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 firstwrote:
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
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Lisa in Oregon
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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