396 - Growing Sweet Potatoes: A Beginner's Guide
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Happy Thanksgiving week for those in the US! I figured this week would be a good one to talk about a topic that might make your thanksgiving table, sweet potatoes!
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| 0:00.0 | As we head into Thanksgiving this week, I thought it would be fun to talk about a crop that |
| 0:05.3 | may grace all of our Thanksgiving tables, sweet potatoes. |
| 0:09.7 | I've been growing sweet potatoes since 2019, and it's been one of those crops that I've always |
| 0:14.5 | been able to depend on. |
| 0:16.8 | In fact, every year, I've taken a few potatoes from each season's harvest and developed plants |
| 0:22.8 | for the following year, which means I haven't had to pay for sweet potatoes, either the potatoes |
| 0:28.1 | themselves or the slips or the plants for the following year ever since. |
| 0:34.2 | But also in those years, I've experimented a bit, particularly with planting in the ground, |
| 0:39.3 | in raised beds, in containers, and even growing them vertically. Today we're going to talk all |
| 0:45.2 | about growing sweet potatoes and what they need to thrive and how you can grow your own for years |
| 0:51.1 | to come. Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm Jill, and I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:57.5 | In this podcast, you'll find easy to understand conversations about how to grow your own food. |
| 1:03.5 | As a first-time gardener myself 11 years ago, I remember what it's like to feel overwhelmed, |
| 1:09.3 | so I want to make gardening so doable for you |
| 1:12.1 | that you'll find yourself falling in love with gardening just like I did. Let's dig in. |
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| 1:36.2 | bomb is detonated in Los Angeles. It shows how families survive by living off the land amidst chaos around |
| 1:42.5 | them. My family got to pre-screen this movie, and I especially appreciated and enjoyed its emphasis |
| 1:48.5 | on living on the land and building community. |
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