes online. Chickens, pigs, and cattle all consider them treats.
@@vickisavage8929 My chickens as well as myself love them and they are so good for us!
@@hiltonhillhomestead 👍
Nutrient deficient soil produces bigger sweet potatoes! Nutrient rich soil produces more leaves and smaller roots. Try replanting those vines in your Florida sandy soil and see what you get!
Sat-su-ma- emo 👍 I is pronounced as an E. Emo meaning potato.👍
Old Scottish table grace. Some ha’ meat (food) that canna’ eat, and some that could eat lack it. But I ha’ meat, and I can eat, and sae the Laird be thanket.
I LOVE that!
Back to basics.
I found the pronunciation for you.
Sat su ahmo. I think it means “easy vegetable. “
Doggy's allways supervising
I've had some sweet potato slips growing in a large container for a little over a month and I don't feel like they're growing much. It's full of roots but the vines don't seem to be growing much... Anyone have any suggestions?
I do it in a clear tub with a lid with air holes. I keep the temperature consistently humid and warm. They don't like the temps to go up and down day/night. A heating pad under works great. Once the roots form it isnt long before you get the slips and once they start it will go quite quickly. Don't do it in water like Hollis has it 😬 they need to be started end of winter really. You don't need the roots on the sweet potato to harvest the slips
I normally start the growing of slips on February 1st each year. By early April they are ready to be planted...and then harvested late October to November.
Plant the slips asap! You don’t need the vines to grow until they are planted in the soil.
I started them in February and planted them in April and it just doesn't seem like they are growing. They're in a clear container so I can see all the roots growing everywhere but the vines themselves aren't growing that fast.
@@DebRoo11 I don't start them in water I start them in dirt and I planted the slips in a big clear container in April. I can see the roots growing through the container all over the place but the vines don't seem to be growing much.
the "tsu" pronounce like Sue but with a bit more of a z to it. The "Mai" is Ma (in Mama) with "e" like the letter in the alphabet long "E" sound pronounced "Sa Sue Ma e Mo"
That is allot of sweet potato from one bucket
You will probably have them every year in that spot unless you got every root, or had a killing frost.
Sat-su-my-e-mo
But that just means sweet potato in Japanese. Lol
My sweet potatos never seem to get flowers, but I've gotten potatoes, so idk 🤷♀️
They are pronounced "sat sue me Emo"
Hi
It defys conventional wisdom, but it seems sweet potatoes grow better in areas where they are under stess. (less water, fertility etc.)
ha its satsuma imo good try
imo is potato in japanese
so do u put the huge potato in water n the eyes
makes shoots then do u take the shoots n put it in a jar to root?
i love satsuma potatoes they sell them roasted in the japanese market here in hawaii u love it with flake salt maybe i will try buy some raw potatoes n grow some shoots thank u for your video
I grew some gold's and truly easy.
those are yummy.,..
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