In one month, the ground temperature will be warm enough to plant sweet potatoes. So if you would like to grow some slips of your own this is one technique. We simply take several small sweet potatoes and place them in water.
After one or 2 weeks you will have roots growing into the water and buds starting to form on the potato not covered in water. The last few years I have used rain water instead of top water to start them in.
In a few weeks we will post the progress! Do you have any techniques for starting your plants that may save a few bucks and ultimately allow you to control the process from beginning to end?
Looking forward to the results!
Your post reminded me that I bought some yams last week to try. I made them tonight and it was a 0 out of 4 for the family. Lol so we know we won’t be growing these.
These are a white sweet potato, completely different in taste. Hard to describe but it is somewhere between a yam and a normal white potato. I eat them baked with a little splash of Bragg's liquid amino.
Hmm, maybe I’ll give it one more try with the sweet potatoes then. The yams were just too sweet for our liking. We made them mashed.
Love doing it this way @shalomacres! Ours are doing quire well so far! Some people have been asking about you on homesteaders online discord. They thought you went MIA.
I need to get back online but things have been a little crazy around here. I think my summer is filling up also since the hail did more damage than originally thought. I need patience but that is hard for me! Please tell tell everyone hello and I hope to get back on before spring is over!
Don't have the room for sweet potatoes, doesn't mean I might not try a few!
They do well in planters next to the door! I'm sure you can get some in the ground.
Planters is my best bet, I am short on available ground!
Wow, I did not know that. Thanks for sharing @shalomacres
so would really like to try this...
The wife just got home and I was telling her about your post.
To let the vines grow.
Several years ago we did buy a few at the store and we did have success. I would suggest finding someone at the local farmers market, I bet they have a few left over from last growing season!
Ah good idea. We have Amish around here. Maybe the greenhouse or their store would have some to spare. How many should I plant for 2 of us? Are they like regular potatoes, giving you several tubers from each eye planted?
I would plant 10 plants for 2 of you. Plant them once the ground is warm and I wait to harvest until the week before a frost is forecasted. Enjoy!
Thanks for posting this. I need to get busy now and grow some slips. We love our sweet potatoes here and to buy them at the market they are quite expensive.
I agree they can get expensive and sometimes hard to find. Good luck!