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[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

Claudia,
   
  I didn’t know that you can grow sweet potatoes above the ground.
  Can you explain how it is done. And how are the Japanese
  sweet potatoes different from other sweet potatoes. I used
  to live in Japan, but didn’t do any gardening then.
   
  Dieter Brand
  Portugal

Claudia Joseph <permie@earthlink.net> wrote:
  I had a problem with japanese sweet potatos - they were bitter.
I had heard that they do well in sand but I used compost and straw in 
the above ground cage because I had it.
Also, some that I picked earlier were sweeter. The vine was 
extremely vigorous and dark green.
Anyone know the specifics?

Claudia

On Jun 27, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Charles de Matas wrote:

> Thanks Lisa and others for the tip on growing potatoes. The first 
> time I
> heard of this was from the Nearings' book. I've been wondering 
> what other
> people's experience were with this method. I don't grow potatoes, 
> but I
> have compacted clay soil and would like to grow sweet potatoes. 
> Maybe I'll
> try it with sweet potatoes.
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> Lisa in Oregon 
wrote:
> We use old hay, tucking it up around the plants as they grow so just
> a few inches of leaves peek out, leaving some in flakes, and shoving
> some down between the stems as they get large. I toss on weeds from
> other areas too. We grow in beds and the mulch gets 2' high, might
> be harder in rows. It eats up several bales for 100sgft. I bury the
> seed potatoes barely below the soil level (clay), the potatoes grow on
> the dirt-mulch boundary and if the mulch isn't think enough, the
> potatoes get green. We don't seem to end up with weed problems using
> old hay for potatoes (but then, this is all drip, no rain). When
> potatoes are harvested the mulch is reused on winter crops.
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