This grew ALOT of sweet potato slips

The easy way to grow sweet potato slips with little mess and to get a lot of sweet potato slips for your garden.
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[@roserainy7586]

You can totally propagate regular potatoes just like this. Just pick off the shoots once they are a few inches long, often with roots already forming, and pot it up. I've kept individual potatoes going, pumping out shoots, until they shrivel up like raisins 😂

[@Garden-ish]

I started some just like this on January 20th. First time for me and I'm so excited to see how they do! Still waiting for growth tho.

[@darrybush5293]

Ben, I grow my own slips, and have been doing so for over ten years. I use the same method of laying the potatoes sideways on soil, many years ago I tried the toothpick method that was a mess. Happy Gardening 🧑‍🌾 from Southern California.

[@Infinite_Curiosity00]

Did this last year and was by far the best method I've used.

[@AnnetteRullman-oy6ci]

Thank you! 😊

[@vickiwestlund7777]

I bought slips one year- 5 years ago-never again! Like you, I have some small ones from last harvest..I’ll try this method this year! Thanks Ben!

[@PeggyLiles]

The sweets I stored last fall started chitting so I have tiny slips starting all ready. The potatoes with the most were saved from the canner. I will be using your method and get them in soil over the next couple of days. Two or three of the potatoes will go to my SIL for her garden when we visit tomorrow. No sure what type they are, but super dense and sweet!

[@Infinite_Curiosity00]

Same. I will need to encourage more, but I already have a surprising amount.

[@andyg7545]

Spring is almost here

[@bhalliwell2191]

Something which might help to avoid shocking the roots in making that transition from water to soil (learned this, by the way, from a horticulturalist couple) is to put the new or newly rooted slip into wet *vermiculite:* the vermiculite has, basically, no weight worth speaking of, so it isn't going to put pressure on the young roots *and* you can lift a plantlet or rootling from its bed of "non-soil" without damaging those roots, and then just put them back into their wet vermiculite. And when the time comes to plant these in soil, they already have their "soil roots," as opposed to "water roots" which is what they develop in a glass of water. Now, they were doing this with houseplant cuttings they wished to propagate, but swore by this method. The same couple also grew sweet potatoes as a houseplant because they make long, luxurious vines if they're kept in a hanging basket sort of arrangement, and they said the same thing you've observed: not to keep a sweet potato in a glass of water, which is the traditional method; as you said, it gets gross and smelly and, they added, *slimy* and nasty and you end up throwing the whole disgusting mess out. So, they said, grow your ornamental sweet potato houseplant in soil. A couple of years back we bought sweet potato slips from a commercial nursery and seed house, and they were definitely floppy and starting to yellow a bit, but we followed the directions that came with them. Well, we did initially, but the shipping, receiving and planting times didn't line up as we'd hoped, so we ended up putting the water-rooted slips into soil in seed starting cells and because we didn't have the timing correct from the off-go I have to say we did everything regarding these sweet potatoes *wrong.* And they survived and thrived and flourished anyway. Much gardening love from Northeast Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊

[@DesireeTallman]

For the love of God, who sings the song you play at the end? My kids love it and sing it every time your videos end. I need to hear the rest.😂

[@sonyahogan5673]

i do my slips just like you!!!❤

[@bernadettetoler6476]

Ben, your shirts are getting roomy! On a serious note- thank you so much for sharing your honesty and knowledge. I watch all the videos with a notebook and take serious notes. The only request I make is how often you fertilize. I finally found a mentor and we’ll see how it goes, but have been listening/watching here for my gardening education.

[@jaytoney3007]

The forecast if for 81F today. I'm already wearing shorts and a t-shit, and going barefoot. Any warmer, and I'll have to cover my parsnip and carrot beds with shade cloth. If I'm having to do that already, I may have to purchase more. Yesterday, I was supposed to sow radish seeds, but I got side tracked and sowed seeds for amaranth, alyssum, purple cone flower, cosmos, strawflower, bachelor button, butterfly weed, butterfly flower, and zinnias. On my to do list for today, is sowing seeds for Malaga Radish, and Giant Radish of Sicily. In a week, I'll reevaluate the weather. If it is still favorable, I'll sow seeds for snow peas, shelling peas, purple top turnip, and golden beetroot. I just got Net Zero in the Wild Wild West back from editing, and am getting the publishing links ready, so I can send it off to my reviewers. I'm looking at a February 23rd book launch. In the mean time, I've already started Writing Net Zero Star Crossed, and I've made covers for it, and my next project, Net Zero on Venus. After that, I'm going to put together a ten book box set. I'm going too fast this year with my writing, but I'm enjoying it, so what the heck? Besides, it keeps me too busy to work on global domination.

[@bethheerten1132]

Sweet potato season passed us by last year due to some unexpected health issues that demanded our time. This year, we will have some. In the past, I have grown Georgia Jet and Beauregard. I will look for the Carolina Ruby. Happy Gardening!

[@DanlowMusic]

I get that. I had a foot amputation and a 12 days tay in the hospital in April last year. Right in the middle of go time for me up here in western WA. Good luck gardening this year. Hope it all works out.

[@Cherryparfait41]

This is how I’ve kept them going for a couple years. Wasn’t sure of the method, but felt my way through it. I did not want to buy overpriced slips again. The variety is Covington. My sandy-ish soil where I grow them is productive, but there always seems to be either a scale of sorts or tiny pinholes on them. But, WOW, we really celebrate having them for Thanksgiving. Hoping to end up with more slips this year.

[@ginajackson8482]

Thank you so much. I am in Central Texas and being tricked with false spring too!

[@DanlowMusic]

False Spring is in March or April here in WA. We are like yes we are getting out of winter and bam! Our biggest snowfall. Almost every year. Last year the rule of thumb for here was true. Don't put stuff out until Mother's Day. We were cold right up until July and that's not normal.