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Haha thanks brother! You just never know what you get with sweet potatoes each and every year. Always a joy!

Haha I actually caught myself when I called it a spade but it was getting dark fast so to heck with it. Most of my clips are in one take Haa. Thank you more vids on the way!

Haha when you got a busy family it’s always in one take man. Congrats on your harvest we had an ok one but I realized they need a lot of water. Next year will be better.

@@BoomsBlooms yes thanks! These containers were perhaps in the hottest spot of the yard...and with the extreme heat this year, maybe it was too much for them. Will try again in a different location and perhaps experiment with watering more/less.

It's a potato fork or graip

Question: is there any low nitrogen soil that you know of?

I dumped the rest of soil out to recycle the soil to use for next year. Unfortunately there was a bunch of tiny roots with not a single potato sighh.

@@natbackyardgarden What I normally do is NOT cut the sweet potato leaves. But dump out the container to check if Swete potatoes have grown If only very small, or just thick roots like what you had put it all back into the container and allow it to grow for another few months. Try to limit the growth of the leaves once they spread out enough so the plant puts it energy into producing swete potato and not more leaves

Thanks for the tip! That’s what my mom told old me also haha. The soil perhaps was too heavily amended with the good stuff.

Haha good luck! That's what make it so fun. If you see a lot of vines from that container......then i'll pray for ya lol.

@@natbackyardgarden Thank you! Great video! God Bless you!

These large container were in an area with almost full direct sunlight during the day. Will try again next season with a few in different area of the yard.

Yes sir, that is what I am doing this year to about 6 containers tub. Can't wait to show the results with much less nitrogen!

Oh hey that's awesome, we are also residing in Canyon now! I grow them from slips from our previous year sweet potatoes harvest, but I got it started a few years ago by ordering them on ebay from mostly Florida sellers.

Hi! Yes I will have a few tips for ya. For our area do not even attempt to plant them until the temperature is much warmer in May. If you are planting in ground, then a raised bed would be ideal. If in ground then make sure to till the soil and make it very loose and sort of raised it up as a soil berm. They will do well when planted in a compost mixed soil, but make sure not to feed it with any type of heavy nitrogen fertlizer in the early stages. Fertilizer low in nitrogen and high in phosphorus will be ideal.

if not sprouting slips, put on heat mat that worked for me.