EASY PLANTING SWEET POTATO IN GROW BAGS 

Thank you! Not enough gardening videos show the process of both planting and harvesting in one video, AND multiple ways to plant. Super helpful!

I grew sweet potatoes in grow bags for the first time this year. Made slips from a sprouted organic sweet potato I bought at the grocery store. Have made slips before and it's quite straightforward. Had a great harvest. Grew them last year in a raised bed and it was a bit of a pain getting the potatoes out of the ground. Had some roots grow back this year. With the grow bags I just gently dumped the bag in a wheel barrow to harvest. Easy, peasy. I cured them outside in a shed and then forgot about them. When I went to check our weather had been so warm they were starting to sprout. Next year I will bring them into the cooler house. Just boiled them up and popped them in the freezer. We don't eat them but they go in my homemade pup food. ☺

A great tip I learned about growing sweet potatoes was to let a potato sprout on the counter. When the sprouts are between three and 4 inches long, pluck them off of the potato, trying to keep the little plug at the end of the sprout (where it connects to the potato). Place the sprouts and water and allow them to grow roots for 2 to 3 weeks and until this sprouts are between six and 8 inches long. Plant these sprouts 4-5 inches deep. These will be much more successful than cuttings as far as producing potatoes…

What a fantastic easy to grow and harvest technic!! Quite applicable in the tropics where I live. Tnx.♥️

This is AMAZING!! Thanks for telling us where you brought your slips! 👍😝

I just planted in 20g grow bags. Glad to have found this video

Thank you.

This was so informative. Thank you so much!

I just started growing sweet potatoes in bags in Austin! Seeing your vidoes are super helpful since we live in the same region. I'm getting started on my Okra and Southern Peas right now!

Lovely info, great video!

I’m saving this post! Our local garden center just got our slips in just today ❤

Finally a straightforward video. It's been so difficult to find instructions for how many slips per 10lb bag. Lol

Consider the addition of about 30%-50% wood shavings or some other organic addition that loosens the soil. Sweet potatoes that grow well actually grow along the top and are very easy to harvest and produce a great deal of huge potatoes.

You have a new sub 😄 i sprouted and planted a slip from a shop bought potato and it produced a nice potato but not much else. It was my first time and you’ve given some good info here to do things properly. Thanks

Well done you have a nice crop of sweet potatoes, thanks for the video keep up the good work

Awesome! I went to your class this morning at natural gardener and it was great. I’m going to try the ocean forest soil this year.

Nice, thank you

Thank you for the video!

Thanks

I love garden experiments! (And sweet potatoes!) Thanks for sharing!! ~jc

Hey thanks for the great info. We grow as much as we can in fiji 🇫🇯.

Thank you for experimenting so we don't have to ☺️ . This the first year we are using fabric pots and are so excited - can't wait to grow some sweet potatoes, your video was very helpful and appreciated. Thanks & God bless!🙏🕊️♥️🥔

Yes this such an awesome video Thank You !,

Inspired....got some 10 gal bags ...the lady in the chinese shop gave me a dozen slips tonight here in uk.....gonna grow me some sweet potato

Nice job

Sweet potato,tq info.

Just used a Aldi's bought sweet potato (no clue if it's organic) to grow slips started by covering half the potato in organic potting soil. On my third set of slips. These slips will go in 10 gal grow bags while all the others are in the raised beds. The raised bed slips have been planted for a month and are now just starting to take off because it's what we call "Africa Hot" here this time of year. They stress a bit now but they will do fine. As far as the bag plantings, I will cut and transplant them in the bags this evening. Looking forward to see the differences. Enjoyed your video and learned something. Thanks!

great video.. I growing in 5 gal bags

Ive figured out that plants that want to grow, will grow in anything so long as their basic needs are met. Sweet potatoes like many others will grow quite well in hydroponic set ups, so they dont even need soil, bur do need something to support the roots and storage roots. This year i tried the seed potatoe method from rhe hardware store, and at least one of the six is doing extremely well, and so is my experiment with growing them in pine needles with only a little dirt for moisture and nutrient retention in buckets. Im also not going birher with seed roots, and am just going save rhe small "potatoes" for next years growing stock. These really are vegetables you only need to buy once, like peppers, onions, peas.... just wish i could keep growing year round, but that would require at least two green houses, each climate controlled ro simulate the seasons. I think your success with the bags had a partial effect from they being above ground, and the colour being black, keeping the heat closer to tropical. I also did wind a few vines back into pots to see how well theyd do, but im not sure about rhat since rhey only had about three months insteadnof five. Up in new england you really want rhe full five month growing season since its only ideal for growing between july amd August, as the temp can vary wildly in September as it cools down and comes ro a hault in October.

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Me when he’s pulling the sweet potatoes out: oooooo😮 look at that.. beautiful 😂 I just planted mine today! I hope they grow. This is the second time trying. I put it in water and let it root so hopefully we get some ❤

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Someone had said 20-30 gallon was the size for sweet potatoes might ahve to order some 10's with how good your harvest was in a 10 gallon

Is that ordinary sand plz.

Thank you for your video! I just ordered the 12 foot raised bed from Smart Pods. I ordered 25 slips from Johnny’s Selected Seeds. I was hoping to plant half the raised bed bag with acorn squash and half the sweet potato slips. Am I going to crowd 25 slips in 6 feet? What would you do?

Do you get more yeild plant8ng in a growbag compared to a field

Should we use the copper wire cone to stimulate growth??

Keep those leaves you can use them the same as you would use spinach they are delicious the young leaves are a little sweeter though

Can you reuse the slips you cut off or do you need new ones every year?

Hi, Thanks for a great video! Question, I was going to order 15 gallon grow bags for my Sweet Potatoes. Is that a waste of space and soil? Looks like you did fine with a 10 gallon. I've seen other people using 20 gallon bags and that's ALOT OF SOIL! 😂😂😂 What do you think?😄😁

I have my potatoes and sweet potatoes in bags. Sweet potatoes made a lot of “slips” or vines and I was very confused 😅

This year I'm growing sweet potatoes 🥔 in grow bags. My 1st time growing potatoes period. I have a ton of leaves and runners. Question: Do the bags need full sun 🌞 all day? What do I do with the runner "tail: ? Can I add more soil if I see white roots close to or on the surface? Thank you for any help you can give a newbie gardener. I wish I could send pictures for you see what I'm saying 😢Thanks again!!

where did u get your slips at online?

I planted my sweet potatoes in grow bags a month ago but now I noticed that the leaves are starting to turn yellow. This is my first year growing and I don’t know if I suppose to fertilize them or move them to a different area that gets more sunlight.

Hello, how often should you water do they like sunlight or half and half

I planted sweet potatoes(for the 1st time ever)🥔 in grow bags.àà Can I take the run off vine and direct it back through my grow bag? I planted slips in a circle around my grow bags, can I train them to go back through the middle of the fabric pot? And how much water is too much ?

Hey man I just digging 100 days old of my sweet potato and it has zero tube. And I remember That One I grew Is from the runners. Do you think is not reccomended to grow it from runners? Lol really sad

It looks l8ke you used a compost to grow yours in, but here in Hawaii, im constantly told you want mostly dirt to prevent predominantly leafy growth. What are your thoughts?

Can I trellis the vines? I don’t have enough room to let them grow on the ground

Can i just use a regular fabrik bag instead of grow bags?

What’s a good fertilizer

What kind did you plant do you live in louisiana?

how much and often do I water them?

This is only 100 days? wow

Why did you plant so many slips in one pot instead of letting the vines root itself in the pots? Other videos I've watched say that more sweet potatoes grow wherever the vine roots itself. Did you maybe not know this or did you plant so many in one pot for some other reason? I'm curious because this is my first year growing them.

Loveeeeeee my grow bags......love all my sweet taters out of them too 😊

Sweet potatoes are invasive. You should contain them in bags or a dedicated garden spot. One tiny part surviving will spread throughout your garden eventually. Scorching afternoon sun is bad for food crops. 1st 1/2 day or so of sun works well for most crops. Black pots can kill any roots on the side facing the afternoon sun.

Pretty taters! “Fuuudged it”

Do you have a favorite kind of grow bag?

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