[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Pollard; All; For some other time when you decide to take up Sweet potatoes. (For anyone who wants to grow sweet potatoes!) The year I planted them they overgrew the garden! Like squash, they need room! Good Goat fodder??

Both of these are you tubes from "Deep South Homestead.

Growing Sweet potatoes. (A long grow survival crop.)

1)Growing the slips that you will plant. No messing around with pans or buckets of water! Bury them in soil in your cold frame. Use long skinnys not fat thick ones. They will send up the slips. See:

Growing sweet potato slips

2)Planting them. Takes a forked stick and pushes them down in the prepared bed.

Planting Sweet potatos from slips.

[Pollard]

I was going to ask if there was any way to hold something through winter to plant for the following Spring as opposed to having to buy slips? Prepper/frugal mentality.

Curiosity got me so I did a web search. https://growingnorth.ca/2016/01/overwintering-sweet-potato-vines-for-next-season/

Turn cuttings(slips) into house plants to over winter.