Harvesting Sweet Potatoes From A Straw Bale - Most Came From 2 Slips
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- I've had great success with growing sweet potatoes in straw bales. Even though the weather was tough for gardening this year, I would still call this harvest pretty good. Most of this harvest came from only two slips. Let us know if you've ever tried to grow things in straw bales. Thanks for watching!
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A good harvest all things considered. I heard the summer heat was a scorcher for a lot of places over there. Stay well Jim.
Thanks Bob! Yes it was. August was brutal where we are. Hoping for better weather and more rain next year.
Looks like you'll get several good meals from your harvest. I didn't plant any sweet potatoes this year, but plan on grow bag planting next year.
I hope so. I've had good luck with grow bags a few times too. Good luck next year!
Lovely, yummy sweet tatars!👍
Yes, they are!
The Trader Joe's purple sweet potatoes are Murasaki. Your huge one is a good example of how Murasaki sweet potatoes are often shaped. Some of the Trader Joe's packaging includes the Murasaki name, but others just say 'purple'. Awesome harvest!
Thanks! I think Murasaki sweet potatoes have white flesh. These are purple on the inside too.
@@MidwestGardener Ah, I think I know where I went wrong, now I'm guessing they're probably molokai purple sweet potatoes.
@@keyphabenyisrael3219 Yes, they might be Molokai. I've growing those, and they do look a lot alike.
Nice harvest! You got just shy of the same volume I got out of a 8'x2'x3' birdies raised bed that was planted with about 12 slips. I dug mine October 20. I was very disappointed because the soil was very loose and mixed with lots of straw, peat and vermiculite going in. But I experimented with interplanting 4 tomatillos down the center of the bed. It looked cool but I hated it and I won't be doing that again. Pretty sure it's why the harvest was so poor. Also I am wondering if our drought level was more severe here. We were in the most extreme level of drought up until a few weeks ago. It was "exceptional drought" or something like that. We are in the suburbs east of KCMO. Weird that my lawn never died and I thought sweet potatoes thrive with heat and drought but I guess everything has its limits and this years heat wave pushed the limit 🤷♀️
Thanks! Yes, I think you are right. Everything has it's limits. We were in exceptional drought here for most of the summer too. We improved to moderate drought with some recent rains. Maybe the tomatillos shaded the vines too much. It never hurts to try different things though. At least you will know next time.
Looking good Jim! Our straw bale sweet potatoes did well this year too
Thanks! That's good to hear. It wasn't the best year for weather here, but they still did ok.
Nice potato harvest. Will make delicious sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving. I still have lots of work I need to do outside but I’ve lost momentum. The next week looks really nice and I know what’s coming so I’ll try harder. Good to see you are doing ok.
Thanks! Yes, I love sweet potato casserole. I know what you mean about losing momentum on the work outside. I'm usually done with it all by now. I guess a little at a time.
I am always fascinated on how you turned something into many kind of dishes. They are so mouth watering 🤤! And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.
That's a good harvest for the red garnet. You got more from those two slips then I did from a 8'x3' bed. My store bought purple potatoes grew last year, froze off, I covered the bed with compost, they grew back. I harvested in October. I maybe got 5 pounds, I haven't weighed them. The vines grew great too great I think. I kept trimming them back and giving them to a friend with chickens. They loved the vines. For the effort put into them water and fertilizing it really isn't worth the time and harvest in my opinion.
I'm glad to see you back in the garden. Hope you are feeling better. Have a great weekend 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Thanks! I know what you mean. Sometimes when you figure all of the work that goes into growing some things, it doesn't seem worth it.
Decent harvest. What are you planning to do with them? Sweet potato fries? Have a good day ahead, mate. Cheers!
Thanks! Not sure yet on what we sill do with them. There are so many options. And if all else fails, we can bake them.
The bale looked dry for raining that day. The heat was bad this year. Might have to up the watering. You did get a decent crop. Hope they cure up nice for you.
Thanks! Yes it did look dry. I guess I should have said lightly raining. That one end looked extremely dry. Probably why I didn't get much from that end. It's possible that one of the drippers got clogged.
You did great job, it's a nice harvest, I like sweet potatoes more than potatoes~~
Thanks! I've heard from other who do also.
Hey buddy! Love to see you back out there as the weather starts to cool; I want to try potatoes eventually.
Thanks! Yep, give them a try.
I love sweet potato harvests, mine and everyone else's. It's the best.
I know what you mean. It's fun to see what is under the ground and waiting to be harvested.
They do look excellent. What do you have to pay for a straw bale where you live? Remember when they were less than 2 bucks and I'd buy them for horse bedding. Glad I'm not having to buy hay, straw or shavings anymore...but really miss the compost it made.
Thanks! The price of straw bales around here is getting ridiculous. It doesn't seem like that long ago they were 4 bucks a bale. The last bale I bought was $8.50. We did have a bad drought this year though. Like you mentioned, they do make some good compost.
@@MidwestGardener OMG! cannot believe you have to pay that for straw!!!
Good Morning Jim - Awesome harvest in spite of the hot weather. Have not grown any myself due to my limited space but someday I would love to grow them. The cooler weather is definitely here now so time to finish up the harvesting. Have a blessed weekend..
Good morning Sue. We are just trying to finish up clean up work around here. We do a little at a time, and still have some to do. Have a great weekend.
Wow, those are huge !!
Thanks! I'm happy with what we got.
Last winter was warm, many farmers have a lot of bales left they need to clear out to make room for this years. I was able to get many "junk" bales for free this year.
Nice!
In my experience the purple sweet potatoes dont perform as well as the other varieties in production and size. How much are you paying for a bale of straw?
I don't know how much longer it will make sense to grow in straw bales here. They have doubled in price in the last several years. We paid $8.50 for the last bale we bought.
Yummy goodness.
Indeed.
RIP Fred Hempel
For real?
@@MidwestGardener Afraid so
@@stephenrowe1415 Really sad to hear it.