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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato slip question
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:58:34 -0400


On Jun 3, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Beth Spaugh 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.  

I would be surprised to get them that way; but they'll probably grow. When I grow my own, I usually plant slips that haven't rooted yet as well as those that have; most of them usually grow just fine.

Of course, I ignore instructions and put mine in water to hold them, and/or to root, whether they're my own slips or I have to buy them (this year it's some of each as the mice got into my storage and I didn't have enough good ones left to grow enough of my own.) 


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






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