How to Grow Sweet Potatoes Plants in Large Tubs or Containers

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Growing Sweet Potatoes In Containers-Digging -Curing-Storing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E9RBpJ-P4U

Growing sweet potato plants in containers works provided you have a deep enough and large enough containers.

I planted several sweet potato plants in this container, vardamen and beaurgard varieties, both are excellent tasting.

Sweet Potatoes can get pretty big within a season, I have had some sweet potatoes that I planted in the ground the size of a football, and that is no lie.. I really don't like them to get that big but if I wait till our first frost this can happen.

So I decided this year to try my luck of planting sweet potatoes in containers, and it turns out it works.

Sweet Potato plants like heat and sun conditions , and I found they like plenty of moisture too.

You can harvest your sweet potatoes usually after the first frost however I wouldn't be afraid to check them earlier.

Without pulling out the entire plant and digging the whole plant, just go alongside the mounded plant and use a trough and see if you can find a few .

Now with the sweet potatoes in a container it may be a little trickier to dig but still doable.

The plastic container I planted the sweet potatoes in was approximately 3ft around x2ft deep , I wanted to make sure it would be large enough. This seems to work .

I will make another video when I actually harvest the sweet potatoes, which should be soon.

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[mazerrackham001]

Could you tell us how many slips you plant in containers of that size? Did you just plant one per bucket or did you plant a few and pull the smaller ones a month or so later or did you leave multiple plants to grow to term in each pot?

[dianemummvideos]

@mazerrackham001 I believe I put 3-4 into this large container, these are space saving sweet potatoes..

[Daisypie101]

put my sweet potato in the soil without putting it in water and stuff would it still grow?

please reply

[dianemummvideos]

@Daisypie101 , as just a potato not sure, I usually plants slips which is already started sweet potato plants.. some people place the sweet potato in a jar of water and let it sprout shoots , then root the slips or shoots and then plant .. experiment with it to see what works..

[32323kb]

oh yea we got sweet potatoes

[BrianLuper]

Cool! I'll try a few 55 gallon plastic drums cut in half this next spring and see what happens. We always get the slips from small tubers we have stored in the fridge over the winter. Around May after sitting in water since March, we cut the sprouts off with a little sweet potato still attached to the slip and plant them......Works every time.

[Daisypie101]

@dianemummvideos thank u soooo much i hope u do it

[Daisypie101]

@dianemummvideos well can i do a slip right now? or can i grow my sweet potato now?

please reply

[louisamrojas]

best sweet potatoes is from asia