What Is The Most Sustainable Vegetable To Grow?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2023
- We think sweet potatoes are one of the MOST sustainable vegetables you can grow in your backyard garden, we just don't understand why more people don't grow them? They're a low-maintenance root vegetable, you would never have to buy sweet potatoes again if you keep them going the right way! Join Hoss in the garden today as he goes into detail on how he grows his sweet potato slips! From soil prep, fertilization and irrigation needs, and much more! We've got you covered! Let's Grow Together and Get Dirty!
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I lived in Virginia back in the mid 60's and we moved our hog lot one fall and the next spring we planted sweet potatoes in the old lot and you would not had believed the size and quantity we got from the lot .
For the next ten yrs, right? 😀 Seriously that's usefully interesting.
I've grown my Georgia Jets for 8 years now from my original potatoes 🥔 👍
I'm growing some slips from last year's crop in a couple of plastic containers in a fenced in area. Wasn't paying attention and left the gate open and my dog stole one potato and was having a grand time chewing it up in the yard! I did manage to salvage some slips from it and planted them. They're growing just fine, lol.
Ordered my Georgia Jets and Murasakis from Hoss this weekend. Excited to be planting next week.
Planted mine this weekend. First time growing my own slips💪
When I was a youngun growing up in Cedar Springs, GA. my granddaddy swore by Puerto Riccan Red sweet taters. He would plow them up (with a mule) and we would put them all in a pile. To winter them he would layer them in a mound of dirt with layers of pine straw. When we needed some to eat we'd just dig in the "bank" and pull out what we needed. Man, ain't nothing like a good sweet tater!
Greetings from Australia. Love your channel. You and Deep South homestead are great 👍
We love the covtington sweet potatoes too. We have some from you and some from your that we grew and saved from last year!! Thanks for the knowledge!!👍🌱🤎
I only started gardening a few years ago and I had no idea what a sweet potato slip was or how they grew. I have tried, unsuccessfully for 2 years. This is going to be my year for all things potatoes!
I'm a newbie as well. I thought you could plant sweet potatoes like regular potatoes to get more potatoes. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Lerone Erwin well you can in a way. Every year I miss a few sweet potatoes or pieces of root and in the spring the slips start popping up. I just keep pulling em and putting em where I want until I'm tired of it and just let them do their thing.
@@leroneerwin7605 me too! I didn’t know anything.
I received my sweet potato slips from you all yesterday. They’re laid out on the table as per your instructions and will be planted late this afternoon. I love the easy to follow instructions sent along with them. This will be my first time trying to grow them. 🙏 Listening to y’all I feel like I can grow anything like a pro. 😊
I did an experiment last fall where I took cuttings about 1 foot long in mid September before I pulled the crop from the ground . I put about 15 cuttings in each quart mason jar and filled with water . I left them outside if night temps fell below 40 . Over the winter they didn’t grow a lot but by late February early March they really started growing so I took some more cuttings from them and rooted them in jars and come late April I planted all the rooted cuttings and I didn’t even need all of them . I did it this way because I wasn’t sure if I’d have a hard time finding them in spring 2023 because people were all talking about the possible shortages . It didn’t cost me anything and I’ll never have to buy anymore .
That was really interesting. I like how you pre planted to get slips. This in a jar works but this was so much easier. Thanks have a great week ❤️🙏
I'm in South Florida, main trouble with pests for me has been white flies. Never kills the plants outright but sure does slow them down.
Thank you for a GREAT video! Best one I’ve seen on sweet potatoes🤗
Great video Mr. Greg. I think this year is gonna be my breakthrough year for sweet potatoes. God Bless.
Great information Greg, thanks for sharing.
I grow them every year from my own slips. I would like to try the Covenington.
Excellent video! I always learn so much from you. Thank you! Robin, Bergheim, TX
Evening y’all
Can’t really tell you why I just don’t like sweet potatoes.I’ve have had them 4 or 5 times in my life. And I’m 76. You’re red potatoes an the golden ones . I’ve been eating them all my life. Now the family likes them. They wanted me to plant them for years n years.
Great info Mr. Greg we just finished planting ours we’re in southeast Louisiana so looking forward to some sweet taters this fall, thanks for all y’all share God Bless
going to plant sweet potatoes for sure! I like your sideways planting of slips. Also will try the greens, as I love other greens. thanks
Sounds great!
Great information thanks
Another great video!
Much appreciate offering alternatives to fertilizer you use, planting methods and so on. Noob here for S. potatoes, bought handful of small organic store examples to get slips from. Last yr I tossed a few in the ground way late and learned they die when the heat dies. :D (ignorant but just an experiment, they grew like crazy until it cooled off)
Nicely explained Greg in growing Sweet Potatoes.
Chuncho has had a good life,it’s farming hence time for the processor.
South Carolina zone 7b here, and we’re growing sweet taters for the first time 🍠 I’m excited, and I appreciate all the info and knowledge you and Momma Hoss share with us! 🌱
Sweet potato slips I got from y’all here recently are doing just fine. P.s I plan on coming up in October hope to see the new addition and see y’all again
Sounds great
@@gardeningwithhoss as it gets closer to October I’ll confirm the date when I’m gonna come visit y’all
Thanks for the good overview, this is my second season growing sweet potatoes in my yard. I've watched many videos on sweet potatoes over the past four years during my gardening journey, and nobody has mentioned the sweet potato Weevil, which ended up being a huge problem and ruined my Harvest that was in storage!
Also of note, sweet potato leaves, being in the Morning Glory family, are highly toxic to dogs! I'm not sure about other pets, but while many other greens are good to add to a dog's diet, sweet potato leaves are not. I highly recommend checking every vegetable from the garden on Google for toxicity for animals.
Hey buddy I got my sweet potatoes slips yesterday. Put them in water and they looking good . So do I plant them Monday or am I supposed to go by the moon and have to wait tell the full moon . I’m in NC . And I’m also growing my own slips from the potatoes I saved from last year . Just don’t know the variety because I got them from the field next to our path . So the ones I got from you this year I will have to remember to tag them and then I know what I’m planting next year . Plus I probably waited way to long to plant my potatoes for slips but they growing so we see how many I get . Thanks for the two new varieties I received from you . And I order some beans seeds also . Two of the ford hooks have come up so far
Hi Greg & Moma Hoss
Greg I ordered mercury cucumber seeds & twister cauliflower seeds I have some left over, should I save them for the next growing season 2024 ? And also would you recommend putting calcium nitrate on tomatoes & peppers ?
I can’t grow sweet potatoes because the deer love them!
High quality problem if you love venison like I do. 😗😁😄
Howdy
How about pocket gophers? I have 3 cats on the job modest 1/2 acre, they eventually nail all of them but major damage can occur before lunch'em.
(don't even think about growing artichokes without underground gopher cages if you have them, delicacy for the cute cat snacks. I heard even big fig trees get croaked from the lil bastards, only thing that completely eradicates them is flood irrigation most of us don't have)
We do not have gopher issues here, maybe someone that does will chime in.
if it has seeds it is sustainable
I’m thinking I had the army worm issue soon after planting the slips, even from morning to evening leaves were missing.Started with spinosad.
What kind of temperatures are you storing them at my house only stays at 76° pretty humid down south Florida unless refrigerated?
we store in our warehouse
I assume you don't rotate the bedding area where you start your slips. Are you doing anything in particular to minimize potential for pest infestation in those beds?
no, and no pest issues
I like white potatoes better but sweet potatoes are easier to grow.
"Regular potatoes" (Idaho, etc.) have toxic leaves? Or not eatable anyway, lessor concern for most no doubt.
Potato Noob here, grew few common potatoes once over decade ago, trying to do it less wrong this time and see how S. Potatoes work for me.
You can get white sweet potatoes that have almost no sugar . Do you know sweet potatoes are a relative of morning glory's ?
@@charlieo.farmer2468 i didn’t know that. My chickens won’t eat the leaves. Maybe that’s why. 🤔
@@Mrbfgray I’m having trouble with white potatoes too. Spring is too wet here so I’m going to try starting them in July/August inground. Growing in pots and not getting good yield in the past but I used more fertilizer and mostly compost this year. A month to go and we’ll see. All sweet potatoes need is halfway loose soil and I don’t even fertilize them much and they grow here in zone 7
@@Christian-jx3nx Interesting. Don't have an excess moister problem here in farther N. Commifornia, 9a. Even when we get a lot of precip I'm on endlessly deep, fairly well draining loam, rarely stays muddy long except winter.
Did ignorant sweet potato experiment late last summer to learn they grow like crazy but die when cool weather returns. Just put handful of small organic store sweets in a pot to collect slips off of, a bucket of water seems to work too.
Would bone meal and wood ash be a good fertilizer?
yes
Thank you Uncle Greg
how deep does a bed need to be?
Ours are around 12 inches
@@gardeningwithhoss Tks..................how deep to actually grow them? I'm only doing raised beds? My daughter prefers sweets to white, yellow or reds........half my garden for me other half for her and her family....................lol or is there a video I can watch? too late this year. Got all I can handle. Pre-planning (lol)
hosstools.com/sweet-potato-growing-guide/
Hey loves... I have a rather weird question. Last summer (August 2022) I planted two store-bought organic sweet potatoes in a pot. I got three slips/draws and stuck those in my 24" raised bed garden. Now, the original/mother plants were your standard "orange" sweet taters. However, the resulting "fruit" were nearly ALL purple. And I do mean PURPLE! Literally, ONE tater came back with that orange hue. Over 50 good-sized taters were a deep purple. I've eaten a few of them and they are not quite as sweet as the orange "original" tubers, a bit pastier, but overall, they were good eating.
I'm so confused.
What the heck is going on here?? Is there a possible disease process happening here? (Zone 10a South Florida, East Coast, Port St. Lucie area.) I thought I was planting clones of the original tuber. These are clearly NOT clones.
BUT! I have found signs of Fusarium in my Orchids... Could that be the cause of this weirdness?
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
Thank you for all you do!
I don’t think Fusarium is your issue. I don’t know what is. Very weird. Never seen that before.
@@gardeningwithhoss Thank you! I didn't think so either, but, it was the only thing I could grasp onto! :D I'm glad to hear that inexperienced-me feels the same as very-experienced you. I'm stumped! Time to call the extension agent to see if they have any ideas! Thanks again!
Jeez, just can't understand why you wouldn't keep growing them even though you can't stand the taste of them. A real mind boggler, I guess.