5 Tips How to Grow a Ton of Sweet Potato in One Container or Garden Bed

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1:20 in the Philippines we mix the sweet potato leaves with tomatoes and onions with a vinaigrette, a side salad for fried fish or meat (ensaladang talbos ng kamote) 😊

Anyone else love the word “whipper-snipper? Way better than “weed-whacker”.

My first season of growing sweet potatoes. Thank you for putting this content out there to help folks like me. I look forward to see what I am blessed with in 3-4 months.

My grandfather taught me a great trick for picking/harvesting. He taught me to snip each vine, leaving a good foot of vine still in the soil so I can see where the potatoes will be. Then I carefully dig down with a shovel, a few feet away, and pretty soon I'll see where the bunches are. I always save enough potatoes through the winter and start my slips in the spring. I don't think I've bought slips for about 10 years because I just keep growing, getting slips, and so on.

The sweet potato leaves are amazingly sweet. Here in Zambia we eat the leaves all year round. The more you harvest, the more it grows.

First time growing sweet potatoes for food. The Pandemic isn't giving us a break from high prices, and the stores are jacking up our food bill. I see it this way, if anyone can grow sweet potatoes it's this 72 year-old woman. My family needs food, and I'm not going to sit back and wish I could help. I see it this way, at least I'm trying to provide. My huge backyard just became a new Victory Garden. Forget the rules of planting ..just get it in the ground and see what grows. My grandchildren need to learn how to grow food, and granny needs to show them how easy it can be to feed our family. God be with you all...get out there and grow something.

My sister bought a house and the agent's contractor cleaned up the yard, and it had grass all over. After the first few weeks these big leaf plants grew out of the lawn, so I moved them down. Again and again. It was only later that I learned that they were taro (sweet potato). Even if you mow them down, they still come back. Always dig them up, and rotate their garden beds.

Americans need to start using the term “whipper snipper” instead of “weed eater” haha I love it

"a whipper snipper." American here enjoying these Australian terms.

I grew sweet potato in fabric pots. We had mice tunnel underneath and up through the pot. They ate every tiny bit of the tubers. Despite this, the vines had not even died. That is how much these things want to live.

I am just starting my own little garden and cant wait for my sweet potatos to grow! Thanks for the tips!!

Hey, its Mercy from Kenya. I like that you are growing those tubers the same way we do here. I would like to suggest you leave some in the sun for a few days and notice the difference in taste. That is a tip we use to increase both sugar content and durability out here. Pls let me know if u do. Thanx and all the best.

the fact that he played on the "morning glory" pun, just concretes his legend status!

Sweet potato can be a never ending plant. Before we harvest, we take the runners in half metre clippings and put them straight in the ground keeping the dirt moist for several days until it roots.

My mum grows sweet potato in a shallow self made raised garden bed and harvests the leaves for stir fry. She doesn't bother harvesting the roots at all. She managed to be completely self sufficient for fruit and vege in her tiny garden that's smaller than most retirement cottage equivalents.

I am Native American. I suggest you plant Tobacco plants in your garden. It is a natural Pesticide. It became a Holy plant, because it protected crops....a gift or blessing from the Great Spirit. Most gardens have less pests if they have Tobacco plants. I don't know about Australia...but I think it would be worth a try. I liked your video.

Sweet potato leaves are edible like spinach. What I do when harvesting, is cut the top two feet of vines and remove the bottom four leaves then put in a tall vase full of water and in just a week you will have fine roots to start your new sweet potato patch. Stir-frying the leaves with garlic or miso is delicious. You can freeze extra leaves if you have more than you can eat at one time. Aloha!

I love the fact you give honest advice. You don't try to structure your video in way that tries to sell us a gardening product. Keep up the good work. Wishing you a bountiful harvest in everything that you do.