GROWING SWEET POTATOES IN CONTAINERS GUIDE
potatoes how to grow them in containers
and once you see how easy it is you'll
be pleasantly surprised growing sweet
potatoes is very easy just use some
sweet potatoes from the grocery store
and keep them in a glass of water within
a few days you're going to see these
roots emerging from the bottom of the
sweet potato and the plants and the
leaves growing from the top this is when
it's ready to be transplanted into
containers
so we translated one of them to one
container you can even cut off various
pieces as long as there are roots and
plants and leaves and Transplant them in
multiple containers they will grow
pretty fast and easy
once planted all you need to make sure
is they get enough water you don't want
to water log it but just make sure
they're getting enough water I've used a
drip irrigation system here
within a few weeks you're going to see
that the sweet potato plant is going to
keep growing into a wine and you can
either train the wines or just let them
grow all over the place it doesn't
really matter as the vine keeps growing
the sweet potatoes are continuing to
form below the surface of the soil
when the vines start dying off or when
it's been about three months or so the
sweet potatoes are ready for harvest if
you see here the soil is pretty rich
that's because I've used a lot of
compost here you don't really need to
use any fertilizers but sweet potato is
a root plant so you might want to use
some rock phosphate if your soil is not
rich enough I have grown these sweet
potatoes in compost and soil and hardly
use any fertilizers here with good
compost material in your growing medium
you're going to see a lot of activity in
the soil you're going to see worms the
minerals the plants are able to absorb
the minerals really well so that's the
benefit of having good soil
so that harvest looks pretty good in a
container of this size you can expect to
get a few pieces of sweet potatoes the
longer you let these plants grow the
more sweet potatoes it's going to keep
producing and make sure you get all the
sweet potatoes that are there some of
these sweet potatoes could be hiding
deep inside now while you see this
harvest let me give you a trip
most of the route plants like sweet
potatoes in taro root potatoes anything
that's under the ground they need a lot
of phosphate so if you feel that you're
not getting a good yield what I would
suggest is enriching the soil with some
source of phosphate let's continue to
harvest the remaining sweet potatoes
making sure we don't leave any behind
you're free to wear gloves if you want
to when you're digging into your
container I just like using my hands it
just makes me feel closer to nature it
makes me feel closer to what I'm doing
you think we got most of it now
there we go that's our harvest that
looks pretty good it's all ready to be
washed and we could turn these into some
delicious dishes so there's a harvest
and sweet potatoes taste very delicious
when they're roasted with the skin on or
you can bake them they're very healthy
and very nice
