Thursday, January 19, 2017

How to Grow Sweet Potatoes, From Starting to Harvest

LDSprepper has an excellent video series on growing sweet potatoes. He harvested 139 pounds of beautifully formed sweet potatoes using the method he explains in the video playlist below which contains 8 videos. You can just let them play and the next one will start automatically after each one finishes:



The videos in the series are as follows (length in minutes of each video is indicated):

  1. How to grow sweet potato slips: getting started.   3:34
  2. How to grow sweet potato slips: week 2, GMO and organic.   6:15
  3. How to grow sweet potato slips: week 4.   5:26
  4. How to grow sweet potato slips: week 6.   7:17
  5. How to grow sweet potato slips: week 8.   4:02
  6. Planting sweet potato slips.   11:06
  7. Amazing sweet potato harvest: 139 pounds from three potatoes.  7:01
  8. How to bake the perfect sweet potato recipe.   2:53
To grow the sweet potatoes he uses Mittleider gardening weekly feed fertilizer mixture.

If you are a strict organic gardener, don't let that stop you from watching. There is still a lot to be learned if you are not an experienced gardener.

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