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  • From: "loneroc" <loneroc@countryspeed.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [ARTICLE] Storing Potato Slips
  • Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:07:00 -0600

Lori,

You don't "store" slips. You store the sweet potatoes at 50-55F and in spring plant them in soil or water--the top should be obvious to a "planty" person. After a few weeks (3-4) you'll get up to a dozen or more slips for each tater you plant, which you break off a week or so before planting. I then wrap the bottom ends of the bunch in a little sphagnum or a damp paper towel and put in plastic under bright, indirect light. Roots'll form and you plant 'em. Remove all but the top leaf or two and bury the stem up to the growing point. You can just remove the slips from the sweet potatoes and plant them without going through the rooting process but I get a little better survival when I've rooted them.

If I see that a particular variety of sweet potatoes is starting to rot sometime during winter storage I plant that variety earlier and grow it as a houseplant until late spring, when I start sprouting the ones that have stored fine. It's as easy as (sweet potato) pie.

Never, ever put sweet potatoes in the fridge!

Steve H.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lori Rizzo" <larizzo@charter.net>
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [ARTICLE] Storing Potato Slips


I just harvested my sweet potatoes and want to store some slips for next
year's crop. I don't live in a climate cold enough to keep them in the
garage, so I'm thinking about the fridge. How can I keep them from getting
moisture and moldy? Right now, they're in a ziplock with paper towels to
absorb excess moisture.

Also, I grew another potato (I think a blue one) and when I went to harvest
those, there was no growth on the roots. Are there some potatoes that take 2
years to mature? Doesn't help I forgot to log what they were - someone gave
them to me and I planted them with the sweet potatoes.

Thanks,
Lori

Lori Rizzo, RN BSN MBA

Health Care Quality & Process Improvement
Pet Training & Behavior Counseling
Rizzo Hollow Heirloom Plants & Unusual Edibles
Maryville, TN USDA Zone 7b
larizzo@charter.net

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Woodard
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 6:39 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] [ARTICLE] Bee Pastures May Help Pollinators Prosper

See
<http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr//2010/100804.htm>

linked to

Bee Pastures: Floral Havens Where Pollinators Can Prosper

<http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/aug10/bee0810.htm>

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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