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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips
  • Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 18:08:24 -0400


On May 18, 2010, at 5:49 PM, beverly henkel wrote:

bev. henkel here - zone 3,4 depending on who is checking.  I meant once lantd as a gardener here told my husband if she did not pull the runners or scut them she had not potatoes.  Maybe they were in need of water?   But thank you.  I have them planted in peat pots at the moment in the house and hope to get them out when the weather warms up in a few days.

What is "scut" them? I don't know the term.

I don't know whether it makes a difference if you don't grow them on black plastic, as to whether it's a problem if you let the runners root. The plastic will help warm the soil; for those of us up north that can help, as they tend to like a warmer hotter summer than we often get.

Do you know what variety you have? Not all varieties will produce that far north -- maybe that's contributing to the problem the gardener who talked to your husband was having?

I wouldn't plant them out before June, even where I am, unless you can cover them against cold weather.

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






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