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Uploaded by on Oct 14, 2008

how to grow sweet potatoes

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  • You guys are going to have alot of potatoes to eat. I live in MD, do you think I will have a problem growing them? thanks.

  • @huhouse check out google on "how to grow sweet potatoes in Maryland." There is some very helpful information. You can do it.

  • What are you going to do with all of those sweet potatoes? They only keep for around 6 months or so, so if you're not distributing them to others, you're going to have sweet potato madness.

  • Actually, when they are properly seasoned following harvest, they will keep for a year or so. In our case they kept for a year and in the process we fed a lot of people. The Lord is good.

  • What method do you use to cure the potatoes?

  • Check George Washing Carver "How to cure sweet potatoes" on Google. Also, check the same question to Mississippi agriculture and you'll find very good suggestions.

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  • Lovely couple with a lovely garden! Thank you for the informative video!

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  • Like to try them here..western wet washington state

  • @AKAGl note that curing and storing are entirely different. We cure at 85% humidity between 70 and 80 degrees for roughly 7 days then store at 65ish degrees 85-90% humidity. We have no problem storing for a year below 65F.

  • Yum! That is very inspiring!

  • Loved your video! You two are an adorable couple. I'm going to try sweet potatoes this year and your video was informative and heart warming...a good way for me to start. Thanks!!

  • You guys are so cute! I hope my husband and I are like that when we are ya'll age :)

  • What a classy couple. Gardner's are true heroes not people that chase leather balls!

  • I'm in love with the both of you. Hope you enjoyed every bit of those sweet taters!!

  • I love this video! Not only is it informative, but it's charming as heck!!

  • We here in South FL let our sweet potato vines keep producing

    year-round. We add slips as I grow 'em from chunks of sweet potatoes

    soaked in water. They make huge slips off a little chunk in a can.

    We turn over shovelfuls of earth to get sweet potatoes for

    curing & add a few new slips and some rich compost then.

    Its amazing the life sweet potatoes have in 'em! One time I harvested

    the crop, then covered 'em up completely with compost. In a few

    days the vines poked thru & started again!

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