It has taken awhile to get sweet potato slips but they are finally ready for you to plant. Amongst the grass growing in bed 142 you'll find sweet potato sprouts (slips). I left a bucket beside the bed with a trowel and small knife for you to use. There are also instructions, but basically you'll dig up the entire bunch of slips along with the mother sweet potato, cut off the slips from the mother at the base of the slip and replant the mother tuber. The slips will already have little roots and will quickly get established. Since there is a limited supply of slips take only as many as you need. If in 2 weeks there are any left, feel free to take more.
Even with the hot weather we're having, the slips will root quickly. Plant your slips in a hill, your crop will grow vertically right under that slip. I plant my slips about 1' apart. Keep the slips well watered until you see new leaves growing from the slip, then water normally. Sweet potato plants like to ramble, you can plant sweet potatoes in a large pot on a deck, in the fall upturn the pot to harvest the crop. Sweet potatoes take about 90 days to make a crop, longer will make larger tubers. This is a drought tolerant crop but keep them moist for the best results.
I've got an abundance of purple sweet potato slips and I'll take some to the market Saturday. The purple sweet potatoes are starchier, not as sweet, but make great fries, soup, and chips.
Where to plant? It's time to start digging potatoes so dig your potatoes and immediately stick in sweet potatoes.
Even with the hot weather we're having, the slips will root quickly. Plant your slips in a hill, your crop will grow vertically right under that slip. I plant my slips about 1' apart. Keep the slips well watered until you see new leaves growing from the slip, then water normally. Sweet potato plants like to ramble, you can plant sweet potatoes in a large pot on a deck, in the fall upturn the pot to harvest the crop. Sweet potatoes take about 90 days to make a crop, longer will make larger tubers. This is a drought tolerant crop but keep them moist for the best results.
I've got an abundance of purple sweet potato slips and I'll take some to the market Saturday. The purple sweet potatoes are starchier, not as sweet, but make great fries, soup, and chips.
Where to plant? It's time to start digging potatoes so dig your potatoes and immediately stick in sweet potatoes.
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