I put my sweet potato in good potting mix and let it start growing slips, pinch off the slips and plant them. Haven't had a problem producing that way. You Sir have found what works for you💞

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

That's a great idea! Thank you for visiting my deep mulch garden.

Berbaik dengan alam.bagus hasilnya.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

Ya, selalu baik pada alam dan panen adalah hadiahnya.

Try laying several sweet potatoes in potting soil about 4 inches thick in a well drainable plastic flat. Make sure at least half of the sweet potato is showing. Water them and in no time youll have ALOT of slips for planting. Organic Sweet potatoes sprout the fastest.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea. I will try that next season thank you and thank you for visiting my garden.

@Marcosworld77

2 жыл бұрын

@@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant People in the world need to learn this life saving info your channel provides. Sweet potatoes are the most calorie dense vegetables period. People will have to rely on their ability to grow to live very soon, so thank you as well.

Thank you,just put my potatoes in garden other day, after finding out they sprouted..

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for stopping in for a visit to my deep mulch garden story.

I'm enjoying your videos. Thus is my first year of trying sweet potatoes so will try some jn a container and some in a raised bed. Will follow you and put plenty of mulch on the raised bed. Thank you for the inspiration. I'm in England and have now subscribed.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for visiting my deep mulch garden story.

I planted some Sweet Potatoes for the first time this year. Course all my gardening is from this year. I have the benefit of having some guidance from my aunt and uncle who have gardened for a long time. I planted 25 sweet potato slips and not all of them seemed to have made it. Still the ones that have look good. Trying a Deep mulch Ruth Stout type of garden as well as a traditional type. Gonna be interesting. I appreciate your channel for information as well as encouragement. Keep making these videos Wayland. I'll keep trying. I learn more from our failures than our successes.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words. You are welcome to submit photos for the subscriber segments if you would like. Please message me on Facebook, other gardeners really like to see what others are doing.

Hey did you know that those vines that you cut off when you're harvesting can be planted. We in the Caribbean do not make slips from actual potatoes, we just cut the slips about 12 to 18 inches long and plant them, they do bear very good

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Thank you for watching. I wish I had a green house or other place that I could keep them. It is going to be 38 degrees F in a day or so and the freeze is soon to follow. It won't be warm enough to plant again until April. It does seem like a shame to leave so much to mulch down. Our growing season is way to short.

@koltoncrane3099

2 жыл бұрын

Ya a lot of areas in the Us to be safe you assume the last frost date potential is Memorial Day or around end of may. Like no joke. I think it was 2010 in Utah we got like 6 inches of snow in late may in the valley in Utah. It’s rare but it can happen.

Love your garden and your explanation

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words and for visiting my garden.

We have 2 compost bins that we use for our garden. And also use the deep mulch method. However, harvesting potatoes & jicamas are hard on us physically. So my husband created large wooden bins (on 4x4 legs), with trap doors. After the fall harvest of potatoes, I planted lettuces & spinach. We enjoy that until the winter weather stops them from growing. But early spring they regrow and as early as the first of March, we got more spinach. Lettuce is regrowing too.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

Great tip, I will be there soon. Thank you for visiting my deep mulch garden story.

Glad you put this one out, it'll save me some replanting. Keep up the videos.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

4 жыл бұрын

I was waiting until it got warm enough. I am glad my mistake can help.

I appreciate your easy techniques!!!

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! Thank you for visiting my gardening.

Great job on the sweet potatoes.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Thank you for the tips

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome. I am trying to show more than a "how to.." but also the results. These are the slips that I harvested this fall. Thank you for watching and commenting.

You did a good job ,from Frankfurt, Germany.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Frankfurt, nice. Thank you for watching and saying, "Hi"

aaaawww i just found a lovely channel! thanks sir!

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

You are very kind. I am glad you like it. Thank you for watching.

Eu amo seus vídeos 🥰

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Muito obrigado e obrigado por visitar meu jardim. (Thank you so much and thank you for visiting my garden.)

Very good

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for watching.

Did anyone comment yet about planting seeet potatoes on a ridge of soil? That should make harvesting easier too. Interesting to see your mulching technique and planting technique here with sweet potatoes.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

No. I used to till and make traditionally furrows. I had no luck with sweet potatoes and regular potato harvests still needed to be dug. The deep mulch, no till and minimal dig is making my clay soil softer and softer. I had thought of starting with a hill of compost and some that were planted were actually more in compost than straight soil. I am going to plant the same way this year and see what I get. Do you have luck planting on a ridge? Thank you for stopping by my garden and for the great question.

Okay thanks for letting me know about it 🙂

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you again, I hope my video was helpful.

glad to know about the sweet potato slips losing leaves. I though I had killed mine!

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

4 жыл бұрын

It freaked me out the 1st time it happened. I procrastinated on tossing them when I realized they were not dead and it didn't take too long and you could see new leaves starting. Now I just expect it.

A new sub here I love to try your method here in the Philippines we pant the cutting 😊

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. You can use any organic material to create you deep mulch.

Ya mulching is good. It’s really important when the town maybe let’s you only water twice a month. You need something to help retain moisture. Don’t forget to try adding some fungi like dynomyco. I’m going to try it to add some diversity and some worm casting tea spray.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

Great tips thank you for visiting my garden.

Looks good Wayland, ive got a 3x8 foot raised bed bout 18 inches deep. Im growing " Mahon Yams". They are called yams but are sweet potatoes. My first time growing sweet potatoes. Good luck from Orange, Tx., Mike.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, I would like to know how you do with them. Please let me know.

@michaeldoucetsr.8704

3 жыл бұрын

@@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant Will do. Pulling them up in 2 weeks.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldoucetsr.8704 Nice thank you.

Thank you for

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

I am glad you stopped by my garden. I started with the deep mulch because I hate to weed. To my surprise it also really helped with all the plants.

Hvala

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Drago mi je da ste uživali u mom videu. (I am glad you enjoyed my video.)

Isn't the sweet potato versatile?! There are so many many ways of starting a crop it's amazing! My favorite. You can even stirfry the leaves.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Yes they are amazing. What is your best stirfry recipe? Thank you for visiting my garden.

Thanks again Wayland ,thats what i needed , im not at all sure about the didtance between each plant though .im guessing 3 feet ?? cheers

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

I think you can plant pretty close together. I try and imagine foot ball sized tubers and try to space accordingly. This year I should have planted a bunch more than I did.

This is how you plant sweet potatoes ☺️

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I am very happy that it worked. Thank you again for watching.

Thank you. I love your instructions. But now, I need to know how long does takes for a sweet potato to get large enough to eat. I don't know how to tell when to harvest. Should I be looking for something the leaves do? I'm in Florida.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

Around 100 to 120 days. If you mark where you plant your slip so you can find it when the vines really start growing you can check the hill from time to time. After 2 to 2 1/2 months you should start seeing the tops of a potato or 2. Depending on how big you want them to grow. For me, I plant on Memorial Day and try to wait until my first frost or until I trip over one, I go the full 4 months and it is difficult. Hope that is helpful.

Thank you for this video. I was so confused with the difference in planting potatoes and sweet potatoes. I bought slips and planted in burlap bags. The vines are beautiful now. Can I mound dirt over the vines to make more sweet potatoes? Can I cut the vines and root them? Leann from Louisiana.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Yes and yes...everywhere the vine contacts the soil it will root. You can cut the vine and just stick it into the soil. It will look punny for a week as it makes roots but then it will take off. Please let me know how they do and thank you for coming to my garden for a visit.

@theverch1

3 жыл бұрын

@@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant thanks so much. They have really grown. Will take cutting tomorrow to root and then place more dirt is burlap sack. How do I send picture as I’ve seen you suggest. New subscriber.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

@@theverch1 Waylandsmalley5@gmail.com I will add them to the Saturday video if you would like. Thank you again.

Sweet potato slips (3 different types) I ordered online arrived very root bounded. Do you know if I was suppose to plant them straight like that after resting in water? I tried to massage and open it up so the roots would be free. Often times I damaged the thin rooting so I can losen it up. I wasnt sure what to do. Still waiting for the harvest

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

You shouldn't hurt them by breaking them apart. You can actually stick a slip in the ground with no roots and they will grow and make potatoes. I plant that way and also rooted in water and the early ones I up pot to keep the roots expanding. Let me know how they do for you.

What part of Oklahoma do you live in? I live in southern central Oklahoma.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

7 ай бұрын

Northeast corner. Thank you for visiting my garden story.

I see you have a lot of mulch, where did you find those?

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

Where ever I can. Thank you for visiting my deep mulch garden story.

Does my potato in the glass have to be in direct sunlight?

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

I had them on the kitchen counter and that might have direct light for 30 min. You will want to pot them up as the roots get bigger.

How can I make a good mulch bed?

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

I am adding the play list of how I make / made my mulch. I hope this helps. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qHmmscRvZpu3iZM.html

Hi, I have a small hill of dirt, how deep of amended soil do I need?

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

My deep mulch starts out at least 4 inches thick or thicker. The worms break it down very fast so I have to keep adding. I don't use any fertalizer. I hope that is helpful. Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

@keales9564

2 жыл бұрын

@@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant thank you! So if it's only soil, my amended soil should be at least 4"? Did the potatoes grow deeper than that?

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

@@keales9564 Are you direct sowing in the ground. I had several that grew down over 12 inches, most were 9 to 10 inches. The mulch on top of the soil is a minimum of 4 inches. See if this helps. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ooN_vMZmoZuwZ8Y.html

What mulch are you using,please?

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. This is a quick video about the mulch I use. I also have a couple more videos but start with this. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qHmmscRvZpu3iZM.html

What is your mulch composed of? Looks grassy, but is there more on there? I'm doing compost, leaves and wood chips for my cover and hope to get a better yield on sweet potatoes next year.

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

3 жыл бұрын

I started with all leaves the 1st winter, that summer the leaves were breaking down faster than I was anticipating so I started adding fresh cut grass and old hay when I could get it. last fall, going into the second winter I again used all the leaves I could gather and started using a lot of wood chips along with spreading in the grass. Going into this winter I will again gather all the leaves I can and mix with the grass I have been collecting all summer. I have a pile of wood chips which I will also add along with a round bale of hay and several square bales of old straw. We also compost along the uphill side of the garden. You can find all those videos if you look thru my channel. Thank you for watching.

Which month grow sweet potato

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

In my zone, 7 a/b, right in the middle of America, I can only grow sweet potatoes in the frost free months. I planted these on May 24th and Harvested them on Oct. 3rd. If I had the weather, I would grow them all year round. When do you grow yours?

How deep do you have to dig down?

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

Actually sweet potato slips can be planted as deep as you want the entire stem roots. However the deeper you plant the deeper you must go to get your potatoes. Thank you for visiting my garden story.

Do you fertilize the sweet potatoes

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

No fertilizer at all for anything in the garden. Deep mulch feeds the life in the soil which feeds the plants. I have many episodes on mulch and the living soil.

@judyhowell7075

Жыл бұрын

Mine started with wood chips years ago, slowly building.Using rye as my cover crop now. Raised beds planted with cabbage, kale, carrots and beets

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

@@judyhowell7075 That is excellent. I had only leaves my 1st year in the deep mulch. Now, what ever I can get.

@judyhowell7075

Жыл бұрын

Remember planting potatoes in wood chips, they grew very well

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

Жыл бұрын

@@judyhowell7075 And they pull up clean.

How can I get a slip from you?

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for visiting my garden. Send me a note at waylandsmalley5@gmail.com

@jenlachance4570

2 жыл бұрын

Sent email

Pls reply me

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

I try and answer all comments since people are nice enough to send me comments.

Pls 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏 reply

@waylandsmalleycomeonletsplant

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for stopping by my garden for a visit. I hope you are enjoying all my sweet potato episodes.