How To Harvest, Cure and Store Sweet Potatoes For A FULL YEAR without Refrigeration

[@dianacoburn8269]

great idea using the heat in your car. I love it

[@natgirrl672]

Being that I am on the Illinois/Indiana border, I am so glad that I found you! Literally everything that you talk about can be applied to my garden.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thats right they can be!... also follow the instagram account because I'll be posting pics and videos of things as I'm doing them and that'll give you a good time cue

[@lauragreen49]

Basement supermarket. Very cool

[@B30pt87]

Thank you for making this video! The world is abundant, and you are helping people join in it. Great idea about leaving them in the car, I had been wondering about how to keep them warm.

[@GFD472]

Amazing amount of sweet potatoes from just one bag!!! I'd love to see a video of your food storage space(s)...

[@tangodown-1417]

Just harvested my first crop ever, tried a few small ones straight out the soil and they were damn good, excited to see the change after curing, thanks for the info

[@reginaphalanges7061]

LOL....that's a brilliant solution for curing them!

[@dawnteskey3259]

Thanks! I have my first ever harvest of sweet potatoes coming up this year, glad to be prepared for it!

[@SC-xg1kl]

Great content as always! Thank you for providing us with clear concise information !

[@mariawarren6281]

I did not know about the need of "curing" the sweet potatoes. Thank you!

[@trishnelson4830]

I'm glad I found you! I'm in Northern Indiana too so your advice will be greatly appreciated. I expanded my garden this year for next season and am looking forward to growing more!

[@martinjones6762]

I am growing sweet potatoes 🍠 for the first time this year got the slips delivered through the post I have put them in big containers with my own rotted down leaf mould which has turned to soil and mixed some of own potash with it 🍠 I rolled out a sheet of wire and put the containers on top of the wire because I have a lot of rodents that chew through the plastic pots and would probably eat the potatoes inside the container From Devon England thanks for the video I didn’t know about the curing method👍

[@johnnykay8261]

Love that garlic stash of yours Nat. thanks 4 da vid

[@bobbyanderson8230]

I'm digging how you get straight down to biz. Keep up the good work my friend

[@aadamstory]

Your education quality is really high and the integrity is amazing. Thank you for providing amazing knowledge for us.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

you're welcome my friend thank you for the positive energy and feedback!!

[@carlaellison2447]

Thank you so much for posting this! I didn’t think we would have sweet potatoes this year because before watching your video on how to plant sweet potatoes, I just put the whole potato in the ground. I went out to my moms garden this evening. Just digging around and sure enough there were sweet potatoes. Now I know how to cure them, thanks to you!

[@tiasjunkpaper]

Thank you, just what we needed! We just had our first harvest of sweet potatoes, very plentiful and exciting. Now we just need to cure and store them so we can enjoy them in the months to come.

[@travisdavis1042]

I always wondered how this was done. Thank you my friend.

[@PastorBradRocks]

Thank you -- and blessings from a fellow Hoosier! I live in middle Tennessee now... but I grew up in Anderson, and lived in Mishawaka for years! Great video--very clear and helpful!

[@ashleylovepace1941]

I hope your channel takes off. You are so informative and a fun personality! Thanks

[@gardenlikeaviking]

that is really kind of you my friend thank you!

[@homeslice7065]

I love your videos.. from San Antonio Texas

[@georgennajones9246]

Thank you for this instructional video. I really appreciate the fact that it is short. I can’t wait to harvest and cure my potatoes.👏🏾👏🏾

[@8oclocktomatotalk]

Hello Nate from zone 6B southern Indiana! I’m glad that I read your answer about the pruning of the vines. I’m excited to harvest my Hugelkulter sweet taters but haven’t pruned at all- I’ll get on it tomorrow 👍

[@OttawaValleyVibes]

Glad I came across your channel, bro!!!! Always looking for useful information to post in my gardening group, and I live how you're straight to the point, and show examples, rather than blabbering on and cover 2 minutes of information in a 15-10 minute video......

[@JK-jf7xq]

Great video. I learned a few more things about sweet potatoes. 🙂

[@marciamarcia7449]

You are truly awesome!

[@harroldreid2032]

Continueing re stacking on top of another, thank you for tip on curing in car. Greatly appreciated your video.

[@emormingkid5613]

Enjoying uour videos & thankful that i live here in equator (Indonesia) which can grow this awesome food all year long !... God bless you bro 😊👍

[@jeffersongeorge2227]

This is a wonderful channel. Sweet potatoes are like Cassava that we grow in the Caribbean. Will try the this.

[@yvanapantino273]

If only people realised how easy it is to grown their own food and become food independent instead of relying on Big Food, the chemical and oil industries, to produce garbage they pass off as food. The money saved paying for health insurance, would be better invested in DIY healthy food gardens.

[@smas3256]

I can't believe all the people I know on 4 meds with 2 M.D.s. I'm in my 73's w. great health insurance. I haven't seen M.D.s or using any meds. weaned myself off. I'm healthier than most considering all the years in that med sys. pharma game

[@yvanapantino273]

@mikebastiat We are co-creators of our own reality. If your mindset is that something is hard, then that's what you manifest. Your negative thoughts become a self fulfilling prophecy. Change your mind and you will find it is a lot easier to facilitate plants growth (they grow themselves) than you think.

[@lenaweisman861]

Back of the car .. brilliant!!

[@catherinemcmartin8275]

Nice! Thanks a lot for your time. Much love.

[@FloSunny]

Great info 👍🏼👍🏼

[@day646]

Great information, thanks

[@hbrottish]

Definitely doing this next year

[@kevindavis3841]

Heck yes I wanna see the tomatoes dehydrated with garlic-N-such!! 👍🏻

[@gardenlikeaviking]

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[@Algumnomequalquer]

I live on Brazil and some people eat the sweet potato leaves, i love them on soup or salad.

[@poeticwisdom3]

Your car idea is great, i live in a condo and i was having a hard time coming up with a curing plan. Thanks.

[@we_want_chilli_willy]

Great tips Nate. I'm going to grow some sweet potatoes or Kumara as it's known in New Zealand, this summer. It's just ticked over to spring here but it snowed yesterday so still too cold for gardening.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

wonderful idea!!.. you have the best part of the growing season coming!!... so have you already started the slips?... you'll definitely want to start those now so they're ready in time

[@mahinat.coover8972]

Kia orana Dave. Im Cook Islander. Yes we call it Kumara there too. Im living in the US Washington State, above Oregon.

[@mahinat.coover8972]

I was just excited n happy to hear someone mention kumara. Thanks

[@kevindavis3841]

I can see why you’re just gonna bring down the whole onion shelf this year. Your cellar is beautiful 🙏🏻

[@shannons1301]

Great channel, I like watching channels that I can learn things, thanks for all the great videos

[@penneycoosenberry5657]

So Appreciate The Entire Video, Most Grateful for Car Trunk Hack ! Penney C, Tn

[@sarahford6214]

So glad I found your channel!

[@janecaprara5459]

I like your organization. Thank you for your advice.

[@carolynbailey4530]

I love that back of the car trick.

[@mikemunro2905]

I didn’t know you had the cure sweet potatoes thanks.

[@patriciaingram]

Awesome video; complete and helpful! Thanks Nate!

[@sunnyyoung5762]

Wow!! Thanks. Never knew about curing.

[@Subielicious22]

Great video!! I’m growing sweet potatoes for the first time this year… hoping for a good crop!

[@KA-or8mv]

I appreciate your video. To the point and very simple. About to plant a big haul of sweet potatoes in soil bags and was wondering how i can store them without going bad. Teaching myself how to grow my pwn food and sustain myself. Thank you for this video👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@gardenlikeaviking]

sweet potatoes store very easily just in a cool and dark place like a basement... watch this video here to learn more kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6HEh6uijr2Mqbc

[@kmcam2524]

Lol Nate! Stop with the awesome content 😝! All jokes aside, glad for this video as I have some sweet potatoes yet to be harvested and was going to look up when to harvest

[@natureboy6410]

As your Vines grow, wrap them snugly in a circular pattern on the ground around the parent plant. Every other joint of the Vine bury with a couple handfuls of dirt and lightly pack it. This will greatly increase your productivity of your sweet potato hills. On the islands, all our root crops, sweet potatoes, yams, minooka, tallo, etc... were harvested, dried, dusted off, wrapped in newspaper, stuck in a fruit or vegetable box and kept in a well ventilated area out of the sunlight.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

this is great advice if you live in an area that can support this.... but I've found here in zone 5 if we let the plant start producing additional potatoes then we don't have enough time in the season for them all to mature so we end up with lots of tiny sweet potatoes

[@natureboy6410]

@@gardenlikeaviking I guess I should have clarified that we usually only do this with a few select slips and then only for the first few weeks to 2 months of growth. Then, on those slips only, we don't harvest any green, so all of the energy will go into the production of potatoes. We also plant several other slips, and allow the greens to grow 10 to 15 feet long and then start harvesting greens from them. On either way though, the primary Hill, or cluster, where the slip was planted, seems to mature to about the same size providing enough Vine is allowed per slip.

[@tooshieg2059]

Another beneficial video. You are soo worth my time. Thank you for your time.

[@cherylgomez-ray1063]

Thank You starting the process today

[@backtonature433]

Thank you so much for sharing, well explained, more power to your channel sir🙏🙏🙏

[@Antique803]

Can you save the small roots to start again next year?

[@goodpeopleofearth9683]

Thank you! 🙏

[@carolinavazquez1292]

Thats so smart the car😅

[@cordovanbee713]

Awesomeness, Thanks

[@myfitstoreuk5608]

Great video, as always! Thank you

[@TSis76]

The car cure- genius !!

[@christybauer7424]

Thanks!

[@woldemarlightbringer8892]

Great info about curing!

[@southpost1224]

Thank you!!

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thank you for your support my friend!!!

[@sudhach6652]

Thanks

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thank you very much for the support my friend I appreciate you!!!

[@vantrampcindy1360]

Thank you for this information. I will put my sweet potatoes that are already large in a tote with the lid cockeyed for twi weeks. It is getting colder at night here in Kentucky will that make a difference if they are in the van and it's hot all day and then cooler at night thank you again

[@dragonshadow3707]

Thanks again for your video good to know

[@laureladams2501]

Thanks for the help!

[@PenRodAlexander]

Very helpful! Thanks!

[@michellenite5393]

Great video. Thank you

[@isobel8788]

Thank you for another fab detailed video 👍 I don’t have a cellar / basement . Only a garage which possibly would get mice in if I leave them in there . Any other ideas how to store pls? I do have a ketter storage box thing but will be totally closed to stop pests . Would that be ok if they inside in open boxes ??

[@vlarralv]

Great content!

[@leslietolar2226]

Awesome idea thank you

[@yahuahloveyou-jonybuss4058]

thanks bro YAH BLESS

[@grimeymeliver9575]

Aww dang! My next to do! I love sweet taters🤗

[@carolinavazquez1292]

I was going to say since I live down in the South but nights are getting a little cooler if you could just leave them in a black bag out in the sun if not raining for a few days? But wasn't sure if they would get moldy

[@elena2010111]

Does the sweet potato container in your basement have holes on the bottom of the container? Thanks!

[@mickhegartygrows]

Also wondering this about the holes. It also appeared that maybe the layers were separated by thick paper, or was that just my old eyes playing tricks?

[@gardenlikeaviking]

thank you for the support my friend!!... the container has holes in the top and bottom yes for air flow and the container is setting on top of two pieces of wood to allow air to circulate underneath... they can also just set out on the shelf but mice love to nibble on them... however now that I have a cat the mice are no longer a problem!!

[@martamccool2740]

Wonderful!

[@niimayagan1793]

thank you

[@michaeldelaveris3322]

How have you learnt all this? All your videos how/where have you obtained all this knowledge?

[@SigmaLigma.]

Very helpful

[@kaoline4172]

Sweet potatoes! My favorite! Well, I never have enough of your videos, bright ideas and garden tips. I suppose many could take a leaf out of Nate Muri's book and become better gardeners. However, I am actually in need of an advice from you. I am following your Jadam system to the letter and I have some nice zucchini growing these days as the tropical temp is about 24°C (75.2°F) just now. My problem is that my plant, which has just started fruiting, is producing only female flowers with lots of small fruits. There no signs of male flowers anywhere. What am I to do? Do I remove them? I know they won't mature. Please help. Awaiting a reply.🙏

[@gardenlikeaviking]

this is very strange my friend as usually if the plant is stressed it will produce only male flowers!... I have never heard of a plant producing only female flowers... I would try pruning off the first couple of female fruits and seeing if that signals the plant to produce male flowers... honestly if you did nothing at all I think it would balance out eventually... let me know how it goes!

[@shirleysmith9353]

I’m in zone 5b in Idaho. Is it possible to grow sweet potatoes here? I’ve never seen anyone do it. I’m a groupie. Love your channel!!

[@gardenlikeaviking]

hello my friend YES! you can certainly grow sweet potatoes in Idaho... this winter around February time look for a video detailing the ideal way to start your sweet potato slips... I'll put the videos out in time you can follow along because I'm also in zone 5b

[@shirleysmith9353]

@@gardenlikeaviking Thank you so much. I’m telling EVERYONE about you. Every video is power packed and not a wasted second.

[@crazylegs-wm6mf]

i have a question about extended storage. i store mine in a dark cool room i built and insulated. have stored them for years. they will last about a year and a half and stay firm but at the end in the following fall they finally start to sprout. we have harsh winters in Iowa. could these actually survive if buried in in a fall plowed garden and survive a winter? we have seen this done with regular potatoes. they sprouted in the spring. they did not rot. wondered if this might work. we do take and sprout for slips the past years crop of little ones.

[@melissaroot1092]

Any recommendations for purchased in bulk sweet potatoes?

[@harroldreid2032]

When storing must sp be separated, not stacked on top of each other?

[@sanchezable]

Do you plant grocery store sweet potatoes. Or where do you get them from for tue garden.

[@smas3256]

I'm gonna try that.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

originally from a local farmers market but any organic sweet potatoes will work... then just use the ones you grew last year to grow this years slips

[@anthonythibodeaux4491]

A garbage bag? I’ll have to look that up. That’s cool. I can taste the French fried sweet potatoes right now with powdered sugar.

[@myfitstoreuk5608]

A good way of likning your other videos is linking them at the end of the video, as if you link other video in the middle of your current video then we have to click off your current video or look for the link when we finish watching/ but if at the end of the video you will say something like " by the way if you want to learn (....) and i put a link to it here " then we stay on your channel and just watch all your videos one by one as they are ALL AWESOME!

[@gardenlikeaviking]

that's a really great idea and I will do that from now on because this video has done the worst so far of any video I've made! lol thank you my friend

[@graemedevine9651]

Thanks Nate, I've got slips with roots and I know it's bad timing, I was thinking of putting them in and see what comes but in the event of disaster do the ones in the supermarkets come cured and if so can I just store a few over winter and get slips for next year at the beginning of the season? Love your store, that's my dream and intention.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

what are your winters like there?... and yes the ones from the store are definitely cured but by the time you get them in the store they're already LAST years crop!... so chances are slim they'll store all winter but I'd say give it a go and see!... you might get lucky

[@graemedevine9651]

@@gardenlikeaviking winters?? Who knows with the air displays, I can remember as a child quite a bit of snow in winter but I can also remember seeing trails from planes back then, in the 70s I was younger than 7 or 8 so I really couldn't say to be certain, we have ab tropical stream meets Ireland on the SW coast at a place called Valencia, the gulf stream they call it but I have my suspicions about what it really is, just like sea tides.

[@iheartoahuhawaiinokaoi305]

When do you take the dirt off? Do you wash them before you cu,re them?

[@lauradunn9406]

I'm curing my sweet potatoes per your direction, in a tote in a tote at 86 degrees. Must the potatoes be one layer or can I fill the tote halfway. Thanks

[@reedofurantia606]

Hi Nate, Is there a difference between a sweet potato and a yam? Do the grow the same?

[@TearDrop455]

Thanks! This is my first attempt at growing sweet potatoes. QUESTION: my basement isn’t as cool temperature as yours. Will that be ok?

[@mickhegartygrows]

In Colorado the temp in cars can reach over 100 deg. F. Would this be too hot? Is the reason you don’t do it in the yard due to critters?

[@Hotshoe333]

You just need some type of cover. Where I’m at it can easily get over 110 here during very hot days (oregon , grants pass) . Look at Nate’s last video I believe about how to prevent your plants from getting burnt from the sun. Basically you gotta protect the roots.

[@gardenlikeaviking]

ya its the same here but I don't worry about it and have never had a problem... but remember we're still three weeks or so away from harvesting them so by that time the days are getting much cooler... but if you're concerned just crack a window... they're actually very forgiving so long as they're hot and humid

[@ashleycline4144]

How long do you cure them in the basement during the cooling process?

[@socloseagain4298]

I believe he first cured them outside then moved them in his basement 🤔

[@chrisroe7308]

Bang on buddy

[@valthatcher1235]

Thanks Nate. Not sure if zone 7b will be hot enough by the time I harvest my sweet potatoes. Can I tote them and cover with a towel for warmth and keep indoors?

[@gardenlikeaviking]

yes you can... also if you watch my video about seed starting you'll see a heat mat I use with a thermostat with a link to get it in the description... you can place the tote on top of that heat mat and set it to 84f and its good to go... but this is the secret method I haven't made a video about yet lol

[@heatherhall3452]

Your not kidding, I live in the tropics, I pulled up all my sweet potato patch because I have to move, and a month later half the patch has grown back again already 😰 I have peach sweet potatoes they are most similar to the consistency of a normal potato, they don’t get waterlogged when you boil them like sweet potatoes normally do. But they taste the best out of all the sweet potatoes 🌱🍑🍠🧡 🌱

[@gardenlikeaviking]

wow I've never heard of peach sweet potatoes!!!... I want to get some!

[@jenniferyarid1629]

GREAT VIDEO! When you leave potatoes in car, so they need to be in a single layer, not touching?

[@gardenlikeaviking]

a couple layers deep is ok because it will add to the humidity