How To Plant Sweet Potatoes Back to Eden Gardening Expert Growing Tips

This video will teach you how to grow and plant sweet potatoes in your Back to Eden garden! Mark interviews Wayne Miller, a farmer who has been growing heirloom sweet potatoes for decades. They discuss the best times for planting, harvesting, curing, storing, and starting to grow your slips.
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[@willemjoosse214]

Wayne what a man he is gone be missed

[@fionarussell7622]

Great information, thank you.

[@NonToxicHome]

I'm planting sweet potato slips this week in grow bags!

[@LivingLife1128]

👍Gotta love it!

[@JamesJohnson-yh1oh]

Elizabeth L. Johnson said, So now we know. Yams are a jungle-grown root, overseas, and we grow either white sweet potatoes or red sweet potatoes! This was a very informational, educational video. I took notes! Needed to know a lot of this! Thanks so much, Mark and Wayne.

[@danam.5433]

So much I didn't know! Thanks.

[@LivingLife1128]

👍Thank you for viewing.

[@mikejones1141979]

Just planted our gardens today.

[@khanhsskytransport9501]

Thank you for sharing. Very good video for plants sweet potatoes

[@susycue3]

Learned much here today. Many thanks. My go to passed sev months ago.

[@LivingLife1128]

I’m sorry for your loss, but I’m pleased we could help.

[@HawkoftheWoods]

Thank you for sharing this information. So important for all! Would love to pass these heirloom sweet potatoes down.

[@LivingLife1128]

Keep checking in, hopefully he will have some available to sell this year. We’re looking to be sure they are available next year.

[@ToniaFlorine]

Thank you for this video. I find growing potatoes is super easy. I had no idea what it would take to grow sweet potatoes until I found your video.. But I’m so excited to give it a try and hopefully be able to pass them along to my adult daughters along with my other seeds I save from my garden. I too would love to purchase Wayne’s sprouts if/when they are available. Thank you for all that you do.. God bless you and yours

[@LivingLife1128]

Thank you Tania for taking the time to watch the video. I will be making an announcement on this KZbin channel in the next couple of weeks to provide an update as to whether Wayne's sprouts will be available this year or not.

[@PaulWalker-zk2dd]

Thanks Mark, this is very timely for me. This is my first year to grow sweet potatoes, not a very common crop in the Pacific Northwest. I am growing them in a greenhouse.

[@LivingLife1128]

I hope your sweet potatoes turn out great for you. Thanks for watching and for the comment.

[@JD-hi8qx]

Did you use a specific type of sweet potato? We are in the Willamette Valley and have always just grown whatever sweet potatoes we can get at the store lol

[@ansellovestogroworganicall2180]

Excellent Summary Mark and very timely a BIG THANK YOU.

[@LivingLife1128]

Thank you for the kind words.

[@dianereitz363]

Thank you so much for summarizing at the end as his voice was so soft that I had difficulty hearing and understanding what he was saying. I learned a lot about why my sweet potatoes were not wintering over. I stored them all wrong.

[@michellebelverud1891]

I even put closed captions on and WHOA!!! What Mr. Miller said, even closed captioning couldn't tell what he said!

[@samantha83469]

Mr. Miller, I'm a young person who would like to grow your potatoes! I am trying to do beauregard potatoes/yams this year, but I didn't get a hold of any to make my own slips until fairly late so I'm not sure it will work. But when I do plant them, how far apart should they be? Also, thank you for the splendid video. I need to go and adjust my sweet potato 'bath' so the sprouts can grow properly. I'm not sure they're going to work in the jars they're currently in now that I see how it works.

[@LivingLife1128]

I’m sorry but Mr. Miller’s sweet potatoes are not available this year. They should be planted about 12 to 18 inches apart. Thanks for watching

[@samantha83469]

Living Life 11:28 Home & Garden Thank you! I’ll keep my eyes peeled for his potatoes next year. 😁

[@akouwenhoven]

Thank you! I'd love to grow these heirloom sweet potatoes in Belgium. Do you think there is a chance they will survive shipping here? A few moistened slips might make the trip. How can we make this work? Let's make sure that the sweet potatoes are preserved for many generations.

[@jolyngraf]

Great video! I'm just starting my BTE garden and appreciate your channel. How do we get some of Wayne Miller's sweet potatoes? Would love some. An heirloom sweet potato is just what I'm looking for.

[@LivingLife1128]

Thank you JoLyn. I have to wait for about two weeks to see if Wayne Miller has enough to sell this year. I am also seeing what I can do to be sure they are available for next year. I will try to keep everyone posted in upcoming videos. Thank you for asking, I would hate to see these potatoes "bite the dust" as Mr. Miller said they would do when he stopped growing them.

[@tayloracreshomestead887]

Very interesting! I' would hate to see this man's life work go away!! I'd be very interested in obtaining some of his seed stock to keep the line going! I know there are probably plenty more folks that feel the same!! Being in Amarillo, Texas it's a bit far to drop by and pick up a few starters but maybe when we go up to PA to see our family in Stewartstown, if it's not too far away, we could make a visit to Mr. Miller......Thanks for the video!!!

[@LivingLife1128]

I love your response! Texans are always welcome in Pennsylvania!

[@SgtSnausages]

You absolutely DO NOT need a root. All you need is a node - a growth tip. It will root just fine out in the field as easily and readily as it does in a jar of water.

[@linetteguiliani3312]

Great video. I live in Florida. How can I get potatoes from him? Thank you and God bless.

[@stephaniegazaway9249]

As someone who is turning their land into a Back to Eden garden for our family, I would love to find out how to get heirloom sweet potatoes and pass them down to my children as well. Would Wayne be interested in selling some?

[@LivingLife1128]

Thank you for your interest in the sweet potatoes. I’m not sure Wayne will have many to sell this year but I will be making that known in the next two weeks or so. If they are not available this year I am in the process of trying to make sure they are available next year.

[@stephaniegazaway9249]

Living Life 11:28 Home & Garden ~ Thank you! I appreciate it!

[@ranasherrick9625]

Can you order slips from Wayne Miller. I’m on Texas?

[@cbportraits1]

Wayne says to dry out the sweet potatoes with a fan for 2 weeks. But, I didn't hear him mention that it needed to be very hot and humid during that time. Wouldn't the high humidity contradict the idea of drying out the potato? Curious how Wayne does this since it wouldn't stay that warm or humid in October when he's curing his potatoes?

[@hartleyfamily5451]

Yes, I have the same question

[@LivingLife1128]

In our region it's still pretty warm many days in October. The hot house he dries the sweet potatoes in is really quite warm and is also very humid. This stage of the sweet potato's life is really more of a curing than a drying, while talking with Wayne I realized he often use the word "dry" when others would use the word "cure". The hot house really provides the conditions needed for the curing process. Very good question, thank you!

[@heidi7163]

@@LivingLife1128 My husband's grandmother always put her freshly dug sweet potatoes in the trunk of her car for a couple of weeks to cure hers. She lived in a big sweet potato area in North Carolina and would glean the potatoes after the farmer dug up his field. Where she lived one knew it was fall when you saw huge semi trucks full of them.

[@evelyny7037]

What a great idea!! ❤️

[@cqammaz53]

So Littlestown Pa is north of the Maryland border and south of Harrisburg Pa I properly drove through this town on my way to Tn. I would love to hear more about his sweet potato planting and does he sell his slits?

[@LivingLife1128]

I will be making announcements on the living life KZbin channel regarding the availability of potatoes in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully he will have some to sell this year, there has been a lot of interest! Thank you.

[@johngordon9140]

Which variety is shortest time to harvest? Ideally, 90 days of summer or less.

[@SLWallaceRN]

Where can we order these from him or you and do they come with instructions for BTE gardening? I'm confused about "rolling the vines" or cutting the vines back. And you don't just plant a potato and let them grow? You plant the seed potato in dirt or water then just take the slips and plant them instead? Why can't you just plant a whole potato?

[@LivingLife1128]

I will be trying to make these potatoes available for purchase this year, I will keep people posted on upcoming videos as to the progress. Thank you for asking.

[@SLWallaceRN]

Living Life 11:28 Home & Garden thank you!

[@moneymikegotuvideos312]

Gem

[@susycue3]

I would very much like to have some of those........id be in 7th heaven. When im gone my daughter will carry on.

[@LivingLife1128]

Hopefully, Wayne will have some potatoes available this year. I will keep everyone posted on this KZbin channel. I hope you don't plan on being "gone" anytime soon!

[@mikejones1141979]

How does a person get their hands on those Sweet Potatoes?

[@LivingLife1128]

Wayne Miller is not going to have a great abundance this year, but I am trying to make arrangements for making them available for next year. I will keep people posted as to the progress and if there will be availability this year. Thank you

[@milleniiumgirl67]

​@@LivingLife1128Any chance of getting slips or potatoes now or early this spring? I live in North West PA, am a homesteader, and am extremely interested in heirlooms, especially sweet potatoes. Even one potato would be a godsend!

[@zemiguens9774]

Difficult to hear

[@LivingLife1128]

You can turn on Closed Captions by clicking "CC" in the bottom right hand of the KZbin player.