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Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips
- 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: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:14:44 -0800
What I described was basically a cold frame arrangement used by growers
without greenhouses in zone 7. A raised plastic covered bed of sand with wood
sides, once you get into the month of April will heat up to over 75 degrees
by day and maintain a night temp in the 60's. A heated bed will root plants
faster... Bob.
--- allan.balliett AT gmail.com wrote:
From: "Allan.Balliett" <allan.balliett AT gmail.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:49:37 -0500
Is frost really all you have to worry about? I thought the ground had
to be quite warm, also. Not so?'
-Allan in WV, who, judging by his small sweet potato yields, is no
expert at sweet potato farming
>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.
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[Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips,
Curtis Millsap, 01/23/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips,
sunnfarm, 01/23/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips, Allan.Balliett, 01/24/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips,
sunnfarm, 01/24/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips,
prmsdlndfrm, 01/24/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips, Etienne Goyer, 01/24/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips, Garth & Kim Travis, 01/24/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips,
Road's End Farm, 01/25/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips, prmsdlndfrm, 01/25/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips,
prmsdlndfrm, 01/24/2010
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