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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: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:03:51 -0500

Thanks, that will help
josh



-----Original Message-----
From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 1:12 pm
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grow your own sweet potato slips


On Jan 24, 2010, at 12:32 PM, prmsdlndfrm AT aol.com wrote:

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


No, you don't cut them at all. You take the whole potato, and grow slips from it: young green shoots, so called, I assume, because they will "slip" off the parent potato. Some of the slips will grow roots while still attached to the parent potato; the ones that don't, you can root by putting in a little water, or in a planting bed, or even just plant out unrooted slips; most of them will grow, though they'll be slower to take off than well rooted ones.

One year I planted a couple of left over parent sweetpotatoes from this process, whole. They grew a single sweet potato each, instead of the usual bunch of several produced per plant. These single potatoes were huge -- so huge that no one would buy them; as I remember they were four or five pounds each.

Another note: you don't store them like regular potatoes, either. You cure and store them just like winter squash, and then they are very good keepers. But if you let them get as cold as regular potatoes, they won't keep at all; they don't want to be below 50ยบ F.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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