Planting Sweet Potatoes

Sweet Potato slips are planted in black plastic.

Click here for more info on Johnny's Sweet Potatoes:
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[AKAGl]

Yes, they are both different species of plant. I thought that was common knowledge.

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family (also known as the nightshades).

The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the family Convolvulaceae.

Potatoes are grown from "eyes" of another potato. Sweet potatoes are grown from cuttings off another called "slips".

Personally, I prefer the sweet potato myself.

[AKAGl]

Because they're sweet potatoes and not regular potatoes.

Sweet potatoes grow from sprouts that come off of the potato called slips.

[Courtney x]

Never seen it done with black plastic before. Do you mound dirt over it too... to keep the plant roots covered?

[uzertouzer]

I love sweet potatos, wish we could grow them here. I have grown one in a dish on the windowsill but that doesn't count.

[jazevox]

how do you WATER the plants regularly when the plastic is on top?

[Samir Boodan]

chuck norris?

[frankz00]

@LittleRedF150 I thought it was a 1920s movie LOL!

[2610dennis]

will the plastic stop water getting to the plants via rainfall ?

[MrMunchiemo]

How did you put the plastic down. Did you do it by hand or did you have a machine?

[ThornhillFarms]

this isnt how sweet potatoes are typically grown but the purpose of black plastic is to help raise the soil temperature. Anything below 70F wont produce very well.