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- From: "Jen Prosser" <jen AT sunstoneherbs.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sweet taters
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:52:04 -0500
Dave, Here is an account of my brief experiment
of growing sweet potatoes in NY zone 5 (6 with global warming). I am in the I got around to planting them out in June,
but based on a comment from someone that I should have ignored, I planted them
outside my deer fencing in my open field reserved for garlic onions and
medicinal herbs. I planted them at 12” spacing in 2ft wide x10ft long
rows that were a foot apart. They came up just fine even though I planted
during very high winds & I didn’t water the slips. They grew up
beautifully and then the deer started in on them and kept them mowed to about 6”
all season. My greatest effort at keeping them away was throwing some cages of
field fencing over the beds but the deer got right through that. Since they were an experiment and summer
is as we all know, busy, I stopped weeding or paying any attention. At about frost
time (in 2005 this was mid October), I went through and pulled out the knee
high “witch grass” and, lo, growing through the tangle of weeds
were longer vines that escaped the deer’s attention. I dug up the vines
and found slender, carrot sized sweet potatoes, not a lot, but enough to get me
interested in growing them again this year, inside the deer fence this
time! This may not be much help, but I believe
it can be done. What I have heard though is that the potatoes will be smaller
than those in the supermarket because of the shorter growing season, and
probably heat differential. But that’s fine by me. You can also grow your
own slips from supermarket sweet potatoes, but you’ll have fewer
varieties to choose from. Good luck, Jen From:
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of david purpura Hi All. Is anyone successfully growing sweet potatoes
in thanks, dave |
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[Market-farming] sweet taters,
david purpura, 01/23/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] sweet taters, Jen Prosser, 01/23/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet taters,
road's end farm, 01/23/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet taters,
Alliums, 01/24/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet taters,
road's end farm, 01/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] sweet taters, Alliums, 01/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet taters,
road's end farm, 01/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet taters,
Alliums, 01/24/2006
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] sweet taters, david purpura, 01/25/2006
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