How To Plant A Sweet Potato That Has Sprouted

You can plant these sprouts with roots sweet potato slips into the ground. Once you have the slip in hand place it in a glass or jar of water for about two weeks until fine roots have developed on the slip.

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Do not cover the potato too much.

How to plant a sweet potato that has sprouted. Take the slips from the sweet potato root by twisting them while tugging on the slip. Place your sweet potato in the hole at about a 45 angle. The slips need warmth so put them on a window ledge or on top of a radiator.

Use toothpicks to hold the potato in place. Plant the rooted slips in the garden burying them completely and spacing them 12 to 18 inches apart. Dig a hole in the center of your pot large enough to fit your whole sweet potato.

In a few weeks your potatoes will be covered with leafy sprouts on top and roots on the bottom. Water often while establishing the plants then not quite as often after they re growing. The soil should just barely cover the potato.

Once you have chosen sweet potatoes for sprouting put them in the soil with the sprouting end up. Once they begin sprouting you can move them accordingly so that the sprouts are facing up. If you are not sure which is the sprouting end lay the sweet potatoes sideways on top of the soil.

Sweet potato sprouts in water and slips to plant. Cover the sweet potato completely in soil. Then cover the top of the potato with the soil.

I make one long ridge row and plant the slips about 18 inches apart with the roots in the soil and leaves above ground. Form a ridge of loose well drained soil about six to eight inches high. In the fall we ll continue the saga.

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