How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Containers Pt. 1 Planting, Soil, & Varieties
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Majo
Growing sweet potatoes is the best plant to grow because it's easy to grow. You can eat the tubers and the tops/leaves. You can put the leaves in a lot of dishes like boiled or steamed and make ensalata, or stir fry it, or add them in Filipino stews like sinigang or nilaga.
The tubers are generally sweet, you can just boil them and eat them by dipping in some sugar, or frying sweet potato slices and sprinkes sugar while frying, or putting them in adobo, sinigang or nilaga.
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Growing sweet potatoes is the best plant to grow because it's easy to grow. You can eat the tubers and the tops/leaves. You can put the leaves in a lot of dishes like boiled or steamed and make ensalata, or stir fry it, or add them in Filipino stews like sinigang or nilaga.
The tubers are generally sweet, you can just boil them and eat them by dipping in some sugar, or frying sweet potato slices and sprinkes sugar while frying, or putting them in adobo, sinigang or nilaga.
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Cathy
I picked up the Myanmar Purple, Lilac Beauty, and Korean Gold from Baker Creek, too! I heard Jacques list off the varieties and went waiiit that seems familiar. I've heard that planting them diagonal or sideways (like, the leaf nodes are in the soil, and the leaves are sticking out) promotes more sweet potatoes, since each node can root (and therefore make tubers. Maybe it's worth a try for any plants you guys have left or cuttings that you can make?
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I picked up the Myanmar Purple, Lilac Beauty, and Korean Gold from Baker Creek, too! I heard Jacques list off the varieties and went waiiit that seems familiar. I've heard that planting them diagonal or sideways (like, the leaf nodes are in the soil, and the leaves are sticking out) promotes more sweet potatoes, since each node can root (and therefore make tubers. Maybe it's worth a try for any plants you guys have left or cuttings that you can make?
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handmade
Interestingly, though sweet potatoes don't like muddy ground, they grow wonderfully in a flood & drain hydroponic bed. So it's not really the amount of water - it's the lack of air. But they are super easy to grow and super tasty. I am currently using them as a groundcover plant for my new berm because the vines spread super-fast and I wanted something pretty and edible to fix the soil/mulch in place as quickly as possible.
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Interestingly, though sweet potatoes don't like muddy ground, they grow wonderfully in a flood & drain hydroponic bed. So it's not really the amount of water - it's the lack of air. But they are super easy to grow and super tasty. I am currently using them as a groundcover plant for my new berm because the vines spread super-fast and I wanted something pretty and edible to fix the soil/mulch in place as quickly as possible.
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Julia
Thx for this video. I tried growing sw pot and the plant looked like it was going great. Lots of leaves and vines. It was in my barrel for probl a yr. When I thought I could harvest there where not one potato there. :)
I never mixed in sand in my soil. And it was probl also lacking nutrients maybe.
How long does it take usually until harvest?
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Thx for this video. I tried growing sw pot and the plant looked like it was going great. Lots of leaves and vines. It was in my barrel for probl a yr. When I thought I could harvest there where not one potato there. :)
I never mixed in sand in my soil. And it was probl also lacking nutrients maybe.
How long does it take usually until harvest?
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jaimin
I leave in town home. I
have sprinkler in back yard right
by my patio where all my
container veggie plants are.
Lately almost every morning soil
is wet. I think most of time is due
to morning due. How to water
plant in hot days if soil is dry? If I
don't water around noon leaves
wrinkles due to hot sun. Please
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I leave in town home. I
have sprinkler in back yard right
by my patio where all my
container veggie plants are.
Lately almost every morning soil
is wet. I think most of time is due
to morning due. How to water
plant in hot days if soil is dry? If I
don't water around noon leaves
wrinkles due to hot sun. Please
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Scott
one year I had a sweet potato in the pantry start to sprout so naturally I stuck it in the ground. I put it in a location with only morning sun and it made a big beautiful bush with large heart shaped flowers. when I went to dig it up to see what it made. almost nothing. just a couple thin potatoes. great looking plant though.
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one year I had a sweet potato in the pantry start to sprout so naturally I stuck it in the ground. I put it in a location with only morning sun and it made a big beautiful bush with large heart shaped flowers. when I went to dig it up to see what it made. almost nothing. just a couple thin potatoes. great looking plant though.
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pbsjones
Taking your advice to use an auger to mix my soil has been the best thing for me this year! As a Lady Of A Certain Age, I have found mixing my ingredients with a shovel results in excruciating back pain days later (you'd think it would let you know as you're doing it, right? Ha) The drill is fun! Thank you, so much!
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Taking your advice to use an auger to mix my soil has been the best thing for me this year! As a Lady Of A Certain Age, I have found mixing my ingredients with a shovel results in excruciating back pain days later (you'd think it would let you know as you're doing it, right? Ha) The drill is fun! Thank you, so much!
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Krystal
I love the wine barrels. I grew okra in similar barrels last year. I totally forgot to buy my sweet potatoes slips and they are sold out so I will have to wait for next season. Interesting that sweet potatoes like the humidity, then it would love the humidity the south is getting right now. Thanks for the video.
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I love the wine barrels. I grew okra in similar barrels last year. I totally forgot to buy my sweet potatoes slips and they are sold out so I will have to wait for next season. Interesting that sweet potatoes like the humidity, then it would love the humidity the south is getting right now. Thanks for the video.
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INANNA
Sweet potato slips are very prolific, I live in the south and I grow them in clay with a little topsoil. Don't work too hard at it and you don't need anything fancy to grow them. They will take over anywhere you plant them if they are not contained to a specific area.
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Sweet potato slips are very prolific, I live in the south and I grow them in clay with a little topsoil. Don't work too hard at it and you don't need anything fancy to grow them. They will take over anywhere you plant them if they are not contained to a specific area.
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Onion
I planted my sweet potatoes a month too late last year but they still did surprisingly well.
It's the start of winter here and I've already got a few slips growing so they'll be getting planted too early this year, soon as the frosts have stopped in mid September.
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I planted my sweet potatoes a month too late last year but they still did surprisingly well.
It's the start of winter here and I've already got a few slips growing so they'll be getting planted too early this year, soon as the frosts have stopped in mid September.
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Chatty
My mom had a bunch of sweet potatoes from the store that started to sprout so I threw them in the biggest pot I could find to see if they would grow. So far they look healthy but it will be interesting to see what happens and what I end up with when I harvest them.
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My mom had a bunch of sweet potatoes from the store that started to sprout so I threw them in the biggest pot I could find to see if they would grow. So far they look healthy but it will be interesting to see what happens and what I end up with when I harvest them.
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Christina
Your videos on container gardening I find fascinating. I grow potatoes sweet potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables in pots between a quarter and a half an acre each. Keep up the great contentAnd watching your rural Homestead grow has been amazing.
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Your videos on container gardening I find fascinating. I grow potatoes sweet potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables in pots between a quarter and a half an acre each. Keep up the great contentAnd watching your rural Homestead grow has been amazing.
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Thomas
Growing some slips from a storebought (so far, a working food hack, that is, if I remember to keep changing the water lmao) so this came at a good time; my first time growing them.
Odd they are not potatoes and come from the morning glory family.
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Growing some slips from a storebought (so far, a working food hack, that is, if I remember to keep changing the water lmao) so this came at a good time; my first time growing them.
Odd they are not potatoes and come from the morning glory family.
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Shawnee
I ordered sweet potato slips and they will be here soon. First time growing them. Hoping to make my own slips next year. I heard the vines make a good ground cover. That you can actually walk on them with little damage? Anyone know if this is true?
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I ordered sweet potato slips and they will be here soon. First time growing them. Hoping to make my own slips next year. I heard the vines make a good ground cover. That you can actually walk on them with little damage? Anyone know if this is true?
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