Sweet Potato Harvest - Straw vs Soil - Which Bed Produced Better?
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- A comparison video. Which bed grew sweet potatoes better? Soil vs Straw
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I hope you will continue to show us your traditional cooking. It’s better than watching all those world famous chefs . Also your traditional attire and lifestyle are so wholesome , healthy and peaceful. It’s very soothing watching your videos . And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
Very good harvest .. 31 lbs wow .. Awesome
Have a great evening
Thanks, Dan! I was very happy with the results! Also, thanks for the sub. I subbed back! Can't wait to check out some of your videos! 😁
I live in potato country way up north 80 miles from the mackinac bridge Michigan and that's a pretty darn good harvest. Grreat job to your darling daughter and you!
Thanks! Beautiful country up there! Sounds like your up by Petoskey. I'll let my granddaughter know you said great job! 😁
Sunset side lake Huron, presque isle county! Like my dentists says we have trees and animals no specialists. I go to petoskey for my wrist injury. Michigan is a pretty state.. the hidden gem!
@@TrinityRidge1959 We have it all here in Michigan! 😁
@@VideosByJimbo we definitely do. Very little tourism i think because we have 2 ways out. Ya just cant zip across well you could with the fairies across lake michigan but its not convenient. I do like the miles and miles of quiet beaches. Shhh say nothing.. ha ha ha
Haha. Only two ways in or out. I never thought of Michigan like that. 😁
Nice harvest!
Thanks Zalis! 😁
At 5:16 you started saying that the straw was turning into soil, That is what your raised bed soil should have looked like. The raised bed soil was too compacted, that is why you had so many curved and funny looking potatoes. They had to fight the soil to grow. All that straw (if you haven't composted it yet) work it into that raised bed.
You're 100% right and I've already worked the straw into some of my raised beds. Very good advice... thanks! 😁👍🙏
Nice
Thanks!
Did you plant slips or the whole potato ?
Purchased slips from a garden center. Growing my own slips this season from last years harvest. 👍
How many slips did you plant?
Hi Alexis!
Eight in each bed.
Cool! I have four plants, each in their own container. They won't be done for some time though since It's a late variety. But I'm hoping the yield will be good. I used compost-rich soil with straw on top.
Sounds good to me! Good luck!!! 🤠👍🙏
@@Alexis-iq7lz How big is your container? I'm thinking doing the same thing...with one in each container...will this produce bigger straighter potatoes?
@@mandiegarrett1706 Around 40-50 cm in height I'd say, maybe 40 in diameter. I haven't measured them though. I mostly got greens last year, and very small sweet potatoes, but I think that was more due to the slips I bought and how late in the season it was. They were sold out most of the season and they're hard to come by here. This year I have those containers and one soft container that's a bit more shallow, but about 1m across. So I'm going to let them do what they do best and spread out and cover that whole container. Plus I'm growing my own slips this year and I have a feeling they'll do better. The roots are definitely sturdier than the slips I bought last year. I can also plant more of them this way and I can plant them earlier. I have about 30+ slips thus far. The nights are still too cold here, so I have time for them to grow larger and for me to grow more of them before I need to plant them.
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We grow in North Carolina but.. Looks like you pulled way to early. We wait till our vines are done and long dead. (Just after first frost)..
It was my first time growing sweet potatoes. Live and learn! 😁👍
Having the little girl's presence added so much energy to the video!
LOVE! I agree completely! Grandkids bring so much joy into our lives! 💓
The kids reactions to digging up and getting the actual sweet potatoes was great to watch! I love it! Awesome harvest for their efforts 👌🏽 Thanks for sharing 😊
Great seeing your children's enthuiasm! You're giving them a great foundation.
Thanks for the kind words, Virginia! I'm just trying to be the best Papa I can be. I appreciate you! Go Bless your heart! 🙏
Yeah gotta enjoy these moments before they grow up and get all distant and independent...
@@georgegeorgia3856 You're so right!
You're supposed to pluck the plants and then let the potatoes sit in the ground for 4 days to a week before you harvest them then you don't have to cure them
I like it! Thanks for the advice!
freaking music is so annoying...good harvest
You can't please everyone! I'm glad you liked the harvest. Thanks for the comment
@@VideosByJimbo No problem...but seriously think in killing the music...u have so much knowledge and good content but it is painful to watch the video with that music...music does not make the video better ...is the content...blessings to you and yours.
@@lolitabonita08 I appreciate the compliment and the suggestion... God Bless!
@@VideosByJimbo thanks
I did something similar in my garden this year but I won’t be digging them up until next week. I’m excited to see the results!
Thanks for the sub... right back at ya! I'm excited to see what you get from your potato harvest! 😁
How many straw bales were used compared to the inground area?
I must have had five or six bales piled up from the previous year's use. You could use as little as one bale depending on how many slips you're going to plant.
@West Michigan Gardening Guy Thanks. We were just trying to get an idea of bale space/production vs inground space/production to give us an idea of how many bales would be needed to get that sort of production vs that much ground space. Thanks and happy growing
Thank you for comparing the difference between straw and raised bed. I'm trying Ruth Stout for the first time. I'm out of raised beds so I thought I would give it a try.
Your welcome and Good Luck with the straw! 🤠
love the kids loving and enjoying while harvesting sweet potatoes 😍😉
That's the best part!!! 😁
Just found your channel! I am also in west Michigan on my 3rd year of home gardening! Excited to see someone so close to home doing the same thing! I have learned so much from this community! Excited for this year!
That's awesome, thanks for watching! I love growing sweet potatoes, peppers, and trombone squash. What's your specialty?
@@VideosByJimbo I have been growing a lot of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, potatoes, beans, acorn squash. This year I am planting my biggest most diverse garden, I am going to try sweet potatoes, onions, garlic, a few more varieties of peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, corn and tomatillo (I may have to try the squash you grow now also) along with all the other stuff I usually grow! Have never grown some of that stuff yet so I will be keeping my fingers crossed that I don’t butcher them lol we are also doing meat chickens along with our egg layers this year! I am in the Whitehall area what part of Mi are you in? I don’t think I have been doing it long enough to have a specialty yet though ;)
Wow, you're ambitious! I grew most of those vegetables but gave up on the things like cauliflower broccoli and brussel sprouts. Too many bug problems for me to want to deal with. I don't care for using pesticides and the such. I try to grow the vegetables with the least amount of issues. Good luck to you this season! By the way, I'm down by the gun lake casino area.
@@VideosByJimbo I am totally organic also, I combat the bugs by companion planting different flowers and herbs with my veggies and I use a homemade stinging nettle tea for both pest control and fertilizer! I may be just as unsuccessful with the brassicas but you never know unless you try right? ;) I hope you have the most successful garden of all this year! I will be front rower watching 😁 I am thinking about doing some videos but I am not very camera friendly on the eyes, I usually just video my dogs lol
You don't see my face on very many of my videos either LOL. You should definitely do some videos, however! I know there's plenty of people out there who would really appreciate your knowledge of what you have going on so far. Heck, I'm already interested in that nettle tea recipe of yours! 😁👍
Looks like you need a deeper raised bed to get more potatoes that are straighter instead of curled
It's not going to change the awesome taste, but you're right... deeper would be better! 😁👍🙏
Now if you can find me a BACON plant.....
I can grow lettuce and tomatoes....
😁😆
Try using less compacted soils next time and you will get bigger rounder tubers from what I’ve seen on other videos .
Thanks for the advice! You are definitely correct. The looser the soil the better! 😁👍🙏
Very cool video. You made a comment the straw turned to soil. On first planting the sweet potatoes into straw was any soil put through the straw or just straight into straw.
I live in the middle of Australia and soils are really poor. Very interested in growing soil.
In fact. I put some straw down with a manure mix a few weeks ago and it’s made a massive difference already. I am also a complete newbie to gardening, I’ve two kids who I want to spark their interest so it was great seeing your children in the garden.
The straw that I used for the sweet potatoes this season was second-year straw. Last season was my first year ever using straw. I experimented with tomato plants, melons and a few other plants. New straw bales have to be conditioned with nitrogen before you can plant in them. Second-year straw is broken down really well and ready to be planted in. I did sprinkle in some blood meal, bone meal, and epsom salts like I do for all my beds at the beginning of the season. Thanks for the comment Andrew, and it's good to have a new fellow Gardner in the growing community! 😁👍🙏
Best time after all the wait
Yes sir! 😁👍🙏
Thanks for the video and comparison. I would go with the straw. Less work. Life is real and busy and for the little difference and the straw being easier that is the way i would go. May God bless you and your family !!!
Thanks, Alan! I was pleased with both! 😁👍 Bless you, my friend! 🙏
@@VideosByJimbo If you do not mind i would like to know how you did the bed with the straw. I am not having any success growing Sweet potatoes. They are hard to dig and i am not getting any younger. It seems that yours in the straw were very easy to dig. Can you give me some tips ???
Hi, Alan! Straw is very easy to work with. However, you do have to condition new bales with nitrogen (Plenty of TH-cam videos on "How To"). Mine were actually second year straw, so they were already broken down. Straw is good for two years so I'll have to get more next season. Make sure you have plenty of room for the vines to grow as long as they can. You need them for proper growth! Good luck, Alan! I hope it works out for you. Let us know how you do! 😁👍
@@VideosByJimbo Thanks for the info !!! I have some straw down on all my beds and it will be there all winter. I would think that it should be broken down by time to plant sweet potatoes. Hopefully they will be. There is mushroom compost under he straw.
Sounds like a winner to me! I hope it works out well for you! 👍
❤ she will always remember this… beautiful
I harvested our sweet potatoes from a soil bed just a few weeks ago here in Illinois. Our soil is much heavier, it was after a week of heavy rain and it was a lot of work!! I was amazed you could use your hands to pull up many of the potatoes. Nice soil!!!
Thanks! I hope you had a good harvest! 😁👍🙏
so lovely to see your little helpers not afraid to touch the soil and says yakee.
They're great little helpers! 😁👍🙏
Sweet potatoes love loose sandy soil
They sure do! 👍
I've never heard of the straw method. I have only used the raised method -- here in Southern California -- and the sweet potatoes come back every year, from the remains of the plants, and I never need to plant more.
Hi Richard! I heard about the straw method several years ago and thought I'd give it a try. It worked quite well!
Great info....thank you for sharing....I’m about to plant my first sweet potatoes in a container so I was doing some research and came across your video.... I will subscribe to see more of what you are doing in your garden 😊
Thanks Lakisha! Right back atchya!!! 😁👍🙏
sweet potatoes have to be stored and cured because if you eat them straight out of the ground they don't taste like we are used to. The ones we get in the store can be up to one year old
Thanks for the info, you are 100% right! I just had one of my cured sweet potatoes last weekend... It was so good and sweet! 😋
I enjoy watching your video..a lot of sweet potatoes..green thumb you are.👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you Belma! You have a kind soul! Hope you're having a wonderful day!
Welcome dear..i am planning to start my farm in my country in the Philippines and i am fully amazed of your style and how to let sweet potatoes grow in that manner..soon i will apply it if i have the chance to go home'this pandemic let me stop in traveling..hope soon it will be ok..if you have more vlogs i will follow you..i wil check'you are good
How do you store them to keep them from decomposing?
I put them in my basement in a crate. They keep just fine up to roughly 8 months in a cool dry place
Lovely. And a lovely experience for your kids. I would be really interested in the results over a few years, just in case weather differences affected this harvest. Personally I will b going with straw as I can't dig that much. But I love watching how others adapt to their areas! Thank you.
Hi Tessa! I agree! I love gardening with my grandkids! I plan on growing sweet potatoes every season from now on 😁👍🙏
I wish I had a fuzzy pink sweet potato harvesting unicorn! Instant sub!
Or, maybe She's a rare narwhale...
You had it right the first time! LOL
I have another few weeks before I pull mine up here in Aussie - mine are in a raised garden bed so can't wait to see.
You had a great haul :) Cheers Denise ( newbie to your channel) - Australia
Hi, Denise! Welcome to my channel. A few more weeks? So exciting! I hope you have a great harvest!!! 😁🤠👍
Great job
Lots of sweets there good job. Also subscribed:-):-):-)
Thanks, Robin! I hear Kentucky is nice this time of year! Right back atchya with the sub! 😉
Great job!
Awesome Harvest. New Friend here Enjoy your Evening
Bless your heart! Always room for new friends!!! Subbed 😁🙏
I like your video. I am in West Michigan also.
Hello, neighbor! I'm glad you liked it! Thank you! 😁
Tha k you for sharing this experiment! Very informative video. Happy gardening 🤠
Thank you for the kind words! Let's Grow!!! 🤠👍🙏
your little girl is a huge helper "let me get it by my own". too funny I am curious as to which one taste better???
Yep, she's a real go-getter and a little bossy at times! lol 😁 Which one tastes better? Perhaps I should do a video on that sometime this winter. Thanks for the idea, Jenifer! 👍
@@VideosByJimbo can't wait to see it
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Try a tripod rather than one handed filming also ditch the music.
I appreciate the advice, but maybe don't start with that! Was there anything that you liked about the video?
@@VideosByJimbo All I wanted was the comparison. The movement of the camera on a cell phone is dizzying.
@@tulipsmoran5197 Well, perhaps my channel isn't right for you. Thanks for the view!
wow very nice..
Thanks Rudilyn! I hope this years harvest is just as good.
Wow a lot OF sweetpotato. I Love farming
Hi Victoria! Me too!! 😁👍🙏
Seems like the soil produced a lot of slips.
Each bed started with eight slips each 👍
Hello from Greece! Perfect sweet potatoes! Congratulations! 👌 👋 🇬🇷
Your too kind! Thanks for the compliment, and welcome to my channel! 😁
Ni Hao from China. Such a sweet daughter as sweet as ur sweet potatoes daddy. So loved the video. Good harvest😋😋 Xiexie for the video.
Ni Hao Jane! It's awesome seeing my grandkids learning new things everyday... especially in the garden! 😁👍🙏
Those sweet potatoes look so great
Thank for sharing
Thanks for watching! 😁
I’ll bet they eat the same! Enjoy!!!
I'll bet you're right, Jeannie!
I am a New Subscriber nice haul what's better Soil or Straw?
Welcome! Both are really good options. The straw is cleaner when you dig them up but the soil grew a few more potatoes for me.😁👍🙏
Thank you!! maybe I can mix both?
Thanks again
@@VideosByJimbo can I use old hay as seller left a bunch for us when we bought the land 5 months a go..some already decompose into dark soil? Thanks.
@@mandiegarrett1706 Absolutely! There might be a few more weeds you may have to pull from it, but it should make for excellent nutrients for the sweet potatoes. Here's hoping for a huge harvest!!! 😁👍🙏❤
How long they been in soil for?
Late May to early October... so about 120-130 days give or take.
Glad the kids enjoyed themselves
Very good harvest!
Thanks, Makk! Subbed back 👍
Your welcome & ty. :)
Cute little helper 😊
Yeah, they're my favorite little people! 😁👍🙏
Are they invasive?
Yes, you will want to give them plenty of room to spread. The vines tend to grow quite prolifically.
which one is sweeter, the sweet potato from the hay or from the soil? (sorry i edited my question)
Sorry, I haven't compared them yet. I will be doing a video on that in the near future! 😁👍🙏
I’m from the south and I’m guessing there was a taste difference. The ground ones should have tasted better after curing. There’s a couple of knacks to growing good ones. They really like loose soil that is heavy in nitrogen rich compost in the soil (aged manure). They get sweeter the hotter it gets (w plenty of water). We also don’t harvest until the leaves turn yellow. (Sugar is going into the tubers). They are wonderful; good job for your first harvest.
Thanks for the comment! Live and learn I always say. They did taste wonderful but you're right... the next seasons sweet potatoes we're better because I did exactly what you suggested with the leaves turning yellow and they were sweeter. Thanks for the advice! 😁👍🙏
@@VideosByJimbo if you ever have a gardening question about a normal southern veggie let me know. You can grow okra too up there, it’s just a bit more work involved.
@@hutke01 I grow okra every year! 😁👍
Very nice. Think the soil grown bent and travelled loose soil. Compaction may cause this. ☮️ HTGDE.
Hi J Merritt! Yes, a little looser soil would be beneficial for straighter potatoes, but bent and crooked potatoes still eat the same... Am I right!?!? 🤠👍🙏
@@VideosByJimbo yes sir. Very nice harvest. Sweet taters are good. Family involved even sweeter. Thanks for sharing. ☮️ HTGDE.
@@VideosByJimbo True that the bent one still taste the same but for me is I rather clean the round big one than a bunch of small bent one.
@@mandiegarrett1706 I like the way you think Mandie! The smaller ones, however, are great for growing slips.
Maybe I missed it, but what kind of blend of soil did you use. That is some black rich soil!
Hi Lois! My beds are primarily 50% native soil and 50% compost with some sand worked in to loosen things up. At the start of every season I mix in some bone meal, blood meal, epsom salts, and more compost then I'll liquid fertilize every 10 to 14 days. 😁👍🙏
Wow what an awesome Harvest on your sweet potatoes. quite a catchy tune. T f s
Thank you! I've never grown them before. I wasn't sure what to expect. I was quite happy with the results! 😁👍
Awesome production! I plant sweet potatoes in kind of stripes of elevated soil (I bet there's a word for it, but my english sucks). It helps on harvesting, as the tubers for in soil level, and also forms bigger potatoes, once theres less pressure in the soil for the roots to fight against.
Great video, and nice family!
Beds . . .(raised beds).
Thanks Jose!
potato hills!
The yellow and green sweet potatoes are good. The sun cause that
Good to know... Thank you! 😁👍🙏
Yes, but the raised bed looked like a much larger area than the straw area!
A little bit larger but the same number of slips
Haha. Mom. You two are so cute! 💜
She's cute... I'm hungry!!! 😜
Kala Alexandra yes they are
If u burry the vines as they grow out u would get more sweet potatoes to
Right on Matthew Perry... Right on! 😁👍🙏
Aw so cute.
Love Sweet potato harvests, ours are curing!
Love me some sweet potato pie! 😋 Subscibed 😁👍🙏
Thanks for your support, me too
Great video! I sprouted a sweet potato, (actually it grew on my counter), so I broke off the different vines and rooted them. Since it's now November, do you think I should wait to plant them or go for it. Northern California. 9b, thanks!!
Hi Heather! I'm no expert when it comes to California gardening, but I say go for it! Why not? Have fun! If you want some really good gardening advice for your area, checkout "Cali Kim's" Channel. She does a really good job and is very informational! Good luck and Keep Growing! 😬👍🙏
Sweet potatoes plant in dirt only 4 month to 5 month, after that you can harvest it.
Hello from Wayland Michigan
Well Hello Neighbor! 😁
I love this little girl
Me too! 💗
I love sweet potato
Yeah you do... Me too! 😉
Did you do a video on the planting of the sweet potatoes?
Hi Denise! Unfortunately, I did not. However, I can tell you I planted eight plants per bed, mid May 🤠
@@VideosByJimbo How big is the bed and how far apart you plant the eight plants/slips? Thank you.
@@mandiegarrett1706 The bed is 3'x8'. Two rows with four slips in each row approximately 1' to 1.5' apart.
Nice harvest....
Thanks, Sandra! It was a good day! 😁
Wow awesome love this
Thank you, Rose! You have a beautiful name!! 🤠👍
Wow lots of sweet potatoes
I was pleasantly surprised! If we were neighbors I would give you some! 😁
@@VideosByJimbo we closer than you think I do live in Michigan
@@MY4HAPPYFACES Well, Hello neighbor! I've lived here my whole life. It's a beautiful state... just wish winter wasn't so long and brutal!
@@VideosByJimbo I beennhere a long time too right here in Flint Michigan
We want to see more of your face in the video
Some would say I have a face for radio! LOL 😜
Yum! Save some for me!
There's plenty, daughter! 😋
The music was sooo distracting & monotonous. Would just have loved to hear the childrens' voices & natural sounds.
Well, if there's one thing I've learned in all my 50 years on this earth... It's that you can't please everybody! I appreciate your comment. God bless!
HOW DID YOU PLANT YOUR POTATOES IN THE STRAW? WAS IT OLD STRAW? WHAT KIND OF DIRT IS IN YOUR RAISED BED? I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY CURLED SWEET POTATOES FROM ONE BED BEFORE. JUST WONDERING IF IT IS YOUR SOIL. I AM A NEW SUBSCRIBER AND I ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO. I AM ALWAYS INTERESTED IN ANY NEW GARDENING IDEAS.
My soil was a bit compacted that season
Did you fertilize those and with what and how often. I want to try this next year to grow some in containers. I live in Indiana zone 5a
Hi Nelda! I always sprinkle in some blood meal, bone meal and epsom salts to start the season. Then, about a month later after the plants have been established I'll hit them with some liquid fish fertilizer every 10 days or so... Good luck and God Bless! 🤠👍🙏
Great Job!!! Now time to cure them
Thanks, Cheryl! The sweet potatoes are curing as we speak (text, lol) 😁