OH, WOW! I live in Missouri and never heard the tip of cutting the leaves first and harvesting a few days later to toughen the skins. I was going to harvest the potatoes today, but I'll follow your tip and let you know what happens. I hope it works. 🤞 I'm going to feed the leaves to the goats. 😉🐐🐐🐐
Great information!! I'm going to start on the summer leaves, and I didn't know about curing, thx👍... ReSprout is ready for primetime - you have great camera presence and post-production!!
Welcome home, we've missed your informative videos. I had sweet potatoes fries for the first time a couple of weeks ago and OMG they're delicious!! Who would have thought one vegetable could be so versatile? Thanks for the tip on the greens.
Thank you for the advice about curing the sweet potatoes. I could not help but chuckle when you referred to 70-75° Fahrenheit as toasty warm. 70-72° is considered the sweet spot for indoor temps here in Alabama, and the A/C gets a workout trying to keep it there.
Haha! My husband agrees with you wholeheartedly. He’d keep the house at 60° year round if it were up to him! Summertime for me involves a lot of indoor hoodie-wearing in order to deal with everyone’s A/Cs. 🙃
Great detailed video and excellent harvest. Love it. Very interesting to see how you manage to get these plants to effectively growing in different seasons.
Excellent tips. It was very informative. Thank you. I use to use a small space heater with a glass of water. Now I use a baby humidifier. They both worked well.
Ooo April, perfect name for a green thumb.. I've never had success with sweet potatoes.. 🥔 I had no idea that they could be harvested throughout the stages but makes perfect sense. This encourages me to try again.. We have good volcanic soil here, good for spud growing, but I have a bit of trouble growing those as well.. Hmmm, I'm definitely taking in what you're saying about the soil temperature. And unless I'm going to dig a trench of lawn clippings, to act as a heat bed under the potatoes, I think I probably need to wait an extra months before I put them in
OMG Victoria, I'm so sorry. I could have sworn I responded to this comment! Actually all my sweet potatoes are already eaten, haha! Thank you so much for the offer!
Ha! These are my most challenging crop to grow! Tried last 2 years with abysmal results (nothing bigger than a pinky finger). Not planning to try again. Zone 5b. What's your zone?
I'm in 7A. With the sweet potatoes, like a lot of root vegetables, I think soil looseness and quality really helps. This was the best luck I ever had and I used potting soil in containers this time.
Hmmmm... brown stem makes me think the greenery is dying in which case the root will not be far behind. Try digging one up and seeing what it looks like. If the bugs are really bad and the roots are big enough to eat, I'd just harvest them all and plant a fall crop. That's how it goes sometimes!