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Maybe the structure didn’t work because it’s not enough high above the ground

Did they ever move into your birdhouse?

fills up pretty quick

To thise who dont know!!! Sweet potatoe leaves and vines both are edible and very good for you!! If you ha e a wi dow woth st least 5-6 hrs of sun in a room you keep warm! You can havest leavew.continually woth it as a HOUSE PLANT for up to 5 years!

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The shelter you made doesn't have the privacy for these birds to feel safe. The log house has many joists where the birds can separate and find private areas to nest. I make my own little shelter boxes and separate them 5 feet apart. They can't look back and forth and see each other and they don't want to be in plain view of crows. Privacy is the secret to being successful.

I can testify that the lasting quality and the taste and texture of those sweet potatoes was great and the biggest on that I got was still delicious next spring. I am going to try this too.

Did they ever move back?

Hay or Straw, which was it ? There is a difference,

Looks like adding the dirt made everything harder than just using the hay bales, right? Even making the editing a problem? 😁

I hope they use the bird house you built. It seems like a nice thing

We plant the vines.. no necessary special things

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Having 2nd thoughts on growing sweet potatoes in straw bales. I don't want to destroy my bales harvesting them. If I rip up my bales to harvest, I have no way to re-bale the straw for next year. And have nothing but a big mess to deal with.

You could try planting them denser if you want smaller sweet potatoes. I bet you could almost double your harvest by planting them closer. The nutrients will be shared by more tubers, so they won't be able to get nearly as big. Those are some whoppers! Very impressive :)

how was the taste and texture of the sweet potato as they are so very big ? ? ? Please thanks

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Few hint about sweet potato: a) sweet potato is tropical plant & need at least 4 full month of warm climate b) most tuber (sweet potato, regular sweet potato, carrot, ginger etc) love rich & loose soil From your bale sweet potato harvest, i can tell that you meet those 2 growing requirement. Wish the best your next (this season) harvest

That's got to be a Blue Ribbon winner!

How did they taste?

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Are you trying again this yr? I have slips rooted, but none planted yet. I'm a fellow hoosier in North Vernon, Indiana.

This video was so Awesome!!!

QUESTION: anyone: First time sweet potato grower😁 Do the sweet potatoes grow at the base of the plant only? Or will they develop all along the trailing vines if they root in the soil? Im torn between planting in mineral tubs and growing the vines up my coop both for shade for the chickens and to control the crazy. Or Plant them with my pumpkins so they can go crazy together in half the space. The SP will develop in the ground and the pumpkins on top. It's a huge patch of loose fluffy barn compost from all winter long, with a balanced mineral amendment to balance it out so nutrient competition won't be a problem.

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Last year my sweet potatos escaped the huge pots i was growing them in. They do every year. But i ended up lifting the pavers in my yard to find a bigger bonanza of sweets. One must have been 5 #. I ignored it for a month but ended up slicing it and baking it with chicken and it was the sweetest purple potato i have ever grown. Love the idea of hay bales if i could only find some here in the city. Great work! Good food!

Americans digging potatoes with tractors.. My grandma would dig that by hand in 15 minutes. You would have to get down there and sort them out anyway.

Perhaps the insolation of the bales kept your soil slightly warmer and sweet potatoes like that?

My brother and I discussed this. We had a round bale sitting beside the potato potato patch, and the potatoes beside it grew much better. We decided it was acting as a sponge and released water as the potatoes needed it.

The hay probably rotted some and gave the plants extra nutrition. Potatoes prefer calcium rich soils and the pile technique (basically they do best in soft dirt freshly agitated every year)

A few questions and ideas. Did you notice if there was a difference of where in the pile the big ones grew? What I'm wondering is if they grew towards the top where the soil was looser and near the leafy part of the vine maybe they got more nutrients. Might "peek" at them after "x" amount of time to check size. Would it be possible to harvest a couple, by cutting the vine feeding them and pull them out of the soil once you have seen that they were a size you were happy with. What zone are you in? Not sure we could expect this as we are in zone 4. I would love it if we could. May have to find a way, hoop house? The bales may have kept the temperature more constant for the sweet potatoes and the soil was looser due to having bale walls not more dirt to the side so they could grow bigger. Use. If you have some that are small, slice them thin, soak for about 20 minutes and then dry until very crisp. They make good snacks, kinda like potato chips but better for us. One can use different seasonings as well. This also works with zucchini. Thanks for a GREAT Video!

100 pounds took 4-5 days,,what tools were you using a plastic spoon?????

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I wouldn't do it like that because of rodents, but maybe thats not an issue where you live since it looks quite dry. Its getting pretty common to just use 30 litre buckets with drainage holes in the bottom. When its time to harvest you simply turn them over like a sandcastle mould lol, due to the area being just right size all the roots hold the soil in place so you can sieve through with your hands to extract the potatoes with ease and in record time, bonus of no digging and no need for tools either. Your carrots won't like that heat, they would probably require shade during mid sun in your climate

Did you break down the bales before plant? If you sprinkle the stem end of the bale with nitrogen every 3 days for a couple weeks . It will start the break down inside the bale. And you have to turn them cut side up. And yes if they have loose soil they will grow huge

Has anyone successfully grown sweet potatoes in zone 4b/5a? We do have a geodesic dome greenhouse, but I still can’t seem to figure it out.

To grow in the hay bales requires heavy treatment with nitrogen before planting. I've seen it produce quite well when done correctly, though.

Fascinating! I will give it a try. A recipe we like: soup - sweet potatoes in combination with winter squash, chilis, coconut milk, ginger and tumeric. 😋

I planted mine in mineral tubs with the bottoms cut out, all I had to do was lift them straight up and the potatoes were all right there and not much digging at all! Except for the sweet potatoes, they were growing everywhere and I still had to dig them! Some were quite large as well!! Good harvest!!

I liked that video always an adventure

Harvest sooner for smaller pitatoes.

That's how they grow it in Korea. The old tradition is also to use urea before planting in them.

I grew sweet potatoes in a very small raised bed once but didn't get great results. I live in Colorado though. I bet it's your good climate and those hay bails that got you such fantastic results. That compost looks good too

I enjoyed the video this year I had 1.8 kg sweet potato in raise rock beds . We're your starting to age like the big 1 u had looked green on 1 side . Mine are a great taste 😋

I sure hope you used those old bales and all that pile of tops to make compost for the next round of sweet spuds! And the skins if you skin them before cooking, etc. To even out your production glut, consider using the New Guinea method of rotational growing. The only difference for you would be starting new slips by standing tubers in small jars of water in a window during late winter so you have green growing slips to poke into the ground first thing when frosts are over. But you would just add one bale length to your row, make the compost right there, then set two slips in it. Just push them elbow-deep so their tops are just sticking out. Then start a new pair of bales and a new compost heap. You don't have to let all that leaf volume grow. You can use a spade to chop them off beside their bales. Drop all that chopped material into your next compost heap. along with old bale material and kitchen scraps. BY that means you will have a progressive harvest and not have to do a major anthropological dig at the end of the season. When your freeze is coming, just pile all manner of compostable materials over the top of existing young vines like more compost material, cardboard, fresh animal manure that needs time to mature. Then when the thaw comes, add some fresh chicken manure and it should all heat up to promote a restart of new growth. Any mature roots underground might be ready for harvest almost straight away. And so the cycle would start again.

you just let them grow too long... they could have been harvested at the same time you harvested the other potatoes.

any similar of Ruth Imogen Stout (14jun1884/22aug1980) ??

Awesome! Gonna try this!