Our sweet potato harvest of 2019 - 4 varieites!
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- This year we grew 4 different varieties of sweet potatoes and compared yields outside with those in the greenhouse.Join me for the harvest!
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Varieties of sweet potato mentioned in the video:
'Tainung 65', 'Witte van de Ecohoeve', 'Beauregard Imroved', 'Vera'
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previous videos on SWEET POTATOES:
Sweet potato harvest 2018: • Sweet potato harvest 2018
Sweet potato harvest 2017: • Sweet potato harvest
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Nice video. Huge potato. We grow Beauregard sweet potatoes in a 33 gallon vented garbage can. When the cold affect the leaves, it’s time to harvest. We simply cut the plants away and dump the contents onto a large tarp. We enjoy searching through the soil for them without the risk of damaging them.
Kuvasz 93 That’s sounds like a great way to grow them!
2 years ago I planted sweet potatoes in Hungary and although the climate I think was amazing but the voles did not leave a single inch of tubers for us! Now we live in Latvia and I never even thought it makes sense to try but we do have a greenhouse and I now feel absolutely inspired. Your video was very interesting and also entertaining :) excellent delivery! Have an abundant gardening year :)
Thank you so much! Growing in the greenhouse should work if you can get good varieties!
Wow ! Bountiful and beautiful harvest ! Bon Apetit!
catyear75 Thank you! Looking forward to comparing the taste of the different varieties!
This is my second year of growing sweet potatoes. Last year I got a few larger sweet potatoes but lots of thin gnarled tubers. I grew Beauregard last year and Orleans this year. I'm just getting ready to dig up this year's crop. Fingers crossed....
Idaho Garden Girl Exciting! I hope you’ll get a good crop - please let me know how this variety turns out for you!
i really love sweet potatoes but not tried to grow them yet,i do grow white potatoes in bags and seems to work pretty well as I'm doing a no-dig garden and raised beds and planters, and also loving your videos
You definitely had a better harvest from the greenhouse & I (in Australia) only grow the red variety & luckily have great success - I live in a sub-tropical climate though so that makes a huge difference.
Loved this video as it is interesting to see other places in the world. Cheers Denise - Australia
Thanks, Denise! I also love hearing about gardening in other climates :)
Great video, thank you, Vera!! We did a sweet potato trial with the Beauregard variety here in the Czech Republic, in the area close to the Sumava forest which is a higher elevation (500 m above sea level).
June 1 we planted 10 sweet potato slips which we bought. Harvested Oct. 23. The trial was:
A. Will they grow at all? They are a warm climate crop after all....
B. Will they do better in the greenhouse or outside?
C. Those outside, how will the straw ground cover compare to black plastic which was recommend (don’t like plastic!) ?
So....
A. Yes! Surprisingly Yes!!
B. Outside!! Surprise again! I think our greenhouse doesn’t get hot enuf, it has a very steady 22-23C / 71-74F temp.
C. Plastic BY FAR. All of the potatoes of any reasonable size grew under the plastic cover.
Now we make our own slips next year, yay!! Let’s not talk ROI this season!
You should eat the sweet potato leaves as well, in some countries they are grown for just the leaves. Actually the leaves have more nutrients than the tubers.
Happy Gardening
I so keep waiting for Ur videos .. so good Nd relaxing
I watch a youtube channel run by a woman who lives in a tiny house and she has volelike creatures where she gardens. She stopped them doing damage in her kitchen garden by putting down stainless steel mesh and then cardboard and then her soil/compost etc. This has worked very well for her.
I’m not in a cold climate but I do like growing sweet potatoes. I’ve gotten great yields from the purple Molokai.
Green Zebra Gardening Interesting to hear you grow this variety! It’s one of the parents of ‘Vera’ :) What are the tubers like in your experience?
The tubers are ready to harvest in about four months. If you like to eat the leaves as greens, you can do so in moderation throughout the season. Be sure to leave enough to keep the plant growing. I will now try Beauregard.
Roslyn Williams I picked some of the tops before harvesting the tubers - I’m excited to try the leaves! How do you prepare them?
@@GrownToCook here is link th-cam.com/video/e2rmEsJKH9E/w-d-xo.html
You can search TH-cam for more recipes but there are lots of different ways to cook it stir fry it seems to be the main way most people use it here is another link th-cam.com/video/jUiAhRgXPBQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks so much, Robyn!
I have to transfer my sweet potatoes plants inside just to avoid the cold winter but not sure if they growing
Zone 7, grew beauregard improved and z.010. Both did fine outdoors, though I grew mine in a large mortar tub. No voles that way and soil heats up quicker (black tub). Though needs more watering that way, used an olla for that purpose.
Don't forget to save a cutting when harvesting, you can put the cutting in a glass of water and it will take root readily. Then just pot it up and overwinter indoors on a sunny windowsill for next year.
Also curing sweet potatoes will make longterm storage possible, not to mention the potatoes will be sweeter and starchier. Place them in a transparent plastic back on a sunny windowsill with a few holes, keep slightly moist by misting. Let them be for like 10 days, I don't recall what purpose this phase saved though, I think this let's them heal and they'll enter dormancy? Afterwards wrap them in newspaper in a ventilated spot 10 - 15 °C for at least 6 weeks. Then their at their best.
I harvested mine somewhere mid October, ate the last one late February, not a single one turned bad, so storing them for even longer should be possible.
Thanks for the feedback! I usually cure mine too. I think your summers might be warmer than ours though - where are you located?
Belgium, but it does it heat up and cool down more rapidly around the region (sandy soil).
It might be the black mortar tub absorbing heat, not sure how big a difference it makes. When it's +30°C they might even get too hot, depending on what you're growing. Also more watering, but use an olla to mitigate. Perhaps providing some shade could work as well, if water is in short supply.
Try putting a frost cover over them when you plant them outside
Yes, I definitely should do that! The think is, we hardly ever get frosts beyond April, so I was no longer expecting it. But I will be prepared next year!
My grandmother would sunbath the sweet potatoes for a couple of day before cooking them to make it sweeter according to her.
I also wondered if you kept slips for next year. I have only this thus far tried supermarket sweet potatoes and have gotten terrible results (outside; I will dig up the ones in the greenhouse tomorrow). I think I will save some slips from those and then try to get named varieties for next year to try.
Miq F I think named varieties are a much safer bet though I have grown sweet potatoes from supermarket tubers too :) Yes, I save some tubers till next spring (they keep really well) and start slips into the windowsill
Omg 😳 tainun 65 ! It’s from taiwan 🇹🇼! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Sherry Lu Great to know! And so interesting that it grows well in our climate too!
GrownToCook what zone are you ?
Sherry Lu We’re in the Netherlands, Northern Europe, something like zone 7
GrownToCook cool 😎 I’m 7a then I can grow sweet potato 🍠 too
I’m going to give it a try next year yayayaya
Hi, I’ve only just discovered you! Where are you situated ? I have planted sweet potatoes this year from store bought tubers. Had no problem developing shoots (slips) to plant and have a mass of leaves. When I tried to dig up one plant about a month ago there was a huge tuber that had been hollowed out by slugs. I’m afraid to dig the others now and after your excellent video will definitely do it today. I am in extreme south west England (Cornwall) where it is normally warmer than the rest of the U.K. I am guessing you are in Holland? Unless I find tubers much deeper as you did I’m going to try to find Beauregard for next year.
Get ducks to patrol for slugs. free meat for them = organic pest control. you get SP's and duck meat !
Oh I have attempted once in a really large 100l pot. Outside but with poly dome. Well that was complete disaster. I seem to be killing a lot of plants. But i love your rwsults and will attempt again! Because I am in Dcotland I think our climates are somehow simillar
You should "lighten" your soil somewhat...too dense and clay like, SPs like loamy soil...alsontry adding some Potash or Bone Meal. The greenhouse soil is lighter, which is better for SPs. I live in Minnesota USA growing zone 4 borderline zone 3, i.e. very cold....Beauregard is most reliable, you cannot go wrong, even in Minnesota. Allgold, Corner's Red, Garnet and Georgia Jet are good too. Did you start them from slips? Remember Sweet Potatoes, unlike regular Potatoes, are tropical plants, they like heat and need 4 months of warm weather, and plant 3-4 weeks after last frost...your greenhouse ones were much better, a good indicator re:heat. You might want to try growing them the Ruth Stout method for outdoors...planting in the soil and piling on the hay...keeps soil warmer and will loosen the soil as well. It works well in our cold region. This is the only vegetable I grow using the RS method solely to gain an advantage with soil temperature. Everything else I grow without hay with plants I raise indoors under grow lights to plant last week in May/early June, until then soil is just too cold.
Agreed! Black plastic can also do a great deal to warm up the soil. I have found that erato orange (georgia jet) is a really good variety for short seasons here in the UK. Seems to keep growing in less than optimum temperatures and produces very good sized roots. May I asked where you acquired the other varieties I am really interested in trying a few other varieties but the range here in the UK is so limited.
tannenbaum Thanks for all the tips! Our soil is actually sand with high organic matter content. The reason it seems heavy is mostly because it’s been raining a lot (also the reason the soil in the greenhouse seems lighter - it gets the same treatment with compost added every year but doesn’t get the rain). Unfortunately we cannot wait too long with planting because our season is just not that long - normally mid May is safe for planting non-hardy crops. First frost dates are very variable, basically from September to December. In October the soil temperature usually goes below 10 Celsius which means sweet potatoes don’t grow anymore.
Eet je ook de blaadjes? Zij zijn overheerlijk, het is bijna zoals spinazie maar met een zoet patatten smak.
Ik heb ze rauw geproefd maar nog niet mee gekookt. Dit jaar zal ik er aan proberen te denken!
@@GrownToCook Succes! Er zijn veel receipts online. 😁
Canada has been working on creating new short season, cold climate varieties as well. They came up with one that's supposed to out perform Beauregard called Reliance. I think it was Michigan University that did a study on nutritional value in each variety of sweet potato and the purple outside with the purple inside were the highest nutritional value sweet potatoes that you can grow. Also it's very hard for me to cure the sweet potatoes in my climate after harvesting so I used an under bed tote, put the tote on top of 2 grow mats and closed the sweet potatoes in the bin for 2 weeks. It worked like a charm and didn't take up too much space. I harvested well over 60 lbs that were 5 different varieties and since harvest I've grown over 300 slips for family to grow this year. I'm just getting ready to start growing my own slips for my garden. Here is a recipe that was good tasting for the small fingerlings. www.seasonsandsuppers.ca/dijon-roasted-mini-sweet-potatoes/
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Did you, or if not take cuttings from the plants to over winter ? for next year
I grow sweet potatos every year but I do not know the names of them as I got them from the Asian market I would love to grow the purple ones but have never had any luck so may be I will try the one named after you
Richard Sydenham I haven’t tried overwinning the cuttings yet - it really sounds interesting though. Unfortunately our windowsill doesn’t get much light during the winter so that might be a problem
Has anyone had success with Japanese sweet potatoes? I tried them this year (Oregon US, western valley, Zone 8). I planted the slips in a raised bed and had it under low tunnel plastic. The plants were growing well. But we had some deer damage when I left the plastic open. They browsed and ate some leaves. We also snipped some tips to eat as greens during the season. The harvest wasn't great. The tubers were pretty small. The bed had hay, some planting soil, and some duck manure. I didn't add more fertilizer. Perhaps I should have added some bone meal? I will try Beauregard next year if I can find seed potatoes. I assume it wouldn't be hard to find them in stores since it the most popular variety.
How can I get the seed for Japanese sweet potato...I'm from India
Excess watering is bad one gets only roots bunch
@@xavierj.dealmeida2269 I got mine in the Asian food stores.
You are a sweet potato! ❤
The earliest in the US is Georgia Jet but it is hard to cook right because it gets so big. Only once have I cured sweet potatoes right by laying them out in the warm sun and they were delicious. I wanted to leave them in my mouth and not eat them they were so good. But 99 % of the time I don't get them cured right. The store-bought sweet potatoes must not be cured correctly since you have to add sugar to them. Curing is the big problem.
I am a sweet potato farmer I grow it on large scale, I grow orange fleshed sweet potatoes and looking for buyers in Europe to export it to. Any help?
do you do anything to deter voles?
iivette s No, not really. We have 2 large trees that we hope might attract predatory birds but that’s all. So far the damage has not been too bad. Last year they are a lot of our carrots but this time they left them alone
What is you weather zoom you at??
Do you mean climate zone? We live in teh Netherlands and are approximately zone 7 or 8. Our winters are usually relatively mild but the summers are cooler than zone 7 in the USA.
What growing zone are you in?
Hi Adrenne, we're in the Netherlands and climate zones are not really used here but I think we're approximately zone 7. However, our summer high temps are probably lower than in the USA in zone 7.
I live in northern Wyoming, USA where our summers are short and our winters are long. I just want to grow sweet potatoes and if you know of any that can survive cool temps or short summers please let me know.
Adrienne Halanick How long is your growing season? Sweet potatoes need around at least 4 months without frost. Molokai seems to be a relatively cold resistant variety
@@GrownToCook About 3 months but they are cool months with a few hot days.
@@adriennehalanick22 That unfortunatelly doesn't seem ideal for sweet potatoes :(