I almost didn’t watch because I have no problems growing sweet potatoes. But then I thought, well, it’s David the Good and I could use a little levity this morning. You never disappoint. Good sweet potato info and a good laugh. I really enjoyed the reggae music for them. Freedom to grow your vines! I think it’s my new theme song.
Learn how to start sweet potato slips and how to plant them, as well as how to cure sweet potatoes and store them. Plus, learn the secret to keeping sweet potatoes happy. Books mentioned: MINIMALIST GARDENING: amzn.to/3QqWqPy GROCERY ROW GARDENING: amzn.to/4aWgIbL Thank you for watching:
Sweet potato leaves have replced lettuce and spinach for my wife and I. We clip off the vines near the end with the tenderest leaves, eat the leaves, plant the remainder of the vine and repeat.
Thank you so much for your videos! I was born in the 70s, and my mom used to make us kids weed her garden so I hated gardening for a long, LONG time… in 2021, a friend of mine convinced me to start gardening for fun… I live in zone 9A. SWEET POTATOES were my first success crop. Now I devote a bed in my suburban backyard to growing them every summer. Last summer’s haul was 85 lbs!!! not bad for a little suburban, novice, who lives on 1/3 of an acre! What I especially love about sweet potatoes is that they are a calorie rich food, just in case times get tougher. thank you for this information that you are passing along… you are helping so many people! :-)
My oldest daughter told me I traumatized her with gardening. When my kids misbehaved they got a day of weeding. They enjoyed the weeding more when we were laughing, singing and cutting up together. My oldest has started planting an occasional tree or veggie. Now she complains the bugs are traumatizing her. 😂
You always teach me details to make my garden better! I have been a brute just ripping my vines off the tuber to make more starts I have been shooting myself in the foot! Now I will snip them!
I see the guitar in the GRG...is that from the ukelele planted last fall? I forgot to start my SP slips last february. So I'm buying them this year. I've found Puccini works well on SPs. BTW, Minimalist Gardening is a terrific book. Congratulations.
So from what I see on the video, not needed to let the tubers root? Some you put on the ground had roots and some didn’t. 😊 that makes it even easier! Loved the music! 🎉
Love it! The skit at the end was funny too!😂 bought your book on grocery row gardening, very informative!! Really like how you wrote in about the squirrels and how you acquired the knowledge from each author or friend! ❤
Will the tubers’ size affected when you cut the tops? We normally eat the tops, it’s common for us Filipinos I agree the toothpick method isn’t a good way to start slips Love your music so much❤
Great video! Thank you. Hope I have space some time to grow them :) I had some that we bought but had to throw away, I put them in some shade next to my composting bags, and they started growing some vines!
The best sweet potato I ever grew was a white variety called Ohenry I believe man they were good I cured them in the oven for 3 weeks on cookie sheets it was the warmest place in my house. They were ready for thanksgiving and everyone raved about them! I can’t get the Okinawa purple to grow for shit for me. One of my fav crops!
Loved Grocery Row Garden and almost finished with the new book, Minimalist Gardening, only two chapters left! I’m starting this fall with cardboard, grass clippings & compost, and lots of wood chips. In the meantime, I’m growing in a couple of raised beds. 👩🌾
I"ve been growing sweet potatoes since about 1988, I think. That first year, I saw an ad in the paper from the local nursery. They were selling sweet potato slips, and you had to order them ahead of time. I was a complete neophyte. Knew nothing at that point about growing them, but I called to order. The man asked me how many I wanted. There were two varieties available. I said I'd like 50 of each. I got 500# of sweet potatoes from all of that! I've never needed to grow that many since, in fact I gave away a lot of those. But that was amazing. I spread newspapers in our living room and piled them up there. It was quite a sight. Now, though, I still grow them, but have to fight the voles for them. They do major damage and we've tried "everything" to beat them. I'm thinking that I might have to dig them earlier to somewhat minimize the damage. It's heart breaking. In spite of that, I still have some left from last year that we are eating, and the damaged ones still keep just fine. Maybe I should get a herd of cats to live in my garden.... I start my slips in jars of water, and don't bother with toothpicks. I put out 34 of them this year. The voles get our Irish potatoes too.
David, I did try the granny method and they rotted for me too! Being in zone 5a sweet potates are a little tricky to grow here, but it can be done. Loved your songs in the garden.😅❤
I just planted ours yesterday. Zone 6 here, but reusing the same stock of sweet potatoe for several years now. Just bring em in the basement before first frost and whatevers left by springtime has new slips ready for planting. Can't beat em. Perpetual calories and goodness.
😂 You're the funniest garden youtuber... 😂 Made my day... What am I doing now, as I'm not playing the guitar? I liked the raggae song most... Actually the sweet potatoes grow like crazy here in Slavonia/Croatia... Perhaps BECAUSE I'm not singing? 😂
If you have a freshwater aquarium, you can take a sweet potato with some skewers or toothpicks poked in the sides to support it on the corner of the rim, place it pointy side down with half of it in the water and as long as there is adequate sunlight, it will grow vines. I do this all the time and have the vines wrapped up to the ceiling and around all my tank lights. It takes up to two weeks for the vines to start growing that way, but then they go absolutely crazy.
Can you suggest a compost ratio because, some say no compost, some say a little. I thought maybe I had too much compost. But I found out that where I live the grubs were inside my container.
Do you use any type of fertilizer at any point? If you do, can you please explain the details? Loved the video! I remember David Wolfe many years ago mentioning a farmer who broadcast music over his crops and they had less insects, less disease, higher yield of crop! I believe it was classical music.
Hello from Space 🚀 Coast FL. I L💚V this video! 🎸🌿TQ 4 SHOWING the EASY way 2 grow swt pots! 👉And the CURING PROCESS 👍👍. I cut & root in water. They're growing beautifully in Greenstalk! But SIMPLY putting DIRECTLY into SOIL,well that seems EASIEST👍 L🐰L I use LEAVES 4 pet bunny. LOL don't think ur PURPLE Swt Pot would even FIT in Greenstalk, but it sure looked tasty😋😋😋. MAYBE in grow bag...as in can't do ground.
Love the tunes! I’ve been missing your funny outtakes, etc at the end of the videos lately. Now, tell me how to keep the deer and rabbits out of my sweet potatoes! I don’t have funds to put up fencing. Any suggestions?
hey, david. perfect timing. i'm in zone 8b and just planted my slips today. they came in the mail (took forever). i'd planned on having 10 plants, but a few were most certainly dead, so only 7 went into the ground. do you think i'd still have enough time to grow my own slips? i'd like a few more, for sure, but i know it'll take a few weeks.
We plant heaps of sweet potatoes here inthe highlands of Haiti. One trick I found to speed up bulk planting is to lay down slips (or in our case cuttings), then walk along with a stick and shove the center of the cutting down into the soil for rapid burial. I'm curious to hear your knowledge on varieties. We tried to bring in a US supermarket sweet potato but they're offspring did very poorly. They seem to only grow starchy not sweet varieties here. Do you know if different climates are more appropriate for different varieties? Also, do you suppose layering would increase yields or just make everything smaller?
Do you ship sweet potato slips? I'd like to plant these to see if they can outcompete the local poison ivy. And function as a deer food plot in addition to giving me sweet potatoes.
I loaned out my copy of Square Foot Gardening, how many slips are okay to put in a regulation garden square? Also, you should re-shoot this using Mel's Mix in a raised bed, it's optimal for vigorous tuber formation and I understand it promotes male vitality,.
Anyone have any success planting sweet potatoes near something that isn’t cold weather crops or herbs. I wanted to use them as ground cover under my tomatoes or peppers but they say you can spread disease that way? I know morning glory family and solanacea family are under the same larger family I did it once in NY with a few tomatoes but this year we’re in east TN and the disease pressure here is a little heavier
Dammit! That's why my sweet potatoes struggle. They don't like my singing. What kind of temperatures are you getting when you plant those slips? I'm in Australia so heading to winter but I'd really like a sweet potato groundcover next summer. Cheers!
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Came for the sw potatoes, stayed for the tunes!🌿
Guess you know about his DTG tunes channel?
Fun!
His music hits even harder at 2x speed!
Came for the sweet potatoes left because of the "tunes."
Protect this man. At all costs.
+1 for potato love songs. Keep the "Good tunes" coming!
I almost didn’t watch because I have no problems growing sweet potatoes. But then I thought, well, it’s David the Good and I could use a little levity this morning. You never disappoint. Good sweet potato info and a good laugh. I really enjoyed the reggae music for them. Freedom to grow your vines! I think it’s my new theme song.
David's wit and musical creativity are unmatched 😂😂
Love the grunge david!
Thanks for the smiles and giggles. They felt good! 😁 🌱
Learn how to start sweet potato slips and how to plant them, as well as how to cure sweet potatoes and store them. Plus, learn the secret to keeping sweet potatoes happy.
Books mentioned:
MINIMALIST GARDENING: amzn.to/3QqWqPy
GROCERY ROW GARDENING: amzn.to/4aWgIbL
Thank you for watching:
I just pulled out a 6 pound purple sweet potato!
Hi
Best sweet potato planting jams ever 🍠
WE LOVE YOUR CRAZY MUSIC AND SENSE OF HUMOR DAVIIIID!!!!!!! ;-)
Oh my goodness. My garden is now jealous of your singing. Love your work. God bless you and the family
😂
I have missed your videos, and sense of humor 😂
I'm so glad the gardening season has kicked back off up there in America for you ❤
Sweet potato leaves have replced lettuce and spinach for my wife and I. We clip off the vines near the end with the tenderest leaves, eat the leaves, plant the remainder of the vine and repeat.
Thank you so much for your videos!
I was born in the 70s, and my mom used to make us kids weed her garden so I hated gardening for a long, LONG time… in 2021, a friend of mine convinced me to start gardening for fun…
I live in zone 9A. SWEET POTATOES were my first success crop. Now I devote a bed in my suburban backyard to growing them every summer. Last summer’s haul was 85 lbs!!! not bad for a little suburban, novice, who lives on 1/3 of an acre!
What I especially love about sweet potatoes is that they are a calorie rich food, just in case times get tougher.
thank you for this information that you are passing along… you are helping so many people! :-)
Great work
My oldest daughter told me I traumatized her with gardening. When my kids misbehaved they got a day of weeding. They enjoyed the weeding more when we were laughing, singing and cutting up together. My oldest has started planting an occasional tree or veggie. Now she complains the bugs are traumatizing her. 😂
Wow. I just found my favorite gardening TH-cam channel ever. ❤Thanks for the good info, and for the music. 🙂
Welcome!
That left me informed and smiling. Unexpectedly lovely. As one fellow musician from Spain to another, thank you and God bless.
This is really THE BEST informative video on growing sweet potatoes! How have I not found this channel until now?!!! I’m so glad I did!!!
Thank you. Welcome!
Oh my gosh, thanks so much for the laughs with the music experiment! They were greatly needed and much appreciated! 😅
You always teach me details to make my garden better! I have been a brute just ripping my vines off the tuber to make more starts I have been shooting myself in the foot! Now I will snip them!
David, you are hilarious and we truly enjoy your videos!😂😂😂 thank you for passing on knowledge and entertainment!
My husband always gets jealous when he "catches me" watching this channel. 😂
After 15 years, I'll take it! Blessings to you and your family 🙏💕
That is funny.
David the legend. Another gem my brother in Christ!
Great info David. Be blessed brother.
I see the guitar in the GRG...is that from the ukelele planted last fall?
I forgot to start my SP slips last february. So I'm buying them this year. I've found Puccini works well on SPs.
BTW, Minimalist Gardening is a terrific book. Congratulations.
So from what I see on the video, not needed to let the tubers root? Some you put on the ground had roots and some didn’t. 😊 that makes it even easier! Loved the music! 🎉
Right! You can just stick the vines in and they’ll root.
Thank you!
Just found out about Japanese sweet potato which is cold hardy. Going to try my luck
You have no idea how much i want you to make an album. I need music for working in my garden!!!
Thank you David especially the tip on Curing them Blessings to this year's gardens God bless 🙏 🎶 🇺🇸
First time growing sweet potatos i didn't know about the starch thank you sensei!
Thank you for Sweet potatoes and Sweet Tunes!!
May this be the most popular starting sweet potatoes video for 100 years 🙏
Love it! The skit at the end was funny too!😂 bought your book on grocery row gardening, very informative!! Really like how you wrote in about the squirrels and how you acquired the knowledge from each author or friend! ❤
Thank you
I am with you, minimalist gardening❤
Minimalist everything
Thank you so much! I feel like I know the plant much better now, and I'm ready to plant. And I will sing!
Will the tubers’ size affected when you cut the tops?
We normally eat the tops, it’s common for us Filipinos
I agree the toothpick method isn’t a good way to start slips
Love your music so much❤
I have grown sweet potatoes here in northeaster Massachusetts in the ground and in grow bags with a decent yield with my short growing season.
Thanks for the info David, and the mini concert at the end.
Thank you! This will be my first year growing sweet potatoes!
And you have a theme song! Great info thanks!
Thank you for being wise....and goofy. LOVE it!
You are one entertaining man!!!! Well done!❤️
Very entertaining, plus good knowledge! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦
Hi there from southwest Louisiana
I can’t stop the tears of laughter!!! You are the real deal. I know I heard it through the potato vine. That’s my go to song for tubers !!!!
Thank you for this wonderful information. I'm getting ready to plant.
Pure musical gold David! Keep it up!
To grow your own slips put tubers in shadow pots or trays and put them on a heat mat a few months before your planting date.
Great video! Thank you. Hope I have space some time to grow them :) I had some that we bought but had to throw away, I put them in some shade next to my composting bags, and they started growing some vines!
The best sweet potato I ever grew was a white variety called Ohenry I believe man they were good I cured them in the oven for 3 weeks on cookie sheets it was the warmest place in my house. They were ready for thanksgiving and everyone raved about them! I can’t get the Okinawa purple to grow for shit for me. One of my fav crops!
Singing to them is key🍠🎶
Loved Grocery Row Garden and almost finished with the new book, Minimalist Gardening, only two chapters left! I’m starting this fall with cardboard, grass clippings & compost, and lots of wood chips. In the meantime, I’m growing in a couple of raised beds. 👩🌾
“Our Go Babylon”!! I love it!
I will, David the Good, I WILL sing to my garden! 🎶♥️🌿🥦🍎🥕🍃
Thanks
That love song at the end had me rolling despite the shear dad-joke quality!
Good on ya!
I"ve been growing sweet potatoes since about 1988, I think. That first year, I saw an ad in the paper from the local nursery. They were selling sweet potato slips, and you had to order them ahead of time. I was a complete neophyte. Knew nothing at that point about growing them, but I called to order. The man asked me how many I wanted. There were two varieties available. I said I'd like 50 of each. I got 500# of sweet potatoes from all of that! I've never needed to grow that many since, in fact I gave away a lot of those. But that was amazing. I spread newspapers in our living room and piled them up there. It was quite a sight. Now, though, I still grow them, but have to fight the voles for them. They do major damage and we've tried "everything" to beat them. I'm thinking that I might have to dig them earlier to somewhat minimize the damage. It's heart breaking. In spite of that, I still have some left from last year that we are eating, and the damaged ones still keep just fine. Maybe I should get a herd of cats to live in my garden.... I start my slips in jars of water, and don't bother with toothpicks. I put out 34 of them this year. The voles get our Irish potatoes too.
This is extremely helpful!! Thanks!!
David, I did try the granny method and they rotted for me too! Being in zone 5a sweet potates are a little tricky to grow here, but it can be done. Loved your songs in the garden.😅❤
Hi David, you have some great mulch. Looks like hay. Can you please tell me what it is and where you get it. Regards
I just planted ours yesterday. Zone 6 here, but reusing the same stock of sweet potatoe for several years now. Just bring em in the basement before first frost and whatevers left by springtime has new slips ready for planting. Can't beat em. Perpetual calories and goodness.
Was that casuarina pine needles you are using for mulch?
Thank You ....
😂 You're the funniest garden youtuber... 😂 Made my day... What am I doing now, as I'm not playing the guitar? I liked the raggae song most... Actually the sweet potatoes grow like crazy here in Slavonia/Croatia... Perhaps BECAUSE I'm not singing? 😂
Do they need to be hardened off outside if you rooted them inside?
If you have a freshwater aquarium, you can take a sweet potato with some skewers or toothpicks poked in the sides to support it on the corner of the rim, place it pointy side down with half of it in the water and as long as there is adequate sunlight, it will grow vines. I do this all the time and have the vines wrapped up to the ceiling and around all my tank lights. It takes up to two weeks for the vines to start growing that way, but then they go absolutely crazy.
Can you suggest a compost ratio because, some say no compost, some say a little. I thought maybe I had too much compost. But I found out that where I live the grubs were inside my container.
Will you release a Minimalist Gardening audiobook? Please?
"You can really look into their eyes", LOL!
I've heard that you are supposed to change the water in the sweet potato jar once in a while.
But I'm planting in grow bags.
Hi from NW GA
Everybody is crazy, I'm just one of the unlucky ones who got caught. - Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Such a good book! I love Brené Brown's quote better though. "Everyone is crazy, but the scary ones are the ones that don't know they're crazy." 😂
Can sweet potatoes grow in 6b?
Yes - I have done it.
Do you use any type of fertilizer at any point? If you do, can you please explain the details? Loved the video! I remember David Wolfe many years ago mentioning a farmer who broadcast music over his crops and they had less insects, less disease, higher yield of crop! I believe it was classical music.
Ashes, some char, and manure. Sometimes cottonseed meal and kelo meal. Homemade compost.
@@davidthegood Thank you!
Hey David are you willing to sell some of your roots so I can get some slips 😊😊
is the sweet potato song(s) on spotify?
I have a sweet potato on the counter with beautiful purple green stems growing off it.
Great songs John.
The serenade was amazing 😂
Will book be on Audible anytime soon?
No, I haven't had the time to record.
Yay, a live!
Hello from Space 🚀 Coast FL. I L💚V this video! 🎸🌿TQ 4 SHOWING the EASY way 2 grow swt pots! 👉And the CURING PROCESS 👍👍. I cut & root in water. They're growing beautifully in Greenstalk! But SIMPLY putting DIRECTLY into SOIL,well that seems EASIEST👍 L🐰L I use LEAVES 4 pet bunny. LOL don't think ur PURPLE Swt Pot would even FIT in Greenstalk, but it sure looked tasty😋😋😋. MAYBE in grow bag...as in can't do ground.
Hilariously brilliant! Great stuff, DTG! Thank you! 😂
Love the tunes! I’ve been missing your funny outtakes, etc at the end of the videos lately. Now, tell me how to keep the deer and rabbits out of my sweet potatoes! I don’t have funds to put up fencing. Any suggestions?
A farm dog
Human urine every week.
I need good topsoil i plan on composting from here on out out but i only have 2 rows planted and the rest is still in planter trays
hey, david. perfect timing. i'm in zone 8b and just planted my slips today. they came in the mail (took forever). i'd planned on having 10 plants, but a few were most certainly dead, so only 7 went into the ground. do you think i'd still have enough time to grow my own slips? i'd like a few more, for sure, but i know it'll take a few weeks.
Yes, you have time
You really need to write a full version of the sweet potato love song lol.
I love sweet potatoes. I heard they love classical music for best results.
We plant heaps of sweet potatoes here inthe highlands of Haiti. One trick I found to speed up bulk planting is to lay down slips (or in our case cuttings), then walk along with a stick and shove the center of the cutting down into the soil for rapid burial.
I'm curious to hear your knowledge on varieties. We tried to bring in a US supermarket sweet potato but they're offspring did very poorly. They seem to only grow starchy not sweet varieties here. Do you know if different climates are more appropriate for different varieties?
Also, do you suppose layering would increase yields or just make everything smaller?
We tried the orange ones in Grenada and they did worse than the local types. Not sure why.
❤❤❤love me some sweet potatoes! Very nutritious too!
ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou
Do you ship sweet potato slips? I'd like to plant these to see if they can outcompete the local poison ivy. And function as a deer food plot in addition to giving me sweet potatoes.
after curing for couple of weeks, how long are they good to sit in a box before they start to go bad?
Usually a few months. Good work!
@@davidthegood do they ever go in the fridge?
lol, love you David!!!
ROFL. That is hilarious. Oh my gosh, you made my day. Gotta sing to my sweet potatoes.
Bugs won't bother them in a box on the porch? I am in by Gainesville/Ocala.
They do not bother ours
Awesome!
You earned a like for serenading your sweet potato. 🥰🎶
I loaned out my copy of Square Foot Gardening, how many slips are okay to put in a regulation garden square? Also, you should re-shoot this using Mel's Mix in a raised bed, it's optimal for vigorous tuber formation and I understand it promotes male vitality,.
Nice. I don't remember Mel's spacing.
You rock!
Mad bars 🔥🔥🔥
Anyone have any success planting sweet potatoes near something that isn’t cold weather crops or herbs. I wanted to use them as ground cover under my tomatoes or peppers but they say you can spread disease that way? I know morning glory family and solanacea family are under the same larger family
I did it once in NY with a few tomatoes but this year we’re in east TN and the disease pressure here is a little heavier
Dammit! That's why my sweet potatoes struggle. They don't like my singing.
What kind of temperatures are you getting when you plant those slips?
I'm in Australia so heading to winter but I'd really like a sweet potato groundcover next summer. Cheers!
80s during the day, 60s at night.