178 -- Getting Started with Sweet Potatoes
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.4 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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On today's episode we are going to focus on starting sweet potatoes.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever considered growing sweet potatoes? I decided to start growing them in 2019. I had no |
| 0:07.8 | idea what I was doing, but I thought, let's just give it a try. Fast forward to October and a 100 |
| 0:16.0 | pound harvest later, I started getting lots of questions. How do you grow sweet potatoes? Listeners to my podcast |
| 0:24.1 | started asking me questions. They wanted me to do a podcast on how to grow sweet potatoes. |
| 0:29.9 | But as I have grown as a gardener, I have learned that it seems the more that I garden, |
| 0:35.8 | the less that I know. I know you hear about older people saying |
| 0:39.1 | the older I get, the less I know. That's kind of how I feel in this instance. Because I have |
| 0:44.4 | enough experience to know that one good sweet potato harvest doesn't mean I know everything about |
| 0:50.1 | growing sweet potatoes. I had no idea if it was beginner's luck or is it just because I live in the |
| 0:55.7 | south and sweet potatoes are a lot easier to grow here or what? So I kind of avoided the topic |
| 1:02.2 | altogether. I thought let's just try it again the second year and see if it was just beginner's luck. |
| 1:08.0 | So last year in 2020 I grew another crop of sweet potatoes. This time not only in |
| 1:13.4 | my in ground garden, but also in a raised bed garden and in containers, just to see what I could |
| 1:19.3 | figure out. Well, another very successful sweet potato harvest, and I continued getting questions about it. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm still a little nervous at even bringing |
| 1:28.8 | a podcast on a crop that I've only grown for two seasons. But as I thought about it, I thought, |
| 1:34.9 | you know, even two seasons worth of growing it is some experience. And I have learned a few things. |
| 1:40.4 | And I do know how to start them now. Last year, I learned how not to start them. |
| 1:46.3 | And I thought at the very least, if I could give you some basic information on how to get |
| 1:50.8 | started growing sweet potatoes, maybe you could have a decent first year for your try as well. |
| 1:57.3 | So this podcast episode is not to teach you that I know everything about sweet potatoes because I most |
| 2:03.5 | certainly do not. But my hope is that I can at least give you something to start with so that maybe |
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