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Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips
- From: prmsdlndfrm AT aol.com
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- 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
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From: sunnfarm AT netscape.com
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips
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. _______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming _____________________________________________________________ Netscape. Just the Net You Need. _______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming
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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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