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  • From: grizzdover AT gmail.com
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato slip question
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 20:51:49 -0500

Hi Beth (and all)
 
Last season I got slips and it was way to wet to the plant to place them where I wanted them.  I ended up planting them very closely together in a "dry" area until Mother Nature was ready to let me plant them in their "intended" area.  I didn't get them in for a couple of weeks from when I "heeled" them in to when they were transplanted in their "home".  They still produced very well!  I recieved them with zero roots and only a few leaves.  I've never put them in a growing media and then transplanted before, but think that would work just fine.
 
Ben Saunders
Turtle Farm Certifed Organic Fruits, Veggies and herbs
Granger, Iowa
www.turtle-farm.com

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Beth Spaugh <lists AT rhomestead.com> wrote:

In the past when I received sweet potatoes, they had very few leaves and a few roots. The 1000 that came today have plenty of beautiful leaves but no (zero) roots.  In the past, instructions were to not put them in water but plant them and they would grow.  It is windy, and I am using black plastic this year, and that doesn’t sound favorable. My soil is not sandy and getting real good soil contact with the whole stem will be a challenge through a little hole in the plastic.  Anyone gotten “slips” before and can advise me? Should I stick them in potting soil and let them get a few roots?

 

Actually last year, I got some beautiful plants that were about a foot tall, lots of leaves, and lots of roots.  In the end I had sweet potatoes that had circled around, and I thought maybe that was because they had so many roots to start with and I had not known to be sure the roots were straight when I put them in????

 

Thank you.

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY

http://rhomestead.com      facebook/rhomestead

 

"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry

"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe

 

 

 


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