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  • From: <sunnfarm AT netscape.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:05:07 -0800

All the sweet potato farms in NJ grow their own slips. Roughly a bushel of potatos yields 1000 slips. Potatoes are pre sprouted in a hot humid room then cut and planted outside April first into raised beds filled with fresh  pure sand and cutting are covered with 3" layer of sand then bed is covered with clear plastic. Some farmers grow them in heated tunnels. Slips are ready to plant in the field after frost date... Bob.

--- cmillsap1 AT yahoo.com wrote:

From: Curtis Millsap <cmillsap1 AT yahoo.com>
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:22:02 -0800 (PST)

Marie, and others who grow their own slips;  How many slips do you get per potato?  How long does it take for the slips to come up and be ready to pull from when you pot the potato?  Do you use bottom heat, and if so, how warm do you keep it?
Thanks,
Curtis
 
Curtis and Sarah Millsap
Millsap Farm
Springfield MO
www.millsapfarms.com

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