So glad you didn’t get “skunked” on the sweet potatoes after all!! Those are some good looking sweet potatoes! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 10/22/2023.
We fertilize at planting and the one more time before the vines take over. Nothing after that and seems to balance it out. We had some good taters this year
AIiieeeee! Cajun cow peas! Ma Cher, dat sounds plum good, wit a lil dash of dat Louisiana pepper vinegar! Over top Dem Louisiana long grain (enriched!) rice. 😋😋
*Alright Travis you got me. I just ordered some Centennial slips off the website you provided. I've been growing a very resilient type of sweet Tater here I'm not really sure what it is the flesh inside appears purple but marbled like steak.* *In fact, if I showed someone just a cut up raw sweet potato fry of this variety they would think it's a strip of steak. They make Great fries. Largest one this year was 1.78lbs. Bullet proof too.* *Also got my hands on a hard to find variety of sweet tater from originally from an Asian-pacific breeding program that apparently Puts down fat taters directly under the vine. We shall see.* *Earlier this year I bought the Ruiz okree from you. I will not plan on planting that until spring. Keep you posted on them.*
From what my grandmother told me, when she was a young girl my great grandparents grew sweet potatoes in piles of hay. I wasn’t sure but now that you mention over-fertilization, maybe the old folks were on to something.
I am in North Central FL, so your channel is perfect for me. The Florida-Georgia line is a great place to garden since you can grow year round. I appreaciate your cut to the chase video style with lots of good info. You have become my go to gardening channel.
I use ash to get some large taters also, but 20 mule team borax added is needed as well. Ash for size, borax (added hand sprinkled) in the rows with the agro for the slips because sweet taters require borax do to it’s deficiency in our southern soil areas for healthy plants because they are tropical plants. Size will determines “cure time” adjustment also to get “sweet taste” to allow sugar conversion during cure period or you get larger tasteless pulpy taters. I found 1 additional week for each pound size over the 8- 12 once normal harvesting size. Warm humid temperatures needed to cure normal size taters, so timing is critical depending on your zone if you grow some jumbos you need longer cure time.
That's the size I had last year. This year's crop was modest except for one that looks to be 10 lbs! Side note: We are headed to Amicalola Falls for Thanksgiving! Nice shirt
I really love your channel. Hey you should check out the fair in fairbanks alaska. Tanana valley fairgrounds. I promise you will see the biggest veggies I've ever seen. Giant cabbages and squash and carrots. It's very competitive. I grew up there. Turnips almost big as a soccer ball. Zucchini as big as my leg. Very awesome. To me anyway.
Glad you didn't get skunked, mine were down pretty deep this year. I got an average of 2 lbs per plant. I don't know if that's good or not. I grew Beauregard, Puerto Rico and Bayou Belle.
I was watching another channel and they were saying their sweet taters were a lot deeper than normal this year. You might want to hit those rows with a fork just to make sure you didn’t miss any down low.
I thought it was a great idea to put a bunch of ash from our outdoor fire pit on my sweet tater bed. OMG. My sweet potatoes were ridiculously massive. One was 8 lbs. Needless to say I will be backing off on the fertilizer next year 😂😂😂
I'm starting to learn to not quit so easily! I thought my fall irish potatoes were a failure, then little sprouts came up about a week ago. Maybe I should just be more patient? Meh, I'll try that and see how it goes.
Had almost identical experience as you this year. Before planting these I had cucurbits that I tried bringing back with Chilean Nitrate after a massive hail storm, I think a lot of that residual nitrogen was still in the soil. Interestingly, got my best sweet taters on the ends of the rows and the outside two rows, all where the least amount of fertility would b located. Still got a bunch of small ones and lesson learned! Keep up the terrific content and hard work, appreciate you sharing all your knowledge!!
Hi Travis, What did you say you spray your beans with? I had some growing and something ate all of them. I would go out at night to see if I could find anything on the plants and did see anything.
Depends on what the bug is. If it's aphids, spinosad will usually take care of them. If it's the pea curculio, we have to use something that's not organic.
I will definitely try growing sweet potatoes next year. Orleans sounds like a good variety since I am in zone 8 and originally from NW Louisiana. I have never actually been to New Orleans just drove through and stopped for gas etc. I heard a couple Mardi Gras horror stories in the 70s and decided New Orleans was not for me. Thank you for all your educational videos and showing true success and failures. I would hate to think I am the only one who has problems (mostly lack of time to plant when needed and then to maintain). Hopefully retiring by the end of the year and will focus on gardening, taking care of my chickens and raising my two Kunekune/julianne mix hogs for market. Bacon bits and Ham bone are growing up nicely so far. Oh and caring for my two natural fertilizer producing rabbits. I may learn to cook rabbit stew if Honey Bunny doesn't quit charging at my hands and scratching me 😢. Have a Blessed Week.
Travis, glad to see you did not get skunked after all... It's a shame the stringy ones will not work for sweet potato fries. They look like they just need to be cleaned and popped in the air fryer (but looks can be deceiving.....) Those big ones are the size you need to wrap up and put in the smoker with a pork butt to smoke overnight for 18 hours or so at 225*.
In the past my sweet potatoes have been on the small side, but this year i got several the size of the ones you show. My biggest one this year was 5 1/4 pounds. I don't know that I have ever had a sweet potato split. Usually the weather here is on the dry side in the late summer/early fall when it's time to harvest them. I grew three varieties this year, and all three had a few big ones.
Great work! So those Orleans produce potatoes Only at the site of initial planting and not along the vines huh? Do you only buy those kind of sweet potatoes? Am gonna check out that website to see if the potatoe varieties are separated into those 2 types. Have ur chickens been producing a good amount of eggs? I can imagine so, with all those crops for em! Love the vids and thanks for sharing!!!
I told you if you left them in they would get bigger. Old people are sometimes a little smart. I think you should send me some cowpeas for that advice I gave you. Go back and see what I told you 😊
Senang sekali melihat kebunnya..banyak tanaman sayuran tertanam dan tumbuh dengan subur dan hijau...tanaman kentang nya menghasilkan buah kentang yang besar...terimakasih atas sharingnya...10:54🧡👍
You can plant as soon as the risk of frost has passed. I usually like to wait until late May so that I'm not harvesting them in the middle of the summer, but you can plant in April if you want.
Nice size! My pig is eating about 10 lbs. of those big ones daily. They want last much longer. I'm keeping about 100 lbs. for the family and a few pounds for seed. I have a feeling you might have taters spiked between the rows.
FINALLY seeing some blooms on my white peas and pink eyes that I planted in late august- feeling nervous in north florida that they won’t have time to mature out. The plants look awesome just waiting on the peas now. I did give a little 20/20/20 about 3 weeks after planting because they were looking g rather pale- hope that didn’t delay bloom set- thoughts?
@LazyDogFarm thank you for commenting on my question. I'll keep searching for those seeds and if I find a source I'll be sure to let you know. Thanks again!
I planted 12 beaureguards..got a whopping 10 potatoes that are really small..probably too small to save for slips even. I'll be going in containers next time..my dirt is more like clay. So...that website, not working properly on the palemoon browser..adding things to a bundle..no bueno. Also, the images don't show up on individual product pages.
I have a fig question, how do I f8nd out what variety of figs I have in my yard. They were here when we bought our house. My neighbor calls the Mission Figs, but she calls all figs bigger than a muscadine Mission Figs. So I can't just trust what she says. I'm in the NW Florida panhandle and these figs are more than 10 yrs old. The trees havw never been pruned, since they are about 20ft tall and 10 feet circumference. The fruit is about the size of a large kumquat abd turns a dark purple/brown skin when ripe. They turn sort of brown/black when overripe. They are sweet but not Honey Fig sweet and the freezer jam they make is pink, not brown. The leaves are rather large, bigger/broader than a man's hand. Any suggestions? Oh, and I get two yields a year, one in late May or early June, and one in early September or late September, depending on how dry summer has been.
There is a variety called "Black Mission," so you might want to start there. Google some photos and see if it matches. Beyond that, it's really tough to identify an unknown variety because there are so many.
