Growing Sweet Potato Slips UK

An easy way of growing your own sweet potato plants.

[@thelionofjudah6175]

Thank you. Nice to see an English gardener for a change

[@MaZhou1980]

This is the first video that was straight to the point and offered excellent advice! I have this oversized organic sweet potato that I wanted to plant but couldn’t find a container large enough to put it in. Answer: cut that bad boy in half lol! Thanks guy

[@cindyantiquey6908]

Finally a video that makes sense, and doesn't drone on!

[@ChelSimplylifeinuk]

I'm From Philippines currently living now in UK, Sweet Potatoes One of our common rootcrops and my favorite as well, Specially the leaves it's verry healthy since I arrive here I didn't eat the green leaves of the potatoes So I wanted to plant , and this channel verry helfpul and clear explanation..I hope I can grow soon.😊 Thanks xx

[@juliankent4805]

Do you eat the leaves?

[@ChelSimplylifeinuk]

@@juliankent4805 Yes, you can stem then put vinegar,Tomato,onion ..or you can cook like fry with soy sauce..

[@BARBWOOF]

Ta.. for eating leaves advice..

[@andykostynowicz]

I grew sweet potatoes this year from a potato that had started shooting in the veg rack. It was the Purple variety. I ended up with about 5 potatoes from the 1 plant. Ps it was grown in the greenhouse.

[@shirleyb.marvelharrison2728]

Thank you for sharing this my friend

[@Mutumiangatha]

Thank you, very simple and direct. Much appreciated

[@cindysquirrelloffgrid9514]

thank you, i've watched a lot of videos on growing sweet potatoes, yours is the best

[@artgat652]

this is the best tutorial i’ve seen on growing sweet potatoes and i’ve already seen a lot! thank you!

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Thankyou! 👍🏻

[@delphinium5555]

definitely

[@oliviastar3812]

@@gotropicaluk8362 Please give us some updates on the sweet tato front 2024?

[@sueholmes8375]

Hi, great video thanks! Im attempting sweet potatoes and butternut squash this year for the first time...wish me luck 🙈...

[@Aswathyish]

This is like therapy. Love your channel!

[@BeFree-BeFrugal]

Thank you for your easy step video , I grow in the UK

[@egyptnepthys5177]

Excellent. You’ve gone through the very basics of rooting. The best sweet potato video on you’ve.

[@denisefoster01df]

Hi, your stem was the first one I watch on sweet potatoes 🍠, I have slips now three was, half sweet potatoes and full in water, and some in damp soil, all have work, but my word it has taken about four months, I have just planted three slips in my poly tunnel and waiting for more slips, I have thoroughly enjoyed watch you, thank you for sharing, I am new at veg growing this April 😅

[@johnpower2018]

Explained very well. Not like the other video I watched where the guy wasted my time with a bunch of "experiments"

[@AfroGannon]

Very nice video! I owe you a tenner for how informative this was.

[@moniquevandeplas5210]

And lastly your video was so nice to watch and listen to. Thank you!

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Your welcome.👍🏻

[@googoo554]

Briilliant video, nice and clear and concise. Many thanks

[@phamthivananh2847]

Great video, thank you! I'm originally from the tropics and missing sweet potato green (stir fried with garlic). I tried growing sweet potato last year with no success (even though I live in the SE). I also soaked tubers in water but didn't cut them in half. Next time I'll follow your advice and hope they'll produce a lot more slips and leaves :).

[@kirahagan270]

You are my new guru. I am from Panama and therefore very keen to grow what I can’t find in the supermarkets! My daughter looooves sweet potatoes so will give it a go! Thank you you are a good teacher:)

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Your most welcome. Glad you found the video helpful! All the best with your growing adventure! Chris

[@cmcc7144]

Best video. Straight to the point. Thanks

[@VladymirSL]

Thank you for putting this video up!

[@johnsmith-zf1fd]

you are the gordon ramsey of uk gardening. we salute, sir

[@gotropicaluk8362]

john smith 😂 I don’t think my gardening comes anywhere close to his standard of cooking, nor my use of colourful language! But, I do like to try and think outside the box when it comes to gardening, try new things, and with climate change, altering our seasons, we need to be open to growing different vegetables and fruit. We are able to get hold of more interesting plants now, compared to 10 or 20 years ago, so I do feel we should take advantage of that! Thanks for your comment. All the best. Chris

[@theondebray]

Nice, clear, simple, informative, thanks.

[@gee3883]

Just found your channel in time for this season, nice one, I will give this a blast.

[@TerraKiev]

The best video on how to grow sweet potato

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Your welcome! Glad to help.

[@Skittlesskittles-om6hp]

I love how you talk and explain the whole process...🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@tintaglia8213]

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[@ladyu.p4268]

Nice and simple 👌🏽

[@craigwilkinson8204]

Great instructional video - thankyou :-)

[@chainsain_faunachainproject]

Great Vid, thank you yes growing sweet potato slips is actually very easy, the leaves are great in salads. The are also great for Tortoises, Torts often suffer from Vitamin A deficiency, Sweet Potato leaves are very high in Vitamin A. Might be great to mention pet benefits for growing plants indoors in the UK, to reach more audience 😉 Also, I have have success growing shop bought non organic Sweet Potatoes too 😄

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Always glad to meet a fellow sweet potato grower.👍🏻

[@balanceskateboarding8807]

Hey how's your sweet potato plant doing? Did you cut it in half? I have a store bought sweet potato plant basically at the same stage yours was at last year! I've just broken off the tall vine with leaves placed Into glass of water. The potato itself has tons of roots coming out of the bottom! Any idea what to do with it now? Should I grow outdoors in UK soil or indoors in a tub? How long does it take until harvest? Do you ever get new tubers when you harvest?

[@chainsain_faunachainproject]

@@balanceskateboarding8807 Eeek, mine did not last through winter unfortunately, I have some more sprouting now

[@TangoCat303]

Thank you! So clear and simple. Easily the best video I've seen on the subject.

[@gotropicaluk8362]

TangoCat303 your welcome! Glad it was of use to you.👍🏻

[@lynnereece]

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[@jennajohnson3571]

I STARTED MY SWEET POTATOES IN JARS IN MY HAY BARN TO KEEP THEM WARM & COZY !

[@roomaloo]

Such a great video. I've had 6 sweet potatoes on the side for 3 months waiting for me to get round to starting the growing process. You've just given me the extra push to start. ta. Stumbled across it whilst looking for info on how to prune my pomegranate bush that I have from a seed sown from a supermarket fruits 5 years ago. Then also seen your citrus, kiwi, ginger and dragonfruit vids all off which I've got on the go at the mo too here on the English Welsh border. Nice one :-D

[@gotropicaluk8362]

robert taylor thanks. It’s great to hear other people trying to grow something different. All the best with your sweet potatoes! Regards Chris

[@roomaloo]

Ta. Hopefully I'll have more success than with the coffee. Have tried that 3 times. Got rootlets but never shoots. Won't stop me from trying though :-)

[@53peace]

So many healthy shoots already! Well done on a great job! I have about 5 sweet potatoes suspended whole in water since February. There is just 1 slip which is all of 2 cms,! Plenty of roots though so still hoping I'll have some decent slips for my veggie patch. Thanks for the video.

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Shanti Rajan great to hear someone else growing sweet potatoes! We love them in our house!

[@53peace]

Harriett Williams I had 4 whole sweet potatoes in water since early February and one cut in half after seeing this video. The halves have produces masses of slips I'm delighted to say in just over 3 weeks! Thanks to this video this cut in half method is what I'll be following. Many thanks again for uploading this video! The purple variety seemed to grow very fast compared to the white and orange flesh sweet potatoes. Will be interesting to hear what others have experienced.

[@Marie-ym4qt]

@@53peace do I need more than one? Only just done... End march

[@jenh.1511]

Wow, great info! thank you for sharing your sweet potato plants from sunshine state Florida. Stay safe!

[@moniquevandeplas5210]

Sweet potatoes are related to morning glory. I have that morning glory that I keep cutting back so now I have bought seeds for other morning glories (that are heirloom) and also planted hyacinth bean vines that were given to me and want to plant scarlet emperor (similar to runner except semi perennial if I could only find the seeds!) so that the hummingbirds will have a replacement for the morning glory i am trying to purge

[@yaneejitkaeo]

Hi, thank you very much for sharing, I’m from Thailand and I love growing anything from my country but I haven’t tried to grow sweet potatoes yet. I might try to grow some this year ❤️👍

[@thomasgarrett5371]

I plan to follow your techniques and then transfer the plants to potato grow bags. Thank you

[@dclcav]

Thank you. Just going to chop a supermarket sweet potato in half (2 for 10p reduced!) nice banjo playing as well.

[@Boxers6466]

Did your supermarket sweet potatoes grow shoots?

[@frasermair2516]

Good stuff mate. Thank you

[@evertonnixon5881]

Excellent video, great content and very well presented, I have learnt a lot. 👍🇯🇲

[@Gaomiministry]

Thanks, you are the best teacher. I understand everything you make it so Easy.

[@dalesman4530]

Very well explained and clearly demonstrated, thank you. Like you, my overwintered cuttings had high mortality and I wonder if we should propagate specifically from the survivors for useful increased hardiness in future seasons. Another thought for our northern climes is to grow in black containers that aren’t too big and so increase the growing medium temperature. I’m not sure if you mentioned that any shop bought potatoes are better if organic and hopefully not treated with sprouting inhibitors.

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Dalesman I’m all for seed saving and plant propagation from plants that do well in our climate. I do think each generation of seed will have better growing qualities to suite the climate that it has been grown in. My sweet potato’s did really well this year, planted through black plastic. Really nice size tubers. Unfortunately they were attacked by wire worm!🙈 which make lots of little holes. I took cuttings from the plants and so have potted up about 14 plants for next year. Not sure what the variety is but they seem to do well in Suffolk. This years sweet potato harvest is one of my recent videos. Regards. Chris

[@garlicmanuk762]

Thankyou for the tips Cris I'll try to plant inside my home first

[@ritamccartt-kordon283]

This was a great video on sweet potatoes! Thank you GOD bless

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Rita McCartt-Kordon glad it was of use.👍🏻

[@MsTigergirl1]

That is absolutely fascinating 💗 I’m going to try this 👍🏻

[@erlandandersen5782]

Nice. Very useful. Thanks for sharing knowhow! 👍.

[@mrketteringhan]

Cheers for the video - definitely feel an experiment coming on this year.

[@FunsizedEarthling]

This is so concise. Thank you for sharing this! I’m looking to grow sweet potatoes just for the leaves to use for cooking, as I can’t find them sweet potato tops in any shops around here. Have you any tips on how to care for it so it gives me plenty of healthy leaves? I don’t have a garden so I’m thinking of growing it in a decent-sized pot indoors if that can actually work. Cheers, Mari

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Here’s my harvest video... it shows how many leaves you can get...m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/baa0YXWCnN17sNE

[@diq5386]

Always wanted to try growing these. Thankyou for showing us how!!

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Your welcome.👍🏻

[@fernandomendez6264]

thanks, im starting right now, great video

[@LornaMagdayVlog]

Thank you for sharing

[@AkNetworking]

I love sweet potato thanks for sharing #Aknetworking

[@pappy9892]

Thank you. I believe they are exceptionally nutritious. 😊

[@christianredhat]

Thank you, really clearly explained, I will be definitely trying these next year

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Christian Pilling your welcome. Glad it helped! All the best with your sweet potatoes next year! Chris

[@alizcool1]

So did u do it?

[@christianredhat]

​@@alizcool1 I bought some purple slips which grew like crazy but had very few potato's

[@angelapalmer9062]

Thank you very nice 👍

[@neliachitalu5553]

Very helpful

[@leenonelofi5460]

Thanks so much, great tutorial, will try this next season for sure!

[@AgisSoulKitchenrecipeideas]

Thanks the explain, super clever🙏🙏👍👌

[@anjanrahi3787]

👍🙏❤️ very nice n to the point information thanks

[@carolcarr7867]

Great info. THANKS

[@ruthbircham7340]

Thank you!!!!!😊😍

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

Very helpful, thanks for sharing :)

[@sophietyrrell3131]

Thanks I really wanted to grow my own.

[@scrapmandan245]

Thanks buddy 😎💜✌️

[@dominiquepayne-ohara9844]

Thank you for the video .made more sense .

[@lindaparker6102]

Awesome video

[@shesagoddess3592]

really good, thank you

[@CassandraLondon]

Amazing tutorial I love how you explain each step so clearly. I have 2 store bought sweet potatoes that started to grow stems and leaves but the leaves are tiny, I was told to put the whole potatoes in water with the water coming up to halfway of the potato. They have started growing small roots but now I'm confused as to whether I should cut the potatoes in half. What would you say?

[@balanceskateboarding8807]

Hey how's your sweet potato plant doing? Did you cut it in half? I have a store bought sweet potato plant basically at the same stage yours was at last year! I've just broken off the tall vine with leaves placed Into glass of water. The potato itself has tons of roots coming out of the bottom! Any idea what to do with it now?

[@lyndseywood1457]

Great advice, thank you

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

Thanks.

[@garlicmanuk762]

You have dragon fruits tree as well that's nice

[@healthyrootsstrongwings538]

Sweet video! Good taste in beer also :)

[@jaiop2584]

Good

[@JTvlogs984]

Awesome dude just awesome ahahah love your greenhouse and you're a fisherman 👍🏾 can I be you're friend please hahaha !!

[@KaysiSoul]

Great, straightforward and informative video. Do you think growing sweet potatoes in grow bags would work?

[@delphinium5555]

super thanks

[@Nexus-ub4hs]

Awesome, thanks! 🍻

[@kimuseni]

Thank you

[@erumzehra8374]

Bestest idea

[@christinadonaldson4603]

This is fascinating. How does one avoid rotting sweet potatoe at the slip growing stage? I've lost 4 halves as all rotted.

[@kenanwynnstv77]

Amazing... I'm gonna try this... Thanks for that.

[@Liverpoolboy01]

Brilliant 😊

[@AlabamaTree]

It’s nearly the end of April, is that too late to start some off? If it is I’ll try to remember for next year. Thanks for making the video 🙂

[@pollyevhillson3089]

Love this! When do you start the process April?

[@GardenMyselfHappy]

Thanks for a thorough video. Do you support the plants or let them trail? I've subscribed and look forward to more content. Jane

[@michaeldominy2084]

I followed your instructions last year, and I’d successfully grow the slips. The planting was the problem, if I grow in containers, how do you suggest I go about doing so.?🤔

[@jonnykelso2937]

Thanks for the video! Do u know where I can get whole sweet potatoes of this variety. I'd like to start from scratch as you've shown.

[@RebeccaRam27]

Hi I have wanted to try growing sweet potato but didn’t know you could in the UK. What time of year should I start the slips?

[@FruitsForLife]

That’s a neat job mate well done and nicely explained as always. Can we cut the seed in quarters, chit them and grow them like potatoes? Cheers Vinny

[@gotropicaluk8362]

Fruit Nut I’ve never done it that way before so am not sure. If you try it let me know how you get on... cheers.

[@davemould8261]

Although they are named as Sweet Potatoes...they are in fact NOT. The Sweet Potato has to be grown year on year from the slips produced as in the vid...hope this helps.

[@johnsmyth2514]

Buy organic if you can , if you buy from supermarkets they have been sprayed with inhibitor to stop shoot growth, you can get round this by soaking the tuber for two or three days and changing the water a few times, I always use spring water not tap water.

[@kbloomfield10]

Thanks, good info’ if you didn’t repeat yourself so much, you could do that video in half the time 👍

[@de8517]

Thanks for your informative video. I'm a new learner wanting to grow sweet potatoes. Do you plant your sweet potatoes outside in a garden bed in the summer? When do you plant them out and when do they mature for harvesting? I live in a cool/cold climate (snows in winter) so I hope I can grow sweet potatoes. It's challenging growing watermelon in my area @ times. Don't have a greenhouse yet. 😮

[@gotropicaluk8362]

D E they are planted out in my area around the middle of may, when soil temps are about 17c. They love the heat! So the warmer your summer the better! They are harvested about October/November before the first frosts. I have a video on growing watermelons which may be if use to you as well. All the best. Chris

[@de8517]

GoTropicalUK - Thanks, will check it out!

[@grahamthomas6283]

Thanks for your reply 👍

[@MazePage]

Is there anything you can add to the water, like Miracle-Gro or Schultz that would help?

[@balanceskateboarding8807]

Is the UK too cold to get a harvest of sweet potatos if grown outdoors in the soil? If I plant out in June will it be enough time to get new growth of tubers by November?

[@DMDBOTH]

When do you start this procedure please? I only plant in 10 gallon fabric pots or largish rectangular plastic containers. How many potatoes does each plant usually generate?( I realise they are not like your bog standard potato). When is the best time to harvest please?

[@balanceskateboarding8807]

Hey how's your sweet potato plants doing? After you pluck off the vine what do you do with the potato if its whole? cut it in half? I have a store bought sweet potato plant basically at the same stage yours was at last year! I've just broken off the tall vine with leaves placed Into glass of water. The potato is whole & has tons of roots coming out of the bottom! Any idea what to do with it now?

[@hildemorris2989]

Really like to do this! i grew some lovely sweet pots from slips i bought last year so i can follow your instructions. however i am wondering when i should start? it is late february now and i am thinking to put the cut potato into water maybe end March? would welcome advice on timing!

[@gotropicaluk8362]

hilde morris you can start anytime between now and the end of March. 👍🏻

[@brendawallace3735]

Can you reuse the old sweet potato once you have removed all the slips?