We're Overwintering Sweet Potato Vines | EASY Sweet Potato Slips for Next Garden | Guten Yardening

Don't Throw Out Your Sweet Potato Vines | We're Overwintering Sweet Potato Vines | Guten Yardening Easy Sweet Potato Slips for Next Year's Garden
As our summer sweet potato growing season ends, we are left with a lot of beautiful sweet potato vines, and while we could eat the sweat potato leaves or compost the vines, there is another option.
This year we are going to overwinter our sweet potato vines. This opens the door to growing sweet potato vines in hanging baskets as beautiful ornamental sweet potatoes, or growing them to maintain slips for next year's garden, or even overwintering them so we have slips ready to grow sweet potatoes in the winter.
Harvesting sweet potato vines is very easy, and propagating roots from sweet potato vines is also easy. In this video we show you how we are cutting off sweet potato vines and placing sweet potato vines in water to grow slips.
Cutting sweet potato vines is easing and propagating sweet potato vines is even easier! We hope you enjoy these gardening 101 tips.
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[@GutenGardening]

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[@emilyrissling9703]

Very intresting, thank you i will try that

[@eliza-vf9rs]

Did the sweet potato vines produce more sweet potatoes, or just vines?

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

WHAT!!! You can overwinter Sweet Potatoes??? Mind blown.

[@GutenGardening]

These are going to save us so much time this winter as we are growing more sweet potatoes indoors, and as I said in the video, I think they are just such beautiful decorative plants as well. :)

[@makeoversbymeme2077]

@@GutenGardening are you using grow lights to grow the potatoes indoors ? I’d like to grow them indoors as well

[@catherinehenry6762]

Brilliant! I just harvest my first crop of Sweet Potatoes and as I was starting to yank out the vines, I saw how well rooted they were. I thought "Mmmmh I wonder if I could keep them until next spring, indoors ." So I looked at You Tube,and I found your video, confirming what I suspected. Thank you so much!

[@racebiketuner]

Great vid. I use potassium based soap (Dr. Bronner's or Oasis) for this purpose. It's much less stressful to the plant than common sodium based soap. Detergent is different than soap and something you never want to use on plants.

[@jimstormcrow]

Brilliant idea. My harvest from my late planted single sweet potato was pitiful 😂😂😂 However, I'm going to give this a try -thanks for the idea.

[@GutenGardening]

Fantastic! I am glad you can try it out. They are really easy to keep going. In fact, one of the jars full of slips we didn't get in the water for two full days after removing them from the plant and they were still full of life. These vines are fantastic, except in the face of a frost. :) Good luck, and we would love to know how it works out for you!

[@karenandriancontainergardening]

Thank you because I was looking for information to overwinter my mother's sweet potatoes slips. You were the sixth video I watched on the topic and the best informations.

[@GutenGardening]

Thank you so much! You can see an update of what we are doing with our sweet potato slips in this video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGKmhaWviNisjrM If you are interested in potentially growing them over the winter as well. Have a wonderful weekend!

[@augeniasestokaite4674]

I think u should tell us how u plan growing them indoors!

[@charlescoker7752]

The way you do it gives a potential to grow more potatoes. Most just have the one node on the slip growing out roots.

[@nunyabisnass1141]

I have several experiments running this year, and one is to bury some of the runners as you said. I know a couple did pretty well, but they are about a month behind the main slip so I'm not expecting too much.

[@aggiekromah6254]

👌👍👍👍❤️

[@BBuchanan3]

Great tip. Thank you!

[@GutenGardening]

You are very welcome! Thank you so much for watching!

[@MrDanrn999]

Thank you

[@GutenGardening]

You're welcome

[@roberth.9558]

Nicely done, thanks.

[@lgrillo]

Thanks for the vid! Very helpful. Would love to see how they did after they were transplanted into soil.

[@lanettelawrence6308]

Great gardening information on potatoes, thank you very much.

[@GutenGardening]

Thank you so much for watching! We really appreciate it. Have a wonderful weekend!

[@twilightgardener9366]

Wow…what a fantastic idea!!

[@GutenGardening]

This is going to save us some serious time this winter, and gets us ready to continue growing so quickly. :) Stay tuned because we are going to do some really cool things with this over the next few months.

[@twilightgardener9366]

@@GutenGardening I just harvested some sweet potatoes on Saturday, and I have not composted the vines… I think I will do this experiment with them!

[@GutenGardening]

Awesome!!!

[@cookiesmom2079]

I had no idea the leaves were edible!

[@GutenGardening]

It's pretty cool, isn't it? To me, they taste like mild spinach. Sometimes, the insect damage makes it so they aren't harvestable, but you can harvest throughout the season as you like. I just wouldn't recommend taking too many as you don't want to stunt the root growth. :)

[@cookiesmom2079]

Please don’t hate me, but I don’t like sweet potatoes 😆. I’d definitely grow them for the leaves though.

[@fukumoristar7176]

YES IT IS TRULY HEALTHY I see that leaves/ I wonder if i can do that too with my potatoes/ next year i will try that sweet potatoes to plant..thank you so much.

[@GutenGardening]

Thank you. We have grown potatoes from potato suckers. Have you seen those videos?

[@catherinehenry6762]

Just don't eat the potato greens :)

[@GutenGardening]

What plants are you overwintering this season? Thanks for watching! 👍👍 Did you see this harvest? Sweet Potato 2021 (Voles Loss!!) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnqZaKaVn7F3Z7c

[@bradleymiller437]

They make fine houseplants for the winter.

[@Sense2024]

How do you keep the voles out of your garden?

[@bbgmamma]

@@Sense2024 good question. This was my first year growing sweets with success. Harvested yesterday and almost half have chew marks with huge pieces missing. So upset. What the voles didn’t damage the wire worms did.

[@geekygardens]

Great info my friend. I wish my Lab was bigger! (And don't think I missed that backward glance ;-)

[@GutenGardening]

Ha! I am glad you caught the glance. I know what you mean about space, though. I appreciate the space we have, but we could always use more. But that being said that thing I was looking back at is going to help us save a lot of space, I think. :)

[@DebbieLynToomey]

Can you eat the indoor greens also? Will they grow sweet potatoes indoors as well?

[@catherinehenry6762]

Yes I think you can eat the greens, though they might not be very big. I suppose you could get some sweet potatoes as well, but they probably need a large pot and plenty of heat and light to grow to a good size.

[@Sheenasalesthriftytreasures]

Great video new sub I love all your videos

[@GutenGardening]

Welcome and thank you!

[@SpasmicGamer]

Thank you for the video. I started watching this back in October when I had to trim my monster of a plant back 😅 my issue now is my plant is still in a jar, but it looks like it's dying, and not gonna make it to February. Do I have no other choice but to plant it in a pot? Ive been changing the water almost every week, and the roots are long.

[@jennieeffey3101]

I have the rest of the year before needing to worry about frost down here in NC. but I always like to learn now what I need to do since I only have about another month and a half until my harvest should be good. Would it be a good idea to already have the slips growing outside in August and just cover them during the short amount of frost periods (mid November - early April). Because of where I live we've had 80 degrees on Christmas and random snow in March.

[@Cali33650]

How long do they grow after 6 months indoor? Do I need to trim them regularly?

[@GutenGardening]

You could potentially keep them growing indoors, and then trim occassionally and capture those slips and plant and trim and plant and keep the cycle going as long as you wanted. For us, we grew them for about 4 months indoors and then harvested, but we could have taken more slips from them while they were growing for sure.

[@jez770]

Thanks really helpful! Will the slips grow tubers from each node, and can you transplant the slip with multiple rooting nodes? Or should you transplant it with just one rooting node?

[@GutenGardening]

You can definitely transplant with multiple nodes. I like to have a couple of rooting nodes in my slips (3, I think is a good number), and they will grow tubers from each node.

[@junevannatto4331]

I have sweet potato vines that were bought as ornamental plants for a planter box. I have now made cuttings. Are those greens also edible?

[@GutenGardening]

I have only done a little research into those leaves, but I read they are more bitter and are not as good to ingest, but I am definitely not the expert there at all. That being said, I hope this answer helps. Thank you for watching!

[@junevannatto4331]

@@GutenGardening Thanks for the input. I'll probably limit myself to their use as ornamental plants.

[@ruthannahutton-okpalaeke992]

how do you maintain them over the winter?

[@matermark]

When did you make this video that you're expecting frost soon, or did you try this in a previous year? I got my plants in late and they won't make a harvest, so thinking of cutting some nodes to bring in and wasn't sure of water or soil to use to overwinter. When I received my vines it was late and I was waiting for a large container to arrive and while waiting, I put the slips in a quart cup with tap water and 2 days later, the roots that were at the nodes/ends went from fine roots an inch to 2" long, to almost no roots! I planted most and only 2 survived, so with the bucket, soilmix and slips, that's about $15-$20 each! You can see why I want to save them. I don't have much room indoors and the plant light/stand I'll need to start onions & cauli beginning of February, peppers & tomatoes mid-late March. Do you just keep cutting nodes off the originals to make a more manageable size, or cut nodes off & keep restarting them?

[@maywagner2535]

I overwinter my sweet potato vines last year, i keep them in water with plastic cup (5 to 8 clips in a cup) on the window side, it won't take much space, they will be starting root in a week or less, change water every week, you can keep cutting them when they get too long, also you can trim out some dead root after couple months it won't hurt them , after about two months in the water the slips doesn't look healthy so i pot them up with potting mix in plastic cup , ( i realize they don't get much nutrients in just water) they will look upset in couple days don't worry they will bounce back , i planted them this year in June they are much healthy then i start slips from tubes , i saw sweet potatoes on top of the soil in 3months (zone 5B) . I use black plastic sheeting cover them our zone is not hot enough for sweet potatoes, i have been growing sweet potatoes for 7 years i won't get much from our zone but good enough for me for the winter and is fun, so hope this can help and good luck gardening.

[@matermark]

@@maywagner2535 Thanks! If they didn't get hit by frost yet I'll try taking some cuttings and trying that!!

[@maywagner2535]

@@matermark you welcome, i already take some cutting yesterday, even i am not going to harvest sweet potatoes yet, in case unexpected frost hit them you never know, so you can take some healthy cutting now while they still healthy.

[@peaceandlove5214]

Will leaves and vines re grow ?

[@GutenGardening]

Yes, they will grow out, and then you could essentially capture the new growth again and propagate roots on that growth, basically creating a cycle.

[@peaceandlove5214]

Do they re grow?

[@GutenGardening]

We have grown quite a few sweet potatoes this way.

[@juanname5599]

Don’t you need to bring sweet potatoes in over the winter ? I’m from New York and it gets pretty cold

[@GutenGardening]

Yes these were overwintered indoors and we grew some new sweet potatoes from these vines. They definitely wouldn’t last in our outdoor winter.

[@juanname5599]

@@GutenGardening so I brought my sweet potatoes in I’m gonna wait for the vines to grow roots and then put it in dirt once they grow ?

[@blainerichard8055]

Do you have any Puerto Rico sweet potatoes for sale I’d like to grow some this summer 0:21

[@almostoily7541]

Try Sand Hill Preservation site

[@ktd3166]

I don’t believe they will grow sweet potatoes. They WILL grow a vine. I’ll be interested in seeing what happens.

[@GutenGardening]

We will soon know :D

[@eileennicholas8408]

did that before, no sweet potatoes just vines.

[@SgtSnausages]

The amount of work overwintering vines indoors -vs- just storing tubers until Spring is kinda ridiculous. In the space alloted for just a dozen plants I can store enough tubers for creating , literally, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of new slips. BONUS: No lighting issues. No pests (hello spider mites). No fungal issues. No fungus gnats. No regular watering. No trimming/pruning/managing. No fertility/nutrient issues. Just a plastic crate in the corner storing tubers.

[@FreeAmerican-mm2my]

Maybe rodents will eat you tubers, or a hard freeze, or pets will destroy them or young children. Chill dude.

[@rockstarsneverdi3]

HEY ANYONE I HAVE A QUESTION DO SWEET POTATOES GROW FROW CLIPPINS ???