How to grow sweet potatoes - They did it in pots and looks like they got a good harvest from it!
1. Buy Slips or Grow
Them At Home:
We bought “Carolina Ruby” Sweet Potato slips from Irish
Eyes.
You can also grow slips yourself using organic sweet
potatoes.
2. Plant The Slips.
The slips are basically mini plants. Plant them after the last frost, in rich soil
with some well-aged compost, 12-18″ apart (we planted them far closer, but some
of our potatoes were pretty small).
3. Do Virtually
Nothing.
Water regularly, but otherwise they need almost zero
weeding, and we didn’t have any bugs or disease. You can stop watering them during the last 3
weeks before harvest, so the roots are dry when you pull them out, and so that
they don’t develop any molds.
To those of us in the northwest US, note that they are
related to morning glories, so we can be assured they’ll grow very well!
4. Pull Them Up!
They’re basically on the same schedule as Irish
potatoes: when they start to yellow in
the fall, it’s about time to pull them. You can also feel them beneath the soil
and get a sense of how big they are..
Seriously, that’s it.
No excuses now – if you like them, grow them!
Credit: 1greengeneration.elementsintime
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