Here in Virginia I planted 3 plantings of sweet potatoes 30 days out from each other...I think about 40 slips ...my first year growing! I hope I get a harvest!! There are beautiful flowers on my Japanese purples! Thanks for sharing!! Any harvest is a good harvest!!
Hi Liz! Good to see you. I planted my potatoes and didn't write the date down. Hoping to dig them up the end of this month. So glad you did this video because this is my first year growing them. Thanks!
Hi Wilhemina! It's not the end of the world if they stay in the ground a little longer. I hope you get a good harvest. They are fun and easy to grow here.
Thanks for sharing! I forgot to put on the calendar when I planted mine, kind of thinking I need to dig one up and check. I’ve had a couple of yellowing leaves so maybe it’s time. Thanks!
Here are some tips I've learned along the way that you might be interested in trying. Recently I learned that split sweet potatoes mean they received too much water during the growing season. CURING: Once you cut off the greens, allow the sweet potato to remain in the earth for another 3-5 days, some people say longer up to 2 weeks, and they will cure while under ground (this would be equivalent to people removing the potatoes and for 7-14 days store single layer in a humid, 80-90° environment, then store in cool, dark area for another 4-8 weeks before eating (if you want them sweet). If you do the keeping in the ground method, after 3-5+ days take them out, lightly brush off some of the soil and lay on cardboard in a cool, dark area for 4-8 weeks. Some people put them in boxes under beds in an unheated room, or in a garage that is cool and dark. Do not put them in a box in layers of potatoes on potatoes until fully cured after a few weeks, they can bruise and will spoil faster. Try your best to put them in single layers, not touching each other for that curing period of time. Some people put them in baskets that can stack on top of each other without touching the potatoes, allowing some air circulation is important. Then after they are cured you can either wrap in newspaper and store in a cool room, or lay in a box single layer with newspaper between the layers. It's amazing what you can get from a simple sweet potato slip! I like that you said you get roughly a pound per each slip, I did not hear that before, thank you :)
Awesome tips! Thanks. I think I will try the 'in ground curing' method next year. It's hard to fine 80 degrees and high humidity here in Texas in summer where it's either 100 degrees outside or 75 degrees in the AC inside. I do the plastic bag curing, but keeping it in the ground would be much easier. I love sweet potatoes!
@@austinediblegardens I might try the inground for some, and then saw another where someone put 100 watt Christmas lights and a loaf pan of water inside of an oven. They laid the sweet potatoes on the racks, turned on the Christmas lights and left them in there for 7-14 days, they said absolutely must be 7. They had a thermometer in there also and used a thermometer reader gun to read the temps of the sweet potatoes. Where there's a will there's a way LOL ... I am hoping the ground works! Then finding a cooler dark place for stage 2 might be more difficult, unless I can plant in a planter and drag the entire planter into a garage that is cooler. Not sure, will give it a go :)
@@sn232 after harvesting, store the potatoes in single row in a plastic bag with holes cut in it. Put in a well ventilated place. I guess the bag increases humidity which is helpful when you're in an air conditioned house.
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Here in Virginia I planted 3 plantings of sweet potatoes 30 days out from each other...I think about 40 slips ...my first year growing! I hope I get a harvest!! There are beautiful flowers on my Japanese purples! Thanks for sharing!! Any harvest is a good harvest!!
True! Thanks and I hope you have fun harvesting yours soon.
Hi Liz!
Good to see you.
I planted my potatoes and didn't write the date down. Hoping to dig them up the end of this month.
So glad you did this video because this is my first year growing them.
Thanks!
Hi Wilhemina! It's not the end of the world if they stay in the ground a little longer. I hope you get a good harvest. They are fun and easy to grow here.
We love sweet potatoes thanks for sharing your tips about sweet potatoes. Love from philippines...
Me too!
Thanks for sharing! I forgot to put on the calendar when I planted mine, kind of thinking I need to dig one up and check. I’ve had a couple of yellowing leaves so maybe it’s time. Thanks!
Great! If you think you planted in sometime in April, it may be time. Feel around at the soil and maybe start with just digging one up.
thats neat. the leaves look sort of like sassafra s?!!...nice taters..Thank You..Love Kelly..!!
Here are some tips I've learned along the way that you might be interested in trying. Recently I learned that split sweet potatoes mean they received too much water during the growing season. CURING: Once you cut off the greens, allow the sweet potato to remain in the earth for another 3-5 days, some people say longer up to 2 weeks, and they will cure while under ground (this would be equivalent to people removing the potatoes and for 7-14 days store single layer in a humid, 80-90° environment, then store in cool, dark area for another 4-8 weeks before eating (if you want them sweet). If you do the keeping in the ground method, after 3-5+ days take them out, lightly brush off some of the soil and lay on cardboard in a cool, dark area for 4-8 weeks. Some people put them in boxes under beds in an unheated room, or in a garage that is cool and dark. Do not put them in a box in layers of potatoes on potatoes until fully cured after a few weeks, they can bruise and will spoil faster. Try your best to put them in single layers, not touching each other for that curing period of time. Some people put them in baskets that can stack on top of each other without touching the potatoes, allowing some air circulation is important. Then after they are cured you can either wrap in newspaper and store in a cool room, or lay in a box single layer with newspaper between the layers. It's amazing what you can get from a simple sweet potato slip! I like that you said you get roughly a pound per each slip, I did not hear that before, thank you :)
Awesome tips! Thanks. I think I will try the 'in ground curing' method next year. It's hard to fine 80 degrees and high humidity here in Texas in summer where it's either 100 degrees outside or 75 degrees in the AC inside. I do the plastic bag curing, but keeping it in the ground would be much easier. I love sweet potatoes!
@@austinediblegardens I might try the inground for some, and then saw another where someone put 100 watt Christmas lights and a loaf pan of water inside of an oven. They laid the sweet potatoes on the racks, turned on the Christmas lights and left them in there for 7-14 days, they said absolutely must be 7. They had a thermometer in there also and used a thermometer reader gun to read the temps of the sweet potatoes. Where there's a will there's a way LOL ... I am hoping the ground works! Then finding a cooler dark place for stage 2 might be more difficult, unless I can plant in a planter and drag the entire planter into a garage that is cooler. Not sure, will give it a go :)
@@austinediblegardens And what is the plastic bag method?
@@sn232 after harvesting, store the potatoes in single row in a plastic bag with holes cut in it. Put in a well ventilated place. I guess the bag increases humidity which is helpful when you're in an air conditioned house.