How to Grow Sweet Potatoes

Discover best practices for growing sweet potatoes in your own backyard.

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• vegetable
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• sweetpotatoes
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• garden
• fries
• starch
• pie

[wookitthat]

i dont even think that is a sweet potato plant

[magprob]

What the hell kind of sweet potato is that? I have a 40 foot row out in my garden, about to be dug, and they don't look anything like that! That didn't even look like a sweet potato slip. It looked more like a potato sprout. Plus, you missed a step. You didn't root the slip. Good luck with that, but I'm thinking you and anyone that follows your advice will starve!!!!

[hfranklin77]

most instructions I've read have recommended rooting the slips, like you mentioned, but last year I plucked the slip from the mama potato and stuck it directly into the garden and almost all the slips rooted and grew that way - without the extra step.

[deec269]

@turbomango They also say to trim tomato plants which get them diseased and kills them.

[delagrazia]

@deec269 thank u

[delagrazia]

@PommeFrit me too.but thats not a normal potato (or evn a sweet potato as i know it) the plant creates rhizomes/bulbs(the potato)_that then upon touching the earth will grow and i supposethatmeans the same potato rhizome should exist under the ground too coz it doesntlook like a fruit

[mummaquinn]

DO NOT USE PESTICIDES ON ANYTHING YOU ARE GOING TO EAT!!!

[PommeFrit]

I thought all potatoes grew in the ground.

[miriamjwoods]

I don't trust any how-to that tells you to apply pesticides to food you plan to eat.

[deec269]

This is a bunch of nonsense. This is not sweet potatoes. NWO spin is what this is.

Try Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew here on YT.

[henryfishinandhuntin]

that is what you do ive ben growing sweet potatoes science i was praticaly 5

[1955thekeeper]

Wow! I grew up on a non-working farm, but a farm none the less and we grew all manner if things including potatoes. I'll never forget the process of digging them up with a short handled pitch fork. Where do they grow above ground like that? Why additional time in the sun? Aren't they already out in the sun when you harvest them? At least these were. I'm really confused now.