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.
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! :-)
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.
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! 🎉
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.
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! ❤
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.
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!
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!
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.
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❤
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. 👩🌾
😂 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? 😂
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.
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.
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.😅❤
The nature law of action and reaction. Sow the seeds of kindness will return with kindness. Sow the seeds of love will return with love. We create what we give out. Plants are sentient beings too and do respond to the type of music and feelings we give them. 🙏🙏🙏
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.
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?
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,.
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.
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
You do have to sing to them. It's 100% true. For some reason, my sweet potatoes are more "sour potatoes." Maybe I should try singing ska instead of death metal.
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Protect this man. At all costs.
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!
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.
+1 for potato love songs. Keep the "Good tunes" coming!
David's wit and musical creativity are unmatched 😂😂
Love the grunge david!
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
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
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.
Thanks for the smiles and giggles. They felt good! 😁 🌱
Oh my goodness. My garden is now jealous of your singing. Love your work. God bless you and the family
😂
Wow. I just found my favorite gardening TH-cam channel ever. ❤Thanks for the good info, and for the music. 🙂
Welcome!
WE LOVE YOUR CRAZY MUSIC AND SENSE OF HUMOR DAVIIIID!!!!!!! ;-)
Best sweet potato planting jams ever 🍠
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 ❤
That left me informed and smiling. Unexpectedly lovely. As one fellow musician from Spain to another, thank you and God bless.
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!
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!
David, you are hilarious and we truly enjoy your videos!😂😂😂 thank you for passing on knowledge and entertainment!
Oh my gosh, thanks so much for the laughs with the music experiment! They were greatly needed and much appreciated! 😅
May this be the most popular starting sweet potatoes video for 100 years 🙏
Great info David. Be blessed brother.
Just found out about Japanese sweet potato which is cold hardy. Going to try my luck
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!
"You can really look into their eyes", LOL!
First time growing sweet potatos i didn't know about the starch thank you sensei!
Thank you for Sweet potatoes and Sweet Tunes!!
Thank you David especially the tip on Curing them Blessings to this year's gardens God bless 🙏 🎶 🇺🇸
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! This will be my first year growing sweet potatoes!
Thank you so much! I feel like I know the plant much better now, and I'm ready to plant. And I will sing!
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.
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
Thank you for being wise....and goofy. LOVE it!
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.
“Our Go Babylon”!! I love it!
I will, David the Good, I WILL sing to my garden! 🎶♥️🌿🥦🍎🥕🍃
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.
And you have a theme song! Great info thanks!
Hi there from southwest Louisiana
Thank you for this wonderful information. I'm getting ready to plant.
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.
You are one entertaining man!!!! Well done!❤️
Pure musical gold David! Keep it up!
Very entertaining, plus good knowledge! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦
I am with you, minimalist gardening❤
Minimalist everything
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!
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!
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.
Thanks for the info David, and the mini concert at the end.
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❤
That love song at the end had me rolling despite the shear dad-joke quality!
Good on ya!
This is extremely helpful!! Thanks!!
ROFL. That is hilarious. Oh my gosh, you made my day. Gotta sing to my sweet potatoes.
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. 👩🌾
😂 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? 😂
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.
Singing to them is key🍠🎶
The serenade was amazing 😂
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.
Was that casuarina pine needles you are using for mulch?
I love sweet potatoes. I heard they love classical music for best results.
Hilariously brilliant! Great stuff, DTG! Thank you! 😂
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." 😂
Do they need to be hardened off outside if you rooted them inside?
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.
Omg! I’m loving the rap😂😂😂 #1 single in the making 😂
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 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
The nature law of action and reaction.
Sow the seeds of kindness will return with kindness. Sow the seeds of love will return with love. We create what we give out. Plants are sentient beings too and do respond to the type of music and feelings we give them.
🙏🙏🙏
❤❤❤love me some sweet potatoes! Very nutritious too!
😂I’m just gonna pray over mine and water them. Singing might kill them.
Praying too! Singing too..🎉
If I sang to them, they would sprout legs and run away screaming! 😫
Thank You ....
How did I know you were going to sing to them 😂🌱
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.
Can sweet potatoes grow in 6b?
Yes - I have done it.
Will book be on Audible anytime soon?
No, I haven't had the time to record.
You earned a like for serenading your sweet potato. 🥰🎶
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!
Will you release a Minimalist Gardening audiobook? Please?
You really need to write a full version of the sweet potato love song lol.
I have a sweet potato on the counter with beautiful purple green stems growing off it.
Hi from NW GA
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?
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.
Hello my food forresting hero mentor!!!!!❤❤❤
Awesome!
Great songs John.
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 can look into their eyes...you're hilarious!
Mad bars 🔥🔥🔥
Bugs won't bother them in a box on the porch? I am in by Gainesville/Ocala.
They do not bother ours
Yay, a live!
is the sweet potato song(s) on spotify?
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
ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou
First year I didn’t know to “cure” them a couple weeks. They were still better than from market.
❤ Read Minimalist Garden and loved it.
lol, love you David!!!
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
You do have to sing to them. It's 100% true. For some reason, my sweet potatoes are more "sour potatoes." Maybe I should try singing ska instead of death metal.