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  • From: prmsdlndfrm AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:32:35 -0500

Do you cut the sweet potato like a regular potato? Ive been trying to grow these things for years and havent had any success. I can grow regular taters fine.
josh



-----Original Message-----
From: sunnfarm AT netscape.com
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 7:14 am
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips

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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