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  • From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
  • To: sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato yields
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:56:54 -0500


On Jan 27, 2006, at 10:29 AM, robert schuler wrote:

You can expect around one half bushel per plant. The trouble
with growing sweet potatoes commercially is that 25% are under sized and 25%
are over sized like footballs both are culled as animal feed or sold by the
bin very cheap as deer bait in areas where that is legal.

If you're trying to wholesale them to a market that wants them only within a limited size range, I can see the normal size variation really becoming a problem. But direct market customers, around here at least, don't all seem to want the same size. I find that some of my market customers like the little ones. And if they're starting to get too big, I just go ahead and dig them before too many of them can get too huge. Of course, having them get oversize may be a lot less of a problem this far north. And I don't get as much as a half bushel a plant, though I don't keep track of yields in that form.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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