YES! You CAN Grow SWEET POTATOES in the UK - 6yr Timelapse
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- In this video we share our Journey of growing Sweet Potatoes OUTDOORS in the UK over the last 6 years - The successes and the challenges and the things we've learnt along the way. An largely un-grown crop, which - Yes! You can grow in the UK 💚
We are Dan & Laurie and our land is called Freedom Forest - Its 3 acres in the South of England where we are creating an edible oasis and trying to provide as much for ourselves, from our land as possible, where we are completely off grid.Our food growing journey began together in 2017 when we created our first No dig lasagne bed. Every year we grow more and more and now we are currently around 60-70% self sufficient in our food needs. Our style and methods are inspired by permaculture and we try to be thoughtful about how and what we do, to be as gentle on the planet as possible. In our videos you can follow our journey as we share our experiences and what we get up to at Freedom Forest.
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Hi Folks, If you'd like to see the full length vidoes of each years harvest, you'll find the video links in the description of this video here. Or check out our Sweet Potato Growing PLAYLIST for full videos on growing undercover too 👉 th-cam.com/play/PLOidPRQofoMMQnV_40S6dUq7nxtcMY5w9.html 💚✌🌿
Just amazing. Very encouraging. You might consider whether you can find a couple of young feral cats to house in the garden. Rat plagues do seem to be cyclical - like rabbit plagues - but there are always some around and they can multiply very quickly. I always had rat problems until I tamed a feral cat. Cats and open ground are a problem - they always think you've kindly provided them with new toileting facilities - but if you cover any open ground with hay or similar this shouldn't be a problem. The main thing is, the cats should be out at night (but of course should have shelter). Also, rats need water to drink so I would feed the cats (they'll still catch rodents, it's hardwired in a feral cat) and provide shelter for them near any water sources or near any access route to water. Rats are creatures of habit. They always stick to the same route if it has proved safe in the past. I think they must leave scent trails. Your sweet potato patch has probably become a thing of rat legend, passed down from one generation to the next!
Hey, this is great info - thank you. We do occassional see a cat around here and I have been hoping a feral cat would adopt us, our dog Murphy, isn't very fond of them though and chases it off when he sees one (and eats any food we leave out)! 😬 we'll get one someday though for sure🤞 we defo saw the cycle with the Rabbits here too, like you say and have, overtime, or at least for now overcome them. It feels like we defo have a couple of VERY smart rats on site that know what they want ... they've learnt not to go near peanut butter, that we tried on water buckets for a while and any of the homemade rats baits and its a constant battle to keep them out of the polytunnels too. We'd have way too much food though if EVERYTHING went smoothly!!! 🤣 Appreciate you watching & commenting 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Maybe a pair of Andalusian Terriers? They're very effective ratonero (ole!) over there and it looks like you can get them here, too.
@@freedomforestlife Feral or outdoor cats in general come with their own problems for local wildlife, but your video showed a bird of prey nearby. You could maybe try and encourage it to watch your gardens, by installing a tall perch or two, if you have no suitable trees around?
@@ieh9558 Hi, yes we have lots of hawks and owls around here 💚 one of the main reasons I try to avoid rat Poisons, we have woodland or trees nearly all around us, so they are always here too - they are not keeping up though unfort ... and I am not sure if Owls/Hawks would actually eat BIG rats even ... the mice/voles for sure. Thanks for watching and commenting - much appreciate the info & ideas ✌🌿
I never thought UK can have such a beautiful big sweet potato harvest ❤😮
I am so glad we have impressed you 😁 Where abouts in the world are you? Appreciate you watching and commenting 🙏✌️🌿
You guys are really inspirational, being able to stay positive in the face of those nasty rats! Our cat had cornered a rat up a tree, but we never found out if it got caught, so I was also pretty worried about our sweet potatoes! But fortunately we had no tunnels or chewing.
Unfortunately, we grew entirely the wrong variety for the most part! The majority of our slips this year were the Okinawan type (white skin, lavender flesh). It was very hit or miss. We got a handful of nice tubers, but many slips just didnt have anything, or sent runners out several feet before producing a single potato. Not sure if T65 is available here in the States, but there is a variety called Georgia Jet here that is very prolific and cool weather tolerant. I'm going to give those a try next year, as here in Oregon, we have very similar heat levels to the UK, perhaps a slight bit warmer in the peak of summer. I also put a low tunnel over our main bed, and have some fabric grow bags against south walls for extra warmth. I was surprised about our yield this year. Last year we got 35 lbs from about 40sq ft. We planted about 4x the slips compared to last year, and only eked out 5 more pounds, likely due to a cooler year in general combined with the Okinawan variety's inconsistency. Next year we'll have some raised beds, so that could help too. This year was a big learning lesson!
Hi Josh, thanks for your lovely message, we have found that variety is key for sure (and fewer rats) 🤣 defo look for a variety that suits cooler climates for outdoor growing if you can. Every year is about honing , improving and adapting you set up and technique for sure - it can be fustratings and upsetting at times and is also part of the fun, adventure and suprise 💚💚💚 Appreciate you watching/commenting and great having you with us in Oregon too ✌️🌿
It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Your garden is beautiful. Nice harvest. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey.
Great to have you with us 💚 glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching & commenting ✌️🌿
Wow that is amazing! Ive always wondered about sweet pots and look at that!
Thank you for sharing!
So glad you enjoyed the vid anf glad it popped up for you at the right time 💫 Appreciate you watching and commenting 💚✌️🌿
Very impressive indeed! 👏🏾❤
Thank you Joan 💚💚💚
Thanks for the great info, i love sweet potatoes but did not think i could grow them in the Uk. I planted a food forest during the pandemic but i am struggling with a direction. I have just found your channel and it has been a goldmine of information 😁. Would so love to do a tour if that is a future possibility. Much love, peace and gardening from a very soggy south wales 🏴😊
Hi Judith, Defo give sweet potatoes a try - the variety is the key for sure! I'd drop the link in here to our Food Forest playlist and we have a sweet potato playlist too, that will hopefully help you with more ideas. We do hope to run a few tours a year at some point in the future, so stay tuned. Thanks for watching, happy Food Foresting 💚✌️🌿
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Let me know how you get on Judith, watching from equally soggy west wales
Thanks for the Murphy time lapse 🎉 🐕
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I grew sweet potatoes in Minnesota for the first time this year, much colder climate than yours but it can still be done. I only used a single store bought sweet potato to grow the slips. I planted them too late so they were very small but still delicious. I think if I can manage to get them planted in dirt a month sooner I should get some decent sized ones.
Such a rewarding and delicious crop - Good on you for pushing the boundaries for your climate. Appreciate you watching & sharing your experience too 💚✌️🌿
Would love to come visit your wonderful food forest. Do you have open days, or would it be possible to visit? I am self sufficient in most foods too...thank you for all your content - its very inspiring!
Hi Elaine, we do plan to eventually run 2-3 garden tours a year - parking logistics/access is the main challenge, we will get there though, so stay in touch. Appreciate you watching and your interest too 🙏 Good on you for being self sufficient too 💚 what area are you based in? ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife Oh I would also love to do a garden tour!
Your soil looks great.
Thanks Tracey - No dig beds are great - and woodchip turns into great soil overtime 💚 Thanks for watching ✌️🌿
Hey great video , and loving the channel more each visit 😊. I’m in south east England , and I was wondering where I could get hold of some of these sweet potatoes to grow on my allotment for next year. many thanks . Oh I’m organic no dig to .
Hi, so nice to know you are enjoying our channel 🙏 and good on you for being organic and no dig too - defo a positive growing movement 💚 We bought our original T65 slips from Highland Holticulture, try there. Appreciate you watching ✌️🌿
Amazing
Thank you 💚 appreciate you watching ✌️🌿
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I am in N Germany, so I'm definitely going to have to try sweet potatoes and very interested in this variety. We get a bit warmer and dryer in the high summer (maybe) and a bit more summer daylight hours than S England (used to live there).
2nd get cat(s). My wee Felix keeps my big gardens free of all rodent pests up to and including hares bigger than he is! The beech martens still hang out, but I think they and the cat have an agreement... You can train the dog or as someone else said, make the main garden growing areas dog-proof.
Hi Kirsty, Great to have you with us from North Germany 💚 We will defo get/adopt a cat in time I feel, Murphy are dog comes everywhere with me, like a little shadow, hes older now, so will keep things as they are for him for now, defo gather great ideas from everyone and building future stratagies, really appreciate all the shared knowledge 🙏 So happy you are inspired to grow sweet potatoes too - sounds like you do have slightly favourable conditions than us too which should help - defo do some research on best outdoor variety you can get - makes a big difference we have found. Thanks for watching/commenting ✌️🌿
Have you tried cayenne pepper, tall perch for owls and hawks, or rat snakes?
There beautiful 😍I just Grew some Purple Flesh Sweet potatoes in my Poly tunnel I only fed them nettle water and I used coco fiber which is 100% Vegan as I am Vegan. At my Allotment my friend grew some outside in a Grow bag and had a Good Harvest. Next year I will try them outside using your no dig Method💯🙌🏾1 item I will never grow is sweet corn the rats love them I've seen about 20-30 plot holders at my allotment loose nearly al, the corn🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
Hi Marcus, so happy to here you are inspired to try more sweet potatoes - variety is defo key too for the outdoor growing we have found. Thanks for watching & commenting - happy growing 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife definitely, i will try a different variety outside as my friend actually grew a different variety outside, the Purple kind have to grow in the poly tunnel. What variety would you recommend for outside growing?
@@Marcus-ut3hj T65 as per video 💚
Underground steel mesh, with more mesh over the top of the plants, is all I can think of.
Good ideas - we have been working on a similar plan (as a back up) this season, which still needs some honing to get right it seems, hopefully next year we will pull it off though 🤞 will share more on that soon. Appreciate you watching and commenting 💚✌️🌿
Well done that more pp should be doing
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Thinking about how we keep rats away from chickens: a barrier - wire mesh or something solid like tiles - going 12" deep stops them burrowing into an area. So if you could sink a barrier round your sweet potato patch and then cover the planted area with wire mesh (holes smaller than an inch) and fix it to your barrier then that should work. Lots of work to set up but won't hurt the rats.
Thanks Hilary, that some good things to think about there 👍 and defo more the way we would like to operate! Appreciate you watching and sharing your knowledge 🙏✌️🌿
Thanks for inspiring videos. Regarding your ratpoblem, I was thinking of Mollison famous quote ,“You don't have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.” Can you invite some natural predators like owls? Or getting a dog that eat/hunts rats?
Hi John, thats such a great quote ... and I do hope in time nature will find its balance, we do have LOTS of owls and birds of pray around already (one of the many reason I try to avoid traditional rat bait) I am not sure they eat large rats though. We will defo bring in more animals to the system in time. Appreciate you watching and sharing you knowledge 🙏✌️🌿
Just watching this now, I hope yiu mention all the varieties cos it is hard get these going in 🇬🇧 im.n.west. love ya vids lovely couple 💑
If you check out some of the full vids (links in this vid description or on our SP playlist) we have quite a few vids where we show the full process of getting them going too 👉 th-cam.com/play/PLOidPRQofoMMQnV_40S6dUq7nxtcMY5w9.html
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Great work guys. The garden looks amazing. Unfortunately rats have done the same with most of the sweet potatoes I've ever grown.. so sad. That's partly why I've focused on taro in the last few years.
Did any varieties fare better than others with the rats?
Sorry to hear you have the same headache with rats 🤪 Variety doesn’t seem to make a difference here, they like them all!!! Taro is defo a winner in that regard hey. How many years have you been growing it and do you grow both outside and undercover too? 💚✌️🌿
@freedomforestlife I have been growing taro for around 6 years and as of this year I am growing 7 varieties. Some are eddoe type and some are the large corm. Both grow well in my climate, which is subtropical, on east coast Australia. I am a bit obsessed with the taro plant and love growing them.
What you guys are doing with tropical plants in the UK is very impressive!
Thanks - Dan feels much like you about Taro I think 🤣 He loves his hardy tropicals here and grows anything he can that reminds him of warmer climates ... and if its edible as well !!! WOW !!! He'd be in heaven growing in a sub tropical climate 💚
I will take note about T65 and chase some down for 2025, thank you. I have just harvested by Sweet Potatoes for my first time and somewhat dissapointed by an excess of slug damage. The slips I bought were Beauregard which grew well but got hit and Evangaline which had a terrible crop. Lesson learnt there so I'll try and copy you next year as I have just got my own field at last! Edit just remembered that it was great information to hear about the wound healing capabilities.
Glad you found some useful info in the video and congrats on getting your new field - hopefully you will now be free of the garlic rot now!!! We got our original t65 growing slips from Highland Horticulture - hope that helps. Appreciate you watching and commenting 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife brilliant info thanks, will look them up
@freedomforestlife do you propagate your own slips now? I'm digging mine up this weekend but not expecting much as squash and corn have been awful this year
@@ekhocollective Yes, we grow our own slips most years now... So long as we can over winter a few decent tuber until end of Jan 💚 Good luck with you harvest ✌🌿
Organic/no dig in North Devon. Still mild with outdoor cucumbers, aubergines and undercover tomatoes still cropping. Trying SP for first time but how do you know when to harvest? Still lots of healthy folliage.
Hi Tom, wow, outdoor cucumbers stills - thats impressive - Great coastal climate there I bet? Great that you have tried SP - What variety did you grow? If you haven't got anything knowingly eating at them, anytime from now and you first light frost is a good time ... the vines won't die back at allother than with frost. Hope that helps 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife thanks, that's useful, I'll check the SP at the weekend. One purple and two different white varieties but can't remember the names without looking back but one was T something - same place as you recommend funnily enough.
@@tompearce3610 sounds like you should have t65 then 🙌🙌 let use know how you find the yield comparisons once you’ve harvested 💚✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife I was thinking that from your video, I'll let you know how it goes 😊
You need a pair of large cats. Tough if your dog doesn't like them. Could put a fence around the area to defend and add a climby ramp system only your cat could use. Keep your dog territory separate from your cat territory. Next chance you get raise a pup with cats together. Farms without cats is like missing an essential nutrient from the soil.
Hi, great ideas 💚 Murphy our dog comes everywhere with me, like a little shadow, hes older now, so will keep things as they are for him for now, as he doesnt take well to be left/shut in areas we are not in either 🤣 classic collie, has to be with me wherever I go ☺️ defo gathering great ideas from everyone and building future stratagies, really appreciate all the shared knowledge 🙏 Appreciate you watching & sharing ideas ✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife You're awesome for considering the ideas of others. Best of luck to you all!
What are your Taro Harvests like? Do you leave them in the ground over Winter?
Hi Marisa, last year was our first year growing Taro - we overwintered the plants in our shed then replanted for a ahead start. More info in this video here 👉 th-cam.com/video/jzk2zs5DvTc/w-d-xo.html
I am sure we will make an update vid this year when we harvest soon too 💚✌️🌿
Great video 😊 Sorry to hear about the increasing rat issue, hope you manage to find a way round this going forward 🙏 How do you cure and store these potatoes? I've grown some for the first time this year but not 100% confident how to best prepare them for storage 😊
Hi Wesley. Curing and storing is very similar to what you'd do with Pumpkin/winter squash. Warmth or light to cure is the key - Check out this vid here that I made last year 💚✌️🌿 th-cam.com/video/SZ23qnt8zBY/w-d-xo.html
Thank you
Have you thought about getting a Patterdale Terrier to help keep the rats down, just a natural way of dealing with a rodent problem. Only thing is they may like to dig holes in the garden. I’m going to try sweet potatoes nxt year, I shall see how well they do in a large container. Thanks for the video.
Hi, glad to hear you will be trying sweet potatoes 🙌 it may be pots for us next year too!!! I have said to Dan the next dog we get may need to be a Terrier!!! Humm yes the holes in the garden may be an issue though!!! Our old boy murph is a bit slow to be a ratter now unfort. We've hoped a wild cat would adopt our land too, we do occassional see one, but Murphy see's cats off!!! We'll get there eventually 🤣 Thanks for watching & commenting - happy growing 💚✌️🌿
Our Wire Foxies are incredible ratters. It's so disappointing to lose so much to rats 😢....and maybe some humane traps put out before the potatoes are ready. Good luck with next year's harvest...👍🏽
Hi are you still giving the rat cake a go? I think it helped for me.
Hi, Yeah I alternate what Im using every so often, as I find the rats get wise to it ... the mice don't seem to ... when I first put something down it will taken, its like they test it though and see, as sometimes only a little goes, so then I change to a bicarb choc powder mix! The rats even got wise to peanut butter o our water buckets. I'm just waiting until we have less desirable crops in the ground and then i'll get on the cake again. 💚✌️✌️
The Rodents are a pain in crops, they love pumpkin and Pineapples too 😊
For sure! I grab our pumpkins in a little earier than I would of liked as had a couple they had started on! All worked out good still - cured them in the warmth of polytunnel for a couple week - cut into first one yest and nicely sweet 🧡 Wow pineapple!!! Happy growing ✌️🌿
I grew some sweet potatoes on my Chilterns allotment in 2022 and had a reasonable crop but almost all had significant slug damage and did not keep well. Have you suffered a similar problem and if so how did you deal with it?
We don’t suffer with slug damage at all on the SP, we do have some BIG slugs here, surprisingly and thankfully our crops don’t seem to suffer to badly though… we have a lot of bird life and frogs too, so maybe that helps us. Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
Where do you buy them?
Are you in the UK Hanna? if so we bought our original slips from Highland Horticulture - Thanks for watching 💚✌️🌿
How do i plant,i do have woodchip.
Hi Chris - check out these 2 full vids - We show the full process from slips to harvest ; 👉 th-cam.com/video/GBhQUWa08rs/w-d-xo.html
👉 th-cam.com/video/9wdOSFKlgX4/w-d-xo.html
or check out any of the videos on our Sweet Potato playlist for more info 👉 th-cam.com/play/PLOidPRQofoMMQnV_40S6dUq7nxtcMY5w9.html
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I get the vibe that you guys don’t like to hurt animals. Same with me. They’re just hungry bless them.
I hear that rats don’t like the smell of peppermint or cayenne pepper. I recommend you buy some peppermint plants and inter plant them to try to confuse or deter them. then you can add some cayenne pepper around their entry points (if you can find them)
Maybe also go to a hairdressers and ask them for their waste hair. Mulch it around the beds. They don’t like humans.
Other alternative is to get humane rat traps and keep driving them more than 3 miles away. Might be a losing battle though.
Another option is to get some chicken wire and make a fence. dig it a foot into the ground to stop them digging under it.
Lastly you could try not growing them for a year. They’re clearly coming to rely on their annual feed and if they don’t have it next year they’ll have to go and eat something else and may-become attached to that vegetable instead?
Good luck and much love ❤
Hi, great to hear from you. Yeah we could defo make more effort with interplanting for sure .. worth a try. Like the idea about hair.. haven't heard of this before! Next year we may well only grow them in reinforeced fortress style raised beds ... we've learnt a lot from this years experience!!! Thanks for watching as always and hope all id progressing well at your place 💚✌️🌿
A very useful video. Thank you. I live in the SE of England and wondered if I could grow sweet potatoes. I had a Jack Russel, who was a brilliant mouser. She probably would have loved catching rats if we had had any.
Glad you enjoyed the vid and hope you feel inspired to try Sweet Potatoes now, the variety is key we've found ... and should be laughing if you have no rats!!! Can we borrow your Jack Russell please, our Murphy is quite agile enough!!! 🤣 💚✌️🌿
I wish I could say yes. But she sadly passed a few years ago. But I can recommend the breed. She was the bane of mice and pigeons.
@@janinemagnin aww bless, sorry to hear that, they leave such a gap, it sounds like she had a good fun life, doing exactly what her instincts were meant for 🐾 did she dig too/was that a prob in your garden or not? 🙏✌️🌿
@@freedomforestlife The do leave a sad gap. She didn't dig holes. She was either running around with the other dogs or sleeping under the covers of the bed. She hated the rain and cold.
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Great video. May be the sweet potatoes might be viewed as sacrificial to some degree, keeping the rats from damaging other crop yields?! If you dominate them too much they'll likely move elsewhere on site and do it all again to another plant. Good luck!
It is hard to work out what the best way is to approach it for sure! Appreciate you watching and commenting John 💚✌️🌿
These are hard to get online 🇬🇧
Try Highland Horticulture 💚✌️🌿
Looking at it from the rats' point of view, they've found an amazing hotel restaurant where they can bring up their families undisturbed. It's reliable and predictable, and so easy to make nests in. I suspect they will particularly like using this hotel later in the season when there's less other kinds of food around. Perhaps if you harvested earlier, you would get more of your share. Or perhaps you could interplant with things the rats aren't so keen on. We did find with our Irish potatoes that the longer we leave them in the ground, the more rat damage we get.
Hi, yes I feel you are spot on about the hotel restaurant!!! 🤪 We have defo experienced the same re harvest timings, I would of like to get these out of the ground a week or so sooner, other 'stuff' just meant this was the earliest we could ... its a tough one with the SP as its the end of the season when they put on most of their growth. We did harvest in Sept last year for this exact reason and the potatoes were smaller overall ... that being said last year was a very wet year, which may of also affected overall size! Ever year is different ... we will keep trying ! Interestingly, they seem to leave our white potatoes alone here, just had a little nibble on one particular purple variety this year, and none of the others ... all next to each other in the same bed ... curious! And grateful 🙏 Appreciate you watching & sharing your experience 💚✌️🌿
Have you thought about getting cats 🐈
Yes - for sure - The dog see's them off though!! 🤪 We would love for some part wild cats to adopt us - we see one around occasionally, but Murphy chases it if he sees 😬 In time we will though. Appreciate you watching and commenting Daniel 🙏✌️🌿
Rats don't like strips of prickly chicken wire around crops/compost bins
This is great info - thank you - loving all the sharing - much appreciated 💚✌️🌿
Could you bury a fruit cage underground, with the whole sweet potato plant inside the cage?
We've tried a few similar sort of ideas with raised beds this year ... i think we can get something to work, it needs tweeking though, as the rats showed us how clever they are with this even already!! We'll get there though 💚 appreciate your idea 🙏✌️🌿
Maybe change your planting area
We did that this year - they can sniff them out a few acres away I reckon unfort 🫣 appreciate you watching & commenting 💚✌️🌿
Cats get the rats
I have big problems with mice and voles in my sweet potatoes....I don't think this year's harvest is going to be great....😢
Awww Su, sorry to hear this! I would get them out sooner rather than later if so. Let us know how it goes for you 🤞💚✌️🌿
I am going to start getting them out this afternoon....weather permitting. I will let you know how it goes.
OK, even worse than I thought...about a tenth of what I had last year... 😕
@@sualleron3001 Oh No - sorry hear this - our harvest was about 10% of what we expected too!!! They really do liek the taste of SP it seems!! Interesting, because when I did a lot of rat research last year, Rat care websites said not to feed them SP!!! I hope you have better luck with other winter harvests. 🤞💚✌🌿
I have never seen rats at my place, but we have voles and mice. They attack my carrots, leeks and parsnips too. 😕 Oh well, that is the way it goes. I planted out mizuna, winter lettuce, rocket, Japanese mustards, etc today...so hopefully we will have some salads over winter! Happy gardening 💚