You can create your own slips by slicing a sweet potato in half lengthwise and placing it on a bed of damp potting soil. Keep greenhouse plants well watered and feed every other week with a high potassium liquid feed.
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Overwinter plants in a frost free greenhouse or windowsill.
How to plant a sweet potato. Growing sweet potatoes in water is easier than you think. Simply buy a small organic sweet potato from your local grocer and place the tip in water. Cover the pieces with a few inches of soil and keep moist and warm.
The sweet potato propagation process takes a couple of weeks but your yam plant will make a spectacular centrepiece in your home. Sweet potatoes prefer full sun and loose slightly acidic soil ph 5 5 is ideal. Sweet potatoes are best grown from cuttings which are not in fact rooted and technically called slips.
The slips need warmth so put them on a window ledge or on top of a radiator. Leave in a sunny spot and watch it grow roots and leaves. If you want to grow your own sweet potatoes choose a sunny spot with well drained soil.
If your soil is heavy or poorly drained build 10 inch high raised beds. Sweet potato sprouts in water and slips to plant. Use toothpicks to hold the potato in place.
In a few weeks your potatoes will be covered with leafy sprouts on top and roots on the bottom. Sweet potatoes crop best at temperatures between 21 26 c 70 80 f. The best time to plant sweet potatoes is about a month after the last frost of the season.
Till the soil about 12 inches deep then plant your sweet potato slips 12 24 inches apart and just deep enough to cover the root ball. Spread 10 to 20 pounds of compost per 100 square feet and work it into the top few inches. Sweet potatoes growing for consumption are usually planted from purchased slips small rooted pieces of a tuber.
Avoid fresh manure and other nitrogen rich fertilizers.
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