How to Grow Sweet Potatoes from Slips

Sweet potatoes are grown in the Southern U.S. They are planted in the springtime by slips of sweet potatoes.
Did you know you can harvest a small crop of sweet potatoes with a single sweet potato? You'll need to start this plan with one sweet potato – market-bought is accepted for optimal outcomes, around mid-March.
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes from Slips

Varieties of Sweet Potatoes :

Thre are two types of Sweet potatoes in general: vegetable varieties bred for their delicious roots, and other varieties bred primarily for their ornamental trailing foliage. Both varieties relate to the Ipomoea batata varieties, and both edible and ornamental varieties are relatively easy to grow in containers.

HOW TO GROW SWEET POTATOES

This whole process is too easier than you might imagine. To get started, look for firm sweet potatoes without any major bad spots. It's more helpful if they haven't been refrigerated.

SIX EASY STEPS FROM BEGINNING TO HARVEST…

Step 1. Get a sweet potato and leave it in a glass of water almost mid of March. Shortly it will begin to grow slips.

Step 2. Wait for slips to begin to grow as well as roots come out. Every potato should provide around 15 to 25 slips. When the slips are roughly 3 to 4 inches long, separate them from the potato and leave in water. Any glass jar works excellently, or anything related would avail as well.

Step 3. When those slips grow roots, and their roots are built well, they are willing to plant. In a hot climate, we typically wait until the weather is consistently warm to plant them outside.

Step 4. When you are planting, arrange them roughly 3 feet far from each other because they are a vine that increases. Handle them the same as other plants in your garden and water as essential.

Step 5. The plants will provide flowers in September soon before harvest. When the plant leaves start to turn yellow (typically September to October), they are willing to harvest. Note: Now, the time to dig them up if there is a frost risk in the forecast.

Step 6. When harvested, Leave them outside in a shady place for ten days. I placed them in an open-air garage.  True, one potato has provided all of these!!

Thus, wish you be harvesting your sweet potatoes crop from an only sweet potato this year? Growing sweet potatoes is extremely easier than it seems, and it requires less than a buck to try, so why not?


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