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  • From: "Alliums" <garlicgrower AT green-logic.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sweet taters
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:35:57 -0500

Hi, Folks!

 

 

They are some very interesting heirloom sweet potatoes, some of which are adapted to northern areas.  It’s very easy to make all the slips you need by sticking some vine in water and letting it root.  If you can grab the Seed Savers Exchange Yearbook, you can probably work out a private deal from someone that is close to you.  Warning – many of the more northern-adapted sweet potatoes AREN’T orange – there are some very productive purple or beige colored ones, especially from Korea that look a little “different” but taste wonderful and are fairly productive.

 

Unfortunately, the deer LOVE all sweet potatoes.  If you do them under row cover, you can probably put them out in May, but you’re going to need deer fencing or the blood meal thing if you don’t want to row cover – although in my experience, sweet potatoes can’t get too hot in the North and really, really enjoy being under row cover.

 

If you want to save a variety, you can cut a bunch of vines (6 inches or longer) and overwinter them by putting the ends in a vase of water and putting the vase in the sun.  Then, you just cut whatever lengths you need, root them in water and plant.

 

Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator

St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth

 

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St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA  19460

 

 




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