Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

Marty,

 

You can grow sweet potatoes no-till just like everything else.

People in this region use sandy soil for growing sweet potatoes;

however, I have had good results in clay soil too. Make sure to

select some good and deep garden soil though. Apply a

generous layer of mulch then plant through the mulch. I don’t

have a cover crop right now, so I will mow down my green

peas (after harvesting) add some mulch and plant my sweet

potatoes. It is about the right time for planting sweet

potatoes since they require a long growing season.

 

Dieter

Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org> wrote:

> I've got some fine slips ready to plant. I'm used to sticking them in 
> the side of
>  loosely tilled hills. Now I've got level ground, to punch 
> holes into??? Hmmm??? If you have had experience planting sweet 
> potatoes using no till methods I'd like to hear about it. - Thanks
>
> Marty - Kansas City
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