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  • From: pam AT twinoaks.org
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: sweet potato propagation
  • Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:52:42 +0100


I've been scanning through a bunch of old messages and want to
know more about this sweet potato propagation method:
> From: "Liz Pike" <liz AT laughingbrookfarm.com>
> Subject: Re: Sweet potato propagation
> We sectioned off a room in the barn with plastic barriers and put in a
> heater. Then we sprayed down the walls of the room twice a day to
> provide the humidity. Sweet potatoes like high humidity 90-95%, and
> temps between 70-85*.
In the spring? Approximately when? Potatoes in boxes? On
benches? On the ground?
> After 3-4 weeks, you can plant them out in ventilated, plastic covered
> beds to produce more slips, or keep them in the room, and keep an eye
> on them. Bedding them produces more slips, stronger slips, but I
> wouldn't go to that much trouble for a few rows.
How deep? How close together? What happens if you get a frost?
Thanks, I'd like to try this, instead of buying slips from Georgia.
Pam Dawling, Twin Oaks Community, Louisa, Virginia





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