First video I've seen that actually shows how to plant the slips.

Thank you so much, everyone shows you how to grow the slips and thats all.

Awwwww, Now Sweet Doggy knows how to plant the best sweet potatoes and I bet Sweet Doggy will love them😍

Howdy neighbor, Dale from Louisiana. I’m about to put my sweet potato slips in the ground and needed some guidance, your video was a great help. Thanks and happy growing. 👍🏻

Thanks! Finally, I got what I was looking for.

Last year I planted my slips in a large pot and had @ 3lbs. of sweet potatoes. Thanks for this video. Showing how to plant in the ground. Be well.

It's always a planning strategy, early planning and now good to time move to the soil. Congrats Pete, wish you a very good sweet potato season👍

@petebeasttexashomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Wonderful tips. Thank you for sharing.

This was top notch video. If this was 30 years ago these videos would be in the how too section of Block Buster videos. For sure.

this video was a huge help for planting the few slips that I already have ready to plant. I feel confident now. Thank you so much Pete!

Thank you Pete. Really inspirational. Keep up the good work.

Thank you! Great instructions.

good, efficient stuff. thanks!

Great timing!!

Very cool! Thank you.

Great advise!

Thanks for good video. 👍

Good video enjoyed it thx for sharing Be safe God Bless

I started my store bought sweet potatoes in shot glasses. I put slips in shot glasses, half way filled with water, covered with plastic wrap, and sat on kitchen window sill. They're growing beautifully.

Good stuff! We're honored to be in your mix.

Great video!

Thanks!

Thank you.

Thanks for the info. I started growing stuff in high school for AG but never grew any form of potatoes. Have some slips growing . Limited for space but I’m working on it . Have a great evening

@petebeasttexashomesteading

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome 👍

@AhJodie

2 жыл бұрын

I just want to say, enjoy and experiment! Food always tastes great when you grow it! If you have a yard, one of the things I did, because I am sort of lazy, is, plant a few things that come up every year like rhubarb, strawberries, asparagus, berries and fruits and grapes, plus some herbs and I try to encourage natural wild plants that are healthy and healing. I also got a few mushroom spores from the wild Morales and oyster that I got to grow...

@AhJodie

2 жыл бұрын

I just want to say, enjoy and experiment! Food always tastes great when you grow it! If you have a yard, one of the things I did, because I am sort of lazy, is, plant a few things that come up every year like rhubarb, strawberries, asparagus, berries and fruits and grapes, plus some herbs and I try to encourage natural wild plants that are healthy and healing. I also got a few mushroom spores from the wild Morales and oyster that I got to grow...

N.E. Tx here, good info, thanks

Having grown up in East Texas sadly there's no substitute for the red sandy soil behind the pine curtain. 🌲🌲🌲

If you cover the tater in deeper soil, the vines will produce more roots and they are actually easier to dislodge from the tater.

@milliewilkins2823

2 ай бұрын

Use straw or leaf mulch and you'll grow more and bigger .s.weet .potato do better when they are unrestricked (sandy loam) or something close. I grow in a bed (10 to 12 in déep, on top of the dirt. ). Built from cardboard base. Then layering pine straw and leaves, little dirt, wheat straw and leaf mulch (from the city for free) layer of little dirt, wheat straw again. I try to add a good layer of shredded CARDBOARD (appliance store, work on this in Jan and Feb) Then do all these layers again. For real. I only use compost in the hole where I plant the slip. Add NO nitrogen. But I do add potash and some phosphorous. Eggshells or calcium. Yes. Really 10 to 12 inches high to start. It shrink to 5 or 6 in. Great soil for my containers for the next season. I wish I could show you pictures. Gobs and gobs of HUGE potatoes. Want pics? Mildred1150 @gmail. I'm 73 and low income..lots of time. Almost everything I use is free. All the stuff I use tend to hold moisture but not be soggy so plants can thrive while requiring less watering. Loose enough to grow freely. I make my own slips. Also sell slips locally to fund my garden. Miss Whites, Beauregard, Japanese Purple, Red Garnet and Stokes Purple. You can do it too.

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I’m growing some sweet potatoes this year for the first time, orange, red, and purple varieties. I noticed the orange ones I planted are finally sending up slips so I guess I’ll be doing the same thing in a little bit, lol. I really enjoy your gardening vids. Also I have the same tiller you do, how do you like it? I can only use mine in reverse rotation mode otherwise it drags me around the yard, 😂😂

@petebeasttexashomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

The tiller is okay for the $800 I paid for it but like you said you can really only use it when you have the tines in reverse.

soil looks fantastic, do sweet potatoes need extra water through the summer. 👍👍💛🚜

@petebeasttexashomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

Yes they do need more water especially here in east Texas. It doesn't rain much here in the summer.

@d.j.robinson9424

3 жыл бұрын

@@petebeasttexashomesteading Great videos Pete B. 👍👍💛

Just found you today. We’re in East Texas too. City folk who’ve moved to the country. Sold our custom built city house and bought 25 acres and living in the mobile home that was on the property. New to EVERYTHING countrified. Just buried a couple of sweet potatoes to try to grow slips. Do you think I’m too late?

@petebeasttexashomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome 👍 no it's not to late, we have a long growing season here, just make sure to keep the soil moist but not soaked.

I have been a long time viewer of your channel, I guess this is the first time you said you were going to put a link of another video and forgot ;)

@petebeasttexashomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me know. It should be there, I just checked at the 8:54 mark in the video.

@ahmerrizvi

3 жыл бұрын

@@petebeasttexashomesteading works now.

@petebeasttexashomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahmerrizvi 👍

I have watched quite a few videos of yours lately. I was wondering about your orchard. It may be possible that the manure you were using is the problem. It the hay the horses were fed had been treated with some kind of pesticide or insecticide. Try to find a horse owner that gets organic hay if at all possible. Hope this may helps. Especially if you keep replacing dead trees in the same spot. Like the one by the trellises at the corner of your raised beds.

@petebeasttexashomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks but I checked with the guy I get it from and he says that it comes from a place where they raise high end purebred horses and they feed them the best types of hay and alfalfa grasses. But you never know.

How long did it take to get your soil test results? I have been waiting almost 4 weeks.

Pete I haven’t seen you post a video lately, I hope you are doing ok.

Hello Mr. Pete, Where are you? Haven't seen you in three weeks, hope you and your wife are doing well.

Hi … i live in North Texas and i planted my slips but i woke up this morning to find them eaten up … like vine and leaves! Ugh will they grow back? I think it’s rabbits and so i am going to put chicken wire over them and hope that works

@petebeasttexashomesteading

25 күн бұрын

They should grow back. Once the slips take root in your garden, they'll take off like wild fire.

Where did you get your potatoes?

This is kind of off topic but I would suggest growing bamboo especially if you're worried about having to go off grid. Bamboo has many uses I don't think I need to go any further. Just an idea I use the bamboo I grow for building all kinds of things

Thank you for this video! We are looking to move to East Texas. What area are you in? Where would you suggest for a younger family?

@petebeasttexashomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

We are around the Lufkin, Nacogdoches area. It would all depend on what type of work you do and if you can find work near a small city. I would try to find a home around 20 miles or so away from any city. Tyler would have more work opportunities but it's growing fast and if you're not far enough away, you'll find subdivisions building around you real soon. Hope this helps.

@royellerbe3869

3 жыл бұрын

@@petebeasttexashomesteading thank you sir

Where did you buy the above ground metal planting tubs?

@petebeasttexashomesteading

2 жыл бұрын

I have a link in the description under the video under Greenhouse and Garden but I'll put it here too. Metal Raised Garden Bed: amzn.to/31PupXB

Hope everything is ok!! Nearly a month since your last video.

@petebeasttexashomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, all is well and I'm back now 👍

can you trim the roots?

@petebeasttexashomesteading

2 жыл бұрын

I guess you could a little but not too much.

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What month are you planting your slips ?

@petebeasttexashomesteading

Жыл бұрын

We're not doing sweet potatoes this year. But I would start growing your slips about a month before your last frost.

@txgal5.596

Жыл бұрын

@@petebeasttexashomesteading thank you, I have some already started but thus years wonky weather makes it a challenge to know when to plant. Blessings.

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You have an accent. Spanish? PR?

@petebeasttexashomesteading

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know I had an accent but Italian is my second language.

@rachelperez3329

Жыл бұрын

@Pete B: East Texas Homesteading oh OK. You sound newyorican. Thanks for the info on planting sweet potatoes. I put mine in water with toothpicks and then snap off the leaves that grow upward. I put those in water to root. Your way sounds quicker.

Don't want to see it