How to Grow Sweet Potato Successfully -- It's Super EASY!

Check out my updated videos on growing SWEET POTATOES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDct9rvUjms&list=PLoSpQyzz2s7ymJrqZlZ9-6z6Me_P7vE0G&index=11

For those that don't know you can eat sweet potato leaves, they are comparable to spinach and many people grow them just for the leaves and not the SP to use in salads or as wraps like lettuce or anywhere you would use spinach.

My grandpa gave me a cardboard box of sweet potatoes from his garden (to eat) but I left them in on top of my rain barrel for several weeks and forgot about them. When I discovered them I figured they wouldn't be any good but to my surprise, they had all grown some tubers. I had 8 of them so I made 8 mounds from my compost pile in a large circle about 20 feet in diameter. In a few DAYS, all of them had tons of leaves growing. They have been in the ground now a month and are growing out of control. The vines have run across the ground to the neighboring mound and have sort of connected. It looks really cool. I had no clue how to grow them but it seems like I did exactly the right thing.

A few weeks ago I bought a sweet potato at the grocery store. I kinda forgot about it. Then when I decided to eat it, it had shoots all over it. I was ready to pitch it but then I felt guilty and cruel because it had so many shoots. You can tell it was so determined to live so I planted it. :)

Great job, thanks for including all the info i needed in a concise way, and not burying the 4 important things in an hour long video of fodder and chat, keep growing! Keep teaching! You’re good at it!

I would like to thank Wendi Phan for this great concise, quick moving video that explains HOW to cultivate sweet potato, sharing several techniques, as well as her clever suggestion that sweet potato can make an attractive ground cover with attractive flowers.

i was given a clipping from a sweet potato vine a couple years back. I basically stuck the cut end in the ground and walked away. I watered the bed a few times but not with any sort of regularity. A few months later, lo and behold, sweet potatoes. Not many but a few.

This is the fifth video I’ve watched on growing sweet potato slips - going with this one. Thanks!

This is the best sweet potato video I have seen on the internet. Yes, they are part of the morning glory family. I love morning glory 's. I planted scarlet one's this spring and waiting for them to soon bloom so I can take pictures of them as I do every year. You do a beautiful job. Thank you for sharing.🥰🌺

Thank you. I’ve grown sweet potatoes from slips before, but never from the actual potato. Lot of people here in Hawaii grown them.

You mentioned that you cannot grow sweet potatoes from vine cuttings, but I proved that you can. After I harvested my first container crop, I decided to save some of the cuttings. I put them in water and they rooted. When the roots were about 6 inches in length, I planted them, and I now have my second crop of container grown sweet potatoes ready for harvest in about two weeks. I dug around in the soil yesterday and there are sweet potatoes in there. This was an experiment to see if I could use the vine cuttings, and it worked.

Been growing sweet potatoes for 4 years and buying my slips. I've looked at other instructions but this was the best I've found! Great job! No more buying slips for me. Wife was tired of my water jars too. Will try dirt to grow next season.

Thanks so much for your great video - and all the printed info too! Wish I had known about your video before I tried to grow slips on my own. You seem truly happy and it is a joy to see your happy face.

Finally,someone who accurately showed obtaining slips etc. well done , thanks

Thank you!!! This worked like a charm!!! 😁👌 Waaay more effective than the toothpick and water method!

THANK YOU IM A FIRST TIME GARDENER IM STOCKTON CALIFORNIA AND I JUST FOUND YOUR PAGE AND YOU MADE EVERYTHING SO CLEAR

Best video I have seen on planting sweet potatoes by far. Thank you!

The e best harvest I've had is when I laid down clear plastic covering to heat the soil up. I previously used black covering. It's obvious why clear is better.

This is the very easy plants that I can planted on any kind of container . Yours grows healthy.

I am in southern california zone 10b. In my zone, they grow year round. The vines never turn yellow to indicate that it's ready to be harvested, instead I have to keep track of when I planted which one when, so I know when to harvest. Just before harvesting, I started new plants from vine cuttings and still get the tubers. I also found that the vines that just get harvested can be replanted and will produce some more tubers.